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  • Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
  • Have humans set foot on Mars? Are Jupiter's rings made of solid ice and rock? Does Uranus really smell like ... well, you know?
    Join host Justin Dodd (@juddtoday) as he breaks down some common myths and misconceptions about the eight (or nine if you're cool) planets in our solar system.
    Website: www.mentalfloss.com
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    00:00:00 Pluto
    00:02:13 Mercury
    00:03:30 Venus
    00:05:19 Earth
    00:06:58 Mars
    00:10:15 Jupiter
    00:12:14 Saturn
    00:14:52 Uranus
    00:16:52 Neptune

КОМЕНТАРІ • 109

  • @nariu7times328
    @nariu7times328 Рік тому +11

    I remember the Saturn images coming back -- it was amazing to see the rings as we never had before.

  • @pigs18
    @pigs18 Рік тому +7

    The Pluto loyalists need to understand that there is no classification that includes Pluto and results in nine planets.

  • @loslomo
    @loslomo Рік тому +12

    A few years ago I actually got to ask Scott Kelly once when we'd be technologically ready to go to Mars. His response was that it wasn't the technology we're waiting on.

  • @HayTatsuko
    @HayTatsuko Рік тому +9

    My favorite thing about Uranus is that its north pole points almost exactly towards the Sun, so as it goes around in its orbit, it's more rolling along on its equator than spinning mostly upright (or upside-down, in the case of Venus) like all the other planets.

    • @arsenic1987
      @arsenic1987 Рік тому +2

      Well, it wouldn't really "roll on it's equator" along it's orbit during it's autumn and spring. At those times it would appear more to be rolling straight towards the sun :P But yeah, the tilt is indeed one of my favorite things about it as well. Makes you wonder what event(s) happened that caused it to "topple over". :)

    • @HayTatsuko
      @HayTatsuko Рік тому

      @@arsenic1987 Ever-so-slowly doing a breakdance spin around the Sun? Maybe someday we'll have an answer regarding what truly toppled Uranus. Makes me also wonder whether Theia was partly responsible for Earth's tilt -- if indeed the Theia impact was a thing.

  • @DrNothing23
    @DrNothing23 Рік тому +6

    If you learned Pluto has 5 moons while you were, as you say, "growing up", you're still in your teens...

  • @jumpinjehoshaphat9075
    @jumpinjehoshaphat9075 Рік тому +16

    I do not know anyone who thinks that humans have landed on Mars. Hopefully.

    • @6thwilbury2331
      @6thwilbury2331 Рік тому +1

      Haha isn''t that funny? A lot of videos on various channels do lists of misconceptions, yet no thinking person actually believes such things. Similarly, there are plenty of "Ten Things You Didn't Know About..." lists, and yet there are always a couple of items that most people know.

    • @Darxide23
      @Darxide23 Рік тому +1

      I'm mostly sure this is an incredibly small number of people and mostly elementary school children.

    • @glennso47
      @glennso47 2 місяці тому

      Scientists have tried to call Mars but the line was busy.

  • @bhasty1
    @bhasty1 Рік тому +7

    We should start seeding planets with tardigrades. Apparently those guys can live anywhere.

  • @Sonicgott
    @Sonicgott Рік тому +4

    That James Webb telescope is a gift to the world.

  • @Argacyan
    @Argacyan Рік тому +3

    Mercury's temperature fluctuations makes me think the poles are probably the safest place to land anything if we wanted to

  • @Apophis324
    @Apophis324 Рік тому +7

    I was wondering if you'd do something on Pluto and I'm happy you did. The small space rock should not be ignored, just for no longer being a planet! >: |
    Another thing you forgot to question when it comes to having humans on Mars is what the water would do to us. *still remembers quite.. vividly that one Doctor Who episode...*

  • @mojosbigsticks
    @mojosbigsticks Рік тому +3

    Down with Mars! Up Uranus!

  • @erinrising2799
    @erinrising2799 Рік тому +1

    you could do another video about all the dwarf planets, would like to see Eris get some attention

  • @pvtpain66k
    @pvtpain66k Рік тому +7

    I have Muscovy ducks. One was following my son around, he bumped into a bike pump and it fell & hit the duck on the head. She was pretty messed up, and held her head sideways for several months, needed help drinking & bathing. We named her Oranos, because of the head, which got better, and now she's an asshole. ^_^

  • @Plantbliss
    @Plantbliss Рік тому +1

    Lol, I think people feel like Pluto got demoted through no fault of his own. They don’t realize he’s relieved he can retire

  • @lear1980
    @lear1980 Рік тому +3

    I had no idea the Galileo probe made it that far into Jupiter's atmosphere.

  • @y_fam_goeglyd
    @y_fam_goeglyd Рік тому +3

    ...Just Serves Us Nachos. There, sorted for you!
    If Pluto was still considered a full-size planet, you'd have to learn a bunch of other names too (Pluto has bigger "cousins").
    The atmosphere of Venus was recently found to not have any life in it. The deposits and other molecules detected have been shown to not be living. At least that's the last I heard!

  • @romulusnr
    @romulusnr Рік тому +4

    The problem with Pluto as a planet is that we've found enough other things similar to Pluto that if we kept Pluto as a planet, we'd have to add like another three planets or so, at least. Eris (which is nearly as big as Pluto), Ceres, Makemake, Gonggong, to name a few.

    • @MentalFloss
      @MentalFloss  Рік тому

      Could we not just say (admittedly arbitrarily) "a planet has to be as big as Pluto" to avoid this?

    • @latenightlogic
      @latenightlogic Рік тому

      And with that reply I’m not bothering with the rest of this video

    • @Salabesk
      @Salabesk Рік тому +1

      @@MentalFloss No

    • @dbadaddy7386
      @dbadaddy7386 Рік тому

      Why not? If it's essentially round because it has sufficient gravity to build a gradient to make it more or less round (as opposed to being round-ish from collisions), and it's primary orbit is around the sun, then why wouldn't it be a planet? Why isn't Ceres a planet?

    • @stephenkehl7158
      @stephenkehl7158 Рік тому +1

      @@MentalFloss That’s just the problem, it’s arbitrary. The entire reason for reclassifying Pluto was to have an objective definition of planets that all shared the same physical characteristics. Adding an arbitrary exception defeats the purpose.
      The change in classification does not diminish what Pluto fundamentally is- a fascinating member of the solar system that holds clues to our understanding of how the solar system and the universe work. A rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet. Or stinks the same, in the case of Uranus.

  • @Inucroft
    @Inucroft Рік тому +5

    5:20
    Just a nitpick, eveybody who had any level of basic education knew the world was round then.
    Flat Earthers are a very modern phenomenon.
    Columbus argued the Ancient calculations done in Egypt was wrong and that Earth was *smaller* than people thought.

    • @MentalFloss
      @MentalFloss  Рік тому

      Yes, we didn't mean to suggest that wasn't the case, but maybe the writing could've been clearer. The line in the video was "that idea got debunked even earlier than 1492, when Columbus *supposedly* ..." We were trying to convey that Columbus *hadn't* (as some ppl believe) proven the earth was round, but perhaps we didn't clarify or expand enough.

  • @joewilson3393
    @joewilson3393 Рік тому +3

    Don't forget for the Jupiter thing, the tons of radiation. I think the craft was named Juno we sent to survey the planet. It had extra sheilding but it was still fried within a few cycles.

    • @arsenic1987
      @arsenic1987 Рік тому +1

      I think you might be referring to Pioneer 10. It went past Jupiter and measured radiation in the magnetosphere. The radiation was higher than predicted, and trough the bow shocks of entering Jupiter's magnetosphere, it encountered a few problems. The trajectory was also put along Jupiter's equator, where the radiation is most concentrated. But after exiting the field, the craft was again fully operational.
      It's a bit of a misnomer to say "tons of radiation", since there's basically radiation everywhere. Hehe. Jupiter's magnetosphere traps the solar radiation in belts of radiation similar to Earth's Van Allen belts, but way more concentrated.
      If one was put on a direct polar collision trajectory with Jupiter, there wouldn't be nearly as much radiation, thus it wouldn't be the "problematic" point of "flying trough Jupiter". =)
      Juno's mission is indeed to survey Jupiter (its composition, magnetic field, gravitational field and magnetosphere mainly in the polar regions), and was scheduled to be deorbited into Jupiter back in 2016, but since it continues to operate fine, the mission has been extended to at least 2025. So it's still in operation.

  • @discgolfcasaus
    @discgolfcasaus Рік тому +1

    Pluto is still a planet in New Mexico. Technically whenever it passes over our state. The Land of Enchantment, I love it.

    • @rathersane
      @rathersane Рік тому

      I remember that. We should lobby the Roundhouse to declare the whale a fish!

    • @discgolfcasaus
      @discgolfcasaus Рік тому

      @@rathersane whatever floats your boat. Guys are girls now, so anything could happen...🤷🏽‍♂️

  • @xiongrey19
    @xiongrey19 Рік тому +2

    See, I feel like everyone misses the point of why Pluto is no longer considered a "planet".
    The big reason is we were finding a bunch of other giant bodies that fit the description of planet in the kuiper (and asteroid) belts. So we were hit with a choice, either update "the 9 planets of the solar system" to "the 20/30/40+ planets of the solar system" or update the requirements for "planet" and the reclassify Pluto. Honestly it's more for grade school than anything.
    And really, The word Planet basically has an arbitrary definition. I mean, Mars and Jupiter really are not comparable at all for example.
    But above all I feel like most people are missing the point. The point is that there are actually a bunch of pluto-like planets in the solar system that deserve just as much attention and interest as Pluto as some are even bigger than Pluto! So the question really is what is the best way to show how these are all equal keep a broad definition of Planets or make a new classification for these.
    Personally between the two I like the latter but imo we should have gone further and recognized that planet really doesn't mean anything meaningful. We should be teaching about the most significant Solar Celestial objects rather trying hard to pretend that the word planet has any real scientific meaning worth defining.

    • @xiongrey19
      @xiongrey19 Рік тому +1

      tl;dr: "Pluto is not a planet" is not an excuse to not learn about Pluto, but rather an invitation to learn about all the other cool celestial objects that Pluto is like.

    • @CheatOnlyDeath
      @CheatOnlyDeath Рік тому

      Planet means "wanderer" because they move around in the sky unlike stars. The Sun and Moon were both once called planets as well until we learned more about them and "demoted" them. There was probably a movement back them wanting to keep the moon as one of the planets. If we had done so there would now be hundreds of them.

  • @donovankriasol
    @donovankriasol Рік тому +1

    New episode woow!! Love from México guys

  • @jphilb
    @jphilb Рік тому +2

    I support Pluto identifying as a planet.

  • @Izzak_Beck
    @Izzak_Beck Рік тому

    Had no clue that any scientists still think Pluto should be a planet, like that's super rude to Ceres. Also I haven't heard most of these misconceptions, these are wild.

  • @rikrikonius1301
    @rikrikonius1301 Рік тому +1

    Ironically, we know Uranus smells because scientists checked where the sun does shine.

  • @mandiemoore3272
    @mandiemoore3272 Рік тому +1

    I know it's not a planet but my absolute favorite celestial body is uropa. (I'm sure I misspelled that) I'd live to see a piece on it.

    • @gobblinal
      @gobblinal Рік тому

      Almost got it right. It's amazing how planet-like some of the gas giant moons can be.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_(moon)

    • @mandiemoore3272
      @mandiemoore3272 Рік тому

      @@gobblinal it's the third moon of.. I actually never remember if it's Jupiter or Neptune. I always thought anything with an orbit within our solar system was considered a celestial body. I fell in love with Utopia back in the 90s. I'm kinda into Thea lately.

    • @gobblinal
      @gobblinal Рік тому

      @@mandiemoore3272 Thea the one that crashed into Earth? Makes me wonder if we are the crashee or the crasher?

  • @billyr2904
    @billyr2904 Рік тому

    Hibernation could prevent loading space crafts with lots of food, but we don't know how to make a human Hibernate because we haven't evolved to Hibernate. The only primates that can Hibernate are the dwarf lemurs, and we are studying them for Hibernation during long distance space travel, because humans are also primates and it makes sense to study our closest relative that Hibernates.

  • @quantidel
    @quantidel Рік тому

    Woah mental floss where ya been

  • @MatthewSchooley94
    @MatthewSchooley94 Рік тому

    A few more fun facts about the planets...
    1. Jupiter's red spot is not an eye. It is an open wound.
    2. Saturn's rings are the gateway.
    3. Neptune has been mutated.

  • @geoffroi-le-Hook
    @geoffroi-le-Hook Рік тому

    The other thing the Cassini probe did that was noteworthy ... it detected life on Earth.

  • @uncletrick1
    @uncletrick1 Рік тому +2

    Uranas = Seymour Butts 🤣

  • @rparl
    @rparl Рік тому

    Mother Very Thoughtfully Made a Jelly Sandwich Under No Protest.

  • @brianarbenz1329
    @brianarbenz1329 Рік тому

    The notion that humans have visited Mars is a “common misconception?” Really? Well, thanks for clearing that up!…
    Hey, if you were looking for a Mars point, who not the common misconception that we are ready to visit it in 30 or so years, and start colonizing it. Now _that_ is the big con that many were falling for.

  • @dangerdantheone
    @dangerdantheone Рік тому +1

    Oblate Spheroid

  • @Ohboymason
    @Ohboymason Рік тому

    I think people really underestimate how much humanity would change if we colonized mars. Our bodies would rapidly change from high radiation and low gravity

  • @BassJournal
    @BassJournal Рік тому

    Remember this channel was once big..

  • @GCrocker662
    @GCrocker662 Рік тому

    Remember the guys that names Saturn rings also demoted Pluto.

  • @tedcoop4392
    @tedcoop4392 Рік тому

    Did you actually say "centrifugal force?" 😅😂🤣

  • @gmsherry1953
    @gmsherry1953 Рік тому

    6:46 Are you SURE that the mass of land affects the distribution of ocean water? Really? Ocean water is drawn toward continents and islands by the gravity of the land? That has a measurable effect even though the land masses exert such small sideways pull compared to the downward pull of the ENTIRE PLANET? 10:23 Everyplace I can find includes Neptune and Uranus as gas giants (along with Jupiter and Saturn). Did a scientist review this script? After the second reference to there only being 2 gas giants, I left.

  • @romulusnr
    @romulusnr Рік тому

    12:11 please tell me that's not a dana carvey george h w bush impression impression

  • @accousticdecay
    @accousticdecay Рік тому

    Pluto is a planet to me and m family.

  • @FCastle23
    @FCastle23 Рік тому +1

    Mars is the only planet we know of to be inhabited by just robots

  • @MasriBenzBaby
    @MasriBenzBaby Рік тому

    Ah, so Venus is possibly Bespin from Star Wars.

  • @BeastOfTraal
    @BeastOfTraal Рік тому

    "urine us " is a better name

  • @Ohboymason
    @Ohboymason Рік тому

    Wtf so neptunes actually way more badass looking and thats no big deal?!

  • @EugeneVerster
    @EugeneVerster Рік тому

    no one in Columbus's time thought the earth was flat mate

  • @ReiAyanami8
    @ReiAyanami8 Рік тому +1

    The Greek god of the sky's name is pronounced Oo-rah-noose...by the way...

  • @irighterotica
    @irighterotica Рік тому

    You hear about Pluto? That's messed up, right?

  • @Pestacook
    @Pestacook Рік тому +1

    i dont know if its me or the content that changed, but I just cant get myself to actually focus on MT videos for more than like 30 seconds at a time before I drift off hard

  • @Darxide23
    @Darxide23 Рік тому +3

    What kind of paste eaters think we've actually been to Mars? This sounds like a terrible attempt at a joke. The only people who think boys have been to Mars also think that girls go to Jupiter to get more stupider.
    And it would help with the juvenile jokes if we pronounced Uranus the proper way. oo-RAWN-oos. That's how the Greeks would have said it.

  • @johnpraytor1723
    @johnpraytor1723 Рік тому

    how is Jupiter not the hottest planet? Everybody else is based on the surface temps, yes? The surface of Jupiter totally spanks the temp of Venus' surface.

  • @EB01
    @EB01 Рік тому

    - 480⁰C on Venus? Is that a "~"? (Watching on my phone)

    • @geoffroi-le-Hook
      @geoffroi-le-Hook Рік тому

      it is ... anything past -273°C would be impossible in this universe

  • @allwet66
    @allwet66 Рік тому

    your upset about names like A thru E but the last time we let these clowns loose we ended up with Uranus so yea maybe don't let them name things

  • @bhasty1
    @bhasty1 Рік тому +3

    I used to love this channel. Ah well!

  • @6thwilbury2331
    @6thwilbury2331 Рік тому +27

    I wonder if the same people who insist Pluto is a planet simply because it's what they learned in school are also people who think there is still an East and West Germany or a USSR because that's what they learned in school.

    • @jumpinjehoshaphat9075
      @jumpinjehoshaphat9075 Рік тому +5

      Although I prefer to consider Pluto as a planet; apparently the only asteroid I know the name of, a regular predictable orbit and not in a cluster of debris such as those in the asteroid belt, it seems reasonable. However, I am able to accept that the Germanys have become unified and the USSR has broken into 15 separate countries, just as I accept that Prussia no longer exists, that the Austro-Hungarian Empire has broken to many entities and a tsar is no longer on the Russian throne. Easy stuff, facts are facts.

    • @route2070
      @route2070 Рік тому

      Not only facts are facts, but Russia and Germany has their own governments, populations etc... who decide this. Planets on the other hand has a definition that some who work in the field still disagree on. Also there's still disagreement on what is the proper country, Isreal or Palestine.

    • @phife1878
      @phife1878 Рік тому +5

      Considering those countries actually experienced change and Pluto did not, that's not a very solid comparison.

    • @erikallen863
      @erikallen863 Рік тому +2

      @phife187 Pluto may not have "experienced a change," as it is what it has always been, but what "experienced a change" is the understanding and knowledge of it. It's part of something bigger than originally thought. Much more fascinating. Unfortunately, some disregard or ignore this fascination because they would rather inexplicably declare that "Pluto is SO a planet!! Why? Because, that's why!!1!" Imagine not caring about new discoveries because "your" understanding is updated, so you instead focus on being upset that the label is different. That's what science is. It's neither right nor wrong. It just *is*. And our understandings adjust to new findings.

    • @davect01
      @davect01 Рік тому +1

      Pluto did not change, simply our definition of it

  • @Andersl201
    @Andersl201 Рік тому

    Why is the criteria of "dwarf" different from planets to suns? Pluto is not a planet, but Sol is our sun? Both are dwarfs.

  • @BenRollinsActor
    @BenRollinsActor Рік тому

    I learned the planets with a different mnemonic: Men Very Easily Make Jugs, Serving Useful, Necessary Purposes.

  • @SchmySeymour
    @SchmySeymour Рік тому +3

    Just report science stories in metric already!!!!!
    (subtitles over images is not sufficient)

  • @oscodains
    @oscodains Рік тому

    One fact about Pluto is ITS A PLANET YOU PLANET DENIALIST.

    • @NikodAnimations
      @NikodAnimations 3 місяці тому

      So you want to also call Ceres, Hygiea, Eris, Makemake, Haumea, Ixion, Sedna, Orcos, Quaoar, Varuna, and other spherical bodies planets? Do you want grade school kids to suffer?

  • @koppadasao
    @koppadasao Рік тому

    Earth is flat. Just as a neutrino

  • @sadib100
    @sadib100 Рік тому

    Why are you praising Columbus? You might as well say the Earth is flat.

    • @MentalFloss
      @MentalFloss  Рік тому +1

      The line was "That idea got debunked even earlier than 1492, when Columbus supposedly proved to the haters that you couldn’t sail off the edge of the planet." Perhaps could be written clearer, but the intention was to say "no, Columbus did not prove the earth was round, that was already well-established (despite what you might've heard).

    • @sadib100
      @sadib100 Рік тому

      @@MentalFloss I kind of got that, but you could have spend the extra two seconds to elaborate on your idea.

  • @xeroxcopy8183
    @xeroxcopy8183 Рік тому +1

    why does this guy just suddenly start whispering for no reason

  • @SECONDQUEST
    @SECONDQUEST Рік тому

    Is it not "hoi-gins" (Huygens)?
    It definitely is. Huygens (/ˈhɔɪɡənz/ HOY-gənz