Bear in mind that there are many things that were left on the surface of the moon that can be seen from earth, including a "mirror" that, to this day, is used as a way to measure the precise distance between the earth and the moon. A powerful laser is targeted at that reflector where it is bounced back to the earth; the time it takes for the round trip provides a very accurate measurement of the distance between the two bodies.
That mirror can't be seen😂 you need a scope the size of earth to see that. You are right about the laser but it can't be seen. Nothing humans left there can be seen from earth.
@@alex_dapro4923 Though there are no optical telescopes that have the resolution needed to spot the largest objects left on the moon (the landers), radar imaging has captured images of the surface of the moon with a resolution of 16 feet, so it is likely that we could get (rough) images of the landers if we cared to try.
@@alex_dapro4923 India's orbiter around the moon has taken photos of the lander, you can look them up. The LRO has also taken images of the landers remains
@@MarkusUbl i agree with you. I think the flags wiggled because putting them in as they did it gave it momentum which also acts differently on the moon as it would on earth. There are a million of things in physics that contradicts our intuition but when we actually deeply investigate it all makes sense.
@@sadgfasdg542 Some years back I went to the KSC in Florida, and they had an exact replica of the flag there. They told us that the flag appeared to move because it had some kind of copper thing in the pole that allowed it to rotate freely. It pretty much gave off the illusion that the flag was moving on it's own.
Hey guys! I think it's absurd to think we didn't send men to the moon. Probably the same people that say the earth has to be flat because if earth was round, people on the opposite side of the planet would fall off into space. 😅
@@garyrichardson3309 Ancient Greeks have proven the curvature 2500 years ago and were not that much off, when it came to circumference. With two sticks, placed far enough apart. Nowadays, an average elementary school kid should be able to realize, how easy is to test this by yourself with cheap tools you can buy online :D
I think we've been to the moon, but I don't think it was when we were told. I think our government wanted to claim victory over Russia and they were afraid Russia was ahead of us so the US government lied.
The moment she asked if man actually went to the moon I knew we were dealing with unserious reactors. The lack of science literacy is so depressing in the young today; they really aren't very bright. Sad
Brain rot TikTok era. We have access to basically all human knowledge with the invention of the internet…and yet people are somehow getting dumber and dumber.
I've always tried to comprehend the idea of more stars than grains of sand on Earth. Imagine trying to count every grain in a handful of sand. Then thinking of just one area, like a desert or beach is already unimaginable, and that's still just a tiny fraction!
There is a stick holding the flag. In the footage, the flag never blows in the wind because there is no wind. It only moves when the astronaut moves it by hand. Edit: atmosphere different from galaxy to galaxy? There is just too much wrong here.
The American flag that was placed on the moon was on a pole to keep it "fully open" at all times. So it wouldn't drape down. So it was springy and bounced easily. So everytime they moved it it would bounce back and forth. There is no wind due to the lack of a substantial atmosphere. And as far as not seeing millions of stars from the moon surface is also due in part to the lack of atmosphere. And the so called lighting and shadows are due to the Lunar Lander's lights shining on the area for the astronaut. I watched every flight to the moon growing up and was glued to the television to watch them walk on the moon. Why would America spend millions and millions of dollars to build a rocket, and launch it for nothing? Why pay thousands of people who built and worked on the Lunar missions and not really send astronauts into space and the moon. Don't bother talking about those "conspiracy theories." Research it yourselves and you will understand what had to actually go into sending people to the moon. It's one of mans greatest achievements. And I'm proud of our astronauts and the people who worked so hard on accomplishing the dream we had back then. Astronauts sacrificed and died getting us to the moon.
@@Kenneth_James LOL! The sad thing is, that should be a joke, but I'm sure in some cases it's true. I saw where Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, during the eclipse, was talking to a group of 4th graders about how the moon was made up of gases and she was wondering if humans could live there, as well as some other really bizarre stuff! And that's someone making major decisions that effect all our lives!
1:20 "Do you think it's true that people have actually walked the moon?" It is true. The technology was not only capable at the time, but also all of the science checks out. The only way it could be more obvious is if they told you where on the moon to aim the telescope to find the landing site. 1:38 "Are they still doing it currently?" If you're interested, you should keep up to date on it. They are currently trying to get back there, but Nasa isn't as well funded anymore and they are trying to make sure to do it more safely. It's honestly just as hard now as it was back then because of those two factors alone. 1:48 "I came across a conspiracy theory that... I think there's no air or wind in space... You know when they were holding the American flag? It was moving, but there's no air in space." First, it's not entirely accurate that there is no air in space. It's just so scarce and spread out that there might as well be none as far as we're concerned. For the purposes of this, though, no there isn't. Second, the flag was moving due to the fact that the astronauts were moving the flag. If you are holding a flag and moving it around, even without air, it's going to move due to being attached to the pole you're moving and friction and kinetic energy and what ever else. It doesn't have to be blown by the wind. The way the flag moved was not waving or billowing, it was shifting at best. 3:26 "It is currently located 138 AUs from Earth." It's definitely farther away by now. 4:17 "Earth is a very small planet." It's not really that small. There are planets that are larger, most of which are gas giants, but many are also smaller than Earth. We usually find the bigger ones because they are easier to find, being so big. We only recently got the technology to find smaller ones, and they are still almost impossible to see. In terms of possible sizes for terrestrial worlds, Earth is about average. 4:37 "Bare in mind how many universes and galaxies there are." I'm sure you must have misspoke, but I just wanted to make sure you know that there is only one universe. There are a lot of galaxies, though. 4:47 "I believe in aliens." Absolutely. With how big the universe is, there's no way that aliens don't exist. They don't have to even be intelligent like we are. When you consider the thought that they could be like dogs or frogs or even germs, the chances that aliens don't exist is practically zero. 4:56 "I think it's in the hieroglyphs and the pyramids as well, no? That the aliens helped them to build the pyramids." First, that's not giving humanity much credit. It is very possible, even most likely, that humanity built the pyramids on their own. We simply lost the knowledge of how they did it. We also don't really know how to read hieroglyphs, so anyone saying that's what they say happened is making things up based on what it looks like to them. Second, there is absolutely no evidence that aliens have ever visited the Earth. It would be nearly impossible for them to even know that we're here, nearly impossible for them to get here by now (let alone back then) if they did know we're here, and whatever technology they used to get them here by this time would have to put out so much energy to stop before hitting us that it would destroy us anyway. 5:09 "I definitely saw a spaceship when I was parked at mom's house ... that was definitely not a plane." You can't actually know that. All you know is that you saw something in the sky that you didn't recognize. Humanity makes aircraft in secret that look alien to the present day all of the time. It was most likely either a plane that you saw or some other air vehicle that was developed by humanity that you simply didn't recognize. 7:04 "You need to give birth to new drivers on the way ... and then when you die from age that baby takes over. For many generations." You are being incredibly optimistic there. You're talking about a minimum of 70,000 years travel time. Humanity is 200,000 years old. By the time those people got there, they probably wouldn't be recognizable as human beings anymore. At the moment, such a feat is unrealistic. At best, you'll have the later generations evolved to life in space and most not caring about the destination or about Earth because life in space is all they know. 9:12 "I'm assuming the atmosphere will be different from galaxy to galaxy, and even outside the galaxy." Galaxies don't have atmospheres. What are you even trying to say here? 11:04 "I knew we were small, but I didn't realize it was this bad." Yeah, it's a lot for anyone to take in. When anyone watches this video, it's always mind-blowing just how big the universe is compared to us. It really gives you a new perspective on everything. 12:47 "I didn't even know sextillion was a thing!" Yes, and there are larger numbers than that. The largest number we have ever dared to name is a googolplex, which we calculate is the age of the universe when it finally dies from heat death. That, by the way, is a number that can only be expressed by name, because even if you put a 0 on every particle in the universe, you'd run out of particles before you ran out of 0s in that number. It's simply too big to actually write out. A sextillion is far easier to imagine. 12:50 "Is that beyond trillions?" Way beyond trillions. You'll see in a moment, but to tell you what's in between, after trillion is quadrillion, then quintillion, then sextillion. 14:01 "I know we've done the moon, ... have we done other planets as well? I don't know if anyone landed on any other planets." Nobody has ever landed on any other planets. We have sent probes to all of them and put rovers and a helicopter on Mars, but no actual people yet. Getting people out to other planets is a lot harder than getting them to the moon, but they're working on it. 14:17 "But then, like the commentator said, will human kind still exist by then?" "We don't know. Same way the dinosaurs got wiped out." The dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteor hitting the Earth. That's completely different from humanity not existing after a long period of time, because by then we'd change due to evolution and probably not be human beings anymore. Also, the commentator didn't say anything about us not existing long enough to see humanity set foot on other worlds or leave the solar system. He only said that humanity is not eternal, but even if it was, there would still be places that we will never be able to visit or even know about. Unless we found a work-around to the speed of light, anyway, which isn't likely. 14:34 "The future generation will know for us." No, they will know for themselves. After we're all dead, we can't benefit from what the future learns. They can only benefit from what we've learned. The arrow of time only moves in one direction. EDIT: I almost forgot to mention that there are only two things in the video you watched that I don't like. They are trying to give you the ability to conceptualize the size and scale of everything, but they don't tell you what the distance between the Earth and the sun actually is (about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) on average) and they don't tell you the size of Pluto for reference to the light bulb (Pluto is a little more than half the size of our moon).
shut up MORE ON..my Father designed and built the explosive bolts that separated the modules on the Saturn 5.........you can go see one at the front gate of NASA in Houston chipmunk........and if you think you could keep a secret that big from the public when 500,000 people were working on it...and the nation was spending 5 % of the GDP on the project, did they FAKE the launches too?..obviously they built something that looked like it went really really fast...like maybe to the moon...geeesshhh its amazing humans as you exist that are so clueless.....wow.
The flag waved because of the kinetic energy that was put into the flag by moving the flag. Because there is no air resistance there is nothing to stop the flag from continuing to flap. "The law of conservation of energy" explains that. Newton's 1st law of motion - "An object in motion will stay in motion until another force acts upon it"
These people really don't understand structural dynamics. Look at the ISS, vibrations are a critical part of the design because there is no matter around it to damp the vibrations. All that energy needs to be dissipated within the structure itself. It is like the folks who expect space to be "cold." It is not cold in the same manner as people think. Because there is no matter, two modes of heat dissipation: conduction and convection, that work on Earth, don't work in space. You can only rely on radiation to shed heat. And if you can't shed heat, you are done for because the heat sinks we take for granted on Earth is not a luxury we have in space. I have this gripe with almost all Sci-Fi spaceship designs as well. Where are the radiators? Unless they have some exotic endothermic fuel or heat sink, which again, they don't ever explain. Obviously trying to explain in what way exactly is space "cold" would entail explaining the fact that "temperature" and the concept of "hot and cold" is a result of statistical averaging of microscopic phenomena. But Statistical Thermodynamics is beyond the scope of most individuals, so they can't easily grasp it. I consider this a failure on the part of science communicators and teachers who make all these documentaries and babble off comments that might make sense to folks like us, but to the uninitiated, are misleading.
@@death_parade im not a big fan of us politics but the whole moon landing conspiracy is so dumb...all of their "points" got debuked decades ago and to this day they still just repeat the same lame arguments without "doing their research" and finding out why their so called proofs are all well explained.
thats a publicized video on cable give me a break..if they went to the moon how did nasa lose all the technology to do so now? where technology is more advanced than the 60's 70's
It is statistically apparent that there may be billions of places in the Universe that support some form of life, but the probability that any of them have advanced to the level of interstellar space travel and ventured so far out as to find out tiny planet and visit it in a space ship is like finding a needle in a billion haystacks each the size of our sun. And even if they did this some how, why? We are not that interesting except to ourselves. If you don't believe me, watch how my cat ignores me every day.
It is entirely possible that life is more common in the universe than we think. There could be a trillion needles hidden inside a billion haystacks. Or there could be one needle in the haystack but the alien population is 1000000x more than the population of earth, or they could be 1000000x more technologically advanced thanks to their evolution having a few million years head start on us. We don't even have enough information yet to rule out the existence of life in our closest neighboring star systems.
@@scotthill1600 the other difference is that unlike in fictional stories like the MCU, Earth is nothing special in this universe and the only reason an interstellar civilization would go to war with us is to eliminate any potential competition, not to claim resources here which exist in extreme abundance everywhere else
Aside from all the criticism of the video, even if the US faked the video for PR purposes, it wouldn't prove that they weren't on the moon... That's the part the conspiracy theorists forget. The possibility, that they reached the moon but couldn't broadcast live, so they gave us "a visual aid". Which would be much more reasonable than assuming everything was faked, but conspiracy theorists are rarely reasonable. But I believe the material has been vetted sufficiently to be able to say that it's more likely to be real than for nasa scientists having it faked to a degree that can't be debunked half a century later.
@@JusTRandoM1993 India, China, Russia, all nations that don't toe the US line, have ALL sent probes around the Moon since the Apollo missions. None of them have stated that Apollo missions were fake. In fact, the Indian probe Chandrayaan-2 which has the highest resolution camera ever sent to the Moon's orbit has released photos it took of two different Apollo landing sites, including Apollo 11. At this point, those calling it fake need to start explaining why competitors and even enemies of USA that would have EVERYTHING to gain from denying Apollo aren't the ones denying it. This is not about whatever inane "you can't see the stars" comments some Apollo deniers make. This is about pure logic. Why would America's enemies and non-allies be obligated to toe the US line on Apollo when they publicly oppose much more important US efforts like in the Ukraine war.
Just remember its fine not to understand something because then you get to learn it but conspiracy theories are a slippery slope of staying ignorant instead of learning more about it since they usally make alot of sense when you dont understand. Here is the real reason the flag blew: "A horisontal rod had been inserted through a hem at the top of the flag, but the astronauts had trouble pulling the telescoping rod all the way out, leading to that rippling effect." This is a very boring and simple answer to most people and definently to someone who has dedicated time to beliving a conspiracy surrounding it so they will claim its all lies and the circus goes on.
To help put the numbers into perspective. 1 billion seconds ago was 1973. 1 quadrillion seconds ago = 32 million years ago. Have fun thinking about how small we are now. :)
He only cited one part of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech. You should check out the whole speech he said about that photo. "Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot." The answer to the question of why has no one gone to the moon since the 12 first people did is simple. There is no need right now. It costs an insane amount of money. We went, we collected samples, did a few missions and there was no need to go again. The only other interest we've had in visiting since then was to land a research craft on the dark side/other side of the moon which an Indian team did achieve recently. That was a huge event which was livestreamed on the news. Every conspiracy question like the flag thing can be answered with a simple google search or a look at these comments.
1:20 don't forget the US had a immense interest in being the first on the moon at the time and 1up the soviets. They had a huge budget at the time and it decreased since then. Few things to consider: 1.) once you have already done it there is much less to gain to do it again. 2.) its much cheaper and more efficent to just send probes and vehicles up there instead of humans. and there are many more reasons why its not yet a common thing to go there with people routinely.
The flag is not actually moving or waving.It's held up by a metal rod that runs through the top of it and connects to the rod that supports on the ground. And in space there is no air.No wind.You do have a sort of wind. There is the solar winds that comes from the sun. As far as it looked like it's waving.That's because it was folded up and it still has the creases in it when they unfolded it. But in a vacuum everything is rigid not flows Like it does hear on earth and manner of speaking.
The American flag was swung not blown due to the movements of the astronauts. It's called Inertia. The astronauts put it in motion with their movements and it stayed in motion. There was no atmospheric pressure to stop it. If you look at the top of the flag itself it's not moving. Everything lower has been swung. Hope this helps.
The point is this, when the moon landing was made, those observed by the Soviet Union and if they had discovered that the moon landing was faked, then the Soviet Union would have immediately screamed.
The movement of the flags on the moon is explained by inertia. The astronauts moved the flags during planting them on the lunar surface, just as a flag or a piece of paper moves when we try that for ourselves right here on earth. The upper part of the flags are kept straight with a horizontal stick. Yet the flags don't move at all.
This reminds me of a cartoon I saw of two guys standing in field looking up at the night sky, and one says to the other "Seeing at all this cosmic wonder and grandeur reminds me of how small and insignificant YOU are."
There might not be any wind on the moon but there's also very little gravity to pull the flag down to the ground. It makes sense that it would be floaty and maybe wavy.
The narrator is like: this is the best photo in history and the best quote of all time is... and you pause it for a rant after he starts the quote. Really?
@@macmanuelodumeru3708 Fair, but anytime someone says something like this is the greatest whatever and wisest quote on any given topic you should know to listen and pay attention. I learned that when I was 5
The moon isnt completely void of gravity. It has less gravity than Earth but its not empty of gravity. So a flag would be able to wave especially right when planted bc of physics. Every movement will have a reaction. Also there could 100% be shadows on the moon depending where you are and where your equipment is located. Rockets are pretty large…
@@Kratatch I more think shit will go wrong with how long a trip would take. Generations have to hold shit together? It would be like Fallout or a random piece of material slams into you doing close to speed of light lol Why didn't we build it with 1001 hulls?!
The takeaway from all this is that we should treasure the Earth, humanity and all life. The fact that we've evolved -- from a single cell organism, to an ape, to a big brained human -- and are capable of understanding our place in the cosmos is nothing short of a miracle. Avoid all doctrines that promote division and violence. We either survive as one or we'll extinguish ourselves.
Even from an evolutionary standpoint, your argument doesn't make sense. It is much better for us to be a collection of nations than one human nation. As long as we can step back from the brink and reign in our extremes, this system offers the best evolutionary advantages. Evolution is all about exploring the solution space for the most optimal path forward. Which obviously means that a larger population size (population of nations in this case) will result in more solutions explored. While I agree that doctrines that promote violence for the sake of violence and promote division for the sake of parochial personal benefits should be shunned, I disagree that we need to let go of war. War has its place in society. It must be respected. And this debate we are having, has been had even 2,500 years ago, to which the texts I am referring to originate from. And if the texts themselves are to be believed, such conversations happened even 5000 years ago.
The flag wasn't just flat against the pole because it had a metal bar threaded through the top to keep it from falling. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were moving the flag to put it up, and, because there's no air resistance on the moon, the flag didn't have anything to slow it down, so it kept moving because Neil and Buzz were moving it.
this happened with the flag at the moon: A flag was designed with a rigid support at the top so that it could be proudly displayed, symbolizing the American presence off Earth. When planted on the surface, it was the vibration that made it wave, not the wind.
2:09 - the flag moved because it was on a pole and the vibrations from the pole when it was planted caused vibrations in the flag fabric, and it kept going because there’s little gravity and no air to make it stop moving for quite a long time. They didn’t have the technology back then to fake the moon landing, but they did have the technology to do explosions and fire and rocketry, the only part they had to figure out out was the precision going away from earth and keeping the people inside it alive, and the much harder part of getting them to rocket back alive.
To answer your early question about how does the flag they planted on the moon look to move around, it's because it's not just a regular flag on a flag pole like you'd see outside someone's house. It's mounted on an L shaped pole so the pole would hold it out, more like a banner than a regular flag. It moves around with the cross bar holding it up is jostled.
I like this video. I find it very entertaining watching video reactions to science by people who didn’t go to middle or upper school (or didn’t listen/understand if they did), so keep it up!
"Do you think they faked the moon landing?" "Aliens in the Egyptian hieroglyphs." Tell me you skipped school without telling me. What the hell is wrong with you people? You saw a spaceship, really? You must be the first. Here's a tip - if you want to be interesting, read a book.
Be kind - they're Americans. They went through an education system that was wrecked years ago by "No child left behind" and is only fit to prepare them for a life of servitude to their corporations and oligarchs.
James Webb telescope has changed some of this as they are finding empty areas and some that are not empty and areas that appear older than the current life of the Universe so there is a lot of math and scrambling going on right now.
To give more perspective, if we sent a message at the speed of light (using a laser I presume) it would take 45 minutes from Jupiter and 5 hours from Pluto and that is still just in our solar system.
Don't listen to the conspiracy theorists. Yes, men have actually walked on the moon. There were too many people involved in the space program (and continue to be involved) yet not ONE has come forward to say it was faked
Let me give you a more convincing argument: USA's enemies like Russia and China and non-allies like India have ALL sent probes to the Moon since Apollo. These three nations are commonly known to oppose USA on things like Ukraine war and the Petrodollar. Things much more important than the Apollo missions in some ways. Yet these three nations do not oppose the American claim of Apollo landings. Infact, don't know about Russians or Chinese, but us Indians have even released photos of Apollo 11 taken by our probe Chandrayaan-2 from Lunar orbit in 2021. And the Apollo descent module can still be seen sitting there in that picture. This explanation doesn't need even a modicum of scientific understanding, just needs a basic understanding of geopolitics. Can someone really justify why Russia, China and India are not calling USA out on Apollo if they are really fake? Maybe that means that they aren't fake after all?
Yes, there is no air in space, but the answer the reason why the flag waved was due to inertia of the planting of the flag and the vibration of the pole. You have to realize that there is very little friction to stop the motion as well.
you guys didnt really seem to notice what he said about there being more stars in the observable universe than what there are grains of sand on the entire earth so let me just put it into perspective for you quickly, imagine you go to a beach, any beach, and you grab a handful of sand, try and comprehend just how many gains of sand there are in just that one handful, you just cant, its too many, and then think about how many handfuls of sand are on the entirety of that beach youre on, and then think about how many beaches there are on the planet, some much bigger than the one youre on, then imagine how many handfuls of sand there are in all of the Earth's deserts, how many handfuls of sand there are in the entirety of the Earth's ocean floors, add all those numbers up together and thats roughly how many stars there are in just the OBSERVABLE universe, which is 150,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times smaller than the ACTUAL universe, with each one being orbited by an average of 5 planets and at least one of that 5 being inhabitable, so in other words, there are also far more inhabitable planets in our universe than there are grains of sand on Earth and people still have the nerve, THE CHEEK to say that Earth is the only planet out there with intelligent life?!?! hell nah not a chance
@@hainleysimpson1507 omg tell me about it, almost every religion on earth besides maybe one or two believe in different gods, religious teachings and practices and yet they don’t have the mental capacity to think “wait, if all these religions are so different then maybe none of them are true”
@2:10 allegedly the moon does have an atmosphere, but its very thin and made of gasses like sodium and potassium and you still need a suit to be there. Its not a total vacuum like space so i could believe that there could be a slight breeze on the moon, but definitely not enough for any real gusts or storms.
hey IM not trying to be an ahole.. :D but how can an adult from a developed country not know for sure if there is air /wind in space or not? :D how is this not basic or common knowledge of the world that u live in..? :D
Many years ago I heard somewhere there is a spacecloud, with the same components as alcohol. So if we get the ability to travel wherever, we need a pit stop alright?
It goes just like regular counting, as in 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., so the numbers (in the US)) you see progress up through (every 3 digits) hundreds, thousands, millions (1, 6 zeros), billions (2, 9 zeros), trillions (3, 12 zeros), quadrillions (4, 15 zeros), quintillions (5, 18 zeros), sextillions (6, 21 zeros), septillions (7, 24 zeros), octillions (8, 27 zeros), nonillions (9, 30 zeros), decillion (10, 33 zeros). The UK, however, uses a slightly different numbering progression.
"The powers of 10" is a video with a similar concept that IBM put out in the 70's it zooms out to the macronthen zooms back into 1x zoom, and goes into the micro realm.
In Ancient Greece, Anaximander suggested “apeiron” referring to how big the universe must be. The Greek word “apeiron” means without limit in time and space, suggesting the universe is boundless. In other words, infinite. This makes perfect sense to me. Since things exist, there must be no limit to existence and existence must be limitless. So I think there’s that the so called “big bang” was the “beginning” of “everything”. Meanwhile, evolutionarily, the odds of us being here, not to mention being here as humans, is unbelievably small, yet here we are. That renders us individually and collectively responsible for consciously choosing to always educating and informing ourselves and each other scientifically and to abandon our archaic, outdated, untrue, primitive superstitions and fairytales and fearmongering. You only fear something if you don’t understand it or don’t know about it. When barrier is crossed, new possibilities open that you likely haven’t even imagined before. Only a few centuries ago we didn’t even know kat if what we know about the universe today. Going back to Ancient Greece which no longer exists, all those great philosophers didn’t know anywhere near what the average person knows today thanks to the enlightenment reformations and the industrial as well as technological revolutions, breakthroughs and discoveries. Back to cosmos, I still think the universe has no beginning or end, and is ultimately exempt from time. So there was never a creation. Only evolution. And we as an ape species are but one amongst possibly countless others that are intelligent enough to compose and comprise entire civilisations, regardless of their levels and scales. And there’s no way any species is the so called “center of the universe”. We just be, and that’s it. Check out my profile entry! (Yes, we DID go to the Moon!)
The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its existence.
Part of me is somewhat upset that we haven't been offered some kind of merging friendship with another sentient alien race. But then I remember that there is more individual planets/stars in the OBSERVABLE universe, than there are grains of sand on the entire earth. Then I start to wonder if the other intelligent life forms are just too far away from us to know that we even exist. I feel as though if one alien race makes contact, they'll have other alien lifeforms that they've collaborated/made alliances with. We'd be greeted by a collective of alien races. Imagine traversing millions of lightyears using only the resources from your planet. If feel as though you'd need cosmic neighbors to integrate their technology and resources together with yours. There could be a collective of dozens, or hundreds of alien races, but maybe they're trillions of light years away from us.
If you look through a powerful enough telescope and look at the right spot, you can see the American rover that drove on the moon, and you could see the moon lander
Incorrect. Keck Telescope: The largest optical wavelength telescope on Earth is the Keck Telescope in Hawaii, which has a diameter of 10 meters. In comparison, the Hubble Space Telescope (which is in space) has a diameter of only 2.4 meters. To resolve details as small as the lunar rovers (which have a length of 3.1 meters), we would need a telescope with a whopping 75-meter diameter
@@UltraCasualPenguin they never said anything at all about not landing on the moon. All they’re saying is that the lunar equipment is too small to see with any earth based telescope. We do have pictures of the lunar lander, but they’re all from satellites orbiting the moon, not on earth.
Theres no air thats why the flag stayed with wrinckles forever. In fact is more a badly deployed curtain than a flag. Thats the reason why astronauts had to extent it as a curtain along a horizontal pole on top of it. Otherwise it would have fallen so nobody could have seen it.
When discussing "life" in other parts of the Universe, it doesn't mean human-like forms. It means any "life" such as bacteria or organisms. Which has not yet been found.
As someone who watched the original event on tv and has been to NASA to see the last of the Saturn5 rockets. It was the height of the Cold War and it was definitely a race between the free people and the Russians.
Ugh, we haven't been back to the moon since Apollo/Saturn V days because it is freaking expensive. The bit about the flag waving on the moon is because the astronauts were planting the pole into the surface. Once they were done the flag didn't wave. Didn't you watch it? I did!
SEXTILLION has 2 definitions US/GB noun. , plural sex·til·lions, (as after a numeral) sex·til·lion. a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 21 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 36 zeros.
To answer the question about other planets that humans have traveled to, no, not yet. We have sent people to the moon, and there are plans to send people back to the moon before the end of this decade. They are also in the planning phases to prepare manned missions to Mars, but I think they are shooting for some time around 2070. There is actually a form a person can fill out to put their name on a list to be considered for simulated training. I believe it is on the official NASA website and the training is a year (or possibly longer). There are several criteria that a person must meet to be considered though.
Here's a thought, what if those aliens are actually us. We made it off planet before an extinction event, but the ones left behind didn't all die off. We are the descendants of those survivors. We lost all knowledge of our past because of the need to survive. Like I said, just a thought. Lol
Any advanced civilization who has evolved centuries beyond our technology, has already discovered hyperdrive, and is able to jump the distance to explore any region they want to...idk if that'll ever be possible for earth, but we may not be around to see it become reality.
What is really crazy is how big is the actual universe?! According to that formula, the universe is 150 sextillion times larger than the observable universe. However, it is expanding outwards into what? An endless emptiness that stretches beyond imagination!
Oh and also i like how yall were saying its naive not to believe aliens are possible, while comfortably saying "I saw something, i did not know what it was, so therefor, i know what it was" thats what people say when they saw a 'spaceship', they say they saw soemthign that they coudnt explain, and despite previously admitting they didnt know what it was they assumed it was 'definitely' something alien, which is naive and a very biased way of thinking. Just lettin you know
8:55 Thats more like 0.000000000000000000001% No, Im not joking. I might have put in +/- 1 or 2 zeroes but its still, at the very least, about a *_quintillion_* times closer than your estiamte 🤣
To answer your last question first: No, no person has landed on any other body than the moon. Many probes have landed on different planets in the solar system. I very important distinction to be made regarding aliens is this: Almost everyone believes that aliens likely exist somewhere out there, I think you would be hard pressed in this day and age and with the information we have now to find anyone who doesn't think that given the sheer size. My mother is hardcore religious and she still thinks that god made other lifeforms out there in the cosmos. The distinction is whether or not those aliens have visited earth, which (unless they live inside our solar system) is extremely improbable. These are two wildly different statements with wildly different circumstances, when I say I don't think that aliens have visited earth, I don't mean I don't think that aliens exist in the cosmos, that I'm sure of. It's a strange paradox where people go "Look at how insanely vast space is there must be aliens" then due to the sheer immensity, humans really have no concept of how big that actually is and in our minds we shrink it down to "aliens must be next door". We have yet to find a technosignature or even a valid biosignature of any kind in all of our searching and combing through the small bit of the night sky that we can read, this is likely the case for other civilizations out there. "Look at how tiny our planet is" "Aliens must be able to find it easily.." The only way we have detected so many exoplanets around other stars is by observing the dimming and brightening of stars and their wobbles, which indicates planets around them, we can't even see them. If they have the technology enough to actually be able to even find us, and actually be able to viably travel the insane distance, do you think they would want to? Would I go out of my way to buy a plane ticket, fly half way across the world just to look at a particular ant bed?
I believe in extraterrestrial life, but I don’t really think they would have a reason in that massively vast universe to come here, and I don’t think they would even know we’re here. It’s possible that we are the most advanced civilization in the universe as well. I think as far as the pyramids go, that it is actually more plausible that humanity actually used to be a much more advanced civilization than historians believe we were, and that advanced civilization fell, and was lost to history (like an apocalyptic event).
Our atmosphere is very very very unique we live in what is called the goldilocks zone of our solar system it is almost impossible for there to be any life on extraterrestrial planets other than possibly microorganisms or single cell organism you should do some research on your own time to get a grasp on just how lucky we are where we are in our solar so many factors play into why we are able to survive here on an ever changing planet
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Bear in mind that there are many things that were left on the surface of the moon that can be seen from earth, including a "mirror" that, to this day, is used as a way to measure the precise distance between the earth and the moon. A powerful laser is targeted at that reflector where it is bounced back to the earth; the time it takes for the round trip provides a very accurate measurement of the distance between the two bodies.
That mirror can't be seen😂 you need a scope the size of earth to see that. You are right about the laser but it can't be seen. Nothing humans left there can be seen from earth.
@@viking_nor The larger items, like the moon rover, can be seen with a telescope.
@@mikebarcus5149no, you still wouldn’t be able to, proof?
@@alex_dapro4923 Though there are no optical telescopes that have the resolution needed to spot the largest objects left on the moon (the landers), radar imaging has captured images of the surface of the moon with a resolution of 16 feet, so it is likely that we could get (rough) images of the landers if we cared to try.
@@alex_dapro4923 India's orbiter around the moon has taken photos of the lander, you can look them up. The LRO has also taken images of the landers remains
We went 100% to the moon. No doubt.
btw: The flag wiggled, because flags wiggle when moved - regardless of wind.
No human was ever on the Moon. No doubt.
@@Notir072 your evidence?
@@MarkusUbl i agree with you. I think the flags wiggled because putting them in as they did it gave it momentum which also acts differently on the moon as it would on earth. There are a million of things in physics that contradicts our intuition but when we actually deeply investigate it all makes sense.
@@Notir072 your silence is deafening
@@sadgfasdg542 Some years back I went to the KSC in Florida, and they had an exact replica of the flag there. They told us that the flag appeared to move because it had some kind of copper thing in the pole that allowed it to rotate freely. It pretty much gave off the illusion that the flag was moving on it's own.
Hey guys! I think it's absurd to think we didn't send men to the moon. Probably the same people that say the earth has to be flat because if earth was round, people on the opposite side of the planet would fall off into space. 😅
It's flat.
@@garyrichardson3309 Ancient Greeks have proven the curvature 2500 years ago and were not that much off, when it came to circumference. With two sticks, placed far enough apart.
Nowadays, an average elementary school kid should be able to realize, how easy is to test this by yourself with cheap tools you can buy online :D
@@garyrichardson3309 much like the surface of your brain
I think we've been to the moon, but I don't think it was when we were told. I think our government wanted to claim victory over Russia and they were afraid Russia was ahead of us so the US government lied.
Who says earth is flat its like oval shapped similar to an egg
The moment she asked if man actually went to the moon I knew we were dealing with unserious reactors. The lack of science literacy is so depressing in the young today; they really aren't very bright. Sad
yeah bro they have to know more about astronomy
Brain rot TikTok era. We have access to basically all human knowledge with the invention of the internet…and yet people are somehow getting dumber and dumber.
@@mironahmed4332 that made me laugh honestly
She asked questions. At least better than being indifferent. We aren't dealing with total ignorance here.
Lmao your girls logic at 0:39 😂. She can’t be serious lol
Trillions, Quadrillions, Quintillions, Sextillions.... numbers the human brain can barely express
I've always tried to comprehend the idea of more stars than grains of sand on Earth. Imagine trying to count every grain in a handful of sand. Then thinking of just one area, like a desert or beach is already unimaginable, and that's still just a tiny fraction!
It would need 250 years to count loud to 1 billion;)
@@sapereaude7115 And then someone would come along, half way through, interrupting you so you lose count and have to start all over!
@@RogCBrand 😅👌
It's not that difficult.
Million: 10⁶
Milliard: 10⁹
Billion: 10¹²
Billiard: 10¹⁵
Trillion: 10¹⁸
Trilliard: 10²¹
Quadrillion: 10²⁴
Quintillion: 10³⁰
Sextillion: 10³⁶
There is a stick holding the flag. In the footage, the flag never blows in the wind because there is no wind. It only moves when the astronaut moves it by hand.
Edit: atmosphere different from galaxy to galaxy? There is just too much wrong here.
The American flag that was placed on the moon was on a pole to keep it "fully open" at all times. So it wouldn't drape down. So it was springy and bounced easily. So everytime they moved it it would bounce back and forth. There is no wind due to the lack of a substantial atmosphere. And as far as not seeing millions of stars from the moon surface is also due in part to the lack of atmosphere. And the so called lighting and shadows are due to the Lunar Lander's lights shining on the area for the astronaut. I watched every flight to the moon growing up and was glued to the television to watch them walk on the moon. Why would America spend millions and millions of dollars to build a rocket, and launch it for nothing? Why pay thousands of people who built and worked on the Lunar missions and not really send astronauts into space and the moon. Don't bother talking about those "conspiracy theories." Research it yourselves and you will understand what had to actually go into sending people to the moon. It's one of mans greatest achievements. And I'm proud of our astronauts and the people who worked so hard on accomplishing the dream we had back then. Astronauts sacrificed and died getting us to the moon.
@@mimiv3088 Also, we were in competition with the Soviets and they would have been happy to show evidence of it being fake.
You're wasting energy, they didn't know space has no air.
@@Kenneth_James LOL! The sad thing is, that should be a joke, but I'm sure in some cases it's true.
I saw where Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, during the eclipse, was talking to a group of 4th graders about how the moon was made up of gases and she was wondering if humans could live there, as well as some other really bizarre stuff! And that's someone making major decisions that effect all our lives!
@@Kenneth_James No he doesnt waste his energy, as long they want to learn. You also didnt started with knowledge when you were born.
1:20 "Do you think it's true that people have actually walked the moon?"
It is true. The technology was not only capable at the time, but also all of the science checks out. The only way it could be more obvious is if they told you where on the moon to aim the telescope to find the landing site.
1:38 "Are they still doing it currently?"
If you're interested, you should keep up to date on it. They are currently trying to get back there, but Nasa isn't as well funded anymore and they are trying to make sure to do it more safely. It's honestly just as hard now as it was back then because of those two factors alone.
1:48 "I came across a conspiracy theory that... I think there's no air or wind in space... You know when they were holding the American flag? It was moving, but there's no air in space."
First, it's not entirely accurate that there is no air in space. It's just so scarce and spread out that there might as well be none as far as we're concerned. For the purposes of this, though, no there isn't. Second, the flag was moving due to the fact that the astronauts were moving the flag. If you are holding a flag and moving it around, even without air, it's going to move due to being attached to the pole you're moving and friction and kinetic energy and what ever else. It doesn't have to be blown by the wind. The way the flag moved was not waving or billowing, it was shifting at best.
3:26 "It is currently located 138 AUs from Earth."
It's definitely farther away by now.
4:17 "Earth is a very small planet."
It's not really that small. There are planets that are larger, most of which are gas giants, but many are also smaller than Earth. We usually find the bigger ones because they are easier to find, being so big. We only recently got the technology to find smaller ones, and they are still almost impossible to see. In terms of possible sizes for terrestrial worlds, Earth is about average.
4:37 "Bare in mind how many universes and galaxies there are."
I'm sure you must have misspoke, but I just wanted to make sure you know that there is only one universe. There are a lot of galaxies, though.
4:47 "I believe in aliens."
Absolutely. With how big the universe is, there's no way that aliens don't exist. They don't have to even be intelligent like we are. When you consider the thought that they could be like dogs or frogs or even germs, the chances that aliens don't exist is practically zero.
4:56 "I think it's in the hieroglyphs and the pyramids as well, no? That the aliens helped them to build the pyramids."
First, that's not giving humanity much credit. It is very possible, even most likely, that humanity built the pyramids on their own. We simply lost the knowledge of how they did it. We also don't really know how to read hieroglyphs, so anyone saying that's what they say happened is making things up based on what it looks like to them. Second, there is absolutely no evidence that aliens have ever visited the Earth. It would be nearly impossible for them to even know that we're here, nearly impossible for them to get here by now (let alone back then) if they did know we're here, and whatever technology they used to get them here by this time would have to put out so much energy to stop before hitting us that it would destroy us anyway.
5:09 "I definitely saw a spaceship when I was parked at mom's house ... that was definitely not a plane."
You can't actually know that. All you know is that you saw something in the sky that you didn't recognize. Humanity makes aircraft in secret that look alien to the present day all of the time. It was most likely either a plane that you saw or some other air vehicle that was developed by humanity that you simply didn't recognize.
7:04 "You need to give birth to new drivers on the way ... and then when you die from age that baby takes over. For many generations."
You are being incredibly optimistic there. You're talking about a minimum of 70,000 years travel time. Humanity is 200,000 years old. By the time those people got there, they probably wouldn't be recognizable as human beings anymore. At the moment, such a feat is unrealistic. At best, you'll have the later generations evolved to life in space and most not caring about the destination or about Earth because life in space is all they know.
9:12 "I'm assuming the atmosphere will be different from galaxy to galaxy, and even outside the galaxy."
Galaxies don't have atmospheres. What are you even trying to say here?
11:04 "I knew we were small, but I didn't realize it was this bad."
Yeah, it's a lot for anyone to take in. When anyone watches this video, it's always mind-blowing just how big the universe is compared to us. It really gives you a new perspective on everything.
12:47 "I didn't even know sextillion was a thing!"
Yes, and there are larger numbers than that. The largest number we have ever dared to name is a googolplex, which we calculate is the age of the universe when it finally dies from heat death. That, by the way, is a number that can only be expressed by name, because even if you put a 0 on every particle in the universe, you'd run out of particles before you ran out of 0s in that number. It's simply too big to actually write out. A sextillion is far easier to imagine.
12:50 "Is that beyond trillions?"
Way beyond trillions. You'll see in a moment, but to tell you what's in between, after trillion is quadrillion, then quintillion, then sextillion.
14:01 "I know we've done the moon, ... have we done other planets as well? I don't know if anyone landed on any other planets."
Nobody has ever landed on any other planets. We have sent probes to all of them and put rovers and a helicopter on Mars, but no actual people yet. Getting people out to other planets is a lot harder than getting them to the moon, but they're working on it.
14:17 "But then, like the commentator said, will human kind still exist by then?" "We don't know. Same way the dinosaurs got wiped out."
The dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteor hitting the Earth. That's completely different from humanity not existing after a long period of time, because by then we'd change due to evolution and probably not be human beings anymore. Also, the commentator didn't say anything about us not existing long enough to see humanity set foot on other worlds or leave the solar system. He only said that humanity is not eternal, but even if it was, there would still be places that we will never be able to visit or even know about. Unless we found a work-around to the speed of light, anyway, which isn't likely.
14:34 "The future generation will know for us."
No, they will know for themselves. After we're all dead, we can't benefit from what the future learns. They can only benefit from what we've learned. The arrow of time only moves in one direction.
EDIT: I almost forgot to mention that there are only two things in the video you watched that I don't like. They are trying to give you the ability to conceptualize the size and scale of everything, but they don't tell you what the distance between the Earth and the sun actually is (about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) on average) and they don't tell you the size of Pluto for reference to the light bulb (Pluto is a little more than half the size of our moon).
I really hope they see this comment because holy cow, they’ve got a lot to learn😂😂
It would have been harder to fake than actually being real.
shut up MORE ON..my Father designed and built the explosive bolts that separated the modules on the Saturn 5.........you can go see one at the front gate of NASA in Houston chipmunk........and if you think you could keep a secret that big from the public when 500,000 people were working on it...and the nation was spending 5 % of the GDP on the project, did they FAKE the launches too?..obviously they built something that looked like it went really really fast...like maybe to the moon...geeesshhh its amazing humans as you exist that are so clueless.....wow.
Well if they couldn't get back to earth, they would have to. Believing nobody ever got stuck there is probably more crazy.
youre dumb af almost everything you said was false or hearsay
The flag waved because of the kinetic energy that was put into the flag by moving the flag. Because there is no air resistance there is nothing to stop the flag from continuing to flap. "The law of conservation of energy" explains that. Newton's 1st law of motion - "An object in motion will stay in motion until another force acts upon it"
These people really don't understand structural dynamics. Look at the ISS, vibrations are a critical part of the design because there is no matter around it to damp the vibrations. All that energy needs to be dissipated within the structure itself.
It is like the folks who expect space to be "cold." It is not cold in the same manner as people think. Because there is no matter, two modes of heat dissipation: conduction and convection, that work on Earth, don't work in space. You can only rely on radiation to shed heat. And if you can't shed heat, you are done for because the heat sinks we take for granted on Earth is not a luxury we have in space. I have this gripe with almost all Sci-Fi spaceship designs as well. Where are the radiators? Unless they have some exotic endothermic fuel or heat sink, which again, they don't ever explain.
Obviously trying to explain in what way exactly is space "cold" would entail explaining the fact that "temperature" and the concept of "hot and cold" is a result of statistical averaging of microscopic phenomena. But Statistical Thermodynamics is beyond the scope of most individuals, so they can't easily grasp it. I consider this a failure on the part of science communicators and teachers who make all these documentaries and babble off comments that might make sense to folks like us, but to the uninitiated, are misleading.
@@death_parade im not a big fan of us politics but the whole moon landing conspiracy is so dumb...all of their "points" got debuked decades ago and to this day they still just repeat the same lame arguments without "doing their research" and finding out why their so called proofs are all well explained.
The Mythbusters did a great episode destroying many of the conspiracy theories about the moon landing.
Myth busters is another satanic elite funded operation like all popular shows. They deceive you everyday by appearing official.
thats a publicized video on cable give me a break..if they went to the moon how did nasa lose all the technology to do so now? where technology is more advanced than the 60's 70's
It is statistically apparent that there may be billions of places in the Universe that support some form of life, but the probability that any of them have advanced to the level of interstellar space travel and ventured so far out as to find out tiny planet and visit it in a space ship is like finding a needle in a billion haystacks each the size of our sun. And even if they did this some how, why? We are not that interesting except to ourselves. If you don't believe me, watch how my cat ignores me every day.
Truth. ✌❤
“An ant doesn’t have any quarrels with a boot” -Loki
“So are you planning to step on us?” -Nick fury
Only difference is? We don’t have superhero’s
It is entirely possible that life is more common in the universe than we think. There could be a trillion needles hidden inside a billion haystacks. Or there could be one needle in the haystack but the alien population is 1000000x more than the population of earth, or they could be 1000000x more technologically advanced thanks to their evolution having a few million years head start on us. We don't even have enough information yet to rule out the existence of life in our closest neighboring star systems.
Lol...no doubt.
@@scotthill1600 the other difference is that unlike in fictional stories like the MCU, Earth is nothing special in this universe and the only reason an interstellar civilization would go to war with us is to eliminate any potential competition, not to claim resources here which exist in extreme abundance everywhere else
We went to the moon. The flag moving was caused by the Astronaut moving it back and forth into the ground.
I bet the conspiracy theories will make you think more
Aside from all the criticism of the video, even if the US faked the video for PR purposes, it wouldn't prove that they weren't on the moon...
That's the part the conspiracy theorists forget. The possibility, that they reached the moon but couldn't broadcast live, so they gave us "a visual aid".
Which would be much more reasonable than assuming everything was faked, but conspiracy theorists are rarely reasonable.
But I believe the material has been vetted sufficiently to be able to say that it's more likely to be real than for nasa scientists having it faked to a degree that can't be debunked half a century later.
With all due respect to you guys people need to stop asking if the moon landings are real or not. It's such a stupid question in this day and age
it is fake
@@JusTRandoM1993 You're fake
@@JusTRandoM1993 India, China, Russia, all nations that don't toe the US line, have ALL sent probes around the Moon since the Apollo missions. None of them have stated that Apollo missions were fake. In fact, the Indian probe Chandrayaan-2 which has the highest resolution camera ever sent to the Moon's orbit has released photos it took of two different Apollo landing sites, including Apollo 11.
At this point, those calling it fake need to start explaining why competitors and even enemies of USA that would have EVERYTHING to gain from denying Apollo aren't the ones denying it. This is not about whatever inane "you can't see the stars" comments some Apollo deniers make. This is about pure logic. Why would America's enemies and non-allies be obligated to toe the US line on Apollo when they publicly oppose much more important US efforts like in the Ukraine war.
@@JusTRandoM1993 really? Because I have seen the landing site with my own eyes. Advantages of having an astronomer in the neighborhood.
@@hlessiavedonlowkey a hard flex
Just remember its fine not to understand something because then you get to learn it but conspiracy theories are a slippery slope of staying ignorant instead of learning more about it since they usally make alot of sense when you dont understand.
Here is the real reason the flag blew:
"A horisontal rod had been inserted through a hem at the top of the flag, but the astronauts had trouble pulling the telescoping rod all the way out, leading to that rippling effect."
This is a very boring and simple answer to most people and definently to someone who has dedicated time to beliving a conspiracy surrounding it so they will claim its all lies and the circus goes on.
To help put the numbers into perspective. 1 billion seconds ago was 1973. 1 quadrillion seconds ago = 32 million years ago. Have fun thinking about how small we are now. :)
He only cited one part of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech. You should check out the whole speech he said about that photo. "Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot."
The answer to the question of why has no one gone to the moon since the 12 first people did is simple. There is no need right now. It costs an insane amount of money. We went, we collected samples, did a few missions and there was no need to go again. The only other interest we've had in visiting since then was to land a research craft on the dark side/other side of the moon which an Indian team did achieve recently. That was a huge event which was livestreamed on the news.
Every conspiracy question like the flag thing can be answered with a simple google search or a look at these comments.
1:20 don't forget the US had a immense interest in being the first on the moon at the time and 1up the soviets. They had a huge budget at the time and it decreased since then. Few things to consider: 1.) once you have already done it there is much less to gain to do it again. 2.) its much cheaper and more efficent to just send probes and vehicles up there instead of humans. and there are many more reasons why its not yet a common thing to go there with people routinely.
The flag is not actually moving or waving.It's held up by a metal rod that runs through the top of it and connects to the rod that supports on the ground. And in space there is no air.No wind.You do have a sort of wind. There is the solar winds that comes from the sun. As far as it looked like it's waving.That's because it was folded up and it still has the creases in it when they unfolded it. But in a vacuum everything is rigid not flows Like it does hear on earth and manner of speaking.
The American flag was swung not blown due to the movements of the astronauts. It's called Inertia. The astronauts put it in motion with their movements and it stayed in motion. There was no atmospheric pressure to stop it. If you look at the top of the flag itself it's not moving. Everything lower has been swung. Hope this helps.
Yup, as a 12 year ols its so crazy to see it and im not even that suprised cause as a 12 year old that loves abiut space
1:23 *epic facepalm*
I stopped watching the video at that point.
The point is this, when the moon landing was made, those observed by the Soviet Union and if they had discovered that the moon landing was faked, then the Soviet Union would have immediately screamed.
The movement of the flags on the moon is explained by inertia. The astronauts moved the flags during planting them on the lunar surface, just as a flag or a piece of paper moves when we try that for ourselves right here on earth. The upper part of the flags are kept straight with a horizontal stick. Yet the flags don't move at all.
This reminds me of a cartoon I saw of two guys standing in field looking up at the night sky, and one says to the other "Seeing at all this cosmic wonder and grandeur reminds me of how small and insignificant YOU are."
There might not be any wind on the moon but there's also very little gravity to pull the flag down to the ground. It makes sense that it would be floaty and maybe wavy.
The narrator is like: this is the best photo in history and the best quote of all time is... and you pause it for a rant after he starts the quote. Really?
Thank you !
They didn't understand what they were watching
@@macmanuelodumeru3708 Fair, but anytime someone says something like this is the greatest whatever and wisest quote on any given topic you should know to listen and pay attention. I learned that when I was 5
@@Brian_Combs I wasn't defending them. I was also annoyed by that, made me click off the video
timelaps of the future ...and the life beyond series 1,2,3, this will totally blow your minds 100%
This feels like it is a bit too far out of your wheelhouse
The moon isnt completely void of gravity. It has less gravity than Earth but its not empty of gravity. So a flag would be able to wave especially right when planted bc of physics. Every movement will have a reaction. Also there could 100% be shadows on the moon depending where you are and where your equipment is located. Rockets are pretty large…
The EIFFEL TOWER🤣🤣
Until we can break physics and time we will never visit other galaxies lol
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Well, we might. But the ones leaving wont be the ones arriving.
@@Kratatch I more think shit will go wrong with how long a trip would take. Generations have to hold shit together? It would be like Fallout or a random piece of material slams into you doing close to speed of light lol Why didn't we build it with 1001 hulls?!
The takeaway from all this is that we should treasure the Earth, humanity and all life. The fact that we've evolved -- from a single cell organism, to an ape, to a big brained human -- and are capable of understanding our place in the cosmos is nothing short of a miracle. Avoid all doctrines that promote division and violence. We either survive as one or we'll extinguish ourselves.
What are you waffling about apes😂😂😂😂
Even from an evolutionary standpoint, your argument doesn't make sense. It is much better for us to be a collection of nations than one human nation. As long as we can step back from the brink and reign in our extremes, this system offers the best evolutionary advantages. Evolution is all about exploring the solution space for the most optimal path forward. Which obviously means that a larger population size (population of nations in this case) will result in more solutions explored.
While I agree that doctrines that promote violence for the sake of violence and promote division for the sake of parochial personal benefits should be shunned, I disagree that we need to let go of war. War has its place in society. It must be respected. And this debate we are having, has been had even 2,500 years ago, to which the texts I am referring to originate from. And if the texts themselves are to be believed, such conversations happened even 5000 years ago.
The flag wasn't just flat against the pole because it had a metal bar threaded through the top to keep it from falling. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were moving the flag to put it up, and, because there's no air resistance on the moon, the flag didn't have anything to slow it down, so it kept moving because Neil and Buzz were moving it.
The man who took the photo of the earth rising over the moon just passed, 6/24.
this happened with the flag at the moon: A flag was designed with a rigid support at the top so that it could be proudly displayed, symbolizing the American presence off Earth. When planted on the surface, it was the vibration that made it wave, not the wind.
2:09 - the flag moved because it was on a pole and the vibrations from the pole when it was planted caused vibrations in the flag fabric, and it kept going because there’s little gravity and no air to make it stop moving for quite a long time. They didn’t have the technology back then to fake the moon landing, but they did have the technology to do explosions and fire and rocketry, the only part they had to figure out out was the precision going away from earth and keeping the people inside it alive, and the much harder part of getting them to rocket back alive.
Other one was when flag was standing still and astronaut jumped front of it the flag moved..
Those conspiracies are just the most dumb ever, like the one about pyramids, every historician dies inside everytime someone says it 😂
To answer your early question about how does the flag they planted on the moon look to move around, it's because it's not just a regular flag on a flag pole like you'd see outside someone's house. It's mounted on an L shaped pole so the pole would hold it out, more like a banner than a regular flag. It moves around with the cross bar holding it up is jostled.
More people have walked on the moon than have scored on Mariano Rivera in the post season. He has 141 innings pitched in the post season.
I like this video. I find it very entertaining watching video reactions to science by people who didn’t go to middle or upper school (or didn’t listen/understand if they did), so keep it up!
7:05 dude you nailed it. Its honestly amazing, sad, and deep. I can imagine a whole movie about it 🤣🤣
"Do you think they faked the moon landing?"
"Aliens in the Egyptian hieroglyphs."
Tell me you skipped school without telling me. What the hell is wrong with you people?
You saw a spaceship, really? You must be the first. Here's a tip - if you want to be interesting, read a book.
Maybe they think that History Channel is about actual history 😅
Sadly it stopped being such a decade or two ago 😠
The truth is that they really faked it. No doubt.
Be kind - they're Americans. They went through an education system that was wrecked years ago by "No child left behind" and is only fit to prepare them for a life of servitude to their corporations and oligarchs.
James Webb telescope has changed some of this as they are finding empty areas and some that are not empty and areas that appear older than the current life of the Universe so there is a lot of math and scrambling going on right now.
To give more perspective, if we sent a message at the speed of light (using a laser I presume) it would take 45 minutes from Jupiter and 5 hours from Pluto and that is still just in our solar system.
Don't listen to the conspiracy theorists. Yes, men have actually walked on the moon. There were too many people involved in the space program (and continue to be involved) yet not ONE has come forward to say it was faked
Let me give you a more convincing argument: USA's enemies like Russia and China and non-allies like India have ALL sent probes to the Moon since Apollo. These three nations are commonly known to oppose USA on things like Ukraine war and the Petrodollar. Things much more important than the Apollo missions in some ways. Yet these three nations do not oppose the American claim of Apollo landings.
Infact, don't know about Russians or Chinese, but us Indians have even released photos of Apollo 11 taken by our probe Chandrayaan-2 from Lunar orbit in 2021. And the Apollo descent module can still be seen sitting there in that picture. This explanation doesn't need even a modicum of scientific understanding, just needs a basic understanding of geopolitics. Can someone really justify why Russia, China and India are not calling USA out on Apollo if they are really fake? Maybe that means that they aren't fake after all?
A scale model of our Solar System where one inch equals 1,000,000 miles, the distance from the Sun to Pluto is 106 yards.
Yes, there is no air in space, but the answer the reason why the flag waved was due to inertia of the planting of the flag and the vibration of the pole. You have to realize that there is very little friction to stop the motion as well.
you guys didnt really seem to notice what he said about there being more stars in the observable universe than what there are grains of sand on the entire earth so let me just put it into perspective for you quickly, imagine you go to a beach, any beach, and you grab a handful of sand, try and comprehend just how many gains of sand there are in just that one handful, you just cant, its too many, and then think about how many handfuls of sand are on the entirety of that beach youre on, and then think about how many beaches there are on the planet, some much bigger than the one youre on, then imagine how many handfuls of sand there are in all of the Earth's deserts, how many handfuls of sand there are in the entirety of the Earth's ocean floors, add all those numbers up together and thats roughly how many stars there are in just the OBSERVABLE universe, which is 150,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times smaller than the ACTUAL universe, with each one being orbited by an average of 5 planets and at least one of that 5 being inhabitable, so in other words, there are also far more inhabitable planets in our universe than there are grains of sand on Earth and people still have the nerve, THE CHEEK to say that Earth is the only planet out there with intelligent life?!?! hell nah not a chance
Those people believe in gods. They say gods are beyond human comprehension yet say they know their god personally.
@@hainleysimpson1507 omg tell me about it, almost every religion on earth besides maybe one or two believe in different gods, religious teachings and practices and yet they don’t have the mental capacity to think “wait, if all these religions are so different then maybe none of them are true”
allmost stopped watching after you talked about the fake moon landiing, how has it come to this?
@2:10 allegedly the moon does have an atmosphere, but its very thin and made of gasses like sodium and potassium and you still need a suit to be there. Its not a total vacuum like space so i could believe that there could be a slight breeze on the moon, but definitely not enough for any real gusts or storms.
hey IM not trying to be an ahole.. :D but how can an adult from a developed country not know for sure if there is air /wind in space or not? :D how is this not basic or common knowledge of the world that u live in..? :D
Many years ago I heard somewhere there is a spacecloud, with the same components as alcohol. So if we get the ability to travel wherever, we need a pit stop alright?
The flag on the moon was positioned onto an upside down L shaped flagpole so the flag is spread out for display when it was planted on the moon.
If nobody has walked on the moon yet, they'd be racing to do so now.
Its my belief after 78 years here that we are the ancient ones who will begin colonization of the galaxy.
It goes just like regular counting, as in 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., so the numbers (in the US)) you see progress up through (every 3 digits) hundreds, thousands, millions (1, 6 zeros), billions (2, 9 zeros), trillions (3, 12 zeros), quadrillions (4, 15 zeros), quintillions (5, 18 zeros), sextillions (6, 21 zeros), septillions (7, 24 zeros), octillions (8, 27 zeros), nonillions (9, 30 zeros), decillion (10, 33 zeros). The UK, however, uses a slightly different numbering progression.
Not just the UK, many other countries too.
@@DarkSun123456789 Yeah, I'm just not familiar enough with OTHER countries' numerical systems to weigh in on that.
2:11 heres the answer. NO!, the moon landing was not fake, NO! the flag looks like its moving, but there is clearly a stick helping it to move.
"The powers of 10" is a video with a similar concept that IBM put out in the 70's it zooms out to the macronthen zooms back into 1x zoom, and goes into the micro realm.
The ocean is way deeper than yoju think is a good vid too!
In Ancient Greece, Anaximander suggested “apeiron” referring to how big the universe must be. The Greek word “apeiron” means without limit in time and space, suggesting the universe is boundless. In other words, infinite. This makes perfect sense to me. Since things exist, there must be no limit to existence and existence must be limitless. So I think there’s that the so called “big bang” was the “beginning” of “everything”. Meanwhile, evolutionarily, the odds of us being here, not to mention being here as humans, is unbelievably small, yet here we are. That renders us individually and collectively responsible for consciously choosing to always educating and informing ourselves and each other scientifically and to abandon our archaic, outdated, untrue, primitive superstitions and fairytales and fearmongering. You only fear something if you don’t understand it or don’t know about it. When barrier is crossed, new possibilities open that you likely haven’t even imagined before. Only a few centuries ago we didn’t even know kat if what we know about the universe today. Going back to Ancient Greece which no longer exists, all those great philosophers didn’t know anywhere near what the average person knows today thanks to the enlightenment reformations and the industrial as well as technological revolutions, breakthroughs and discoveries.
Back to cosmos, I still think the universe has no beginning or end, and is ultimately exempt from time. So there was never a creation. Only evolution. And we as an ape species are but one amongst possibly countless others that are intelligent enough to compose and comprise entire civilisations, regardless of their levels and scales. And there’s no way any species is the so called “center of the universe”. We just be, and that’s it.
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(Yes, we DID go to the Moon!)
To answer your question, the powers of 1000 go in numerical order. million, bi(2)llion, tri(3)llion, quad(4)illion, quint(5)illion etc.
The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its existence.
Little knowledge is dangerous 😂
Part of me is somewhat upset that we haven't been offered some kind of merging friendship with another sentient alien race. But then I remember that there is more individual planets/stars in the OBSERVABLE universe, than there are grains of sand on the entire earth. Then I start to wonder if the other intelligent life forms are just too far away from us to know that we even exist.
I feel as though if one alien race makes contact, they'll have other alien lifeforms that they've collaborated/made alliances with. We'd be greeted by a collective of alien races. Imagine traversing millions of lightyears using only the resources from your planet. If feel as though you'd need cosmic neighbors to integrate their technology and resources together with yours. There could be a collective of dozens, or hundreds of alien races, but maybe they're trillions of light years away from us.
The Drake Equation is a fun thought experiment on the probability of life on other planets.
Listening to her ignorance of scientific facts makes me sad.
The flag moved because there was a metal rod at the top of the flag and the flag was made of thin nylon.
Everyone getting mad about her asking questions lol, thats what Science is all about folks!! Great reaction btw :)
If you look through a powerful enough telescope and look at the right spot, you can see the American rover that drove on the moon, and you could see the moon lander
Incorrect. Keck Telescope: The largest optical wavelength telescope on Earth is the Keck Telescope in Hawaii, which has a diameter of 10 meters. In comparison, the Hubble Space Telescope (which is in space) has a diameter of only 2.4 meters. To resolve details as small as the lunar rovers (which have a length of 3.1 meters), we would need a telescope with a whopping 75-meter diameter
@@timothynorman6412 If you think humans have never landed on moon how did reflectors get there?
@@UltraCasualPenguin they never said anything at all about not landing on the moon. All they’re saying is that the lunar equipment is too small to see with any earth based telescope. We do have pictures of the lunar lander, but they’re all from satellites orbiting the moon, not on earth.
“An ant doesn’t have any quarrels with a boot” -Loki
“So are you planning to step on us?” -Nick fury
Only difference is? We don’t have superhero’s
It goes...million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, and then sextillion
the septillion, decillion, duodecillion.. (ANYTHING BEYOND THIS POINT IS EDITED) Tredecillion, quattuordecillion and idk
on the moon there is solar wind and the flag was more rigid than your typical flag as solar wind only slightly moves stuff
13:01 well it's basically the 6th -illion number, you have million, billion, trillion,...... and then sextillion
Theres no air thats why the flag stayed with wrinckles forever. In fact is more a badly deployed curtain than a flag. Thats the reason why astronauts had to extent it as a curtain along a horizontal pole on top of it. Otherwise it would have fallen so nobody could have seen it.
this is how school should be instead of sitting inside all day long listening to someone that you not like talk
When discussing "life" in other parts of the Universe, it doesn't mean human-like forms. It means any "life" such as bacteria or organisms. Which has not yet been found.
Well, we haven’t been anywhere really, but I’d argue that is literally impossible that there’s no life at all elsewhere.
There are at least 2 trillion galaxies and you can only think of micro organisms? Talk about extremely closed minded.
Please react to "Timelapse of the future: A journey to the end of time"
As someone who watched the original event on tv and has been to NASA to see the last of the Saturn5 rockets. It was the height of the Cold War and it was definitely a race between the free people and the Russians.
Ugh, we haven't been back to the moon since Apollo/Saturn V days because it is freaking expensive. The bit about the flag waving on the moon is because the astronauts were planting the pole into the surface. Once they were done the flag didn't wave. Didn't you watch it? I did!
SEXTILLION has 2 definitions US/GB noun. , plural sex·til·lions, (as after a numeral) sex·til·lion. a cardinal number represented in the U.S. by 1 followed by 21 zeros, and in Great Britain by 1 followed by 36 zeros.
It's not UK thing. Long system is used in many countries in europe.
@UltraCasualPenguin I imagine it's a S.I. (international system) definition... so Europe would use it... I imagine.
Counterintuitivly it would be more difficult to fake going to the moon than just going there.
We aren't tiny but our universe is huge
To answer the question about other planets that humans have traveled to, no, not yet. We have sent people to the moon, and there are plans to send people back to the moon before the end of this decade. They are also in the planning phases to prepare manned missions to Mars, but I think they are shooting for some time around 2070. There is actually a form a person can fill out to put their name on a list to be considered for simulated training. I believe it is on the official NASA website and the training is a year (or possibly longer). There are several criteria that a person must meet to be considered though.
I'm not saying it's aliens... but it aliens. :D
my bro is stoned af xDD
Here's a thought, what if those aliens are actually us. We made it off planet before an extinction event, but the ones left behind didn't all die off. We are the descendants of those survivors. We lost all knowledge of our past because of the need to survive. Like I said, just a thought. Lol
Any advanced civilization who has evolved centuries beyond our technology, has already discovered hyperdrive, and is able to jump the distance to explore any region they want to...idk if that'll ever be possible for earth, but we may not be around to see it become reality.
What is really crazy is how big is the actual universe?! According to that formula, the universe is 150 sextillion times larger than the observable universe. However, it is expanding outwards into what? An endless emptiness that stretches beyond imagination!
Exactly!
Quran confirms it is expanding and wont stop whether you want to blindly ignore this because quran said so i dont care its the truth
It doesn't stretcht beyond imagination. It's already beyond imagination
Oh and also i like how yall were saying its naive not to believe aliens are possible, while comfortably saying "I saw something, i did not know what it was, so therefor, i know what it was" thats what people say when they saw a 'spaceship', they say they saw soemthign that they coudnt explain, and despite previously admitting they didnt know what it was they assumed it was 'definitely' something alien, which is naive and a very biased way of thinking. Just lettin you know
The only way we can travel anywhere in the universe is to learn how to manipulate and control space-time.
@2:15 you're young enough they might have moon trips in your lifetime
Check out the James Webb Telescope, it’s amazing. I would also check out the older but still amazing Hubble Telescope.
8:55
Thats more like 0.000000000000000000001%
No, Im not joking.
I might have put in +/- 1 or 2 zeroes but its still, at the very least, about a *_quintillion_* times closer than your estiamte 🤣
The moon looks big and close because how small we are and the light we get from it
is she really that uninformed and/or gullible or is she just farming for comments?
To answer your last question first: No, no person has landed on any other body than the moon. Many probes have landed on different planets in the solar system.
I very important distinction to be made regarding aliens is this:
Almost everyone believes that aliens likely exist somewhere out there, I think you would be hard pressed in this day and age and with the information we have now to find anyone who doesn't think that given the sheer size. My mother is hardcore religious and she still thinks that god made other lifeforms out there in the cosmos.
The distinction is whether or not those aliens have visited earth, which (unless they live inside our solar system) is extremely improbable.
These are two wildly different statements with wildly different circumstances, when I say I don't think that aliens have visited earth, I don't mean I don't think that aliens exist in the cosmos, that I'm sure of.
It's a strange paradox where people go "Look at how insanely vast space is there must be aliens" then due to the sheer immensity, humans really have no concept of how big that actually is and in our minds we shrink it down to "aliens must be next door". We have yet to find a technosignature or even a valid biosignature of any kind in all of our searching and combing through the small bit of the night sky that we can read, this is likely the case for other civilizations out there. "Look at how tiny our planet is" "Aliens must be able to find it easily.." The only way we have detected so many exoplanets around other stars is by observing the dimming and brightening of stars and their wobbles, which indicates planets around them, we can't even see them.
If they have the technology enough to actually be able to even find us, and actually be able to viably travel the insane distance, do you think they would want to? Would I go out of my way to buy a plane ticket, fly half way across the world just to look at a particular ant bed?
I believe in extraterrestrial life, but I don’t really think they would have a reason in that massively vast universe to come here, and I don’t think they would even know we’re here. It’s possible that we are the most advanced civilization in the universe as well. I think as far as the pyramids go, that it is actually more plausible that humanity actually used to be a much more advanced civilization than historians believe we were, and that advanced civilization fell, and was lost to history (like an apocalyptic event).
They never went back to the moon because they were warned off by aliens.
Can you please react to Billy cwrson on Danica patrick,Danny Jones or Shawn Ryan,he explained how we can travel the universe minus time.
Our atmosphere is very very very unique we live in what is called the goldilocks zone of our solar system it is almost impossible for there to be any life on extraterrestrial planets other than possibly microorganisms or single cell organism you should do some research on your own time to get a grasp on just how lucky we are where we are in our solar so many factors play into why we are able to survive here on an ever changing planet