MY GRANDMOTHER SAW HALLEY'S COMET TWICE. My grandmother, God rest her soul, was born in December of 1894 and she died in July of 1986, so she saw Halley's Comet twice. I remember thinking it was such a huge deal that she was getting to see it twice. In fact, our family had a big Halley's Comet viewing party out on the old family farm. So my grandmother got to see the comet from the exact same spot in the middle of a field both times. She said the field looked pretty much identical to what it looked like in 1910 when she sat there and viewed it. She then told us all that she knew she would die soon. That's was unnerving to the rest of us. She died a few months later in July. She was 91 years old. She was 16 when she saw Halley's Comet the first time. I was 18 when I saw it in 1986. I would be quite old, but there's a chance that I could see it again. I sure hope so. 😊
how can someone comprehend how big is the Universe if even the size of our Solar System is just mindblowing and impossible to grasp. we are so small. so small.
Love how when we are younger we dread being older but as someone who is now 63 and doesn't feel any different than he did at ten don't sweat it. Of course your body is falling apart but the only real penalty of growing old is listening to younger people laugh at older people. The joke, of course, is that even they will be old one day and a lot faster than they think.
Yep, I'm just about to turn 56 and I agree with everything you said here. Anytime a young person laughs at me for whatever reason of being substantially older than they are, I always just say, "Your day's coming; trust me. In the seeming blink of an eye, you'll be somewhere around my age and won't believe how fast it happened." These days, a year seems like a month or two. I'm NOT exaggerating. Time will accelerate at Ludicrous Speed and before you know, you'll be older than your older aunts and uncles are now. Buckle up. And the wisdom to know when to keep my mouth SHUT makes the aches, pains, more doc visits, and the inability to bound up stairs two at a time well-worth it. What else is worth trading for no longer having is the wisdom in my profession, my education, and my finances. My grandchildren are absolutely my life and my heart and soul and I fully and utterly understand just why God created the hierarchy of family in regard to children, parents of those children, and then the lineage that then leads to grandchildren. The beauty and incredibly humbling wisdom of grandchildren coming into our lives is beyond anything that any human being is able to express. To God goes all the glory of grandchildren. Sorry, I got a bit moved there just thinkink about my own grandchildren. Old age isn't what it is made out to be by young people. I hear young people call me "old" and it just mostly makes me laugh because they have no clue just how things are seen when a person is my age and older, of course. Sure, I'd like to have my youthful appearance and a bit better health. But to trade all of the angst and uncertainty of youth for those few things? If someone approached me and gave me that choice, I'd have to think about it for a bit. One of the main drawbacks of not choosing to receive the younger physique, etc. is that the world is becoming so screwed up and seems like such a weird place to me anymore that it is VERY difficult to want to live in this world for an extended period of time. By the time I grow old enough to die off, I'll be pretty much ready to go. Seriously. THAT is something I have put a great deal of thought into. For a long time. I started thinking about that during the first years of the advent of the internet. That would have been during the years 1992 to 1997. In 1997, when I saw the effects that the first REAL iteration of the internet were having on people, I didn't really know what to think of it, at first. Then I saw a slovenly, couch-potato family who lived across from me in an apartment complex. Not that I was a peeping Tom or that I constantly was spying on them, but they had absolutely no curtains and they were noticed by more than just me and my wife at that time. I didn't want to watch these huge people. As time passed I just couldn't help but notice that they spent a LOT of time on their Computers, specifically, the internet. I could ALWAYS see Windows 95 up on their screens and they stayed up until all hours of the night. I started keeping track and this family, including the kids, were online an insanely incredible amount of hours. I did some research and found that they didn't work online, either, which was virtually unheardof back then, anyway. So the slob, couch-potato family was demonstrating right in front of me and my wife at that time, just how much time can be wasted and how your entire family's health can be destroyed by sitting on your fat derriere while spending 20 or more hours out of 24 hours on the internet. I don't know if it was divine intervention or what, but it was like a very penetrating thought that really sunk into my mind during that week because I deeply realized just how only sitting in front of a computer monitor for ungodly amounts of time will cause to happen. Your relationships will collapse, you'll want to only be online doing what you want to do and not wanting to work much, you'll most likely eat junk food until you look like Jabba the Hutt, and you'll have so many things that need done around the house that you just don't want to do. So my seeming revelation back in 1997 brought me to a place where I wish so many could go to in their mind now. If only people could see just what partaking of WAY too much of the internet, unless you work online or have YT channels from which you draw income. If that's the case, then, more power to you and I wish you much more success here on UA-cam. 😃 So my goal here is to cause people to see that if at least some of us who were starting to use the internet all those 26 years ago could see at least some of the effects on we as a species on this Earth, then I surely hope and pray that MANY more of you will see just how incredibly dire it is that we as human beings work to reconnect and give each other more than a fleeting glance. I'm deadly serious about this and I've never been more serious about anything in my life. I really do mean that because I see in a big way just what is happening to us all. So MANY of us now are slovenly, grossly obese, poor health, divorce is truly at record levels all over the world, and there is a decline in average life expectancy. I'm not just throwing these things out there as a ploy to be dramatic. These stats are REAL. So what I saw that might come to pass has done so exponentially MORE than I thought even 26 years ago. I can't even express how much this breaks my heart. I never dreamed that I would see these things, but much more multiplied. We're on the decline and at this point I have no idea what can be done about it. 🥴🤔
In a subjective reality, one must experience polar opposites quite often through the course of linear living. In order to fully experience the state of 'joy and happiness,' one must have first experienced the state of 'sadness and despair' to have a firm grasp of the difference and the importance of the first. Indeed, if we knew only 'joy and happiness' without direct experience of the opposite would render it useless. Remember this when feeling sad and remember that these stages are transient throughout our timeline and will come and go according to how we percieve current events of life. Gratitude toward each state is key to that equilibrium to not remain stuck in either side!!
@@75viking75 is right. I've been pretty low, but no matter how low things get for me they always get better. There's light at the end of the tunnel, as long as you keep at it and keep on kicking.
It's possible that our Oort Cloud bumps up against Proxima Centauri's Oort Cloud (which gives you an idea of just how vast an Oort Cloud is), and this may dislodge comets from both star's Oort Clouds.
What amuses me about young people is that they'll laugh at me for being old, whilst doing some idiot young person thing that I saw coming a mile away. I feel like Puddin'head Wilson, on a regular basis.
1986 was a busy year, not all events were pleasant. Hey Joe, we are from the same year, nice. And we looked at Halley from different sides of the Iron Curtain, so to speak.
I was 8 when Haley's comet visited in 86. My father took my sister and I out to the middle of nowhere to see it. It was a really good time and now I feel incredibly old! Thanks Joe lol
Informative video, Joe. 🖖 I remember being so excited to see Halley's Comet when it returned in 1986. This was it, one of the most famous natural phenomena in the night sky. And it was so disappointing. It was tiny, and I wasn't really 100% certain that I could see it without binoculars. Later I found out that the 1986 return was one of the worst for viewing the comet. And living in the UK inevitably meant that we had wall-to-wall cloud every time you raised your head to look out. Thankfully, Giotto took photos, but I have to be honest, I was so disappointed that I think I've had more fun watching satellites like the ISS make regular passes over my back garden every summer.
@@joescott In terms of disappointment, yes it was. Subsequent to my writing the above, I do remember one thing I said to myself at the time, in an effort to make it feel more special, and that was that I had been viewing the very same object that Edmund Halley had seen, perhaps Samuel Pepys had seen, and perhaps William the Conqueror had seen. It helped, but I also noted that they'd all definitely seen the Sun, Moon and stars too. 😁 Ah well... Hale-Bopp really got the excitement going though.
So at 150,000 AU, the outer edge of the Oort cloud is ~2.4 light years from the sun. The Alpha Centauri system is 4.2 light years away. Assuming the Centauri system has a similar cloud with a similar size at a similar distance, then the outer edges of both clouds would be co-mingling. Pretty cool. Might help explain why some interstellar comets and asteroids are occasionally getting bumped towards us.
Your explanations are always on point with great insight and easy to listen to delivery. Hale Bopp was awesome when i saw it in 7th grade! Also, you're the intelligent version of Charlie from Always Sunny. Love the channel dude!
Laugh track gold! Nice explanation of the Oort / Kuiper distinction. Nice vid, all things considered. Good that you explained the comet tail thing, after all there's always somebody learning new things. I was also hoping you'd cover the second tail thing, but you gotta stop somewhere! It was only weakly visible on Haley's last visit.
Kinda cool to know your videos so well that I exactly know when the music starts and stops. Because it's pretty similar on each video. Anyway. Great video, as always!
Joe, I’d love your take on the ‘micro-nova’ hypothesis brought to us by Douglas Vogt, Ben Davidson, Dr. Robert Schoch etc. making some headway into the 12000 year old cataclysm. Much appreciated!
How a self gravitating sphere becomes a disc, aka “physics weirdness”: “It is angular momentum. As angular momentum is conserved when a body forms it will spin as the total angular momentum of everything coming together to make it is probably not going to be zero. As it collapses it spins faster around the emerging axis. The disk then forms as particles are distributed in relation to this axis”.
Hey Joe I have been binging your videos for daaaaaaays omg I can't believe how many there are. Your awesome I am really enjoying. In fact durring your addiction video I was pondering if I had a problem with Joe Scott videos haha. Keep up the good work.
I was 10 years old, I knew about Halley's comet from the Americana encyclopedia but couldn't look for it and didn't have the means. I have fond memories of those volumes.
wat i most like about joe scott is that even though he has tremendous and awesome knowledge about all kinds of scientific stuff but he talks with such modesty unlike most persons like him ,who are basically jerks...HatsOff buddy....u r amazing 👍👍👍
Eh... I don't know that I have a tremendous knowledge of anything. And the more I learn the more I realize how much I don't know. Hence the modesty. :)
It is still off hearing the unknown planet called "Planet 9". Growing up, there are 9 planets. The unknown planet was called planet X (right?? or was that something else?) Either way, even though I understand why Pluto was put in another category, it took me a long while to realize that when people mention Planet 9, it is NOT Pluto.
Anie Anton Planet X was called Planet X before Pluto was discovered. After Tombaugh failed in his mission by finding a dwarf planet, not another Neptune, the X=10 thing came into being. Now Planet 9 is used to give a little distance from previous efforts and the conspiracy theories that have cropped up. Also, I wouldn’t put it past Mike Brown to rub in the whole Pluto thing.
I'll be 90 when Halley's comet returns. I have a few family members who have made it into their 90s. Two of my grandmother's sisters lived to be 98 y.o.
Talking about halley's comet, do we know where is it currently? Is it bright enough to be photographed? Is its orbit consistent with the 9th planet theory?
Quick clarification, estimates of the Oort Cloud boundary and extent vary hugely, but 50,000 AU is generally taken to be a minimum for the outer edge. The inner edge may be much closer. 5000 AU is a popular estimate, some put it as close as 2000 AU. All ludicrous distances, to be sure.
My sister was named after Halley's Comet. She was born the same year, except in June, rather than Feb, 9th. But we pronounce her name Hay-ley, rather than Hal-ley.
What you forgot to mention: All the water on Earth originates from comets in the early stages of its formation … so, actually, they helped make our planet what it is today! At least this is what I heard (wasn't there when it happened ;-)).
That theory is no longer mainstream, since comets and Earth have very different water. Interestingly, Earth's water is spectral identical to that of Saturn's rings and most of its moons. Saturn was likely once much closer to the Sun and Earth.
I'm thinking about the movie twister 🌀. You know that machine that they built with all the coke can sensors in it? They go out chase down a tornado and run a truck with the machine and sensors in the bed of it into the tornado and whala Data. We should do something like that. Run a satellite full of sensors into the Oort cloud, releasing these sensors and mapping out everything in the Oort cloud. Could work it out somehow I guess. Sorry my mind wanders from Time to Time. 😞 Back to reality.
Omg... You actually answered the question. Hahah, I made a song like 5 years ago called "sedna when?" And you answered it. WERE GOING TO SEDNA BAAAABYYY
MY GRANDMOTHER SAW HALLEY'S COMET TWICE.
My grandmother, God rest her soul, was born in December of 1894 and she died in July of 1986, so she saw Halley's Comet twice. I remember thinking it was such a huge deal that she was getting to see it twice. In fact, our family had a big Halley's Comet viewing party out on the old family farm. So my grandmother got to see the comet from the exact same spot in the middle of a field both times. She said the field looked pretty much identical to what it looked like in 1910 when she sat there and viewed it. She then told us all that she knew she would die soon. That's was unnerving to the rest of us. She died a few months later in July. She was 91 years old. She was 16 when she saw Halley's Comet the first time. I was 18 when I saw it in 1986. I would be quite old, but there's a chance that I could see it again. I sure hope so. 😊
how can someone comprehend how big is the Universe if even the size of our Solar System is just mindblowing and impossible to grasp. we are so small. so small.
The thought of seeing Halley's Comet from space in 2061 makes me grin.
I imagine it will look pretty much the same.
Didn't expect to see you here!
JESUS CHRIST!! it’s Jesus Christ
That would be dope.
I'll be dead. Maybe you can ask your dad to hook me up with a resurrection?
1:09 Where did they come from?
Where do they go?
Where do they come from… Answers with Joe
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Now I have Cotton eyed Joe stuck in my head Jerk.
👏👏👏
Lmfao as soon as he said "where did they come from" I scrolled down to write this comment but found yours at the top
So. Many. Points.
Love how when we are younger we dread being older but as someone who is now 63 and doesn't feel any different than he did at ten don't sweat it. Of course your body is falling apart but the only real penalty of growing old is listening to younger people laugh at older people. The joke, of course, is that even they will be old one day and a lot faster than they think.
or theyll die before they get old. Either way: hilarious.
Yep, I'm just about to turn 56 and I agree with everything you said here. Anytime a young person laughs at me for whatever reason of being substantially older than they are, I always just say, "Your day's coming; trust me. In the seeming blink of an eye, you'll be somewhere around my age and won't believe how fast it happened."
These days, a year seems like a month or two. I'm NOT exaggerating. Time will accelerate at Ludicrous Speed and before you know, you'll be older than your older aunts and uncles are now. Buckle up.
And the wisdom to know when to keep my mouth SHUT makes the aches, pains, more doc visits, and the inability to bound up stairs two at a time well-worth it. What else is worth trading for no longer having is the wisdom in my profession, my education, and my finances.
My grandchildren are absolutely my life and my heart and soul and I fully and utterly understand just why God created the hierarchy of family in regard to children, parents of those children, and then the lineage that then leads to grandchildren.
The beauty and incredibly humbling wisdom of grandchildren coming into our lives is beyond anything that any human being is able to express. To God goes all the glory of grandchildren.
Sorry, I got a bit moved there just thinkink about my own grandchildren.
Old age isn't what it is made out to be by young people. I hear young people call me "old" and it just mostly makes me laugh because they have no clue just how things are seen when a person is my age and older, of course. Sure, I'd like to have my youthful appearance and a bit better health. But to trade all of the angst and uncertainty of youth for those few things?
If someone approached me and gave me that choice, I'd have to think about it for a bit. One of the main drawbacks of not choosing to receive the younger physique, etc. is that the world is becoming so screwed up and seems like such a weird place to me anymore that it is VERY difficult to want to live in this world for an extended period of time. By the time I grow old enough to die off, I'll be pretty much ready to go. Seriously.
THAT is something I have put a great deal of thought into. For a long time. I started thinking about that during the first years of the advent of the internet. That would have been during the years 1992 to 1997. In 1997, when I saw the effects that the first REAL iteration of the internet were having on people, I didn't really know what to think of it, at first. Then I saw a slovenly, couch-potato family who lived across from me in an apartment complex. Not that I was a peeping Tom or that I constantly was spying on them, but they had absolutely no curtains and they were noticed by more than just me and my wife at that time. I didn't want to watch these huge people.
As time passed I just couldn't help but notice that they spent a LOT of time on their Computers, specifically, the internet. I could ALWAYS see Windows 95 up on their screens and they stayed up until all hours of the night.
I started keeping track and this family, including the kids, were online an insanely incredible amount of hours. I did some research and found that they didn't work online, either, which was virtually unheardof back then, anyway.
So the slob, couch-potato family was demonstrating right in front of me and my wife at that time, just how much time can be wasted and how your entire family's health can be destroyed by sitting on your fat derriere while spending 20 or more hours out of 24 hours on the internet.
I don't know if it was divine intervention or what, but it was like a very penetrating thought that really sunk into my mind during that week because I deeply realized just how only sitting in front of a computer monitor for ungodly amounts of time will cause to happen. Your relationships will collapse, you'll want to only be online doing what you want to do and not wanting to work much, you'll most likely eat junk food until you look like Jabba the Hutt, and you'll have so many things that need done around the house that you just don't want to do.
So my seeming revelation back in 1997 brought me to a place where I wish so many could go to in their mind now. If only people could see just what partaking of WAY too much of the internet, unless you work online or have YT channels from which you draw income. If that's the case, then, more power to you and I wish you much more success here on UA-cam. 😃
So my goal here is to cause people to see that if at least some of us who were starting to use the internet all those 26 years ago could see at least some of the effects on we as a species on this Earth, then I surely hope and pray that MANY more of you will see just how incredibly dire it is that we as human beings work to reconnect and give each other more than a fleeting glance. I'm deadly serious about this and I've never been more serious about anything in my life. I really do mean that because I see in a big way just what is happening to us all.
So MANY of us now are slovenly, grossly obese, poor health, divorce is truly at record levels all over the world, and there is a decline in average life expectancy.
I'm not just throwing these things out there as a ploy to be dramatic. These stats are REAL. So what I saw that might come to pass has done so exponentially MORE than I thought even 26 years ago. I can't even express how much this breaks my heart. I never dreamed that I would see these things, but much more multiplied. We're on the decline and at this point I have no idea what can be done about it. 🥴🤔
Some days I hate myself and my life but some days I wish to be immortal and see all of the human future.
In a subjective reality, one must experience polar opposites quite often through the course of linear living. In order to fully experience the state of 'joy and happiness,' one must have first experienced the state of 'sadness and despair' to have a firm grasp of the difference and the importance of the first. Indeed, if we knew only 'joy and happiness' without direct experience of the opposite would render it useless. Remember this when feeling sad and remember that these stages are transient throughout our timeline and will come and go according to how we percieve current events of life. Gratitude toward each state is key to that equilibrium to not remain stuck in either side!!
75viking75 wow! Thank you
@@75viking75 Thank You! that was very helpful.
@@75viking75 is right. I've been pretty low, but no matter how low things get for me they always get better. There's light at the end of the tunnel, as long as you keep at it and keep on kicking.
Its normal 🤣
Joe could you do one on homeschool vs public school vs private school and how the kids do in life after school?
It's possible that our Oort Cloud bumps up against Proxima Centauri's Oort Cloud (which gives you an idea of just how vast an Oort Cloud is), and this may dislodge comets from both star's Oort Clouds.
What makes your channel so darn good is that you make real thorough research. Behind every episode is real effort. Thank you.
I'm at home alone and that heliopause joke made me laugh audibly. I'm so lonely.
it's ok, we can all be lonely together!
You sure you're alone? Did you check under the bed?
I hear you zero. Lots of lonely folks in the world.
Zerofever welcome to the club.
Oh thank God I'm not the only one!
You’re killin’ it every week Joe! Thanks for sharing
"The tail always flows away from the sun" - And... yeap. I didn't know that.
Joe your videos have made me learn a crap ton I love what you do keep up the good work
Thanks man! Glad you dig it.
Ryanbdailyvlogs Is that a short crapton, equivalent to 2000 crappounds, or a metric craptonne, which is approximately 2204.6 crappounds?
What amuses me about young people is that they'll laugh at me for being old, whilst doing some idiot young person thing that I saw coming a mile away. I feel like Puddin'head Wilson, on a regular basis.
1986 was a busy year, not all events were pleasant.
Hey Joe, we are from the same year, nice.
And we looked at Halley from different sides of the Iron Curtain, so to speak.
1986 was busy because they were recovering from the events of 1984.
@@jamesmnguyen I meant Challenger and Tschernobyl for example, for the not so pleasant part.
Halley as more of the appreciable things.
Roscosmos had good pictures of Halley, too.
@@1_2_die2 I was making a reference to the book.
I graduated high school in 86. Chernobyl was 86, Challenger exploded in 86. So yeah, 86 was mostly unpleasant.
I always look forward to these Monday episodes. They help to keep me sane at work. Thanks!
Glad you dig it!
I was 8 when Haley's comet visited in 86. My father took my sister and I out to the middle of nowhere to see it. It was a really good time and now I feel incredibly old! Thanks Joe lol
You've been 11 in 1986, so we both were born in '75. Best year EVER. Cheers Joe :D
Keep up your awesome work!
Greetings from Germany, raBit.
I don't care if you don't like space puns. I like space puns.
Comet me bro.
I'd do a space pun but I got no time to planet
Take that joke and shove it up Uranus.
Space jokes are universally funny.
@@Shoorit these space jokes took saturn for the worst
manas tiwari I cant take your puns Sirius right now I think you should Apollogise.
Magnificent, awesome, and hilarious explanation, Joe. Really cool man, cool.
hello from the future
Christian Ready! Love your videos buddy! ^^
And now we are in that future when JWST finally starts delivering. Christmas for all astronomers tomorrow! :-)
Thanks joe I really like your way of explaining, i learn more from you than school.
"...and the answer... is pretty far out." - *puts on David Caruso sunglasses* YEEEAAAAAAAOOOWWWWWWW!
Exactly.
Joe... I like that you pronounce Thule correctly. I was stationed there.. Thule Air Base, Greenland. What a dump hole...
I'd love to visit that place just to see it but it'd be hell being stationed there
If the solar system was one of Joe's videos then couldn't the Oort cloud also be known as...
the Comets section?
Ba-dum, chhhh.
Nooice.
And of course the comments section is the Internet's disaster factory. It all adds up!
Informative video, Joe. 🖖
I remember being so excited to see Halley's Comet when it returned in 1986. This was it, one of the most famous natural phenomena in the night sky. And it was so disappointing. It was tiny, and I wasn't really 100% certain that I could see it without binoculars. Later I found out that the 1986 return was one of the worst for viewing the comet. And living in the UK inevitably meant that we had wall-to-wall cloud every time you raised your head to look out. Thankfully, Giotto took photos, but I have to be honest, I was so disappointed that I think I've had more fun watching satellites like the ISS make regular passes over my back garden every summer.
It really was a bummer, wasn't it?
@@joescott In terms of disappointment, yes it was. Subsequent to my writing the above, I do remember one thing I said to myself at the time, in an effort to make it feel more special, and that was that I had been viewing the very same object that Edmund Halley had seen, perhaps Samuel Pepys had seen, and perhaps William the Conqueror had seen. It helped, but I also noted that they'd all definitely seen the Sun, Moon and stars too. 😁
Ah well... Hale-Bopp really got the excitement going though.
So at 150,000 AU, the outer edge of the Oort cloud is ~2.4 light years from the sun. The Alpha Centauri system is 4.2 light years away. Assuming the Centauri system has a similar cloud with a similar size at a similar distance, then the outer edges of both clouds would be co-mingling. Pretty cool. Might help explain why some interstellar comets and asteroids are occasionally getting bumped towards us.
We need a mission to Sedna... Thanks for the video and all the hard work that you do. Currently bing watching.
My favorite song about asteroid belts you ask?
You Oorta Know - Alanis Morissette
Your vibe gives joy.
Thx for this video. I love your channels, TMI & Our Ludicrous Future.
I heard "comments are the stuff of nightmares". Too true Joe, too true.
Sounds suspiciously like "comments"to me too. It might perhaps be an attempt to subliminally raise the comment count.
Be wary.
Right haha
Dude, that's the first thing I thought. Apparently I have a weird way of saying "comets". Never knew that about myself.
Joe Scott I have a weird way of spelling “probobally.”
Great video Joe! I'm really excited for several telescopes that are coming online in the next few years! You should do a video on them?
Heliopause... Terrible joke. I love it
Video out one hour ago, it's like you rewarded me for staying up too late on a week night. Thanks for the great videos Joe
"Back in the day, the night was..."
You might want to try that one again, Joe.
Great subject Joe. I love to hear about our local space. More please.
That double take on the tangent cam at 7:35 is class :P
Way out there, Joe! Loved it!
Your explanations are always on point with great insight and easy to listen to delivery. Hale Bopp was awesome when i saw it in 7th grade! Also, you're the intelligent version of Charlie from Always Sunny. Love the channel dude!
Someday I'm gonna have to hang with Charlie Day. Everyone seems to think we're twins.
Love your content joe. Iv learned so much and hope to learn alot more. Keep it up
I got to meet Mike Brown last year and
listen to him lecture on “The Search for Planet IX”.
He is a very entertaining and informative speaker.
Some interesting historical facts in this episode. Like Joe's age 7:07
You should do a show on the younger Drayas impact. It was likely a comet.
You actually got me with the heliopause joke
What a neat coincidence that all these dudes found this stuff that had the same last name. This must be super symmetry in action?
Laugh track gold!
Nice explanation of the Oort / Kuiper distinction. Nice vid, all things considered. Good that you explained the comet tail thing, after all there's always somebody learning new things. I was also hoping you'd cover the second tail thing, but you gotta stop somewhere! It was only weakly visible on Haley's last visit.
:55 right there I thought you said "comments" and I was like "wow, that's comments alright"
Everytime when I look into your videos it feels like watching a movie...I think you can do good in Hollywood..
Anyway new subscriber..
Kinda cool to know your videos so well that I exactly know when the music starts and stops. Because it's pretty similar on each video.
Anyway. Great video, as always!
Awesome and informational video
One of your best openings
I was 25, I got a look from the top of Mt Pimos, it was bitter cold, totally worth it. Nice video.
Huzzah for bringing up the LSST. I'm so excited for that telescope.
Disaster factory is an awesome band name, dibs
Still loving these videos.
I always watch your videos when I should be doing work.
I actually didn't know the comet moves in the direction of its tail. Cool to know !
Please explain why comets appear to have a hard rocky surface, sophisticated geology, very low gravity, and no sign of water jet holes.
Joe, I’d love your take on the ‘micro-nova’ hypothesis brought to us by Douglas Vogt, Ben Davidson, Dr. Robert Schoch etc. making some headway into the 12000 year old cataclysm.
Much appreciated!
Good morning Joe!
I didn’t know that about the comet’s tail always being away from the sun 😬 thanks for the info!
I was 10 years old when Halley's comet passed by last, hope to still be here when it visits next time...
How a self gravitating sphere becomes a disc, aka “physics weirdness”: “It is angular momentum. As angular momentum is conserved when a body forms it will spin as the total angular momentum of everything coming together to make it is probably not going to be zero. As it collapses it spins faster around the emerging axis. The disk then forms as particles are distributed in relation to this axis”.
Hey Joe I have been binging your videos for daaaaaaays omg I can't believe how many there are. Your awesome I am really enjoying. In fact durring your addiction video I was pondering if I had a problem with Joe Scott videos haha. Keep up the good work.
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT about the tail of the comets.. so cool
Always a good way to end my last overnight shift of the week, huzzah!
I thought you said comments hold a place in our nightmares
Can you do a video on metallic glass/amorphous metals
Space Man that would be interesting
Trenton Denne
It would
I was 10 years old, I knew about Halley's comet from the Americana encyclopedia but couldn't look for it and didn't have the means. I have fond memories of those volumes.
Do a segment on Joseph Newman’s motor:)
Good morning Joe 😁
PLEASE make a whole episode on planet 9 if possible, or if Joe already has one somebody let me know please
Great video. I've been a bit disappointed with your commercialization recently, but this reminds me of the better older days
No need too even watch! (will later) Great Video as always, i'm sure!
wat i most like about joe scott is that even though he has tremendous and awesome knowledge about all kinds of scientific stuff but he talks with such modesty unlike most persons like him ,who are basically jerks...HatsOff buddy....u r amazing 👍👍👍
Eh... I don't know that I have a tremendous knowledge of anything. And the more I learn the more I realize how much I don't know. Hence the modesty. :)
@@joescott 👍 awesome buddy....u r doing an incredible job with amazing attitude ...Best Of Luck for ur future expeditions in the knowledge realm ....
@@joescott buddy sometime in future , whenever ur busy schedule will allow it..pls talk some more about The Einstein-Rosen bridge....thanks in advance
I saw Halley’s Comet when I was 12. I also remember the hullabaloo. It was pretty cool though.
I recommend subbing to David Butler (source of the animations). Really nice videos presented in a very calming voice.
You are around the same age as me. I remember seeing Halleys Comet, I didn't realise it was that long ago.
I say that about most things these days.
Love this channel more and more every day. Vsauce used to be the place to go... Now it's here!
I think you meant vsauce? I presume autocorrect made it Vs acute
Superfast Doggo haha yes! Thanks for pointing that out 👍👍
I love Mark Twain, he was a brilliant, funny, wonderful man.
My grandfather said the same thing as Twain just 76 years later .born in 1910 and died 86
Please do a video on the Tipler Cylinder! Love ya!
Comets have two tails, ion (points away from the sun) and dust (points the direction the comet came from), they don't always point the same direction
I don't like things that have the name of their discoverers, but Oort Cloud and Kuiper Belt are actually cool names.
So you do like things named after their discoverers when it suits you but other times not?
Give us our Pluto back. I still feel very weird when people don't even call it a planet anymore
The idea of ninth planet is just too cool. I hope it's confirmed in my lifetime. It's bound to be the weirdest planet around the Sun.
Jan Oort discovers the Oort Cloud! I wonder what the chances of that were?
It is still off hearing the unknown planet called "Planet 9". Growing up, there are 9 planets. The unknown planet was called planet X (right?? or was that something else?) Either way, even though I understand why Pluto was put in another category, it took me a long while to realize that when people mention Planet 9, it is NOT Pluto.
Anie Anton Planet X was called Planet X before Pluto was discovered. After Tombaugh failed in his mission by finding a dwarf planet, not another Neptune, the X=10 thing came into being. Now Planet 9 is used to give a little distance from previous efforts and the conspiracy theories that have cropped up. Also, I wouldn’t put it past Mike Brown to rub in the whole Pluto thing.
I'll be 90 when Halley's comet returns. I have a few family members who have made it into their 90s. Two of my grandmother's sisters lived to be 98 y.o.
Talking about halley's comet, do we know where is it currently? Is it bright enough to be photographed? Is its orbit consistent with the 9th planet theory?
That's going to be nasty to fly through at high speeds
Quick clarification, estimates of the Oort Cloud boundary and extent vary hugely, but 50,000 AU is generally taken to be a minimum for the outer edge. The inner edge may be much closer. 5000 AU is a popular estimate, some put it as close as 2000 AU. All ludicrous distances, to be sure.
I'm pretty sure AU is just the width of Australia.
So I will be 93 when Halley's Comet comes back around. Well I have plans to see America's Tricentennial celebration, so why not?
Don't stop believing.
My sister was named after Halley's Comet.
She was born the same year, except in June, rather than Feb, 9th.
But we pronounce her name Hay-ley, rather than Hal-ley.
What you forgot to mention: All the water on Earth originates from comets in the early stages of its formation … so, actually, they helped make our planet what it is today! At least this is what I heard (wasn't there when it happened ;-)).
That theory is no longer mainstream, since comets and Earth have very different water. Interestingly, Earth's water is spectral identical to that of Saturn's rings and most of its moons. Saturn was likely once much closer to the Sun and Earth.
I'm thinking about the movie twister 🌀. You know that machine that they built with all the coke can sensors in it? They go out chase down a tornado and run a truck with the machine and sensors in the bed of it into the tornado and whala Data. We should do something like that. Run a satellite full of sensors into the Oort cloud, releasing these sensors and mapping out everything in the Oort cloud. Could work it out somehow I guess. Sorry my mind wanders from Time to Time. 😞 Back to reality.
Omg... You actually answered the question. Hahah, I made a song like 5 years ago called "sedna when?" And you answered it. WERE GOING TO SEDNA BAAAABYYY
I really wanted the word "disaster" to break down into "dis a ster" or "this a star".
7:23 not just see it from space but actually go there and land on it (Maybe)
Just imagine planet 9 comes around and it somehow has multicellular life on it