@@cosmoreverb3943Actually, I don't know if you know this but the size and shape of the banana proves God exists. I saw it in a UA-cam video once. Something to do with how ducks don't change into alligators. It's all very scientific.
Truly. Tell me a star is 2billion km, I can't fathom it, but tell me that's exactly equal to 1.111111111111111e+16 bananas and now we're on the same page!
You really have a brilliant channel. You don’t solicit subscribers or ask for “likes”. I admire that. You don’t interrupt the damn video all the bloody time. You encourage the use of multisyllabic words and terms. And I find your common sense reactions simpatico. You appreciate history, like I do. You encourage reading and learning. You have a wonderfully open mind, and I find pleasure in agreeing with just about everything you say. A conversation with you, I believe would make this 72 year old happy. 👋
I swear your channel is like the ultimate ideal youtube channel. No unnecessary 10 mins of talk to stretch the vid, no weird AI voiceover, etc. It's just you, doing the actual thing (reacting) and many time's we're also reacting, alongside you. Long may it continue! (I know every time I've made a comment it amounts to the same thing, but damn, after wading through all of those bs vids on this platform...the utter relief and happiness when you post something new, I feel compelled to comment the same thing every time_) What was I meant to be doing again?
I’m just happy you’re enjoying the channel, thank you for the kind words (: it does mean a lot to me (I dislike how clichè that sounds, but it is true)
2:50 "Where on earth can I find a Hyperion?" Hyperion is the name given to one specific tree! ;) It's the world's tallest (known) tree, a 115.92 m (380.3 ft) tall coast redwood sequoia in California. :)
Hi NP, in my city of Melbourne, there is a scalable model of the solar system built along the bay. For anyone familiar with Melbourne it runs from Elwood through to Port Melbourne. Many international visitors like to hang out at St Kilda beach and they don't realise that when they visit there, they walk straight the middle of the model. The scale is 1:1 billion in terms of both distance between the planets and the size of the planet on the statue. One of the cutest things is the statue for Pluto lol.
Hope I’m not too late, but some music I would suggest is Brian Eno’s “Before and After the Science”. In particular the song “Kurt’s Rejoinder”. But this is a whole album of existential music. I’m sure you would enjoy it.
Interesting tidbit about that. Reagan scrapped plans for the US to convert, citing it was too expensive. So, within a decade we were dealing with hybrid conventional and metric cars, machines, etc. and ended up having two systems of measure. Because, that made sense!
@@somersetcace1 The whole "expensive" thing by Reagan didn't really age well, especially when Mars Climate Orbiter faceplanted into Mars in 1999 because of the whole "metric vs imperial" fiasco. By the way, I always wondered.. Why do we call them "freedom units" when they're "imperial" (meaning British Imperial)? :D
@@TarisSinclairThey call them freedom units cuz they love their authoritarian congress that bombs innocent people. So, by saying 'freedom' they wanna feel like they have freedom cuz if they actually had freedom they wouldn't need to say it. LOL
In Hichikers Guide to the Galaxy the ultimate punishment was to shown the Universe and your place in it and you really really need to read this series of books by Douglas Adams
Can recommend “Universe Size Comparison | Cosmic Eye” (or similar zoom-out-and-back-in videos), in part because the zoom-back-in part tends to trip people up (well, me at least). It’s one thing to go through all the orders of magnitude from us to the universe in one direction, but you forget just how many orders of magnitude it is until you go back through it.
I am loving every video you choose to play along with your commentary. Thanks very much! Since you were asking for music, here is a song/instrumental you may find hits the mark you were on about: Hammock (band/duo) - Like a Valley with No Echo (Oblivion Hymns)
There are two videos on UA-cam, sermising alien life on planets in the galaxies or universe, part 1-2 , they are so well made and thoughtful I'm going to look them up and rewatch them again right now. Thanks for sharing your time and curiosity, keep up the good work! It's called alien life beyond 1-2.
The Horsehead Nebula is in the constellation Orion. It's a cloud of dust which blocks the light behind it, leaving a dark patch resembling a horse's head or chess knight. It was discovered, and first photographed, by Scottish astronomer Wilhelmina Fleming in the late 19th Century. For a piece of music which imho embodies the vastness of space, you might try "Neptune, the Mystic" from Holst's Planets.
And given the vast distances in space, when our galaxy and Andromeda collide, it is quite possible that no stars actually hit another. Boggles the mind, moreso when you discover that the average distance between two asteroids in our system is around 960,000 km.
It's a good video. There were a few I never knew - like the Hyperion tree, or statue of unity. Some of those stars were quite big, but I really came away feeling the 220 LY galaxy was surprisingly small. If you consider that if Earth in the center of that one - then the whole galaxy would be picking up our radio/TV transmissions, rather than the small speck around us in our Milky Way galaxy.
General Sherman, you guessed correctly is a Giant Sequoia, located in Kings Canyon/Sequoia National Park, which I have visisted numerous times, Hyperion, is also a redwood, but, it is a Coast Redwood somewhere in the vast forests of Northern California up near the Oregon border.
8:37 1,862 light years is the diameter of the nebula, as stated in the caption at the bottom-left of the frame. That the diameter is quoted to four significant digits is strange.
Oh, I finally have a music recommendation! I don't think you're very into heavy stuff, but I recommend the self-titled album by Thirty Seconds To Mars (their debut, came out in 2022, iirc). It has a lot of cosmic references and the overall sound is very original. Haven't really heard anyone else doing the same thing (even from themselves, really).
Recent observations suggests that the Milkyway and Andromeda galaxies might already started to merge. We found out Andromeda extends much further than previously thought. Stars thought to be in our galaxy, belong to Andromeda. Note; have not been able to fact check yet.
Hang on……Sorry…..I have to get back on my couch. You knocked me right out with your intelligent repartee. My surprise was that huge at finding a young woman with a vocabulary, a curious mind, a broad range of interest, and the good luck to have me appreciating all that. You my lovely are obviously quite brilliant and you appear to put that brilliance to good work. I salute you! Cheers from Northern California!!!
It sounds as though you've just discovered her. If that's the case, if you get a chance, and are so inclined, check out the rest of her videos. You will be pleasantly surprised. She's pretty amazing.
Music Recommendation for that existential sci-fi feel would be "Getaway" by The Music. Their whole first self entitled album, really. They're sort of like a cross between Muse and Stone Roses.
Wells' second publication is The Wonderful Visit, also published in 1895. To me, The Wonderful Visit (Wells), A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Gabriel García Márquez, 1968), and City of Angels (1998 film by Brad Silberling, based on Wim Wenders' 1987 film Der Himmel über Berlin) are thematically and emotionally homogeneous. The Wonderful Visit and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings are solidly magical realism, and Der Himmel über Berlin and City of Angels are romantic fantasy. All four stories have similar characterizations and plots. If you're so inclined, then I recommend you explore those four stories in the following order: The Wonderful Visit (1895 novel) A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (1968 short story) Der Himmel über Berlin (1987 film) City of Angels (1998 film)
That final illustration doesn't even pass the smell test. Hercules-Corona being 10 billion light years, and the observable universe being 93 billion light years; One was for sure not 1/10th the diameter of the other. In the illustration it was like 1% or even less.
And this is just the observable universe. It is said that the actual universe is infinitely large and makes the observable universe look like a pale blue dot by comparison.
The galaxies were detailed as their size across, not distance from us. For example if we could travel at light speed, it would take 105,700 years to go from one side of the Milky Way to the other.
If you decide to watch a movie based on Wells's "The Time Machine", and if you are able to appreciate older films in their proper context, I highly recommend that you start with the original, 1960 version. With a late late showing on TV, a few year later, it blew my young mind, and fueled my love of the genre. The time travel sequences alone are worth watching, if you're not interested in a two-hour commitment but are curious about special effects of that time. To this day, it is still one of my favorite sci-fi films of the '60s! ;-] PS: Do not watch the Trailer... it's full of spoilers! ;-]
This reminds me of a really cool short film from the 70s called Powers of Ten. It's just up on youtube now. I like it because it has more structure to it, as the name suggests - it starts off looking down at 1m patch of grass, then zooms out at a rate of one power of ten every ten seconds, I think. It's very neat
Why Existential Dread? Check Out Ursula Duziak's Future Talk. 1974 Anti Music or Avant-garde Jazz Scat. Also "Sorrow is not forever, Love is" A Vocal Summit with Bobby McFerrin, Lorraine Newton and others. The feel you seek.
The universe being infinite or limited size is equally puzzling, as is it's location (relative to what reference point?). I think about frequency of atomic vibration, change the frequency and you are in another universe.
I had to study human heights and stuff for ergonomics design issues in architecture. So, complicated. They break it down to "racial" sizes where most European and African women average 5'- 7" and men 5' -9" (with outliers) and Asian women and men average 5'-5" and 5'-7". There are native groups (Inuit, Ahitereiria, Sherpa, etc..) who average shorter. These things affect the ability to reach things, etc.
time stamp 8:37 you referenced "1,862 light years away".....i don't know if you had accidentally misspoke, or if you think that was the distance from us.....the Tarantula nebula is 1,862 light years across....that is how big it is
QUESTION: Have you ever come across a gentleman by the name of Tom Lehrer? I fancy you would get a kick out of his little ditties. Tom is an American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician, who later taught mathematics and musical theater. He recorded pithy and humorous songs that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s. His songs often parodied popular musical forms, though they usually had original melodies. A couple of his song titles: Poisoning Pigeons in the Park The Masochism Tango Oedipus Rex The Vatican Rag Get the videos where he accompanies himself at the piano.
Great video! Have you considered reacting to some historic civilis? Just choose whatever video you find interesting of his, otherwise I would suggest reacting to his videos; longest year in history, Work or Bronze Age collapse
Speed of light is approx 670,616,629 MPH. calculate that number by 24 for a day, then that result by 365 for a year. 670,616,629 x 24 = 16,094,799,096 x 365 = 5,874,601,670,040 = 1 light year +/- (five hundred trillion, eight hundred and seventy four billion, six hundred and one million, six hundred and seventy thousand and forty miles) In the movie "Passengers", the Avalon was travelling at half light speed for 120 years to Homestead 2. 335,308,314.5 x 24 = 8,047,399,548 (1 day) x 365 = 2,937,300,835,020 (1year) x 120 years = 352,476,100,202,400 +/- for acceleration/deceleration. Boggles the mind I know !
5.17e+26 bananas to span the observable universe. Placing all of the bananas (at the current estimated rate per yer) grown on earth end to end would take approx 4,064,444,444.5 Billion millennia to grow. (I may well have screwed up my math, but the ADHD kicked in and this was stupidly fun to work out).
I've read "The Time Machine" also which I enjoyed. I don't know if you've read it already but I recommend Michael Crichton's book "Timeline" (the horribly adapted Paul Walker movie). Stick to the book though! You can watch the movie for laughs or cringe if you'd like haha.
If it's existential dread you're after try Gypsy by the Moody Blues, Fade Away by Todd Rundgren, Burning Rope by Genesis or anything at all by Van der Graaf Generator/Peter Hammill.
I have seen one of these that started with string (as in String Theory. The sub-sub-atomic particals.) I figure that is you're going small, start from the beginning.
Fun fact: Every breath of air you take contains at least one molecule of air breathed by Plato. How can we know this? Well, there are more molecules of air in a single breath than there are breaths of air in the atmosphere. You could do the same for molecules of water in a glass and glassfuls of water in the ocean. Just pick your favorite historical urinator!
7:31 Black hole. A planet can't get that big; its immense gravity would make it collapse into a black hole. Likewise, a planet can't be bigger than a star; its gravity would cause it to create nuclear fusion and it would become a star. 8:11 The Horsehead Nebula is in the constellation Orion, and can be seen with the naked eye...though it just looks like a smudgy star.
It's wild to think that Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole, marks the center of our galaxy and the hypergiant Betelgeuse is just one of 100 billion other stars orbiting it. It's so little, but so massive.
This is a really cool video, but alas it omitted one thing. Towards the end, with those huge galaxies, I was expecting my mum to be given at least an honorary mention, but for whatever reason, they decided to omit her. Yet everyone I went to school with knew her stats :(
Does the existential dread have anything to do with the video clip? Because that’s what’s doing it for me… the sketches are simple, yet haunting (in the best way). The lyrics are beautiful as well. I’ll have to listen to the whole album over the weekend
@@NoProtocol I like the sketches, almost like Rorschach drawings. And the album, I think, has some the most haunted and beautiful lyrics ever written, and that includes Blake and Keats and Rimbaud and Dylan and anyone else.
Three books recommendations. Some said in comments THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, douglas adam ( the whale falling) DIRK GENTLY HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY , douglas adams . Q AND A , vikas swarup . Music : Debbii Dawson , ablum called LEARNING, on Spotify or any music thing .
Great video as always. I would recommend the German rapper/beatboxer TJ_Beastboy with mixed German and English lyrics. A good starting point would be the Humanoid-Flamethrower one-take-medley. Even if you are not into rap, I have not seen any reacter not liking tj_bb.
Shantungosaurus is the largest known hadrosaur, with Barsboldia being really close. Argentinosaurus is one of the largest known sauropods and dinosaurs in general currently known. It's consistently ranked in the top 10 largest land animals ever.
usually pictures of the horsehead nebula are more zoomed in so you instantly see the horsehead shaped cloud part. it was in that video too though, just relatively small.
Here is an update.... The largest black hole, a black hole producing enough light to qualify it as the brightest object in the (visible) universe. It is that bright because it is taking in one solar mass (the equivalent of the mass of the sun) every day! It is estimated that this black hole, Q (for Quasar) J0529-4351 is estimated to be about 7 light years (distance light travels in a year multiplied by 7) across! For perspective, our solar system is 5 light hours across! AT 66,230,000,000,000 (or 66.23 Trillion Km across) it is as wide as the Horsehead Nebula!!
The reality of it is even if you were immortal with a space ship that could travel at any speed without limits and defying the laws of physics, it still would be impossible to explore everything in the universe. Unless something changes such as the universe not expanding anymore then even if humans survived for trillions of years it'd still appear to be impossible to explore everything. If scientists are even remotely accurate then the majority of the universe wouldn't have anything to explore anyways but it's still interesting and enjoyable to talk about.
The size of certain black holes are absolutely insane. But their masses are much smaller than their volumes would indicate - they have actually quite low density.
I have sometimes theorized that things in our universe look like particles inside a brain or body. We quite possibly might be inside of a being, we maybe cells or some sort of matter inside of a something
I’d wager you’ve seen the Horsehead nebula plenty of times, as it’s depicted in one of the “classic” nebula photos. By that same token, there’s a fair chance it wasn’t specifically named or labelled when you’ve seen it, and was just there to illustrate “a nebula”
reaction suggestion: the last 10 minutes of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2016 one of the most dramatic finishes to Le Mans ever, you should listen to what Kaz Nakajima says over the radio (even as the commentators talk over it), the video on youtube is laggy as it is taken from a captured stream
When I turn on my bedroom light, it probably takes milliseconds to 1 second to travel from its source to the farthest corner of my room, meanwhile it would probably take me anywhere between 2-3 seconds to travel from the light source to the end of my room. All I'm saying is that if it takes 93 billion years for light to travel from Earth to the end of the Observable Universe, then it'll probably take at least 3 times that number for humanity to get from Earth to the end of the Observable Universe, so at least 279 billion years.
The two trees are specific examples of their species. So, it's not "a" General Sherman or "a" Hyperion, it's "General Sherman" and "Hyperion", the sequoias.
A light years is approximately 9.5 trillion km,( or a little less than 6 trillion miles ), so 1 light year is more than 3150 times the size of the biggest star and about 16 times the size of the biggest black hole
I had to pause right after beginning when I saw human height. I use metric system and I'm exactly 170cm and I know it's definitely not 5'7. I checked it and 1,7m is actually bit less than 5'6ft.
Ah, a banana. The ultimate measure.
Thank god they included that for scale
@@cosmoreverb3943 I mean I kinda knew how big an apple is, but once they showed the banana I knew exactly the scales of things!
@@cosmoreverb3943Actually, I don't know if you know this but the size and shape of the banana proves God exists. I saw it in a UA-cam video once. Something to do with how ducks don't change into alligators. It's all very scientific.
Metric or imperial?
Truly. Tell me a star is 2billion km, I can't fathom it, but tell me that's exactly equal to 1.111111111111111e+16 bananas and now we're on the same page!
I've always heard Giraffes grew up to 19 feet but every one i have ever seen only had 4.
Thank God for that 😅
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Go home dad!
Bravo!
BA-DUM-TSSS 😂
You really have a brilliant channel.
You don’t solicit subscribers or ask for “likes”. I admire that.
You don’t interrupt the damn video all the bloody time.
You encourage the use of multisyllabic words and terms.
And I find your common sense reactions simpatico.
You appreciate history, like I do. You encourage reading and learning. You have a wonderfully open mind, and I find pleasure in agreeing with just about everything you say.
A conversation with you, I believe would make this 72 year old happy.
👋
"If it's Boeing, I ain't going."
Boeing be going BOING!
@@caribbeanman3379 That is how they got their name. "Hey?! Did something on this plane just go 'boing'?!?!"
I swear your channel is like the ultimate ideal youtube channel. No unnecessary 10 mins of talk to stretch the vid, no weird AI voiceover, etc. It's just you, doing the actual thing (reacting) and many time's we're also reacting, alongside you. Long may it continue! (I know every time I've made a comment it amounts to the same thing, but damn, after wading through all of those bs vids on this platform...the utter relief and happiness when you post something new, I feel compelled to comment the same thing every time_) What was I meant to be doing again?
I’m just happy you’re enjoying the channel, thank you for the kind words (: it does mean a lot to me (I dislike how clichè that sounds, but it is true)
Agreed!
I agree. She's great. Logical, low key and useful commentary.
I love the theory that we can be inside an active black hole right now and not even know it. The thought both fascinates and terrifies me!
2:50 "Where on earth can I find a Hyperion?" Hyperion is the name given to one specific tree! ;) It's the world's tallest (known) tree, a 115.92 m (380.3 ft) tall coast redwood sequoia in California. :)
Yep. Been there. I wanted to take a picture of it and need to walk like 5 minute away so it fit in the frame 😂
Hi NP, in my city of Melbourne, there is a scalable model of the solar system built along the bay. For anyone familiar with Melbourne it runs from Elwood through to Port Melbourne. Many international visitors like to hang out at St Kilda beach and they don't realise that when they visit there, they walk straight the middle of the model. The scale is 1:1 billion in terms of both distance between the planets and the size of the planet on the statue. One of the cutest things is the statue for Pluto lol.
I'll have to check it out next time I'm there
A 1:20 000 000 scale model:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System
"We have a universe size comparison!"
*Opens fullscreen*
It really didn't do anything good for my agoraphobia...
''93 til infinity'' is a great song!
Hope I’m not too late, but some music I would suggest is Brian Eno’s “Before and After the Science”. In particular the song “Kurt’s Rejoinder”. But this is a whole album of existential music. I’m sure you would enjoy it.
Anyone: Oh, that's exactly 241 meters away.
Mericans: That's about 60 giraffes and 2 sunflowers away.
Or 1338.8 bananas
Interesting tidbit about that. Reagan scrapped plans for the US to convert, citing it was too expensive. So, within a decade we were dealing with hybrid conventional and metric cars, machines, etc. and ended up having two systems of measure. Because, that made sense!
@@somersetcace1 The whole "expensive" thing by Reagan didn't really age well, especially when Mars Climate Orbiter faceplanted into Mars in 1999 because of the whole "metric vs imperial" fiasco. By the way, I always wondered.. Why do we call them "freedom units" when they're "imperial" (meaning British Imperial)? :D
@@TarisSinclairThey call them freedom units cuz they love their authoritarian congress that bombs innocent people. So, by saying 'freedom' they wanna feel like they have freedom cuz if they actually had freedom they wouldn't need to say it. LOL
We Americans generally measure things by the length of a football field. 100 yards.
In Hichikers Guide to the Galaxy the ultimate punishment was to shown the Universe and your place in it and you really really need to read this series of books by Douglas Adams
The Total Perspective Vortex
You used the word fathom in a sentence. Seriously you rock.
Can recommend “Universe Size Comparison | Cosmic Eye” (or similar zoom-out-and-back-in videos), in part because the zoom-back-in part tends to trip people up (well, me at least). It’s one thing to go through all the orders of magnitude from us to the universe in one direction, but you forget just how many orders of magnitude it is until you go back through it.
Cosmic zoom and universe apps are great especially universe
I am loving every video you choose to play along with your commentary. Thanks very much!
Since you were asking for music, here is a song/instrumental you may find hits the mark you were on about:
Hammock (band/duo) - Like a Valley with No Echo (Oblivion Hymns)
There are two videos on UA-cam, sermising alien life on planets in the galaxies or universe, part 1-2 , they are so well made and thoughtful I'm going to look them up and rewatch them again right now. Thanks for sharing your time and curiosity, keep up the good work! It's called alien life beyond 1-2.
The Horsehead Nebula is in the constellation Orion. It's a cloud of dust which blocks the light behind it, leaving a dark patch resembling a horse's head or chess knight. It was discovered, and first photographed, by Scottish astronomer Wilhelmina Fleming in the late 19th Century.
For a piece of music which imho embodies the vastness of space, you might try "Neptune, the Mystic" from Holst's Planets.
Thank you for this!
So smart. Im curious to see where your talents ultimately end up.
what a great video. great commentary young lady
Thanks Joe (: have a great afternoon!
And given the vast distances in space, when our galaxy and Andromeda collide, it is quite possible that no stars actually hit another.
Boggles the mind, moreso when you discover that the average distance between two asteroids in our system is around 960,000 km.
But it will sure mess up the nice spiral structures.
Who measured space anyway
Nonsense total nonsense
@@daviedocherty5894 Astronomers? Brian Cox?
@@johankaewberg8162 did they use a tape measure or are they just taking shite i mean these clowns believe we landed on the moon ffs
Fascinating and humbling.
It's a good video. There were a few I never knew - like the Hyperion tree, or statue of unity. Some of those stars were quite big, but I really came away feeling the 220 LY galaxy was surprisingly small. If you consider that if Earth in the center of that one - then the whole galaxy would be picking up our radio/TV transmissions, rather than the small speck around us in our Milky Way galaxy.
General Sherman, you guessed correctly is a Giant Sequoia, located in Kings Canyon/Sequoia National Park, which I have visisted numerous times, Hyperion, is also a redwood, but, it is a Coast Redwood somewhere in the vast forests of Northern California up near the Oregon border.
I'm having fun looking at all the things shown and counting the ones I've seen in person! (yeah, not so many as I'd like...)
General Sherman and Hyperion are names of Individual specific trees.
I recommend The Known Universe by AMNH.. that really gives a feel for what it's like
8:37 1,862 light years is the diameter of the nebula, as stated in the caption at the bottom-left of the frame.
That the diameter is quoted to four significant digits is strange.
Oh, I finally have a music recommendation! I don't think you're very into heavy stuff, but I recommend the self-titled album by Thirty Seconds To Mars (their debut, came out in 2022, iirc). It has a lot of cosmic references and the overall sound is very original. Haven't really heard anyone else doing the same thing (even from themselves, really).
This gives me an existential crisis ,and yet a yearning to wonder the world just for
Recent observations suggests that the Milkyway and Andromeda galaxies might already started to merge. We found out Andromeda extends much further than previously thought. Stars thought to be in our galaxy, belong to Andromeda. Note; have not been able to fact check yet.
Hang on……Sorry…..I have to get back on my couch. You knocked me right out with your intelligent repartee. My surprise was that huge at finding a young woman with a vocabulary, a curious mind, a broad range of interest, and the good luck to have me appreciating all that. You my lovely are obviously quite brilliant and you appear to put that brilliance to good work.
I salute you!
Cheers from Northern California!!!
It sounds as though you've just discovered her. If that's the case, if you get a chance, and are so inclined, check out the rest of her videos. You will be pleasantly surprised. She's pretty amazing.
I like the "super structure" at the end. It's like "We don't know WTF this is." lol
Music Recommendation for that existential sci-fi feel would be "Getaway" by The Music. Their whole first self entitled album, really. They're sort of like a cross between Muse and Stone Roses.
Wells' second publication is The Wonderful Visit, also published in 1895. To me, The Wonderful Visit (Wells), A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (Gabriel García Márquez, 1968), and City of Angels (1998 film by Brad Silberling, based on Wim Wenders' 1987 film Der Himmel über Berlin) are thematically and emotionally homogeneous. The Wonderful Visit and A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings are solidly magical realism, and Der Himmel über Berlin and City of Angels are romantic fantasy. All four stories have similar characterizations and plots. If you're so inclined, then I recommend you explore those four stories in the following order:
The Wonderful Visit (1895 novel)
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings (1968 short story)
Der Himmel über Berlin (1987 film)
City of Angels (1998 film)
Wow, just wow. And you were correct about the background music.
I was half expecting Homer Simpson’s head to turn up. 😮
That final illustration doesn't even pass the smell test. Hercules-Corona being 10 billion light years, and the observable universe being 93 billion light years; One was for sure not 1/10th the diameter of the other. In the illustration it was like 1% or even less.
And this is just the observable universe. It is said that the actual universe is infinitely large and makes the observable universe look like a pale blue dot by comparison.
The galaxies were detailed as their size across, not distance from us.
For example if we could travel at light speed, it would take 105,700 years to go from one side of the Milky Way to the other.
If you decide to watch a movie based on Wells's "The Time Machine", and if you are able to appreciate older films in their proper context, I highly recommend that you start with the original, 1960 version. With a late late showing on TV, a few year later, it blew my young mind, and fueled my love of the genre. The time travel sequences alone are worth watching, if you're not interested in a two-hour commitment but are curious about special effects of that time. To this day, it is still one of my favorite sci-fi films of the '60s! ;-]
PS: Do not watch the Trailer... it's full of spoilers! ;-]
They should have started with the smallest unit of measurement, the Planck length.
This reminds me of a really cool short film from the 70s called Powers of Ten. It's just up on youtube now. I like it because it has more structure to it, as the name suggests - it starts off looking down at 1m patch of grass, then zooms out at a rate of one power of ten every ten seconds, I think. It's very neat
Oddly, giraffes being taller than a T-rex makes me less afraid of a T-rex. Cool video.
It should make you more afraid of giraffes!
Why Existential Dread? Check Out Ursula Duziak's Future Talk. 1974 Anti Music or Avant-garde Jazz Scat. Also "Sorrow is not forever, Love is" A Vocal Summit with Bobby McFerrin, Lorraine Newton and others. The feel you seek.
Global avg height for men is 5 ft 7.5 inches
Global avg height for women is 5 ft 3 inches
I must be a giantess at 5'10", then.
@@almostyummymummy Its global average. Just think how many asians there are on the planet
@@viikmaqic true. My youngest brother's ex was 4'10, and she was the tallest in her family. (We're Kiwi's)
well, but how much is it in average bananas ?
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or in 1/14 doubledecker buses if you prefer British units . .
:)
The model was also wearing heels, if that makes a difference
The universe being infinite or limited size is equally puzzling, as is it's location (relative to what reference point?). I think about frequency of atomic vibration, change the frequency and you are in another universe.
General Sherman and Hyperion are specific trees, not breeds, btw.
I had to study human heights and stuff for ergonomics design issues in architecture.
So, complicated. They break it down to "racial" sizes where most European and African women average 5'- 7" and men 5' -9" (with outliers) and Asian women and men average 5'-5" and 5'-7". There are native groups (Inuit, Ahitereiria, Sherpa, etc..) who average shorter.
These things affect the ability to reach things, etc.
time stamp 8:37 you referenced "1,862 light years away".....i don't know if you had accidentally misspoke, or if you think that was the distance from us.....the Tarantula nebula is 1,862 light years across....that is how big it is
For music, you might be interested in Lateralus by the band Tool... if only because it's based on the Fibonacci sequence...
QUESTION: Have you ever come across a gentleman by the name of Tom Lehrer? I fancy you would get a kick out of his little ditties.
Tom is an American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician, who later taught mathematics and musical theater. He recorded pithy and humorous songs that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s. His songs often parodied popular musical forms, though they usually had original melodies. A couple of his song titles:
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
The Masochism Tango
Oedipus Rex
The Vatican Rag
Get the videos where he accompanies himself at the piano.
Great video! Have you considered reacting to some historic civilis? Just choose whatever video you find interesting of his, otherwise I would suggest reacting to his videos; longest year in history, Work or Bronze Age collapse
Speed of light is approx 670,616,629 MPH. calculate that number by 24 for a day, then that result by 365 for a year.
670,616,629 x 24 = 16,094,799,096 x 365 = 5,874,601,670,040 = 1 light year +/-
(five hundred trillion, eight hundred and seventy four billion, six hundred and one million, six hundred and seventy thousand and forty miles)
In the movie "Passengers", the Avalon was travelling at half light speed for 120 years to Homestead 2.
335,308,314.5 x 24 = 8,047,399,548 (1 day) x 365 = 2,937,300,835,020 (1year) x 120 years = 352,476,100,202,400 +/- for acceleration/deceleration. Boggles the mind I know !
It's not away, it's the size of the object.
You're 5'5", we learn yet another tidbit about the No Protocol host.
Actually, in a much earlier video, she mentioned both her size and weight.
5.17e+26 bananas to span the observable universe. Placing all of the bananas (at the current estimated rate per yer) grown on earth end to end would take approx 4,064,444,444.5 Billion millennia to grow. (I may well have screwed up my math, but the ADHD kicked in and this was stupidly fun to work out).
I've read "The Time Machine" also which I enjoyed. I don't know if you've read it already but I recommend Michael Crichton's book "Timeline" (the horribly adapted Paul Walker movie). Stick to the book though! You can watch the movie for laughs or cringe if you'd like haha.
If it's existential dread you're after try Gypsy by the Moody Blues, Fade Away by Todd Rundgren, Burning Rope by Genesis or anything at all by Van der Graaf Generator/Peter Hammill.
I have seen one of these that started with string (as in String Theory. The sub-sub-atomic particals.) I figure that is you're going small, start from the beginning.
Hyperion is the name of a single tree, the Sequoia sempervirens or Coast Redwood in Redwood national park in coastal northern California
Fun fact: Every breath of air you take contains at least one molecule of air breathed by Plato. How can we know this? Well, there are more molecules of air in a single breath than there are breaths of air in the atmosphere. You could do the same for molecules of water in a glass and glassfuls of water in the ocean. Just pick your favorite historical urinator!
Not so much existential dread, but a cool song with a cool space video: Souvlaki Space Station, by Slowdive.
Love Parquet Courts. Just a note, the name is pronounce Par-Kay. Love the band as well. Love your vids
Thank you! I’ve been pronouncing it wrong for years
In the words of Douglas Adams...the universe is big....really big.
7:31 Black hole. A planet can't get that big; its immense gravity would make it collapse into a black hole. Likewise, a planet can't be bigger than a star; its gravity would cause it to create nuclear fusion and it would become a star.
8:11 The Horsehead Nebula is in the constellation Orion, and can be seen with the naked eye...though it just looks like a smudgy star.
It's wild to think that Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole, marks the center of our galaxy and the hypergiant Betelgeuse is just one of 100 billion other stars orbiting it. It's so little, but so massive.
For music, try spirit of the age by hawkwind.
This is a really cool video, but alas it omitted one thing. Towards the end, with those huge galaxies, I was expecting my mum to be given at least an honorary mention, but for whatever reason, they decided to omit her. Yet everyone I went to school with knew her stats :(
Joni Mitchell's album 'Blue' gives me existential dread, the song 'River' most of all. Like staring into Nietzsche's abyss... it stares back.
Does the existential dread have anything to do with the video clip? Because that’s what’s doing it for me… the sketches are simple, yet haunting (in the best way). The lyrics are beautiful as well. I’ll have to listen to the whole album over the weekend
@@NoProtocol I like the sketches, almost like Rorschach drawings. And the album, I think, has some the most haunted and beautiful lyrics ever written, and that includes Blake and Keats and Rimbaud and Dylan and anyone else.
Three books recommendations. Some said in comments THE HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, douglas adam ( the whale falling) DIRK GENTLY HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY , douglas adams . Q AND A , vikas swarup . Music : Debbii Dawson , ablum called LEARNING, on Spotify or any music thing .
Great video as always. I would recommend the German rapper/beatboxer TJ_Beastboy with mixed German and English lyrics. A good starting point would be the Humanoid-Flamethrower one-take-medley. Even if you are not into rap, I have not seen any reacter not liking tj_bb.
Shantungosaurus is the largest known hadrosaur, with Barsboldia being really close. Argentinosaurus is one of the largest known sauropods and dinosaurs in general currently known. It's consistently ranked in the top 10 largest land animals ever.
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usually pictures of the horsehead nebula are more zoomed in so you instantly see the horsehead shaped cloud part. it was in that video too though, just relatively small.
Here is an update.... The largest black hole, a black hole producing enough light to qualify it as the brightest object in the (visible) universe. It is that bright because it is taking in one solar mass (the equivalent of the mass of the sun) every day! It is estimated that this black hole, Q (for Quasar) J0529-4351 is estimated to be about 7 light years (distance light travels in a year multiplied by 7) across! For perspective, our solar system is 5 light hours across! AT 66,230,000,000,000 (or 66.23 Trillion Km across) it is as wide as the Horsehead Nebula!!
The reality of it is even if you were immortal with a space ship that could travel at any speed without limits and defying the laws of physics, it still would be impossible to explore everything in the universe. Unless something changes such as the universe not expanding anymore then even if humans survived for trillions of years it'd still appear to be impossible to explore everything. If scientists are even remotely accurate then the majority of the universe wouldn't have anything to explore anyways but it's still interesting and enjoyable to talk about.
The size of certain black holes are absolutely insane. But their masses are much smaller than their volumes would indicate - they have actually quite low density.
Hyperion is also a Sequoia. It is a single tree in California I believe
When Carl Sagan said we are just a note of dust, he was not joking, these videos put us well and truly in our place. 🥰
I have sometimes theorized that things in our universe look like particles inside a brain or body. We quite possibly might be inside of a being, we maybe cells or some sort of matter inside of a something
Check out pics of the Horsehead Nebula taken by the James Webb Telescope. It's an amazing picture that puts the one in the video to shame.
I’d wager you’ve seen the Horsehead nebula plenty of times, as it’s depicted in one of the “classic” nebula photos. By that same token, there’s a fair chance it wasn’t specifically named or labelled when you’ve seen it, and was just there to illustrate “a nebula”
I think the very outer parts of Andromeda and the Milky way have already begun merging
8:37 IMO at least what used to be there, those aren't quite latest visualizations 😉
Today I learned that a T-Rex was even smaller than a Giraffe. Somehow I assumed they were bigger.
To completely steal a comment I've seen elsewhere: when you put it in this kind of context, I'm not really eating that much cheese.
reaction suggestion: the last 10 minutes of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2016
one of the most dramatic finishes to Le Mans ever, you should listen to what Kaz Nakajima says over the radio (even as the commentators talk over it), the video on youtube is laggy as it is taken from a captured stream
When I turn on my bedroom light, it probably takes milliseconds to 1 second to travel from its source to the farthest corner of my room, meanwhile it would probably take me anywhere between 2-3 seconds to travel from the light source to the end of my room. All I'm saying is that if it takes 93 billion years for light to travel from Earth to the end of the Observable Universe, then it'll probably take at least 3 times that number for humanity to get from Earth to the end of the Observable Universe, so at least 279 billion years.
Not even a minute in and you "Arm shamed" that poor T-Rex...😢
0:56 What happened to the tyrannosaurus when the breaks went out on his car?
Go on
The tyrannosaurus wrecks 😐
I've actually read the time machine!
Hyperion is the tallest living individual tree. It's in Northern California, was discovered in 2006 and is 600-800 years old.
The two trees are specific examples of their species. So, it's not "a" General Sherman or "a" Hyperion, it's "General Sherman" and "Hyperion", the sequoias.
Call me a treehugger but that's exactly what I'd do If I visited them
Even with the video...the scale is completely unfathomable.
It should have included Proxima Centauri, which the closest star( sun ) of us.
I wonder if their was a disagreement during development about whether to show an apple or banana…and a compromise was met
A light years is approximately 9.5 trillion km,( or a little less than 6 trillion miles ), so 1 light year is more than 3150 times the size of the biggest star and about 16 times the size of the biggest black hole
You ain’t have to disrespect the T. rex arms like that lol 😂
I had to pause right after beginning when I saw human height. I use metric system and I'm exactly 170cm and I know it's definitely not 5'7. I checked it and 1,7m is actually bit less than 5'6ft.