Good grief, I follow so much popular science and you just revolutionised my understanding and in a beautifully woven tale to boot. No wonder you breathed a sigh of relief at the end, I shudder to think the graft you put into the research; my god did it show. You're starting to get whispered about in the comments section on other YT channels I see, the high praise is spreading. Very minor nitpick. "Anything that falls into a Lagrange point will remain locked into that position relative to the orbiting body." Half true. Or as a scientist would say, "false". ;-) Lagrange points are analogous to rolling hills where they are the occasional flat areas. Between the hills your statement is correct but at the peaks of the hills, such as L2 where James Webb will orbit, then they will tend to fall out of place and require tiny corrections.
I absolutely love your vids. Outstandingly well researched with info & images with a smattering of humour. The music must have been perfect as I hardly noticed it but the ambience was complimentary.
I know what I'm doing for Christmas now... I'm going to binge watch your entire channel! Your videos are both extremely entertaining and enlightening! Keep up the amazing work and may the force be with you! :)
One thing that would have been cool for you to mention, Nick: In the novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C. Clarke, the monolith is not in the Jupiter system, but the Saturn system. Zooming further in, the monolith is not independently orbiting Saturn, but instead standing on the surface of Iapetus.
Slowly making my way through this series. Absolutely stunning. And I love your blend of humor and wonder. Thank you for everything that you put into your videos.
This is the first channel where i hit that bell thing to get notifications for new uploads. I really enjoyed every single video i found on your channel - i appreciate the good research and the narration is amazing... I am now officially your fanboy!
Fantastic video!!! Loved it. The music was perfect btw, I barely even noticed it at first, which is just how it should be, a nice subtle touch. Can't wait for the next one!!
"Stay starry-eyed, fellow seekers" -- sounds like a great sign-off phrase to me! I discovered your channel by chance a few days ago and have listened to all your videos except your very newest one in the time since. I'll be listening to your newest video in a few minutes, and then I guess I will just have to be resigned to waiting for a new one. As many on here are saying in comments, I have a feeling that you and your channel will be going places. Thanks so much for all your hard work and dedication, and wishing you lots of much-deserved success!
24:00 To me it looks like a seam that can sometimes be found on cheap Chinese injection molded plastic toys. It is either a cheep Chinese toy, or the equatorial mountain is a ring that fell onto the surface.
Yepp, always add ice-penetrating radars to probes going to ice-worlds (potential ocean-worlds). Also some instrument that can tell if any amino acids in the plumes are L or D would be nice.
Is it just me or do videos talking about space like this o ne both entertain and calm you. I love learning about space from them but they are also really good at calming me and helping me fall asleep, I love it lol
Nice video, one question though, at 13:50 you say that water reacts with the crust causing it to oxidize and release hydrogen. From the way that it is worded it sound like it is the water which is oxidizing, but shouldn't it be the crust material which is oxidizing since it is breaking apart and taking the oxygen _from_ the water?
FWIW in case you haven't already done so, check out 'side-chain compression' with regard to getting background audio out of the way of your narration. I didn't really notice any issues in this video. Fantastic work as usual.
Hello sir, I wanted to thank you for the research, dedication to fact and your desire to share such traits with the world (UA-cam). I am always captivated by the "final frontier" and the secrets it holds but lack the drive, intelligence or whatever it is that causes me to seek out those who have don't the work for me, rather then do it myself. In short, I'm way to lazy lol. In my personal opinion, you do a fantastic job of explaining the complex to those (myself) with a simple mind. Thank you for taking the time to do all that you do to produce such fascinating videos. For whatever it's worth, you have a new subscriber. Pls continue what is clearly a passion for you and a fascination to the imaginingly (
Those who seek to further their education, especially in fields as complex as the space sciences that generally require nearly a decade of formal instruction, are never "simple-minded".
Parralax!!! Dude, I love your vids. I love your humor, I love how hard you research your topics. Sorry to hear about the break in!!! I didn't watch in order so I dunno how long ago that was but I want you to know that you are awesome. You are the very opposite of a Logan Paul or whatnot. You teach! You entertain, and you are appreciated. I look daily to see if you have uploaded anything new....i havent been rewarded lately so I'm sure you are working on something cool! Can't wait to see...keep it up!!! Huygghhhhenns cough cough hhhuyghennns haha we all tried it! cheers!1 second ago•
Reasonable soft science understandable by an ol' carpenter. Thanks for all your efforts. You need more squiggly lined spectra and such as proofs. (Encelidus emissions) I think most of your audience understands the value of this.
@@deusexaethera The metaphor isn't lost on me. But like all metaphors it falls short. Crooked, btw, is a reference to my back not my work or my character! 😎
Due to the way things have gone over the last few hundred years I believe that common lay people, such as myself, now enjoy an ever clearer vision of these little worlds. I loom over my typewriter, (yes, a typewriter), dreaming up ways of tormenting the characters in my head. Because of NASA and people like you, I have faith that the terrain, textures and traits of these far away places are reproduced fairly accurately in my imagination. Not so long ago people thought there were angels guiding us up and devils pulling us down. We once believed the Kingdom of heaven was made of buildings to house angels. Now we gaze at an image of an event horizon. What is next? What surprise has nature for us. It is such an interesting place, the universe, it would be a shame if there was no one around who could appreciate it.
I really appreciate the obvious time and effort put into your videos. Kudos sir while there are a myriad of science related channels none do a better job at entertaining and delivering real facts and information. Your ability to deliver these facts in a fun way is unique and I'll do my best to spread the word about your channel. Also the dry smarty type humor you employ is awesome right up my alley. Thanks again for this gem of a channel !
There is so much to learn about these places and we have the capability to send really good probes. I wish that more people would get behind funding some real exploration. For the money that has been lost to waste inside the F-35 program we could probably send rovers to every round solid body in the solar system.
If Iapetus is so weird compared to other moons in the solar system, then maybe we should carefully contrive a definition of moon that excludes it. Maybe come up with a new category such as "irregular satellite". That way we're also covered if it eventually turns out it's a derelict starship after all.
Another great video. I knew nothing about Saturn's smaller moons when I started and feel like an expert when I finished it. Brilliant. The music works well with this video! Interestingly, I feel like you named three female astronomers in this video, and only one male one. That's pretty cool. (There is no social media listed in the description?)
Finally I have a Twitter to follow and a better way to contact you than using old UA-cam comments! XP Have you ever thought of creating a Discord server for fans of your channel?
There is various circumstantial evidence pointing at the origin of Saturn's weird system being circa 100 million years ago. This would suggest some major event occurred at that time, disrupting the original system and forming the rings. The capture of Titan might fit that bill, which was previously a leftover planetesimal in a Solar orbit. Titan may have been captured when it encountered the Saturn system and collided with a small moon. The energy of the collision resulted in the atmosphere. Other moons' orbits were disrupted by the relatively massive Titan; some were disrupted, Iapetus was flung out into a more distant orbit, debris from collisions formed the impressive ring system. That's what I think anyway.
@@parallaxnick637 It would. It just seems to me that Titan sticks out like a sore thumb in the system. it's way too big. Everything about the Saturn system is odd. Maybe if we could sample Titan we'd get some chemical/isotopic clues to its origin.
2:13 Since Mimas and the others were first observed in 1789, and the Pioneer 11 fly-by occurred in 1979, isn't it a bit of hyperbole to say that it and the other moons "would remain a mystery for centuries"?
Great vidio. but please can you please do something about the sound quality. As a slightly deaf person, I have to really concerntrate on listening to it, which I find very distracting
We could explore the ocean under the ice, not by drilling but by using the Geyser chimneys the way Santa Claus is said to enter house to bring in gifts. If the Geyser tunnel is wide enough for a probe to descend, we have an open path to the potentially life-bearing Ocean.
Sorry, what i mean is i am having some technical issues with the channel.I can only access certain videos and whenever i try to access the playlist or video section i get the message "This channel does not exist". I was wondering am i the only one with this problem. I didn't mean to rush you or anything. I know each video you make is very time consuming. You are doing a great job and i really enjoy it.
why every explaination is a comet bumping into planets? is that the one and only way for celestial bodies for the things that have happen to w.e body?? Mars.. comet crash. Saturn moons.. comets crashed.. jupiter, comet crashed.. smdfh
Can you talk about the alleged "prediction" of two moons around Mars made by Johnathan Swift (in Gulliver's Travels) and why it does *NOT* prove Swift was a time traveler? I keep seeing this on "Proof time travel is real" videos and it really makes me insane. The answer is so simple and obvious that no one should ever claim that it is a prediction.
Anyone who reads this (including you Nick) list your #1 favorite NAMED object in our solar system. (Planets, dwarf planet, moon, etc.) And a brief 1 sentence reason why. ☆My favorite planet always has and always will be Jupiter. Literally just a colossal ball of gas swirling around as a constant storm world. With 2 of it's moons being potential candidates for harboring life, but don't get too close, with a 400,000 kilometer radiation belt strong enough to kill a human or spacecraft, Big boy dangerous
You forgot to mention that Phoebe is an extra-solar capture caught by Saturn 2 billion years ago as it was on it's way to deliver the protomolecule so it could hijack Earth's early life. Oh wait, we wouldn't learn that for a few hundred years, never mind.
@17:02 "That laser dish, I mean crater..."
Hah, that made my afternoon.
Good grief, I follow so much popular science and you just revolutionised my understanding and in a beautifully woven tale to boot. No wonder you breathed a sigh of relief at the end, I shudder to think the graft you put into the research; my god did it show. You're starting to get whispered about in the comments section on other YT channels I see, the high praise is spreading.
Very minor nitpick. "Anything that falls into a Lagrange point will remain locked into that position relative to the orbiting body." Half true. Or as a scientist would say, "false". ;-) Lagrange points are analogous to rolling hills where they are the occasional flat areas. Between the hills your statement is correct but at the peaks of the hills, such as L2 where James Webb will orbit, then they will tend to fall out of place and require tiny corrections.
I absolutely love your vids. Outstandingly well researched with info & images with a smattering of humour. The music must have been perfect as I hardly noticed it but the ambience was complimentary.
The quality content and stellar writing is what brings me back to your channel kid. Keep it going you are putting a lot of "big" channels to shame.
only on this channel I can learn things I never imagined like why Saturn has the most/smallest round moons.
I know what I'm doing for Christmas now... I'm going to binge watch your entire channel! Your videos are both extremely entertaining and enlightening! Keep up the amazing work and may the force be with you! :)
"Ridge = spaceship isn't a leap I'm ready to take at the moment" 😆👌
The ridge is definitely the back of an Ice Dragon.
One thing that would have been cool for you to mention, Nick:
In the novel "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C. Clarke, the monolith is not in the Jupiter system, but the Saturn system. Zooming further in, the monolith is not independently orbiting Saturn, but instead standing on the surface of Iapetus.
Slowly making my way through this series. Absolutely stunning. And I love your blend of humor and wonder. Thank you for everything that you put into your videos.
This is the first channel where i hit that bell thing to get notifications for new uploads. I really enjoyed every single video i found on your channel - i appreciate the good research and the narration is amazing...
I am now officially your fanboy!
Fantastic video!!! Loved it. The music was perfect btw, I barely even noticed it at first, which is just how it should be, a nice subtle touch. Can't wait for the next one!!
The problem with these videos is I watch one then have to watch more and before I know it it's 2.30am !!!
I absolutely love your videos! I have watched all of them more than once, and have introduced my friends to your channel! Keep up the stellar work! ;)
Another excellent video. The music addition was good. It is subtle but gives a nice atmosphere.
"Stay starry-eyed, fellow seekers" -- sounds like a great sign-off phrase to me! I discovered your channel by chance a few days ago and have listened to all your videos except your very newest one in the time since. I'll be listening to your newest video in a few minutes, and then I guess I will just have to be resigned to waiting for a new one. As many on here are saying in comments, I have a feeling that you and your channel will be going places. Thanks so much for all your hard work and dedication, and wishing you lots of much-deserved success!
These pictures are stunning. So, glad to find this channel. Subbed.
I've never listened to Herschel's music before. I missed that piece of information first time I watched. Thanks for your videos and take care.
I absolutely love this channel
The scripts for your videos remind me of my favorite author, Alan Moore. Language as art. Like caviar for the mind.
Ha, i listened to the first 4 episodes at work today. What perfect timing.
Entertainingly informative, and - perhaps unsurprisingly - informatively entertaining! Keep up the good work.
Addictively good. I think I'm on my 9th vid in 3 days. Truly excellent content. Thank you.
That's a lot to cover, and with so many images. Well done and thanks for posting!
24:00 To me it looks like a seam that can sometimes be found on cheap Chinese injection molded plastic toys.
It is either a cheep Chinese toy, or the equatorial mountain is a ring that fell onto the surface.
Excellent summary! I hope we get back there soon with a high resolution mass spectrometer.
Ice-penetrating radar would be good too.
Yepp, always add ice-penetrating radars to probes going to ice-worlds (potential ocean-worlds). Also some instrument that can tell if any amino acids in the plumes are L or D would be nice.
I subscribed awhile back and I have to say your videos are awesome. Thanks so much for the series on the Saturn system.
I’m really enjoying these videos. Thank you 🙏🏻 😊
Can't wait for Ice giants! (I mean obviously I CAN wait, take yr time haha) so good though x
Is it just me or do videos talking about space like this o ne both entertain and calm you. I love learning about space from them but they are also really good at calming me and helping me fall asleep, I love it lol
Nice video, one question though, at 13:50 you say that water reacts with the crust causing it to oxidize and release hydrogen. From the way that it is worded it sound like it is the water which is oxidizing, but shouldn't it be the crust material which is oxidizing since it is breaking apart and taking the oxygen _from_ the water?
Yes. True. :-)
Maybe you could pin this to serve as annotation?
I'm pretty sure it's not the only mistake I made.
I guess have a list of corrections in the description and a pinned comment. Shame that UA-cam got rid of annotations.
Yeah. Still smarting over that.
These videos... I love them always smoke a bowl and just listen for a bit
another entertaining video. and very informative.
Great job! hope to see more.
FWIW in case you haven't already done so, check out 'side-chain compression' with regard to getting background audio out of the way of your narration. I didn't really notice any issues in this video. Fantastic work as usual.
Hello sir, I wanted to thank you for the research, dedication to fact and your desire to share such traits with the world (UA-cam). I am always captivated by the "final frontier" and the secrets it holds but lack the drive, intelligence or whatever it is that causes me to seek out those who have don't the work for me, rather then do it myself. In short, I'm way to lazy lol. In my personal opinion, you do a fantastic job of explaining the complex to those (myself) with a simple mind. Thank you for taking the time to do all that you do to produce such fascinating videos. For whatever it's worth, you have a new subscriber. Pls continue what is clearly a passion for you and a fascination to the imaginingly (
Those who seek to further their education, especially in fields as complex as the space sciences that generally require nearly a decade of formal instruction, are never "simple-minded".
Love the Death Star. :-)
Parralax!!! Dude, I love your vids. I love your humor, I love how hard you research your topics. Sorry to hear about the break in!!! I didn't watch in order so I dunno how long ago that was but I want you to know that you are awesome. You are the very opposite of a Logan Paul or whatnot. You teach! You entertain, and you are appreciated. I look daily to see if you have uploaded anything new....i havent been rewarded lately so I'm sure you are working on something cool! Can't wait to see...keep it up!!! Huygghhhhenns cough cough hhhuyghennns haha we all tried it! cheers!1 second ago•
I am working on something, and it will be uploaded by tomorrow. Whether it is cool or not remains to be seen....
Reasonable soft science understandable by an ol' carpenter. Thanks for all your efforts. You need more squiggly lined spectra and such as proofs. (Encelidus emissions) I think most of your audience understands the value of this.
"Crooked" meaning dishonest, or "crooked" meaning you forgot to measure twice before cutting?
@@deusexaethera The metaphor isn't lost on me. But like all metaphors it falls short. Crooked, btw, is a reference to my back not my work or my character! 😎
*can't wait for a mission to explore titan's lakes*
I would gladly don the red shirt just to go there...
The equatorial belt on Iapetus was caused by the moon adjusting to the extra ice mass that had accumulated at the colder poles.
Welcome back bro
Love your video, Thank you thumps up!
Due to the way things have gone over the last few hundred years I believe that common lay people, such as myself, now enjoy an ever clearer vision of these little worlds. I loom over my typewriter, (yes, a typewriter), dreaming up ways of tormenting the characters in my head. Because of NASA and people like you, I have faith that the terrain, textures and traits of these far away places are reproduced fairly accurately in my imagination. Not so long ago people thought there were angels guiding us up and devils pulling us down. We once believed the Kingdom of heaven was made of buildings to house angels. Now we gaze at an image of an event horizon. What is next? What surprise has nature for us. It is such an interesting place, the universe, it would be a shame if there was no one around who could appreciate it.
I really appreciate the obvious time and effort put into your videos. Kudos sir while there are a myriad of science related channels none do a better job at entertaining and delivering real facts and information. Your ability to deliver these facts in a fun way is unique and I'll do my best to spread the word about your channel. Also the dry smarty type humor you employ is awesome right up my alley. Thanks again for this gem of a channel !
There is so much to learn about these places and we have the capability to send really good probes. I wish that more people would get behind funding some real exploration. For the money that has been lost to waste inside the F-35 program we could probably send rovers to every round solid body in the solar system.
If Iapetus is so weird compared to other moons in the solar system, then maybe we should carefully contrive a definition of moon that excludes it. Maybe come up with a new category such as "irregular satellite". That way we're also covered if it eventually turns out it's a derelict starship after all.
Thank you for the stimulation. The craters speaks a message on a far out man! if you don't take coincidence as a chance. 😅❤
all the large moons are tidally locked? Never seen that documented! Cool!
Another great video. I knew nothing about Saturn's smaller moons when I started and feel like an expert when I finished it. Brilliant. The music works well with this video!
Interestingly, I feel like you named three female astronomers in this video, and only one male one. That's pretty cool.
(There is no social media listed in the description?)
Yikes. Thanks for that! This is what happens when you are too excited to finish something... As for the women, don't thank me for that; thank NASA :-)
Finally I have a Twitter to follow and a better way to contact you than using old UA-cam comments! XP
Have you ever thought of creating a Discord server for fans of your channel?
14:07 A grumpy old face is formed from those deep see plumes
Expected quality, as always.
Instead of “their L4 and L5 points” I first heard it as “their Elf War and Elf Fly Points”. I had to rewind.
Because of new image processing.
It has now been discovered, that Voyager, was the first craft to discover Enceladus`s southern jets.
"That is not dead which can eternal lie"
Queue the dun-dun-duuunnnnn music.
Great video. Very informative
Talal Elasadi God you guys have to work on better wording...
Oooh perfect! I was hoping to find something good to watch while I eat supper! Thank you!
Nektu Yummm Frank's and beans
“My Grace, I’m terribly sorry, but this new telescope doesn’t work too well”.
There is various circumstantial evidence pointing at the origin of Saturn's weird system being circa 100 million years ago. This would suggest some major event occurred at that time, disrupting the original system and forming the rings. The capture of Titan might fit that bill, which was previously a leftover planetesimal in a Solar orbit. Titan may have been captured when it encountered the Saturn system and collided with a small moon. The energy of the collision resulted in the atmosphere. Other moons' orbits were disrupted by the relatively massive Titan; some were disrupted, Iapetus was flung out into a more distant orbit, debris from collisions formed the impressive ring system.
That's what I think anyway.
It'd be interesting to see if a computer could model that.
@@parallaxnick637 It would. It just seems to me that Titan sticks out like a sore thumb in the system. it's way too big. Everything about the Saturn system is odd. Maybe if we could sample Titan we'd get some chemical/isotopic clues to its origin.
2:13 Since Mimas and the others were first observed in 1789, and the Pioneer 11 fly-by occurred in 1979, isn't it a bit of hyperbole to say that it and the other moons "would remain a mystery for centuries"?
C'mon. Ten years out?
22:08 Handprint! seen on Iapetus. Aliens?
Great vidio. but please can you please do something about the sound quality. As a slightly deaf person, I have to really concerntrate on listening to it, which I find very distracting
*Suddenly, I have a craving for sherbet.*
*Sherbet cravings intensify*
❤❤❤
My favorite Saturnian moons are Dione, Tethys, Enceladus, Hyperion and Phoebe.
Iapetus creeps me out, too.
One of the most geologically interesting moons is the one that gets the least attention: Tethys.
I don't know why you're freaked-out by Iapetus' equatorial ridge. It just looks like a giant walnut to me.
And? Walnuts are freaky. Ever looked at one up close? It's a freakin' xenomorph egg. I mean, not as freaky as a peach pip but still...
very excellent
We could explore the ocean under the ice, not by drilling but by using the Geyser chimneys the way Santa Claus is said to enter house to bring in gifts.
If the Geyser tunnel is wide enough for a probe to descend, we have an open path to the potentially life-bearing Ocean.
In Europa, I mean
Sorry, what i mean is i am having some technical issues with the channel.I can only access certain videos and whenever i try to access the playlist or video section i get the message "This channel does not exist". I was wondering am i the only one with this problem. I didn't mean to rush you or anything. I know each video you make is very time consuming. You are doing a great job and i really enjoy it.
I ran this through some friends over Skype and they apparently had no problems. Is there anyone else having this problem?
audio is cool dont struggle
John Michael godier?
I’m waiting for the folloup “a multiverse of water”
Proof of impacts?
audio right on.
flow up hill? ! ?? !!!!
The music was fine.
why every explaination is a comet bumping into planets? is that the one and only way for celestial bodies for the things that have happen to w.e body?? Mars.. comet crash. Saturn moons.. comets crashed.. jupiter, comet crashed.. smdfh
Can you talk about the alleged "prediction" of two moons around Mars made by Johnathan Swift (in Gulliver's Travels) and why it does *NOT* prove Swift was a time traveler?
I keep seeing this on "Proof time travel is real" videos and it really makes me insane.
The answer is so simple and obvious that no one should ever claim that it is a prediction.
ua-cam.com/video/54GSEzqsXCg/v-deo.html
Check out no 4
1st comment - great video!
Anyone who reads this (including you Nick) list your #1 favorite NAMED object in our solar system. (Planets, dwarf planet, moon, etc.)
And a brief 1 sentence reason why.
☆My favorite planet always has and always will be Jupiter. Literally just a colossal ball of gas swirling around as a constant storm world. With 2 of it's moons being potential candidates for harboring life, but don't get too close, with a 400,000 kilometer radiation belt strong enough to kill a human or spacecraft, Big boy dangerous
Iapetus wears the skin of Cthulhu
Did I just hear the word "water-ice"???
Yes. Astronomers use the term "ice" to describe a number of different substances, from water to carbon dioxide to nitrogen.
Wow. Whould've thunk.
Cool dude
You forgot to mention that Phoebe is an extra-solar capture caught by Saturn 2 billion years ago as it was on it's way to deliver the protomolecule so it could hijack Earth's early life. Oh wait, we wouldn't learn that for a few hundred years, never mind.
Because the Expanse got it wrong; it's obviously actually Iapetus.
*shudder* It made me think of the protruding spine of a starving man.
I came looking exactly for this
Or if anyone in voyager shouted "that's no moon! It's a space station!" As amaltea came to sight (a couple years after deathstar)
watched
electrical discharge, zero water...
Uh, no, it's water. We've directly sampled it by flying through it.
We hoo?
Humanity, as represented by NASA.
Cryo vulcanoes..pffffff
🤘🤘🤘
Liked the video content, but your audio setup is terrible.
This is probably the most common complaint I get. I will need to ask someone about how to fix it.
@Parallaxicality: My first guess would be you have a crappy webcam microphone. Even a cheap Bluetooth mic from China would be better.
No I have a pretty good mic; a Yeti Stereo. I think it may be that I use Audacity.
I know some UA-camrs use Audacity with good audio. If the mic is good, it's probably your settings (bitrate, gain, etc).
Some hints here: raelyntan.com/blue-yeti-microphone/
mmmm sherbet
good video but pls do not yell.
Sci fic
is it just me or "This channel does not exist." anymore .... ?
Hey! These videos take a long time! I'm still doing the research on the next one.
14:07 A grumpy old face is formed from those deep see plumes