It's an interesting theory, however I recently seen a documentary (around late December I think) about an English man self funding a trip to the moon, alongside his dog, and when he got there, turns out it was made of cheese.
Which leads to the (frankly terrifying) conclusion that there must be some sort of giant space cow. (or herd of cows) As Ben says, you can't rule it out.
8:30 “This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!'”
His channel is exactly what you said. How the ancient Egyptians had more precise technology. And how people later on inherited it as there own. Because it suited them. And because they were the last who wrote on it, it must have been them. Definitely worth exploring. This moon shit though 🤣 lost me on this. Stick to the tube drills and serapeum granite box stuff please Ben.
@@DogFish-NZ Really? The ancient Egyptians had more precise technology than we have today? *cough* BS. The Egyptians were an advanced race and there's some of their culture we cannot completely explain how they did it back then, but because we can't explain with any certainty how they managed to (for instance) achieve such precision in the building of the Pyramids, that does NOT mean their technology back then was "more precise" than ours today. The technology we had 200 years ago surpassed the Egyptians by a long way. Don't believe the Dunning Kruger types that claim we couldn't build the Pyramids with such precision today. Of course we could. Easily! The difference is we would do it using laser measurements, and machines like trucks and cranes. You know: more advanced technology!
I love when someone says 'what are the chances?' about something that exists. Ie: What are the chances that all these things lined up just so, and now you and I are sitting in this room talking? Well, apparently, in this particular case, 100%, because here we are.
So explain why GRAVITY ITSELF HASN'T one IOTA of PRESENCE, SUBSTANCE or FORM of ITSELF to be DIRECTLY DETECTED, IDENTIFIED, ISOLATED, STUDIED OR HARNESSED ITSELF ON THE EARTH!!?? THE GLOBE IS DEAD BY ASSOCIATION OF YOUR FAKE GRAVITY!!
@@ramonortiz7462 No, you don't know. You just believe that the earth is flat. As you have no actual evidence of the dome, the flat earth, the ice wall, and so on, you do only believe in a flat eart. you don't have any proof to know it.
@@seraphinaaizen6278 The Earth is definitely flat as a tortilla. That is proven by flerflection, flerfraction and flerspective times and times over. You globies are so gullible. NASA have you fooled every time. Just kidding 😁 Old sailor here, I know from personal experience that Earth is NOT flat 🌎
Look, evolution is a joke to Dan because he can’t write anything positive about it therefore he cannot even defend it! He’s distracting you with flat earth videos all the time! That’s dumb
What's insane is the lack of basic knowledge of that guy! 😕Any kid from school knows how an eclipse works. 😕 And he writes books?!?!?!? What a waste of paper. 😕
1:59: It made me laugh when he spoke about something being, “very unique”. Something is either unique, or it’s not; there are no ‘degrees of uniqueness’. It rather set the level, I feel.
Its a common thing in informal talk though. So pointing it out as some sort of “gotcha” is kinda pointless. Don’t get me wrong. He’s still a dumbass. A really unique dumbass at that.
I made up a tongue-twister for my daughter when she was little: "You know you're not unique New York", which is of course untrue as New York like anywhere else is unique.
When I was about 19 my friends and I got talking to a bloke in a pub who used to talk like this fella, all these pulled from the arse hypotheses based on the odd factlet he'd picked up and misunderstood. It really was very much like the stuff this guy said and even at 19 and 20, my friends and I ripped everything he said to pieces. He just didn't have enough basic understanding to support his outlandish but entertaining theories. Fast forward a decade or so and I was again in a pub and I overheard the same bloke talking to another group- again of young people- and saying the exact same nonsense. I think he was just a pub bore and was not doing any harm. But now the pub bore can get on the internet and influence hundreds of other people whose grasp on reality is tabloid at best.
Remember the Daily Sport articles in the 80s? B17 found on the moon? Back then everyone had a laugh, but those loonies actually broke society. London bus at the South Pole? Birthed the flerfs imo 🤪
But what personal experience do you have to know that you are not similar to this pub bore and only denying things because you were told to? You say the pub bore had nearly the same story, what if that is because it's true? You even added that you were young but able to question him, but what if you were too young or ill informed. I know lots of people that think they know something because they have the basic 101 information that I have an entire university degree in studying in-depth and specifically because my work is more cutting edge that the young 19-20 years old taking cosmology 101 will laugh at me for saying "insane" things, only for me to explain the idea and the Nobel prize that was awarded with its discovery.
@@MasterofFace don't tease! I'd love to hear about cutting edge technologies and developments, especially so cutting edge as to get a Nobel Prize. I'm on here to learn.
The internet has spawned millions of 'experts' like this, and I do stand up for their RIGHT to express their ignorance. This is where people like Dan and Dave are invaluable. The entertainment value of these people's thickness is incredible. We must allow freedom of speech, and freedom for Dan, Dave and the rest to tear their ridiculous ideas to shreds, whilst pointing and laughing!
my concern is anti-vax has killed babies and children alongside those "natural home remedies" that aren't traditional just made up by people in a facebook group so they have no history or culture to base their belief on, those have killed and seriously harmed relatives, including children and those with autism in the care of those morons. I am all for the freedom of speech but that freedom should not infringe on others' right to life, happiness and healthcare by actual doctors where if they are treated there is data to back up the treatments. so how do we give ppl freedom of speech while also protecting children and those unable to protect themselves from these people.
To paraphrase: Dan claimed Ben said earth is comprised of 45% iron, Ben actually said he thought 47%. If something so simple as this is overlooked, what else might be. I realize intelligent people make simple mistakes, especially when blinded by contempt & the like. That being said, I know that I know nothing...how do I know this? I don't know 😅 & now I shall excuse myself.
If we were to discuss this hypothesis seriously, the main arguments against the Moon being a giant spaceship is it mass (easy to measure from the orbits of space probes but even ascertainable from the magnitude of ocean tides on the Earth). So the density is one of rock, not empty space inside. Not to mention the seismographs left by the Apollo missions. They clearly showed that Moon is not empty inside.
You don't think that if the aliens were smart enough to build a tiny moon looking space craft that they couldn't trick our primitive seismographs??? 👾🤡
@@curt941 But the spacecraft would need to be still operational. We know from geology that our planet had Lunar tides for at least a billion years. What have the aliens achieved by this extremely long cloak-and-dagger operation?
Well the aliens put scrambling technologies on the moon of course. They don’t want us to use it to travel the universe spreading our spiral power stopping us from destroying it all. Oh wait that is a story from an anime.
This is exactly what I was going to comment on but I decided to scroll through the comments because I was sure someone else must have picked up on that also.
It's one thing not to know what correlate means, not everyone is interested in science, but it is totally different to claim to be an expert and to use it confidently in a wrong way.
This totally makes sense. If aliens wanted to hide an observation craft in plain sight, they could just build a ship right next to Earth, like 4.5 billion years ago.Then all they need to do is wait for 4.5 billion years, biding their time, until life starts, then complex life evolves, invertebrates evolve, dinosaurs evolve and die, mammals appear, hominids climb down from the trees, humans evolve and then Ben is born without any understanding about what he is saying. Yeah, that's exactly what the aliens did.
Yeah, his 'squirt the DNA' line is straight out of 'Prometheus' and that had me shouting at my telly. OK, so aliens seed the Earth with DNA and give it life,.... but we know that a big old asteroid had something to say about that, so how did the aliens predict the extinction of the dinosaurs? Also, he says our Moon was instrumental on their being life on Earth, but then talks about life on Mars, which has two tiny Moons, so er, how does that work?
I'd be more concerned about the "double small brain aneurysm theory", if I were him! He got a LOT wrong - but at least he doesn't think the earth is flat!!
As far as it goes being a huge coincidence that everything lined up perfectly to create life on Earth... if it hadn't worked out that way, we wouldn't be here to discuss it. The question can only arise if everything works out just right and when you consider there are 200 billion galaxies in the known universe, and a trillion stars for each of those galaxies, a "one in a million chance" will seem like a common occurrence. Out of those 200 sextillion (200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) stars, our solar system very probably isn't unique in its coincidences
Considering the base building blocks for life seem to be found all over the show, I wouldn't be surprised in the least if when we finally find something not from our world, it's base components will have DNA just like we do. Almost as if life has the potential to spring up spontaniously anywhere given the correct environmental situations.
@@supremeownage8995 I mean there could be new forms of proto-monera spontaneously arising in deep sea volcanic vents that we'll never know about. There's a theory that microscopic life exists in the upper atmosphere of Venus but good luck sending a probe that won't dissolve in a few minutes. Now I don't believe there's other intelligent life in our solar system or that extrasolar entities visit Earth but it's stranger if there's _not_ life scattered all over the universe
Agreed. The conditions were just right to create "us". If the conditions had been different enough, though, "we" would probably be different too, but still remarking on how the conditions were just right for that.
@@supremeownage8995 I hope we find extraterrestrial life in my life time!!! There have been so many other firsts for humanity in my 6 decades, but finding life elsewhere... wow, that will be amazing!!! It will be a turning point. How will people react? How will religious leaders react? How will governments react? Even if it is primitive and resembling bacteria or even viruses, it will completely change our world and our world view. I can't wait!😁
He was on the JRE and this jackass and Rogan bought said that the reason science pushes against him is because they would look silly and have to change the history books. Rogan loves pseudoscience.
Well at first I found it interesting, but I did know enough about the moon to know he is full of crap, and after digging into it jeah he is wrong a lot of the time. But it did spark an interest in the mechanics of stonemaking and ancient engineering.
Yeah, I watched it the other day, too. I could definitely see some conspiracy theorists walking out of that movie muttering to themselves, "See! I knew I was right!"
He even tried a Star Wars quote on the Death Star: "That's not a moon!" - lol. I think the actual quote is "That's no moon!"... but he did mention it, so yes Dan - confirmed, he did get that idea from Star Wars.
That happens when you are best friends with Brien Foerster. I kinda liked Ben when he started but he keeps on getting weirder with every new video. He actually was one of the reasons for me to invest more time in learning about the past. He managed to make things look interesting that my history teachers in school never did. I've always been interested in natural history, evolution and everything that involves biology. I'm still not too interested in geology, it's more like a tool needed to understand the history of life. Just like I don't like math but I need it because I like physics. History of human civilizations had never been my thing and I'm still extremely bad in remembering progressions of kings and that kind of stuff. From that point of view, I'm kinda thankful to Ben that he raised my interest. It's like he gave me the keys to something he described as a magic place, I went in, found out that it was not magic at all. it was false advertizing. What I found behind that door is interesting and enjoyable for reasons he had called lies. He may be right in stating that life on Earth didn't happen without the Moon. Tidal forces by the Moon increased the chance of life in many ways. They even increased the chance of having a long lasting planetary magnetic field. But it still is possible without the Moon, just a bit less likely. One general thing he gets wrong is his idea of probability. A low probability event still can happen in reality. I mean, people keep on winning the lottery. Others get killed by falling coconuts or they meet their most hated neighbor in vacation on the other side of the planet. How probable is that? He gets crater forming dynamics horribly wrong. He doesn't even have the slightest idea of what he is talking about. Someone squirted his DNA on Earth? What???
I always liked Ben too. He's very knowledgeable about many of the sites in Egypt, and has taught me a great deal about some of the more questionable things concerning mainstream Egyptology. Ben writes and speaks very eloquently on his videos, and normally does his homework, but on this topic, the moon, he's got it horribly wrong. We've discovered that planets having tidally locked moons are very common in other solar systems. Not have a tidally locked moon would certainly not prevent life from arising elsewhere. Abiogenesis could easily occur in any environment where there is liquid water and the necessary organic chemicals; the very reason virtually all astrobiologists say to "follow the water". Ben should stick to Egypt.
Your, "he's got it horribly wrong" line makes me astounded that you can even think he is knowledgeable about anything at all and you prove to me that this Ben fella has zero credibility for anything he states. I knew there was a reason why I never trust anyone who has seen every Star Trek episode and every Star Wars film!
The possibility that life was "seeded" on earth was in my bio 101 textbook. I can't remember if the authors specifically implied aliens or not but it was pretty wild to read that at a very good university
I used to be heaps into Ben but got to the point where I walked away from his BS. The guy is really just an ancient technology nerd who piggybacks on orher peoples tours and is trying to make a living out of it. His arrogance is a total turn off which is what made me lose respect for him. Anyone who believes differently is called an idiot; he actively censors his own communities heavily, his followers can’t debate beyond the BS he sprouts and his belief systems are getting more and more wacky.
And WAKE up early for more indoctrination!! Acclaimed PHYSICIST Erik Verlinde ADMITS that GRAVITY ITSELF is entirely based on FAITH, assumption, SUPPOSITION and description of said assumption, SUPPOSITION, FAITH and description of said assumption and SUPPOSITION + faith!! ua-cam.com/users/shortsrRJaMHi_--w?feature=share
@@kombat_king5717 What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. Billy Madison
It's baffling nowadays, how people are willing to relay their stupidity or ignorance to people, just for cash. New levels of sadness. The(ir) next generation will be so, SO much worse. Be prepared folks.
I like to think of puddles whenever I hear argument like this. If you look at the ground beneath a puddle, it is astonishing how the water fits it’s surface. The accuracy is so great that it cannot possibly be an incident. The ground has to be designed to hold the puddle. There is is just no other possible explanation.
As someone who regularly talks at great length on things I know very little about myself I can see all the tell-tale signs. He is absolutely winging this entire interview, he has done zero prep work and everything he says is coming from half-remembered blog posts and youtube videos.
At 2:25, it's also not 25% the size of the Earth, it's about 2% the size of the Earth (0,27^3) - by volume, which is the only thing that matters regarding density and mass.
There's no space station, what they call the ISS is actually just a big rock orbiting us. The people sent up there are actually secret rock dwellers and live inside the rock.
He's so smug and self-confident... He really thinks he's an expert in this field. I've never heard of the "double big whack" hypothesis, and I've been a space nerd for my whole life 🤔
Sure he picked it up on some conspiracy nut alleyway on the internet. It's an old tactic of these wackos: they deliberately misinterpret science to convice themselves and others that the "mainstream" is nonsensical, so that their beliefs appear more sensible by comparison. You can see it in Kent Hovind's anti-evolution propaganda ("science wants you to believe that we came from a rock!"), Flat Earth ("8 inches per miles square") and so on.
I've been watching you since before the first 'flat earth fail compilation', yet somehow you seem to drop more knowledge after all this time. It's amazing that you have taken this channel so far!
In my day we didn't need fact-checkers we were just intelligent enough to know when someone's talking absolute crap. you don't need a machine for everything
It's a shame you brought such an aggressive energy to this video. I totally agree with you that Ben is barking up the wrong tree but you could have chosen to tackle this with a much kinder tone.
It's interesting that the reason that we don't know for certain how the Moon was formed is because of the age of the rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts...that the flat earthers say didn't happen.
I'm certain they'd just say that the moon rocks are just normal rocks and NASA is lying to everyone. Of course they don't seem to understand how Globally Massive that kind of conspiracy needs to be, to be true. The amount of bribery and pay-offs that need to occur to keep Flat Earth a secret are staggeringly high. they think it's easy to hide a "fact" like that. And notice they ONLY ever accuse NASA of doing this?? Wouldn't there need to be a Global organization making sure that no random person accidentally stumbles onto the truth?? See, they try to break down the intelligence of NASA by claiming they have no clue what they're talking about and at the same time credit NASA for having the intelligence to "hide the truth from the world."
man pretty much watched that movie that came out recently, its called Moonfall i think, and went full tinfoil hat about it, the movie is pretty much about some conspiracy theorist scientist believing that the moon is an alien spaceship and he turns out to be right
@Jesus Jones Ah there you are, one of the little special folk and wannabe dumb fascist. Shouldn't you get back to your mindless little job in order to support the likes of Trump in their criminal enterprises?
@Jesus Jones That would be the most plausible explanation so far. Imagining all kinds of nonsense to explain things we don't understand fully is how we ended up worshipping gods that insist we must mutilate children, forsake bacon, and inherit the sins of our ancestors.
@@ulyssesfewl1059 Chariots of the Gods was written in '68. Von Daniken is still around and still convinced of his theories. I used to love that stuff, I was a kid then but yet I still knew it was all goofy crap.😅
Yeah they got you snowflakes believing that nothing created anything, Something, and everything! See how brainwashed you are? Wait, put your hardhat on cause nothing may explode any minute now!
I love how he says we've never observed another planet/moon relationship like ours when exoplanets are so incredibly hard to image and is still a relatively young field of study (although Webb is sure to perform wonders in our understanding of exoplanets) as if we've looked at hundreds or thousands of other planets. We basically only have the other planets in our solar system to compare ours and our moon to definitively lol.
Earlier than that was 'Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon' from about 1976. I think there were plenty of books around then trying to jump on the Erich von Daniken bandwagon.
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I have a copy of that book on my bookshelf of shame from back in my days when I was caught up in this nonsense. Also have, the one he mentioned, "Who Made the Moon." and also one called "There's somebody else on the Moon." Crazy stuff. The cherry picked NASA photos were very convincing to my younger self.
@@Tannius Yes, I was very convinced by the 'Chariots of the Gods' film, which I saw quite by chance when it came out. I think that is what made all this nonsense more mainstream, although I suppose all the UFO stuff was from the late 50's onwards. But I was 10, so that's my excuse.
Knowing nothing about how Egyptians made such amazing architecture I got sucked into the uncharted X videos on the topic for a couple days. Glad I branched out away from that, still have a lot of questions as far as what tools/ methods were used but we all do.
Interestingly some of the best UA-cam resources for the tools/methods used by the Egyptians comes in the form of videos specifically debunking unchartedx.
UnchartedX doesn’t exactly claim to have answers, he simply has an open mind about the possibility that archaeologists got it wrong. Having a fair bit of knowledge about working with granite, I tend to agree that the historical narrative has a LOT of holes in it and people like Zahi Hawass have intentionally suppressed evidence for decades.
@@KennyEaton603 what evidence? You literally have hieroglyphs and art that shows us some tehniques what they where using.They also find those tools they where using all over egypt. Based of these evidence archeologist's are claiming how its done. This guys only "evidence" is that those things cant be done with that , because he doesnt know how. That doesnt mean that ancient egyptians ( ~ 3000 yrs span empire, Cleopatra lived closer to us today then she was to when great pyramids where build ) didnt know or could made with their tehniques, which they where learning, adapting and teaching next generations for centuries. And it is proven that copper, with abrasive's and friction can cut stones they where using. Also its proven that harder stone can carve lesser stones. So it means it can be done. He on the other hand has 0 evidence , other then dont giving any credit to these ancient people and their achievements.
@@cjcnx2000 I don't follow the whole ancient aliens stuff but no, no they don't. It doesn't explain at all how that happened, especially the LOSS of capabilities over time because the impressive pyramids were built during Old Kingdom. It's fine to say you don't get it, it happened 4,500 years ago.
He may have his facts wrong, and he may say some things that are very silly, and he may not have any idea what he's talking about, but he at least believes that the moon is real and that we've studied it and that it's important. So I respect this crackpot way more than most people we look at on this channel.
@@pureflix8086 A super valid point. I feel like I could have a conversation with this guy as opposed to the Nathan Oakley types that I can't even stand to watch videos that mock that
@@pureflix8086 dude is a snake oil salesman. He's been told what he says isn't right yet it doesn't stop him from saying the exact same thing later. He knows... He just doesn't care as that doesn't sell.
Ben is a good level headed guy and I respect his opinions on many topics he deals with on his channel. This moon thing, I agree is pretty far fetched but if you listened to the whole podcast you would see that he is a nice, intelligent and likable guy. This is the first time that I've heard him speak about the moon and he went a little overboard. I believe it was his first time as a guest on another guys podcast and he seemed a little nervous and like he spoke about things that he hadn't researched fully wasn't ready to give his opinions out to the masses on this subject and only did so to try to fill the time and be interesting. Along the vein of one of his heroes, Randall Carlson that knows many interesting facts about the moon, but Randall's facts are just that, facts and not some ideas from a science fiction book he read. But none the less, check out his channel and see for yourselves. Thanks
@@danamcalister nice intelligent likeable guy doesn't mean anything. And no... Randall Carlson is a fake online guru snake oil salesman, same as Ben. They KNOW what they are telling people is in fact false but they have books, lectures and tours to sell. Not even being able to Google Crater depth on the moon tells you how little actual research he does. His research consists of reading books by people like Graham, Calson and the like who are not in anyway shape or form experts of the field they are talking about. Graham a journalist and Carlson a architect of no note with a 2 year Geology degree.
I've watched some of UnchartedX's Egypt videos which are fascinating and pretty well informed. I think he's just spit balling here about something he read in one book about the moon. I don't think he claims to be an expert and I'm sure he'd be happy to be proven wrong.
I would agree - the majority of his videos are well researched prepared & presented and seem to be more about asking questions and challenging parts of the established narrative without declaring it all rubbish because aliens did it all. I think perhaps he has not come off well in this as its not his footage, and its unlikely to be what he was originally talking about & not his usual field.
Sure, the guy's an idiot... But so is Dan- At about 1min into the video, Dan scoffs, and accuses the idiot in the video of being "Peak Dunning-Krueger", for citing the EXACT same numbers/facts that are (correctly) cited by Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britanica, NASA's website, and the science dept of a dozen major unis ("the sun is 400x bigger/moon is 400x closer"). And then Dan tries to back this up, by refuting a claim that the video never made- Dan says that in the PAST and the FUTURE, those ratios will change... but so what?!? The video's claim was about NOW, and it was correct NOW... but it's "peak Dunning-Kreuger", for being correct about the time the claim refers to, but NOT being correct about some OTHER random time, that Dan pulled out of his butt, for literally no reason?!!? Wut?!? The guy in the video says his fair share of dumb stuff, later in the video... But Dan edited HIS OWN video, so that it starts off with THE OTHER GUY being right, and Dan being dishonest, and just plain wrong. Dan uses the exact same lazy, dishonest, scumbag tactics that the flat-earth channels use (and at least the flerfs have an excuse, that they HAVE TO lie, coz earth isn't flat... But... what's Dan's excuse, for acting exactly the same?). There are a bunch of great anti-FE channels on YT... but Dan's is NOT one of them...
I used to have conversations like this with my friends while we were in an altered state of mind after spending the night smoking special plant matter. The difference is we just laughed at it the next day.
Life on Earth needing the moon is hardly new. Asimov built on this theory in his "Eternals", "Robots" and "Foundation" series. But that was science fiction. However knowledgeable Asimov may have been, he was at the end of the day, a creative writer. Also, the next time I hear someone say "very unique" I'm going to lose my s**t!
Well, he didn't say, that the moon is generally needed, but that it probably helped. But not to create life, but to give the sea creatures a reason to live on land.
Needing the moon? The earth nerds GRAVITY ITSELF yet GRAVITY ITSELF has NEVER been DIRECTLY DETECTED, IDENTIFIED, ISOLATED or HARNESSED ITSELF on the earth per CURRENT, FIELD, WAVE, BEAM, RAY or PARTICLE of ITSELF!!
@@lidbass oh "very unique" is most definitely worse. By definitions, something is unique or it isn't! It is possible to be an expert in a given field but not necessarily the most knowledgeable or skilful. "Very expert" is just a particularly ugly construction to my ears.
Calling crazy theories out simply because you can’t fathom it happening smacks of the same thing happening throughout history, even on the subject of space and planet creation. While I think Uncharted X’s theory is pretty out there; your sense of superiority on calling everything you don’t believe as crazy says more about you than it does of the tinfoil hat wearers. As well as sounding remarkably like the attitude flat earthers use.
Even if the moon was responsible for life being possible on earth, then that's just the anthropic principle. If the moon hadn't existed, and life would not have evolved the way it did, then we would not be here talking about how unique the moon and earth are. It's a matter of big numbers. The universe is VAST and OLD. Eventually, something like what we have can happen.
What would a spaceship do there for millions of years? Who is using it? I mean, everyone dies ... Also, how could they design something that needs no maintenance. You have to off your meds to believe something like this. It's impractical.
This video should be called “This guy is kinda right but not absolutely exact” . He states nothing goes beyond a certain distance on the moon and then ScimanDan shows 3 craters that don’t go below 4kms . Then argues there is more oxygen than iron and how he’s off by a few percent. Clearly the video was talking about physical elements and not gas elements. Of course anything hitting the earth would impact the physical element iron .
Even if he was allowed a tour of Harvard and sessions with experts, he’d think he was being lied to. These individuals need to stick to local trades like car washing or helping old people with their groceries.
mozkito life. Don't you dare wish him on us oldies, you young whipper snapper. We've got enough worries as it is, and that's before we even think about incontinence. 🙄😳 😊
Let me get this straight, Life is so likely to form naturally throughout the galaxy that obviously life our our planet can't have been natural and must have been aliens. Am I getting that right? Great video as always!
Not to mention he appears to think there's a race of beings out there just wandering the stars with a bunch of pre-made moons to distribute to planets that don't have moons... or something.
As an interviewer you should trust but verify after. The dude isn't an expert on the topic so trying to call out your guest on things that sound incredible would not add anything. Hope he sees this video.
@@johnpublic6582 how would you expect an interviewer to do this though? Know everything the guest is going to say and if it is true or not? Some podcast try to live fact check but that doesn't amount to more than a Google search and reading only 10% of the first result.
Wow, we have a “debunker” here. Right! I have to notice, however, Ben never said that the Moon is a spaceship. If you want to be a debunker, then please, don’t twist quotations. Ben asks questions about that it is too perfect for a natural satellite to be on such a “coincidental” place where the angular size of the Moon does coincide with the angular size of the Sun. That’s it. I don’t want to mention crater’s depth here, because 2.5 km and 3.0 km (pulling these numbers out of brain during a live stream) makes a huge-vast-tremendous difference indeed. And a couple of speculations from Ben after on what it might be and how it could happen. Besides Ben clearly stated that those are speculations. Which you, being a “debunker”, didn’t bather to mention like at all. Of course if you did mention it, there won’t be a single point for such a debunk, to begin with. Cheers. Very poor job of yours. I think is it intentional or coincidental?
Dunning and Krüger not only explain how to be this confident when stating things you don't know anything about but then this guy even elevates it into being weirdly charismatic while doing it.
Yeah, even though most of his ideas are whackadoodle, he's actually much more eloquent than most of the flerfers we see. And when he's talking about possibilities of life on other planets, he's downright reasonable!
The unchartedX guys are all like that. Anything they don't understand must be some big mystery. They won't even consider alternate explanations to their preconceived notions. Just like Dan!
I really hate it when l hear an Australian accent on these types of things... 🤬 As an Australin myself it's embarrassing.... This guy has watched too much Ancient Aliens
Great video Dan however this guy is right about one thing, Iron is probably the most abundant element found on earth. Current estimates put it at around 35% with oxygen at around 30%. The figures of 46% and 5% you have quoted refer to the crust only and does not consider the mantle or core. It's a common mistake that people make all the time because most of the information only talk about the crust. However if you open any 1st year geology text book, the distinction is made and iron is in fact most likely to be the most common element with our current knowledge, most of which comes from studying meteorites.
9:42 allow me to disagree. In fact, this theory is old hat and can be found in numerous science fiction novels and comic books, and "alt" history/science/cosmology books as early as the mid 30s. When I was a kid (a very long time ago, we talk of the mid 50s 🙄), I was fascinated by those fantasy stories and was even prone to believe some of them.
It's both cool, and unfortunate, that us science minded folk are always saying that we can't be sure. Meanwhile, the flatters are always saying 100 percent for sure.
Nice job as always Dan, but when he started talking about the Moon as a spaceship, I was hoping for some Space: 1999 references, complete with that great theme music.
The Moon is "very" unique. This does my head in when I try to envisage something that is also unique but somehow "less" unique than the object being discussed.
As the Simon Fisher, the child prodigy on Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge put it, "One cannot have gradations of uniqueness. One either is or is not unique." I hear that in my head every time.
Well it is an "alien" (actually ancient humans from another world but close enough) spaceship named "Dahak". I read it in a great sci-fi series by David Weber so it must be true :) (Also likely a better deal for your money :) ) Though I'd also recommend "What if there were no Moon?" for where some of this stuff is loosely based, though only VERY loosely since it's made clear that while the Moon may have played an important part in the development of life on Earth it was not actually essential. As an example if we had no Moon then it's quite possible we'd have ended up like Venus as the Moon helps thin out our atmosphere and keeps it from building up into a runaway greenhouse effect. The Moon also tidally stress the Earth which is thought to help keep our core molten and spinning. @8:39: He's referring to the very old hypothesis that life was started in shallow tidal pools that was based on the idea the only source of energy on early Earth was the sun. At the time this was proposed (50s or so) hydrothermal vents were unknown so it was assumed early life had to be exposed to the sun to develop.
The scariest thing about this is the UA-cam award behind him. Its one thing to watch CC babbling into his phone in his car or that Gandhi cosplay guy rambling in front of his dry erase board but its scarier that a significant number of people are watching this stuff. I guess the battle against self-important stupidity will never be over. Keep fighting Dan.
Actually, the likelihood of a confident-sounding dimwit rocketing to popularity among other dimwits seems MORE plausible than a clever, well-spoken ACTUAL scientist doing the same among people with good sense. Intelligent people (meaning, of course, non-Flerfers) are harder to fool, harder to convince, and harder to earn loyalty from. Thinking the video-maker Dan eviscerates here has done something impressive is like congratulating someone for winning the title of "World's Best Player of Tag" when the only people they've ever tagged were either unconscious or dead.
@@jeffbaer5851 Sure, but a silver button is 100k subs. That's a lot of dimwits. I don't really care if people think the Earth is flat or the moon is cheese. I do care that anti-intellectualism and belief in pseudo-science seems to be spreading faster then at any time since the cultural revolution. And the internet for all its wonders seems to be hurling us as a species toward idoicracy and civil war. So I hope Dan and the rest can convince a few to return to sanity.
My favorite part with the double whack is the phrase "and then it would need to have been hit with *exactly* the right speed and *exactly* the right direction etc... to take it to its current rotational speed.... 😂🤣🤣 As if there is something special about the 24h?!...
People like him go on shows and say a bunch of nonsense, but they say it with confidence and are believed by people who don't know any better... It's really depressing. These people have a large platform that enables them to spread absolute BS, and their listeners parrot everything with the same degree of concern for the actual numbers as this guy. They think he's smart, even though every number he claimed was "something like" or "I think". Very scientific... 😒
In a nutshell "Who Built the Moon" is about how we, the human race, have to discover time travel so we can build the moon and send it into the far distant past so we, the human race, can evolve. Oh, and there’s a load stuff about the Neolithic yard before you get to that. It’s… bonkers. I look forward to your review.
I mean in an abstract kind of way the moon, even our earth is a ‘space station’ hurtling through vast empty space. Like a space ship created from nature.
Because Jupiter's moons and our moon are the exact same thing and was formed the exact same way? I'm not on board with what this guy is saying, but you people make these smug comments that are just as silly as what he is saying
@@zm5668 Jupiter's moons are not the same thing as our Moon and formed in a somewhat different way--and there are four big ones along with dozens of minor ones. So, what was smug or silly about the comment?
It's an interesting theory, however I recently seen a documentary (around late December I think) about an English man self funding a trip to the moon, alongside his dog, and when he got there, turns out it was made of cheese.
Wallace and grommit?
Cracking Comment Eh Grommet!
Wensleydale?
It’s not a theory. It’s a guess
Which leads to the (frankly terrifying) conclusion that there must be some sort of giant space cow. (or herd of cows)
As Ben says, you can't rule it out.
8:30 “This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!'”
Yep. So much of this
His channel is exactly what you said. How the ancient Egyptians had more precise technology. And how people later on inherited it as there own. Because it suited them. And because they were the last who wrote on it, it must have been them. Definitely worth exploring.
This moon shit though 🤣 lost me on this. Stick to the tube drills and serapeum granite box stuff please Ben.
@@DogFish-NZ Really? The ancient Egyptians had more precise technology than we have today?
*cough* BS.
The Egyptians were an advanced race and there's some of their culture we cannot completely explain how they did it back then, but because we can't explain with any certainty how they managed to (for instance) achieve such precision in the building of the Pyramids, that does NOT mean their technology back then was "more precise" than ours today.
The technology we had 200 years ago surpassed the Egyptians by a long way.
Don't believe the Dunning Kruger types that claim we couldn't build the Pyramids with such precision today. Of course we could. Easily!
The difference is we would do it using laser measurements, and machines like trucks and cranes. You know: more advanced technology!
@@KeithMilner Maybe not. You would have to deal with the EPA, unions and politicians. 😆
I love when someone says 'what are the chances?' about something that exists.
Ie: What are the chances that all these things lined up just so, and now you and I are sitting in this room talking?
Well, apparently, in this particular case, 100%, because here we are.
If gravity is real then why can u drive in reverse? How does my evelator go down and not stop going up?
Danny boiiiiii
If it's a 0.0001% chance and the universe contains a billion billion moons, it's still pretty high chances.
@@peterlarkin762 exactly
Yup lol, me too. The whole argument for God cuz what are the chances that of all the galaxies and all the planets....? Um 100%?
Also worth nothing that they ask “what are the chances” but never even try to calculate them
I love how he uses “we” like he’s part of the expert community who study and have knowledge about planetary bodies
Yes! That was really making me laugh all the way through 🤣😅
So explain why GRAVITY ITSELF HASN'T one IOTA of PRESENCE, SUBSTANCE or FORM of ITSELF to be DIRECTLY DETECTED, IDENTIFIED, ISOLATED, STUDIED OR HARNESSED ITSELF ON THE EARTH!!?? THE GLOBE IS DEAD BY ASSOCIATION OF YOUR FAKE GRAVITY!!
He has knowledge about weed smoking.
@@Lucian_Andries Sept when he came down he still believed the stupid stuff he came up with while stoned.
@@spiderzvow1 What is sept? September?
It could be worse. He doesn’t think Earth is flat!
I don't think the earth is flat either,,,I KNOW IT'S FLAT!!
@@ramonortiz7462 Cause you have an actual satellite image of earth and you've been passed your delusional "ice wall" right? 🙄
@@ramonortiz7462 how do u know? Provide proof then.
Maybe he thinks the Moon is flat... You know, like an UFO? :)
@@ramonortiz7462 No, you don't know. You just believe that the earth is flat.
As you have no actual evidence of the dome, the flat earth, the ice wall, and so on, you do only believe in a flat eart. you don't have any proof to know it.
Just imagine spending your whole life becoming an expert in a field that doesn't exist.
Like the Big Bang Theory. I would like to see SciManDan's take on the findings of the JWST.
uncharted x's main area of interest is ancient egypt and such
Like gravity?
@@literallyanything9811
Exactly. So many ridiculous assumptions in astrophysics. Big bang, ref shift, expanding universe, no evidence for any of it.
@@mainsource8030 Yes and he's just as wrong about that as he is with the moon. lol.
"That's one small step for imagination, and one giant leap for total bollocks."
Bert Einstein - 10 minutes ago.
Peter Taysim = 42 minutes ago .he pinched the quote from you
@@robertkustos2931 Goddam, there's that pesky 42 again.
Everyone clapped
"We don't really know anything about the moon... but hey, let me tell you all about the moon."
I actually think that he has watched the movie "Moonfall" recently. He describes this movie's plot to a near-100% accuracy.
i once read an old book called "moonfall", that i don't think is related.
that book involves a comet SHATTERING the moon...
The utter confidence in which he delivers it is impressive.
A very determined idiot...
Bullshit baffles brains principle
That's fairly typical of conspiracy theories. Speaking absolute nonsense with supreme confidence is one of the methods they use to con people.
@@seraphinaaizen6278 The Earth is definitely flat as a tortilla.
That is proven by flerflection, flerfraction and flerspective times and times over.
You globies are so gullible.
NASA have you fooled every time.
Just kidding 😁
Old sailor here, I know from personal experience that Earth is NOT flat 🌎
Look, evolution is a joke to Dan because he can’t write anything positive about it therefore he cannot even defend it! He’s distracting you with flat earth videos all the time!
That’s dumb
One thing is for sure, if we didn't have the Moon, we wouldn't have lunatics.
We'd have Marsatics? Or Jupupitics? We need that moon for those crazies!
@@dragoncubes1074 Sunatics
What's insane is the lack of basic knowledge of that guy! 😕Any kid from school knows how an eclipse works. 😕
And he writes books?!?!?!? What a waste of paper. 😕
1:59: It made me laugh when he spoke about something being, “very unique”. Something is either unique, or it’s not; there are no ‘degrees of uniqueness’. It rather set the level, I feel.
I was thinking something exactly similar.
Somethings are unique, but our moon is uniquest
Its a common thing in informal talk though. So pointing it out as some sort of “gotcha” is kinda pointless. Don’t get me wrong. He’s still a dumbass. A really unique dumbass at that.
I made up a tongue-twister for my daughter when she was little: "You know you're not unique New York", which is of course untrue as New York like anywhere else is unique.
Like being a bit special.
When I was about 19 my friends and I got talking to a bloke in a pub who used to talk like this fella, all these pulled from the arse hypotheses based on the odd factlet he'd picked up and misunderstood. It really was very much like the stuff this guy said and even at 19 and 20, my friends and I ripped everything he said to pieces. He just didn't have enough basic understanding to support his outlandish but entertaining theories.
Fast forward a decade or so and I was again in a pub and I overheard the same bloke talking to another group- again of young people- and saying the exact same nonsense. I think he was just a pub bore and was not doing any harm. But now the pub bore can get on the internet and influence hundreds of other people whose grasp on reality is tabloid at best.
Ok, but this is human nature. Both sides actually. You can't do sh*t about it. :D It's unavoidable.
Remember the Daily Sport articles in the 80s? B17 found on the moon? Back then everyone had a laugh, but those loonies actually broke society. London bus at the South Pole? Birthed the flerfs imo 🤪
scary
But what personal experience do you have to know that you are not similar to this pub bore and only denying things because you were told to? You say the pub bore had nearly the same story, what if that is because it's true? You even added that you were young but able to question him, but what if you were too young or ill informed. I know lots of people that think they know something because they have the basic 101 information that I have an entire university degree in studying in-depth and specifically because my work is more cutting edge that the young 19-20 years old taking cosmology 101 will laugh at me for saying "insane" things, only for me to explain the idea and the Nobel prize that was awarded with its discovery.
@@MasterofFace don't tease! I'd love to hear about cutting edge technologies and developments, especially so cutting edge as to get a Nobel Prize. I'm on here to learn.
The internet has spawned millions of 'experts' like this, and I do stand up for their RIGHT to express their ignorance. This is where people like Dan and Dave are invaluable. The entertainment value of these people's thickness is incredible. We must allow freedom of speech, and freedom for Dan, Dave and the rest to tear their ridiculous ideas to shreds, whilst pointing and laughing!
Look into "Worlds of Antiquity" channel also, his debunking is good and even makes comedy releasing short videos.
my concern is anti-vax has killed babies and children alongside those "natural home remedies" that aren't traditional just made up by people in a facebook group so they have no history or culture to base their belief on, those have killed and seriously harmed relatives, including children and those with autism in the care of those morons. I am all for the freedom of speech but that freedom should not infringe on others' right to life, happiness and healthcare by actual doctors where if they are treated there is data to back up the treatments. so how do we give ppl freedom of speech while also protecting children and those unable to protect themselves from these people.
They are not valuable, they are a detriment to society.
To paraphrase: Dan claimed Ben said earth is comprised of 45% iron, Ben actually said he thought 47%. If something so simple as this is overlooked, what else might be. I realize intelligent people make simple mistakes, especially when blinded by contempt & the like. That being said, I know that I know nothing...how do I know this? I don't know 😅 & now I shall excuse myself.
well said
If we were to discuss this hypothesis seriously, the main arguments against the Moon being a giant spaceship is it mass (easy to measure from the orbits of space probes but even ascertainable from the magnitude of ocean tides on the Earth). So the density is one of rock, not empty space inside. Not to mention the seismographs left by the Apollo missions. They clearly showed that Moon is not empty inside.
That is all extremely difficult to comprehend if there is empty space between your ears 😂
You don't think that if the aliens were smart enough to build a tiny moon looking space craft that they couldn't trick our primitive seismographs??? 👾🤡
@@curt941 But the spacecraft would need to be still operational. We know from geology that our planet had Lunar tides for at least a billion years. What have the aliens achieved by this extremely long cloak-and-dagger operation?
@@arctic_haze obviously to mess with our scientists! They were playing the long game!
Well the aliens put scrambling technologies on the moon of course. They don’t want us to use it to travel the universe spreading our spiral power stopping us from destroying it all. Oh wait that is a story from an anime.
Interviewer: That's insane
Ben: It is insane
Me: it IS insane
My favorite part is when he says "correlate" when he meant to say coalesce. You know how those three syllable words can be quite confusing.
This is exactly what I was going to comment on but I decided to scroll through the comments because I was sure someone else must have picked up on that also.
It's one thing not to know what correlate means, not everyone is interested in science, but it is totally different to claim to be an expert and to use it confidently in a wrong way.
This totally makes sense. If aliens wanted to hide an observation craft in plain sight, they could just build a ship right next to Earth, like 4.5 billion years ago.Then all they need to do is wait for 4.5 billion years, biding their time, until life starts, then complex life evolves, invertebrates evolve, dinosaurs evolve and die, mammals appear, hominids climb down from the trees, humans evolve and then Ben is born without any understanding about what he is saying. Yeah, that's exactly what the aliens did.
Well DUH
Yeah, his 'squirt the DNA' line is straight out of 'Prometheus' and that had me shouting at my telly. OK, so aliens seed the Earth with DNA and give it life,.... but we know that a big old asteroid had something to say about that, so how did the aliens predict the extinction of the dinosaurs? Also, he says our Moon was instrumental on their being life on Earth, but then talks about life on Mars, which has two tiny Moons, so er, how does that work?
@@engineeredlifeform Hey... if they can build a moon, an itty bitty asteroid ain't no big thang.
Then, after all that waiting, the answer was 42. 🤣
@@budrome4247 "Don't molest me with this pocket calculator stuff!"
I'd be more concerned about the "double small brain aneurysm theory", if I were him!
He got a LOT wrong - but at least he doesn't think the earth is flat!!
Gotta be feeling particularly frisky to manage a double whack 😅
He might have been having a stroke. That would explain the way his eye-que was drooping and his words were gibberish.
The confused look of the other bloke across the desk is everything
As far as it goes being a huge coincidence that everything lined up perfectly to create life on Earth... if it hadn't worked out that way, we wouldn't be here to discuss it. The question can only arise if everything works out just right and when you consider there are 200 billion galaxies in the known universe, and a trillion stars for each of those galaxies, a "one in a million chance" will seem like a common occurrence.
Out of those 200 sextillion (200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) stars, our solar system very probably isn't unique in its coincidences
Considering the base building blocks for life seem to be found all over the show, I wouldn't be surprised in the least if when we finally find something not from our world, it's base components will have DNA just like we do. Almost as if life has the potential to spring up spontaniously anywhere given the correct environmental situations.
@@supremeownage8995 I mean there could be new forms of proto-monera spontaneously arising in deep sea volcanic vents that we'll never know about. There's a theory that microscopic life exists in the upper atmosphere of Venus but good luck sending a probe that won't dissolve in a few minutes.
Now I don't believe there's other intelligent life in our solar system or that extrasolar entities visit Earth but it's stranger if there's _not_ life scattered all over the universe
Agreed. The conditions were just right to create "us".
If the conditions had been different enough, though, "we" would probably be different too, but still remarking on how the conditions were just right for that.
@@supremeownage8995
I hope we find extraterrestrial life in my life time!!! There have been so many other firsts for humanity in my 6 decades, but finding life elsewhere... wow, that will be amazing!!!
It will be a turning point.
How will people react?
How will religious leaders react?
How will governments react?
Even if it is primitive and resembling bacteria or even viruses, it will completely change our world and our world view.
I can't wait!😁
A date point of one is about as anecdotal as you can get.
"There's a lot of insanity about the moon.."
Lunacy. The word you're looking for is LUNACY.
Yes! Nice.
Lunar cy.....
Moonacy
This dude on his podcast is exactly what scares me. People will TOTALLY believe him and roll with it.
Thank you for this video
I know, right?
He was on the JRE and this jackass and Rogan bought said that the reason science pushes against him is because they would look silly and have to change the history books. Rogan loves pseudoscience.
Well at first I found it interesting, but I did know enough about the moon to know he is full of crap, and after digging into it jeah he is wrong a lot of the time. But it did spark an interest in the mechanics of stonemaking and ancient engineering.
Yeah the other guy was really on the hook.
I finally gave in and watched 'Moonfall' on Amazon Prime, for a laugh. Didn't realise it's actually a documentary! 🤣
Is it worth watching? I like dumb movies if that helps
@@the-guy-on-your-moms-couch It's one of those movies that is good if you just disconnect your brain
Yeah, I watched it the other day, too. I could definitely see some conspiracy theorists walking out of that movie muttering to themselves, "See! I knew I was right!"
I thought that also. I think he is a Moonfall fanboy. 🤣🥴
@@glennpearson9348 well one of the main characters is a conspiracy theorist!
He even tried a Star Wars quote on the Death Star: "That's not a moon!" - lol. I think the actual quote is "That's no moon!"... but he did mention it, so yes Dan - confirmed, he did get that idea from Star Wars.
So it's a space station then?? Haha
He remembers “facts” about the moon with approximately the same accuracy as he remembers Star Wars quotes.
And his interviewer didn't seem to get the Star Wars reference at all.
Guy doing interview is thinking "I'm not getting paid enough to do this shit".
As a fire investigator I wish I could be as convinced about results based on facts as people like this are based on brain farts.
Couldn't have said it better
Well as we’ve probably all seen especially in the last few years, objective empirical facts don’t need to be part of any confident conspiracy theory.
@@shardsofcontent4829 Reality is not welcome in the flattard's world. Faith is all.
Hilarious
The moon is a hyper-advanced space ship made of organic materials?
You know what else is made of organic materials? Cheese.
Dunn-dunn-duuuuuuuun! 😲
That happens when you are best friends with Brien Foerster.
I kinda liked Ben when he started but he keeps on getting weirder with every new video.
He actually was one of the reasons for me to invest more time in learning about the past. He managed to make things look interesting that my history teachers in school never did. I've always been interested in natural history, evolution and everything that involves biology. I'm still not too interested in geology, it's more like a tool needed to understand the history of life. Just like I don't like math but I need it because I like physics. History of human civilizations had never been my thing and I'm still extremely bad in remembering progressions of kings and that kind of stuff. From that point of view, I'm kinda thankful to Ben that he raised my interest. It's like he gave me the keys to something he described as a magic place, I went in, found out that it was not magic at all. it was false advertizing. What I found behind that door is interesting and enjoyable for reasons he had called lies.
He may be right in stating that life on Earth didn't happen without the Moon. Tidal forces by the Moon increased the chance of life in many ways. They even increased the chance of having a long lasting planetary magnetic field. But it still is possible without the Moon, just a bit less likely.
One general thing he gets wrong is his idea of probability. A low probability event still can happen in reality. I mean, people keep on winning the lottery. Others get killed by falling coconuts or they meet their most hated neighbor in vacation on the other side of the planet. How probable is that?
He gets crater forming dynamics horribly wrong. He doesn't even have the slightest idea of what he is talking about.
Someone squirted his DNA on Earth? What???
I always liked Ben too. He's very knowledgeable about many of the sites in Egypt, and has taught me a great deal about some of the more questionable things concerning mainstream Egyptology. Ben writes and speaks very eloquently on his videos, and normally does his homework, but on this topic, the moon, he's got it horribly wrong. We've discovered that planets having tidally locked moons are very common in other solar systems. Not have a tidally locked moon would certainly not prevent life from arising elsewhere. Abiogenesis could easily occur in any environment where there is liquid water and the necessary organic chemicals; the very reason virtually all astrobiologists say to "follow the water". Ben should stick to Egypt.
Your, "he's got it horribly wrong" line makes me astounded that you can even think he is knowledgeable about anything at all and you prove to me that this Ben fella has zero credibility for anything he states.
I knew there was a reason why I never trust anyone who has seen every Star Trek episode and every Star Wars film!
The possibility that life was "seeded" on earth was in my bio 101 textbook. I can't remember if the authors specifically implied aliens or not but it was pretty wild to read that at a very good university
@Jakob Hayden There is a different between single cell organisms arriving and some alien civilization....
I used to be heaps into Ben but got to the point where I walked away from his BS. The guy is really just an ancient technology nerd who piggybacks on orher peoples tours and is trying to make a living out of it. His arrogance is a total turn off which is what made me lose respect for him. Anyone who believes differently is called an idiot; he actively censors his own communities heavily, his followers can’t debate beyond the BS he sprouts and his belief systems are getting more and more wacky.
SciManDan posted, and we all know what that means. I should go to bed... After I get done watching it.
You in America?
Go to bed? It's 9:22am in England i've just woke up.
It means that I have insomnia again, lol.
And WAKE up early for more indoctrination!! Acclaimed PHYSICIST Erik Verlinde ADMITS that GRAVITY ITSELF is entirely based on FAITH, assumption, SUPPOSITION and description of said assumption, SUPPOSITION, FAITH and description of said assumption and SUPPOSITION + faith!! ua-cam.com/users/shortsrRJaMHi_--w?feature=share
The person might have been on a night shift ?
Bless him, he got literally every "fact" wrong. 😂
“Alternative facts”
"Amazing. Every word of what you just said... was wrong." - Luke Skywalker
@@kombat_king5717 What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul. Billy Madison
A typical graduate of the Flattard University. The crest motto is "Nulla veritas hic locutus est."
Not all of them
It's baffling nowadays, how people are willing to relay their stupidity or ignorance to people, just for cash.
New levels of sadness. The(ir) next generation will be so, SO much worse. Be prepared folks.
I like to think of puddles whenever I hear argument like this. If you look at the ground beneath a puddle, it is astonishing how the water fits it’s surface. The accuracy is so great that it cannot possibly be an incident. The ground has to be designed to hold the puddle. There is is just no other possible explanation.
I like that!😅😅😅
Douglas Adams.
In case you didn’t know.
@@lidbass Couldn’t say who it comes from originally. I trust you on that :).
@@YouBetterBeYou "Everything is a puddle if you are brave enough."- Mohammed Ali
As someone who regularly talks at great length on things I know very little about myself I can see all the tell-tale signs. He is absolutely winging this entire interview, he has done zero prep work and everything he says is coming from half-remembered blog posts and youtube videos.
How do you find yourself having to talk a lot with little knowledge?
@@jamierichardson7683
Embellishment.
😅
In 1991 David Weber A sci_Fi author wrote a book called Mutineer's Moon. Its plot was the moon was an A.I. space craft.
Moon is cheese. I use it for chicken Alfredo all the time. Duh.
So it's you that keeps stealing my cheese!!
At 2:25, it's also not 25% the size of the Earth, it's about 2% the size of the Earth (0,27^3) - by volume, which is the only thing that matters regarding density and mass.
The part that kills me is how supremely confident these people are. How does that work?
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a helluva drug
"That's no moon... it's a space station."
(Someone had to say it.)
i was looking to make sure someone didnt beat me to it
Citation missing. (Someone had to say this, too ;-))
Mimas cackles with glee.
There's no space station, what they call the ISS is actually just a big rock orbiting us. The people sent up there are actually secret rock dwellers and live inside the rock.
Nice
He's so smug and self-confident... He really thinks he's an expert in this field.
I've never heard of the "double big whack" hypothesis, and I've been a space nerd for my whole life 🤔
I have. Spirit Science said basically the exact same BS.
It sounds like Creationist science - hit at the perfect angle, with the perfect speed. Very fine tuned.
Sure he picked it up on some conspiracy nut alleyway on the internet. It's an old tactic of these wackos: they deliberately misinterpret science to convice themselves and others that the "mainstream" is nonsensical, so that their beliefs appear more sensible by comparison. You can see it in Kent Hovind's anti-evolution propaganda ("science wants you to believe that we came from a rock!"), Flat Earth ("8 inches per miles square") and so on.
@@fostena Also Kent Hovind - God made Adam out of dirt.
@@ivanpetrov5255 also Kent Hovind: the flood killed entire species of prehistoric FISH
I mean, it's hardly 'new'... It's been an insane theory for quite a while.
I've been watching you since before the first 'flat earth fail compilation', yet somehow you seem to drop more knowledge after all this time. It's amazing that you have taken this channel so far!
Dan just regurgitates obsolete text book nonsense. Just like Ben, if you don't know any better, you are easily fooled.
Sure would be cool if there was a fact checker on that podcast to own him in real time
The interviewer's facial expressions were doing a pretty good job I thought.
In my day we didn't need fact-checkers we were just intelligent enough to know when someone's talking absolute crap. you don't need a machine for everything
@@jamied8678 you didint know shit, you learned real time from dan about the facts :D
cant believe he has enuff people to support his channel
It's a shame you brought such an aggressive energy to this video. I totally agree with you that Ben is barking up the wrong tree but you could have chosen to tackle this with a much kinder tone.
It's interesting that the reason that we don't know for certain how the Moon was formed is because of the age of the rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts...that the flat earthers say didn't happen.
I'm certain they'd just say that the moon rocks are just normal rocks and NASA is lying to everyone. Of course they don't seem to understand how Globally Massive that kind of conspiracy needs to be, to be true. The amount of bribery and pay-offs that need to occur to keep Flat Earth a secret are staggeringly high. they think it's easy to hide a "fact" like that. And notice they ONLY ever accuse NASA of doing this?? Wouldn't there need to be a Global organization making sure that no random person accidentally stumbles onto the truth?? See, they try to break down the intelligence of NASA by claiming they have no clue what they're talking about and at the same time credit NASA for having the intelligence to "hide the truth from the world."
The models are so accurate its pretty easy to say we know pretty much how it came to be.
man pretty much watched that movie that came out recently, its called Moonfall i think, and went full tinfoil hat about it, the movie is pretty much about some conspiracy theorist scientist believing that the moon is an alien spaceship and he turns out to be right
I love how confident the dude talking is while the other one is just "oh yeah? Oh, mmmhmmm yeah"
I got roped into his ancient technology babble a few years ago, glad go see him being challenged and debunked, thanks Dan!
@Jesus Jones Ah there you are, one of the little special folk and wannabe dumb fascist. Shouldn't you get back to your mindless little job in order to support the likes of Trump in their criminal enterprises?
@Jesus Jones That would be the most plausible explanation so far. Imagining all kinds of nonsense to explain things we don't understand fully is how we ended up worshipping gods that insist we must mutilate children, forsake bacon, and inherit the sins of our ancestors.
@Jesus Jones they used ramps
@@TheRealG5 And lots, and lots of slaves. Or "volunteers" as I saw once in a children's history book.
I heard that it is currently believed that farmers who couldn't work their land due to flooding were the workers and not slaves.
I remember reading a book called 'Spaceship Moon' back in the 70's. I see nothing has really changed.
Yep, about the same time as "Chariots of the Gods", if I remember correctly!
Reminds me the recent movie with Halle Berry, "Moonfall."
@@ulyssesfewl1059
Chariots of the Gods was written in '68. Von Daniken is still around and still convinced of his theories. I used to love that stuff, I was a kid then but yet I still knew it was all goofy crap.😅
Yeah they got you snowflakes believing that nothing created anything, Something, and everything!
See how brainwashed you are?
Wait, put your hardhat on cause nothing may explode any minute now!
I love how he says we've never observed another planet/moon relationship like ours when exoplanets are so incredibly hard to image and is still a relatively young field of study (although Webb is sure to perform wonders in our understanding of exoplanets) as if we've looked at hundreds or thousands of other planets. We basically only have the other planets in our solar system to compare ours and our moon to definitively lol.
Well that doesn't make the comment wrong, it just makes it meaningless.
He makes shit up like this all the time.
He had a point about the double bang theory........I felt the urge to hit my head against a wall at least twice during this absolute waffle.
"exactly the right direction and exactly the right angle"
Had earth's day length been different those numbers would be different.
It is when you bang your head so hard in disbelief that you get concussed and bang again on the floor.
@@nayannbg6314 you trollin right
@@MTBOSS09 my calculation says I am kind of correct. Once you bang on the wall and second time on the floor. Double bang right there
I remember reading a book back in the 90's called The Moon Is A Spacecraft. Funny stuff, mostly blacked out documents claiming to be from NASA 🤦♂️
Earlier than that was 'Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon' from about 1976. I think there were plenty of books around then trying to jump on the Erich von Daniken bandwagon.
@Canabus ted
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@@philyoung6745 I read that book, way back when. It was in our high school’s library.
I have a copy of that book on my bookshelf of shame from back in my days when I was caught up in this nonsense. Also have, the one he mentioned, "Who Made the Moon." and also one called "There's somebody else on the Moon." Crazy stuff. The cherry picked NASA photos were very convincing to my younger self.
@@Tannius Yes, I was very convinced by the 'Chariots of the Gods' film, which I saw quite by chance when it came out. I think that is what made all this nonsense more mainstream, although I suppose all the UFO stuff was from the late 50's onwards.
But I was 10, so that's my excuse.
Knowing nothing about how Egyptians made such amazing architecture I got sucked into the uncharted X videos on the topic for a couple days. Glad I branched out away from that, still have a lot of questions as far as what tools/ methods were used but we all do.
Interestingly some of the best UA-cam resources for the tools/methods used by the Egyptians comes in the form of videos specifically debunking unchartedx.
@@cjcnx2000 😂😂
UnchartedX doesn’t exactly claim to have answers, he simply has an open mind about the possibility that archaeologists got it wrong. Having a fair bit of knowledge about working with granite, I tend to agree that the historical narrative has a LOT of holes in it and people like Zahi Hawass have intentionally suppressed evidence for decades.
@@KennyEaton603 what evidence? You literally have hieroglyphs and art that shows us some tehniques what they where using.They also find those tools they where using all over egypt. Based of these evidence archeologist's are claiming how its done. This guys only "evidence" is that those things cant be done with that , because he doesnt know how. That doesnt mean that ancient egyptians ( ~ 3000 yrs span empire, Cleopatra lived closer to us today then she was to when great pyramids where build ) didnt know or could made with their tehniques, which they where learning, adapting and teaching next generations for centuries. And it is proven that copper, with abrasive's and friction can cut stones they where using. Also its proven that harder stone can carve lesser stones. So it means it can be done. He on the other hand has 0 evidence , other then dont giving any credit to these ancient people and their achievements.
@@cjcnx2000 I don't follow the whole ancient aliens stuff but no, no they don't. It doesn't explain at all how that happened, especially the LOSS of capabilities over time because the impressive pyramids were built during Old Kingdom. It's fine to say you don't get it, it happened 4,500 years ago.
Ah noooooo! He’s Australian! We’ve been trying for decades to be taken seriously, and these knob heads come along. Also major apologies for Murdoch!
No apology for Ken Ham?
@@andystokes8702 ah crap! 😢 sorry
@@andystokes8702 we make up for it with Cate Blanchett and the Hemsworths though….hopefully lol
@@Stiffdistantandweird You also gave us Natalie Imbruglia - I can forgive you almost anything.
I love Australia but there are some weird double whackers there. Mitchell (from Australia) comes to mind too.
He may have his facts wrong, and he may say some things that are very silly, and he may not have any idea what he's talking about, but he at least believes that the moon is real and that we've studied it and that it's important. So I respect this crackpot way more than most people we look at on this channel.
AND hes not an _arrogant douche_ in spite of/due to thinking hes got it right.
He seems pretty okay.
@@pureflix8086 A super valid point. I feel like I could have a conversation with this guy as opposed to the Nathan Oakley types that I can't even stand to watch videos that mock that
@@pureflix8086 dude is a snake oil salesman. He's been told what he says isn't right yet it doesn't stop him from saying the exact same thing later. He knows... He just doesn't care as that doesn't sell.
Ben is a good level headed guy and I respect his opinions on many topics he deals with on his channel. This moon thing, I agree is pretty far fetched but if you listened to the whole podcast you would see that he is a nice, intelligent and likable guy. This is the first time that I've heard him speak about the moon and he went a little overboard. I believe it was his first time as a guest on another guys podcast and he seemed a little nervous and like he spoke about things that he hadn't researched fully wasn't ready to give his opinions out to the masses on this subject and only did so to try to fill the time and be interesting. Along the vein of one of his heroes, Randall Carlson that knows many interesting facts about the moon, but Randall's facts are just that, facts and not some ideas from a science fiction book he read. But none the less, check out his channel and see for yourselves. Thanks
@@danamcalister nice intelligent likeable guy doesn't mean anything.
And no... Randall Carlson is a fake online guru snake oil salesman, same as Ben. They KNOW what they are telling people is in fact false but they have books, lectures and tours to sell.
Not even being able to Google Crater depth on the moon tells you how little actual research he does. His research consists of reading books by people like Graham, Calson and the like who are not in anyway shape or form experts of the field they are talking about. Graham a journalist and Carlson a architect of no note with a 2 year Geology degree.
"No no no Star Wars was a long time ago" lol amazing
I've watched some of UnchartedX's Egypt videos which are fascinating and pretty well informed. I think he's just spit balling here about something he read in one book about the moon. I don't think he claims to be an expert and I'm sure he'd be happy to be proven wrong.
I would agree - the majority of his videos are well researched prepared & presented and seem to be more about asking questions and challenging parts of the established narrative without declaring it all rubbish because aliens did it all. I think perhaps he has not come off well in this as its not his footage, and its unlikely to be what he was originally talking about & not his usual field.
Or...and I'm just spit balling, here...he likes the attention.
His Egyptian videos aren’t nearly as well informed as you think
The dude's confidence seems to have an inverse relationship to his actual knowledge.
Who, Dan?
Sure, the guy's an idiot... But so is Dan- At about 1min into the video, Dan scoffs, and accuses the idiot in the video of being "Peak Dunning-Krueger", for citing the EXACT same numbers/facts that are (correctly) cited by Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britanica, NASA's website, and the science dept of a dozen major unis ("the sun is 400x bigger/moon is 400x closer").
And then Dan tries to back this up, by refuting a claim that the video never made- Dan says that in the PAST and the FUTURE, those ratios will change... but so what?!? The video's claim was about NOW, and it was correct NOW... but it's "peak Dunning-Kreuger", for being correct about the time the claim refers to, but NOT being correct about some OTHER random time, that Dan pulled out of his butt, for literally no reason?!!? Wut?!?
The guy in the video says his fair share of dumb stuff, later in the video... But Dan edited HIS OWN video, so that it starts off with THE OTHER GUY being right, and Dan being dishonest, and just plain wrong.
Dan uses the exact same lazy, dishonest, scumbag tactics that the flat-earth channels use (and at least the flerfs have an excuse, that they HAVE TO lie, coz earth isn't flat... But... what's Dan's excuse, for acting exactly the same?). There are a bunch of great anti-FE channels on YT... but Dan's is NOT one of them...
I used to have conversations like this with my friends while we were in an altered state of mind after spending the night smoking special plant matter. The difference is we just laughed at it the next day.
Yeah, Ben does seem a bit hazed here, and the host seem kinda out of it too 😄
Need more of the Father Ted scene about far away cows.
He says "you cant rule it out" but if you understand a little bit of how things work you can rule his theories out easily.
“Technology way into the future”
Dan: “no no no no, Star Wars was a long time ago”
Nerdism appreciated
Life on Earth needing the moon is hardly new. Asimov built on this theory in his "Eternals", "Robots" and "Foundation" series. But that was science fiction. However knowledgeable Asimov may have been, he was at the end of the day, a creative writer.
Also, the next time I hear someone say "very unique" I'm going to lose my s**t!
Well, he didn't say, that the moon is generally needed, but that it probably helped. But not to create life, but to give the sea creatures a reason to live on land.
Needing the moon? The earth nerds GRAVITY ITSELF yet GRAVITY ITSELF has NEVER been DIRECTLY DETECTED, IDENTIFIED, ISOLATED or HARNESSED ITSELF on the earth per CURRENT, FIELD, WAVE, BEAM, RAY or PARTICLE of ITSELF!!
And a professor of biochemistry.
Which is worse, I wonder: ‘very unique’ or ‘very expert’…?
@@lidbass oh "very unique" is most definitely worse. By definitions, something is unique or it isn't! It is possible to be an expert in a given field but not necessarily the most knowledgeable or skilful. "Very expert" is just a particularly ugly construction to my ears.
It surprises me (idk how at this point tbh) how extremely confident this guy is spitting absolutely false facts
nice icon
@@temparalflux914 thanks😂
Trained by graham Hancock
Calling crazy theories out simply because you can’t fathom it happening smacks of the same thing happening throughout history, even on the subject of space and planet creation. While I think Uncharted X’s theory is pretty out there; your sense of superiority on calling everything you don’t believe as crazy says more about you than it does of the tinfoil hat wearers. As well as sounding remarkably like the attitude flat earthers use.
Even if the moon was responsible for life being possible on earth, then that's just the anthropic principle. If the moon hadn't existed, and life would not have evolved the way it did, then we would not be here talking about how unique the moon and earth are. It's a matter of big numbers. The universe is VAST and OLD. Eventually, something like what we have can happen.
Yup, massive survivorship bias.
“That’s no moron…. It’s a space cadet!” 😂
What would a spaceship do there for millions of years? Who is using it? I mean, everyone dies ... Also, how could they design something that needs no maintenance. You have to off your meds to believe something like this. It's impractical.
This video should be called “This guy is kinda right but not absolutely exact” . He states nothing goes beyond a certain distance on the moon and then ScimanDan shows 3 craters that don’t go below 4kms . Then argues there is more oxygen than iron and how he’s off by a few percent. Clearly the video was talking about physical elements and not gas elements. Of course anything hitting the earth would impact the physical element iron .
Slartibartfast designed the fjords, so there must have been a team working on the moons aesthetics. We just haven't received that revelation yet. 🔭🌘
"Squirting DNA at it" was an insight into his mind that I didn't need to hear
I was thinking the same thing...lol
Even if he was allowed a tour of Harvard and sessions with experts, he’d think he was being lied to. These individuals need to stick to local trades like car washing or helping old people with their groceries.
mozkito life. Don't you dare wish him on us oldies, you young whipper snapper. We've got enough worries as it is, and that's before we even think about incontinence. 🙄😳
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Let me get this straight,
Life is so likely to form naturally throughout the galaxy that obviously life our our planet can't have been natural and must have been aliens.
Am I getting that right?
Great video as always!
Yep.. You got it! 1st class tin foil theory.
I believe that is his assertion. It doesn’t sound right, but I don’t know enough about the chronology of the universe to dispute it.
Not to mention he appears to think there's a race of beings out there just wandering the stars with a bunch of pre-made moons to distribute to planets that don't have moons... or something.
The interviewers expressions are priceless. Total shock at the crap he’s hearing.
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That is my favourite part of all this. Plus his 'yeah'.... 'right'
As an interviewer you should trust but verify after.
The dude isn't an expert on the topic so trying to call out your guest on things that sound incredible would not add anything.
Hope he sees this video.
@@snowterran It might not add anything, but it would stop this crap from subtracting other peoples IQ.
@@johnpublic6582 how would you expect an interviewer to do this though? Know everything the guest is going to say and if it is true or not?
Some podcast try to live fact check but that doesn't amount to more than a Google search and reading only 10% of the first result.
Wow, we have a “debunker” here. Right! I have to notice, however, Ben never said that the Moon is a spaceship. If you want to be a debunker, then please, don’t twist quotations. Ben asks questions about that it is too perfect for a natural satellite to be on such a “coincidental” place where the angular size of the Moon does coincide with the angular size of the Sun. That’s it. I don’t want to mention crater’s depth here, because 2.5 km and 3.0 km (pulling these numbers out of brain during a live stream) makes a huge-vast-tremendous difference indeed. And a couple of speculations from Ben after on what it might be and how it could happen. Besides Ben clearly stated that those are speculations. Which you, being a “debunker”, didn’t bather to mention like at all. Of course if you did mention it, there won’t be a single point for such a debunk, to begin with. Cheers. Very poor job of yours. I think is it intentional or coincidental?
Dunning and Krüger not only explain how to be this confident when stating things you don't know anything about but then this guy even elevates it into being weirdly charismatic while doing it.
Yeah, even though most of his ideas are whackadoodle, he's actually much more eloquent than most of the flerfers we see. And when he's talking about possibilities of life on other planets, he's downright reasonable!
He even confidently makes up 87.2% of his statistics on the spot!
I call it Dunning-Kruger Mic Effect...
Stick a microphone in front of one of these idiots and they won't. Stop. Talking
Confirmation bias 101: you only keep the informations that confirm your ideas.... and if you don't find any, just invent them!
The unchartedX guys are all like that. Anything they don't understand must be some big mystery. They won't even consider alternate explanations to their preconceived notions.
Just like Dan!
I really hate it when l hear an Australian accent on these types of things... 🤬
As an Australin myself it's embarrassing....
This guy has watched too much Ancient Aliens
Yeah its like.. hang he's an aussie... shit. 😞
Great video Dan however this guy is right about one thing, Iron is probably the most abundant element found on earth. Current estimates put it at around 35% with oxygen at around 30%. The figures of 46% and 5% you have quoted refer to the crust only and does not consider the mantle or core. It's a common mistake that people make all the time because most of the information only talk about the crust. However if you open any 1st year geology text book, the distinction is made and iron is in fact most likely to be the most common element with our current knowledge, most of which comes from studying meteorites.
What a time to be alive! People can go on a podcast and spout utter nonsense with confidence after reading a book or watching a UA-cam video.
9:42 allow me to disagree. In fact, this theory is old hat and can be found in numerous science fiction novels and comic books, and "alt" history/science/cosmology books as early as the mid 30s. When I was a kid (a very long time ago, we talk of the mid 50s 🙄), I was fascinated by those fantasy stories and was even prone to believe some of them.
It's the plot of MoonFall (recent Amazon Prime top pick)
It's both cool, and unfortunate, that us science minded folk are always saying that we can't be sure. Meanwhile, the flatters are always saying 100 percent for sure.
Nice job as always Dan, but when he started talking about the Moon as a spaceship, I was hoping for some Space: 1999 references, complete with that great theme music.
Considering today's date, it would have been fitting!
@@paraflyer1966 Heh heh heh
These people are exhausting. Thank you Dan for putting in the hours. You are appreciated.
If you look up this guys content, its actually pretty interesting. He has some really interesting videos on Egyptian technology.
@@adamh3212 Both interesting and wrong.
@@RichWoods23 maybe some of it, sure. But who is 100% correct all the time?
@@adamh3212 Having skimmed through his channel again today, I think he'd be lucky to be considered 10% correct.
@@RichWoods23 ok?
I love watching the people whose videos you review... whenever I feel stupid, I remember those people exist and actually believe their nonsense.
First thing Dan says: “I have seen countless conspiracy theories revolve around the moon” actually, the moon revolves around us, so…
Depends on the frame of recerence, as always
You do not understand English and proved it with that comment.
@@tomstamford6837 Me fail English? That's unpossible!
@@PsychoMuffinSDM Well... Irregardless...
The Moon is "very" unique. This does my head in when I try to envisage something that is also unique but somehow "less" unique than the object being discussed.
As the Simon Fisher, the child prodigy on Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge put it, "One cannot have gradations of uniqueness. One either is or is not unique." I hear that in my head every time.
If gravity is real then why can u drive in reverse? How does my evelator go down and not stop going up?
Danny boiiiiii
@@putnamehereholdmadoodle Gravity is not only real but it is conscious. How else can you explain why toast always falls buttered side down?
@@DavidGrayOK how do individuals drive in reverse planes can't?
@@putnamehereholdmadoodle Probably because planes don't got wing mirrors: except jump jets and helicopters.
Well it is an "alien" (actually ancient humans from another world but close enough) spaceship named "Dahak". I read it in a great sci-fi series by David Weber so it must be true :)
(Also likely a better deal for your money :) )
Though I'd also recommend "What if there were no Moon?" for where some of this stuff is loosely based, though only VERY loosely since it's made clear that while the Moon may have played an important part in the development of life on Earth it was not actually essential. As an example if we had no Moon then it's quite possible we'd have ended up like Venus as the Moon helps thin out our atmosphere and keeps it from building up into a runaway greenhouse effect. The Moon also tidally stress the Earth which is thought to help keep our core molten and spinning.
@8:39: He's referring to the very old hypothesis that life was started in shallow tidal pools that was based on the idea the only source of energy on early Earth was the sun. At the time this was proposed (50s or so) hydrothermal vents were unknown so it was assumed early life had to be exposed to the sun to develop.
The scariest thing about this is the UA-cam award behind him. Its one thing to watch CC babbling into his phone in his car or that Gandhi cosplay guy rambling in front of his dry erase board but its scarier that a significant number of people are watching this stuff. I guess the battle against self-important stupidity will never be over. Keep fighting Dan.
Gandhi cosplay guy. Love it 😄
Actually, the likelihood of a confident-sounding dimwit rocketing to popularity among other dimwits seems MORE plausible than a clever, well-spoken ACTUAL scientist doing the same among people with good sense. Intelligent people (meaning, of course, non-Flerfers) are harder to fool, harder to convince, and harder to earn loyalty from. Thinking the video-maker Dan eviscerates here has done something impressive is like congratulating someone for winning the title of "World's Best Player of Tag" when the only people they've ever tagged were either unconscious or dead.
@@jeffbaer5851 Sure, but a silver button is 100k subs. That's a lot of dimwits. I don't really care if people think the Earth is flat or the moon is cheese. I do care that anti-intellectualism and belief in pseudo-science seems to be spreading faster then at any time since the cultural revolution. And the internet for all its wonders seems to be hurling us as a species toward idoicracy and civil war. So I hope Dan and the rest can convince a few to return to sanity.
He doesn't talk about any of this stuff on his channel.
My favorite part with the double whack is the phrase "and then it would need to have been hit with *exactly* the right speed and *exactly* the right direction etc... to take it to its current rotational speed.... 😂🤣🤣 As if there is something special about the 24h?!...
People like him go on shows and say a bunch of nonsense, but they say it with confidence and are believed by people who don't know any better... It's really depressing. These people have a large platform that enables them to spread absolute BS, and their listeners parrot everything with the same degree of concern for the actual numbers as this guy. They think he's smart, even though every number he claimed was "something like" or "I think".
Very scientific... 😒
Absolutely do debunk the book please!!! Can’t wait! Keep up the good work! You rock!
This guy suffered a big double wack to the head years ago and never recovered.
In a nutshell "Who Built the Moon" is about how we, the human race, have to discover time travel so we can build the moon and send it into the far distant past so we, the human race, can evolve. Oh, and there’s a load stuff about the Neolithic yard before you get to that. It’s… bonkers. I look forward to your review.
Does that person realize that means we couldn't evolve in the first place then lol
If you're going to buy a book like that, buy it second hand so the original seller doesn't profit more from stupidity
This man is more Space Balls than Star Wars
These moon conspiracy theories are cute but they have only 1/6 the gravitas of earth bound conspiracies!
Man's been dishing out content consistently through the years and is now nearing 500k. More power to you, Dan
So have you gotten the book? I am curious about your findings on it.
I mean in an abstract kind of way the moon, even our earth is a ‘space station’ hurtling through vast empty space. Like a space ship created from nature.
I'd love him to give an explanation of how Jupiter got all it's moons.
I thought it was obvious, the "double big whack theory" 😁
Because Jupiter's moons and our moon are the exact same thing and was formed the exact same way?
I'm not on board with what this guy is saying, but you people make these smug comments that are just as silly as what he is saying
@@zm5668 Jupiter's moons are not the same thing as our Moon and formed in a somewhat different way--and there are four big ones along with dozens of minor ones. So, what was smug or silly about the comment?
@@zm5668 Which of Jupiter's moons do you think are spaceships again?