His reaction to lasers when he gets it was incredible. It's no overreaction, it was literally him piecing two and two together and getting mind blown by the genius of Einstein realizing this decades before lasers were actually implemented.
I love when Chuck realizes something his own way, and that makes so much sense for Neil, that we mere mortals get that even greater "mind blowing" moment, such as 4:46
I love chuck so much - he's the perfect co-host. I had the exact same reaction he did to the earth absorbing 70% of the heat and also when you can see the dark part of the moon!! AHHHHH
The timing on me watching this is amazing (a win for the "recommended" algorithm). I was looking at the crescent moon last night, wondering about seeing the dark area. Thinking I should get my telescope out, since the brightness is so bright that a pretty decent filter is needed to see anything usually. Even with my "moon filter" I find it can be too bright at times, so I went to an adjustable filter. Nice to now know why, and have some figures too. Thanks gents. Lovely work.
I am convinced that if Neil was my teacher/professor growing up, I would be an astrophysicist or someone of the sort. This is how learning should be! Inspiring! Interesting! Entertaining! Simply amazing!
Wow!! Great episode, instant classic! Chuck be so high in this, he be the one on the moon!!! & as result, helped make it SUCH a FANTASTIC lil explainer! Plus, as always-I learned somethin new. =D
"ita gonna warm to 28 degrees in the arctic" i got very worried there a second, until i remember you guys like using feet to measure stuff aushasu (its a joke, no need to get flustered)
Im simultaneously trying to learn about climate change, albedo, feedback loops, transfer of heat throughout the hemispheres, as well as deciding if I want to pull for albedo in a few weeks
the thought of seeing the darker side/silhouet during a crescent moon, and knowing that its somewhat viewable due to our own planets Albedo, blows my mind. I LOVE IT!
This is why we only get the bitter cold here in the Midwest when there is snow on the ground. The snow reflects sunlight back into space and it prevents the earth from absorbing that light and radiating it back out at night. And we see temperatures drop ten degrees or more at night. You will rarely see bitter cold without the snow first. Fascinating, ain't it? ☮️😁✌️🇺🇸🙂
Should think about covering if science in movies (like marvel movies) are really science fiction. Could excite love of science more for people as who doesn't like super hero movies
That's an amazing concept. That's such a good idea. I wonder how different this world would be if we described skin tone with an Albedo scale as opposed to using just basic colors.
omfg I was just scrolling down here to write exactly that, Anthony!!! I paused the video to add this in and the very first thing I saw was your comment! lol
I like the interaction between the scientist and the novice. Many years ago there was a gardening program with Bob Price and Cyril Fletcher. Bob Price was the expert and Cyril Fletcher was the novice. But Cyril Fletcher was also a comedian. Often the expert gardener tried to explain something serious and the comedian would pick up something funny and even the expert had to laugh at the comedian’s comments.
Thanks ! very informative ! I have one question: you have mentioned that the moon's different speed than earth's one drags earth and hence slows it down so what happens after a long time passes i.e., earth rotational's speed becomes equals to that of the moon's orbit around the earth 30 days instead of 23 hours 56 min. especially that the moon is also getting farer away from earth every year and hence the gravity also decreases ? Thanks !
What about the next level albedo of how blue eyes for example are not colored blue but rather its geometry only reflects blue light back out, thus absorbing all other wavelengths, what would it's albedo percentage be or is that something else entirely?
I guess maybe it probably absorb and reflect at the same time. What is absorbed wants to pass through and I think it does because things glow. If you put a bright flashlight to your skin maybe it will glow pink. I think thats light passing through. But if you slowly pull that flashlight away from your skin you can see the light reflecting off your skin. So light passing through maybe depends on the mass? If an object at the point if impact.
@@kunaikilla It depends on the wavelength. Radio waves pass through objects easily, very little gets absorbed, but very little gets reflected (the small part getting reflected is why radar works). I'm just saying there's another option besides absorption and reflection.
Is there a correlation to the Albedo-rate and the so-called 'Goldilocks Zone', as in: a planet needs to be able to reflect/absorb this much in order to produce habitable temperatures, conditions for life?
Does it make any sense if I say that in summer you must wear white except if you're in the shade? In this case you must wear black so you can radiate heat more easily. I should patent clothes that change colour like the sight glasses that get dark in the sun, but the other way round: white clothes in the sun that turn black in the shade.
@@altosack i can look at astronomy and history documentaries all day long. Astronomy docs put my to sleep at night. Maybe I'll be a astronomer in my next life. Peace and love to you 😁
Great pitch for moonshine. I loved this on. Look up Chris Cornelle check the the Track moonchild on the Euphoria Morning 2000 album has the same topic describes this perspective but calls it blueshine. Of course star talk had the last twist . very nice to imagine. By the way concept album. Thats very powerful that will make it very relatable. Timelss i cant say no more. If you like music it moves you big and moves up on you top favorites.. Watcha
10:12 "To watch an Earth rise on the Moon..." Hmm.. you can't.. unless you're travelling. The Moon is tidally locked to the Earth, which means one side of the Moon is always facing the Earth. If you are standing there, you can always see the Earth. The Earth never sets or rises. The Earth goes though different phases, it wobbles a little bit around its location but it never leaves its position on the sky. If you want to see an Earth rise on the Moon, you will have to hop on a Moon rover and travel from the far-side to the near-side. You can go back and forth and watch as many Earth rises and sets as you want!! I'm surprised Neil didn't interrupt him to remind this!
Learned about albedo after listening to the album Albedo 0.39 by Vangelis in the early 80s. It has a track that tells you just about everything you would want to know about the earth. Wonder if any of the data has changed since it was written in the late 70s. IE Albedo 0.39?
Maybe it refers to the *_visual geometric albedo_* rather than the *_Bond albedo._* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_albedo#Examples The first is the fraction of visible light reflected directly back to the light source, as is the case when the Moon is full or an outer planet is in opposition. The Earth's value was earlier estimated by measuring the brightness of the earthlight on the Moon, but that's very hard to do precisely for a very thin lunar crescent since it is very close to the Sun in the sky. The value 0.39 might have been the best scientific estimate when that Vangelis album was released in 1976. (BTW, my favourite track from that album is *_Alpha_* ) The second (Bond albedo) is the fraction of light at all wavelengths (including infrared and ultraviolet) reflected in all directions averaged over all angles of incoming light. That definition is more relevant for climate science since it deals with _all_ solar energy being reflected or absorbed, not just the part we can see with our eyes.
With all that said I now gotta wonder why nobody during the apollo missions took a picture of the earth from the surface of the moon. It must of been a breath taking view
You mean like this? www.metabunk.org/attachments/as17-134-20387-jpg.21520/ It's worth noting that the Earth was quite high in the sky seen from all the Apollo landing sites, so it wouldn't normally be captured in images of the astronauts' activities on its surface. All real images showing the Earth close to the Moon's horizon were taken from orbit around the Moon, like the famous _Earthrise_ taken by Apollo 8 in December 1968. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg
What I think is fascinating is that, from Earth, we see the Moon travel from east-to-west across the sky, but in truth, through outer space, the Moon actually travels from west-to-east across the sky. It is the fast rotation of the Earth that makes the Moon look like it is traveling east-to-west across the sky.
I always found it fascinating that polar bear skin is black, and their fur is basically "clear". So their dark skin still gets to absorb sunlight and yet they appear white to better blend in with their environment.
Absolutely, if you're not considering any other effects of the paint like thermic isolation. Also people in very sunny places tend to wear very bright clothes to avoid getting hot
11:50 EarthShine because the light originates from the Sun and reflects off the Earth first then the moon and back to Earth. Moonshine the Sun’s light reflects off the moon first. If you are away from artificial lights EarthShine supplies enough light to cause shadows in the pre-dawn or post-sunset dark. The phenomenon only lasts for a short period though, before the Sun rises or the moon sets.
No, the full Earth is nearly 100,000 times brighter than the second brightest thing in the lunar night sky (Venus when at its brightest). Other moons can also be lit by their parent planets. Here's Jupiter's moon Io lit by the Sun from the left and Jupiter from the right. Several active volcanoes are also visible: www.nasa.gov/images/content/170756main_tvashtar.jpg The image was taken by NASA's New Horizon probe in 2007 when it passed Jupiter on its way to Pluto.
So.... When he asks "What's the albedo of earth is?" I just said - .3 and then chuck said .3 and then Neil said its right. Nothing specific, just thought it was too co-incidental 🤔😅 And..... EARTH SHINEEEEEE 😄😄
4:45 Look how excited Neil is when chuck comes in correctly at a different angle on something he hadn't planned on explaining in that way.
I think he absolutely planned on explaining it that way, and was delighted Chuck caught on instead of him having to introduce it himself.
@@altosack yes could be right.
Guys we need to do something, chuck is getting smarter day by day.
Yeah I want to be smarter like Chuck. I think we just need more Niel..
How about do something to yourself and become smarter than Chuck 🕶
Look who's talking
We all should be...
His reaction to lasers when he gets it was incredible. It's no overreaction, it was literally him piecing two and two together and getting mind blown by the genius of Einstein realizing this decades before lasers were actually implemented.
I love when Chuck realizes something his own way, and that makes so much sense for Neil, that we mere mortals get that even greater "mind blowing" moment, such as 4:46
i liked the joke he made at 12:13. You can see Neil was definitely impressed by how clever that joke was
Check out the exoplanets channel
Chuck knows a lot more than he lets on. I guarantee you he already knows what albedo is because I've seen him use albedo/ libido jokes
Science and Overlord, two of my favorite things
And also the exoplanets channel
Albeedo not albedo? Sounds so much cooler in overlord
Glad I wasn't the only one haha
@@zachsuperfisky2154 actually looked it up and it’s pronounce both ways phew
We meet again brothers
I love chuck so much - he's the perfect co-host. I had the exact same reaction he did to the earth absorbing 70% of the heat and also when you can see the dark part of the moon!! AHHHHH
Albedo 0.39 I learned this about 45 years ago through VANGELIS. Never forgotten.
This channel is just great.. and Chuck.. I appreciate you
The timing on me watching this is amazing (a win for the "recommended" algorithm). I was looking at the crescent moon last night, wondering about seeing the dark area. Thinking I should get my telescope out, since the brightness is so bright that a pretty decent filter is needed to see anything usually. Even with my "moon filter" I find it can be too bright at times, so I went to an adjustable filter. Nice to now know why, and have some figures too. Thanks gents. Lovely work.
If teyvat had internet, this'd probably in sucrose's yt feed.
Oh hey, another Genshin player~
When I searched for this video, I typed in 'albedo', the first 3 results? Genshin stuff XD
I am convinced that if Neil was my teacher/professor growing up, I would be an astrophysicist or someone of the sort. This is how learning should be! Inspiring! Interesting! Entertaining! Simply amazing!
Wow!! Great episode, instant classic! Chuck be so high in this, he be the one on the moon!!! & as result, helped make it SUCH a FANTASTIC lil explainer! Plus, as always-I learned somethin new. =D
i always wonder what's wrong with those who put the thumbs down to clips like this one... thanks startalk for all these amazing explainers :)
"ita gonna warm to 28 degrees in the arctic" i got very worried there a second, until i remember you guys like using feet to measure stuff aushasu (its a joke, no need to get flustered)
@@JohnyG29 yes, i know, its a foot joke.
Me too, I was so confused for 10 seconds
Hundred degrees on the moon, that's bullsh...oh yea Fahrenheit.
I dont understand anything in this comment tree
Im simultaneously trying to learn about climate change, albedo, feedback loops, transfer of heat throughout the hemispheres, as well as deciding if I want to pull for albedo in a few weeks
So glad you stopped for the "that's hot" joke xD Cudos, Chuck ;)
Thanks for brightening my day.
the thought of seeing the darker side/silhouet during a crescent moon, and knowing that its somewhat viewable due to our own planets Albedo, blows my mind. I LOVE IT!
I would like to see a discussion between David Albert and Neil. Please make one.
What a delight! Thanks guys.
As usual another extremely infotaining one...every single time....👏👏
Brillant! After this explanation, next time I will pay more attention to that contour of the moon
I confused the title with "Libido" and got excited. ))
Its what you multiply with the diffuse before adding it to the specular
And I thought Albedo from Genshin Impact 😂🤩
That’s how I got this reccomendation cuz I’ve been watching too much Albedo mmds 😂😂😂💀💀💀
All I have to say is thank you for sharing your knowledge
This is why we only get the bitter cold here in the Midwest when there is snow on the ground. The snow reflects sunlight back into space and it prevents the earth from absorbing that light and radiating it back out at night. And we see temperatures drop ten degrees or more at night. You will rarely see bitter cold without the snow first. Fascinating, ain't it? ☮️😁✌️🇺🇸🙂
thank you so much dear Dr.
Albedo us one of my favorite words too!
Should think about covering if science in movies (like marvel movies) are really science fiction.
Could excite love of science more for people as who doesn't like super hero movies
That's an amazing concept.
That's such a good idea.
I wonder how different this world would be if we described skin tone with an Albedo scale as opposed to using just basic colors.
Albedo rerun. When
Brilliant episode.
Albedo class ..interesting. Thanks
Unending information and knowledge of the universe and planets explained once again, from an expert participating in the field astrophysics.
"Earthshine" is also a great song by Rush that sings about that phenomenon.
omfg I was just scrolling down here to write exactly that, Anthony!!! I paused the video to add this in and the very first thing I saw was your comment! lol
@@davidcarlson2481 great minds think alike 😎 glad to see a fellow Rushian spreading the word.
Have you watched the exoplanets channel?
@@alexandermartin1837 I'll check it out.
@@anthonypazo1872 Indeed, brethren! Imagine how proud I was when my son was born on 5/21/12!
This literally blew my friggin mind!!!!!
I like the interaction between the scientist and the novice.
Many years ago there was a gardening program with Bob Price and Cyril Fletcher.
Bob Price was the expert and Cyril Fletcher was the novice. But Cyril Fletcher was also a comedian. Often the expert gardener tried to explain something serious and the comedian would pick up something funny and even the expert had to laugh at the comedian’s comments.
"I can call you Betty, and Betty when you call me you can call me Al(bedo)..."
I love that song and video. The song always puts me in a great move.
Dudududu...why am I short in the middle...😁 Positive vibes from New Hampshire and remember to be kind to each other and yourself
Does the reflected light have the spectrum that plants utilize? Could one use mirrors in order to feed plants in a low light area?
Albedo is a Geo character and the mysterious alchemist that hails from Monstadt. To all my genshin players.
Yaaaaas
The best shampoo for highly reflective hair... Albedo V05.... Clair Voyant... I bet she saw that one coming...
Remember to tip your waitresses ladies and gentlemen :)
During the summer I actually DO plan my work shirts for the week based on the forecast temperature. I save my darker shirts for the cooler days.
Only Neil can talk about skin color with such comfort in 2020's 😂
True 😂
I wish everyone could. It's literally just melanin levels. Race is a social construction
@@xeyon You afraid?
Marvelous
❤❤
The schools should hire such teacher to teach physics to children in very simple way with real life examples to make this subject interesting.
The angle of reflection.
Thanks ! very informative ! I have one question: you have mentioned that the moon's different speed than earth's one drags earth and hence slows it down so what happens after a long time passes i.e., earth rotational's speed becomes equals to that of the moon's orbit around the earth 30 days instead of 23 hours 56 min. especially that the moon is also getting farer away from earth every year and hence the gravity also decreases ? Thanks !
One of my favourite word is alfredo.
Albedo moonshine. I’d buy a bottle to put away for years. Maybe open it when aliens contact us. 😂
What about the next level albedo of how blue eyes for example are not colored blue but rather its geometry only reflects blue light back out, thus absorbing all other wavelengths, what would it's albedo percentage be or is that something else entirely?
You're saying it's either absorbed or reflected. What about those wavelengths of light that will pass through?
I guess maybe it probably absorb and reflect at the same time. What is absorbed wants to pass through and I think it does because things glow. If you put a bright flashlight to your skin maybe it will glow pink. I think thats light passing through. But if you slowly pull that flashlight away from your skin you can see the light reflecting off your skin. So light passing through maybe depends on the mass? If an object at the point if impact.
I have no clue if I'm correct or not btw.
@@kunaikilla It depends on the wavelength. Radio waves pass through objects easily, very little gets absorbed, but very little gets reflected (the small part getting reflected is why radar works). I'm just saying there's another option besides absorption and reflection.
Agreed.
Hahah I’m here for Genshin impact
Why?
Can you explain flouressence
Is there a correlation to the Albedo-rate and the so-called 'Goldilocks Zone', as in: a planet needs to be able to reflect/absorb this much in order to produce habitable temperatures, conditions for life?
I would say yes, because the habitable zone is based on the likelihood of liquid water on the surface due to the distance and brightness of the star.
13:42 Chuck, that was exactly what I had said 😂
All this albedo talk, where’s the Alfredo? I’m hungry!
What happened to the inverse square law in this discussion
Does it make any sense if I say that in summer you must wear white except if you're in the shade? In this case you must wear black so you can radiate heat more easily. I should patent clothes that change colour like the sight glasses that get dark in the sun, but the other way round: white clothes in the sun that turn black in the shade.
This is so interesting too me. I wish I was this interested when I was younger.
Better late than never! I’m going through a period of not enough new interests and would love to get passionate about something novel again.
@@altosack i can look at astronomy and history documentaries all day long. Astronomy docs put my to sleep at night. Maybe I'll be a astronomer in my next life. Peace and love to you 😁
Great pitch for moonshine. I loved this on. Look up Chris Cornelle check the the Track moonchild on the Euphoria Morning 2000 album has the same topic describes this perspective but calls it blueshine. Of course star talk had the last twist . very nice to imagine. By the way concept album. Thats very powerful that will make it very relatable. Timelss i cant say no more. If you like music it moves you big and moves up on you top favorites.. Watcha
10:12 "To watch an Earth rise on the Moon..." Hmm.. you can't.. unless you're travelling.
The Moon is tidally locked to the Earth, which means one side of the Moon is always facing the Earth. If you are standing there, you can always see the Earth. The Earth never sets or rises. The Earth goes though different phases, it wobbles a little bit around its location but it never leaves its position on the sky.
If you want to see an Earth rise on the Moon, you will have to hop on a Moon rover and travel from the far-side to the near-side. You can go back and forth and watch as many Earth rises and sets as you want!!
I'm surprised Neil didn't interrupt him to remind this!
It’d be cool if these explainers had animation to help viewers understand them. Different artists could be showcased each show. Just an idea 💡
Chief Scientist of the Knights of Favonius 🤣🤣
That was great. Now time for a new co host.
I'll have some of that albedo moonshine
So do you absorb more sunlight when you are sunburned compared to not being sunburned?
14:00 it’s Bedo, Al-Bedo agent 008 . 🤦🏽♂️
GREATEST EDUCATOR ON EARTH 🌎!!!! LONG LIVE NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON!!!!
Is the pupil of eye a 0 Albedo ?
Albedo is a homunculus that specializes in providing shields for the team. Lol
As usual, funny, fascinating, and great!
Neil mains Albedo when he plays Genshin
Learned about albedo after listening to the album Albedo 0.39 by Vangelis in the early 80s. It has a track that tells you just about everything you would want to know about the earth. Wonder if any of the data has changed since it was written in the late 70s. IE Albedo 0.39?
Maybe it refers to the *_visual geometric albedo_* rather than the *_Bond albedo._*
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bond_albedo#Examples
The first is the fraction of visible light reflected directly back to the light source, as is the case when the Moon is full or an outer planet is in opposition. The Earth's value was earlier estimated by measuring the brightness of the earthlight on the Moon, but that's very hard to do precisely for a very thin lunar crescent since it is very close to the Sun in the sky. The value 0.39 might have been the best scientific estimate when that Vangelis album was released in 1976.
(BTW, my favourite track from that album is *_Alpha_* )
The second (Bond albedo) is the fraction of light at all wavelengths (including infrared and ultraviolet) reflected in all directions averaged over all angles of incoming light. That definition is more relevant for climate science since it deals with _all_ solar energy being reflected or absorbed, not just the part we can see with our eyes.
Tyson has GOT to get the word "so" out of his lexicon.
With all that said I now gotta wonder why nobody during the apollo missions took a picture of the earth from the surface of the moon. It must of been a breath taking view
You mean like this?
www.metabunk.org/attachments/as17-134-20387-jpg.21520/
It's worth noting that the Earth was quite high in the sky seen from all the Apollo landing sites, so it wouldn't normally be captured in images of the astronauts' activities on its surface.
All real images showing the Earth close to the Moon's horizon were taken from orbit around the Moon, like the famous _Earthrise_ taken by Apollo 8 in December 1968.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/NASA-Apollo8-Dec24-Earthrise.jpg
anyone else click becasue of genshin impact?
Yes
What I think is fascinating is that, from Earth, we see the Moon travel from east-to-west across the sky, but in truth, through outer space, the Moon actually travels from west-to-east across the sky. It is the fast rotation of the Earth that makes the Moon look like it is traveling east-to-west across the sky.
If the Moon is close to some bright stars, you can notice its eastward movement relative to them over just a few hours.
The only Albedo I know is the URTV from Xenosaga, one of the greatest rpgs ever made
Maybe next is about the ERGOSPHERE (heavy metal backsound)
I always found it fascinating that polar bear skin is black, and their fur is basically "clear". So their dark skin still gets to absorb sunlight and yet they appear white to better blend in with their environment.
💥💥 right there is my blown mind 😂
so who else thought he was gonna explain our favorite pretty alchemist
What is LIBIDO? for the next video!
Al Bedo, and his wife, Lil Bedo.
I was expecting Chuck to go more in that direction.
love ⭐🌟 EARTH SHINE!!!! 🌟⭐
Moonshine Albedo is badass lol
you can just see how passsionate Mr Tyson is about physics. Amazing haha
Didn't it was the Earth shine showing us the Moon's outline at dark, amazing.
So... If you add black dye to an ice cube, will it melt faster then a cube with no dye?
Keep educating us, Neil. You are the best.
Absolutely, if you're not considering any other effects of the paint like thermic isolation. Also people in very sunny places tend to wear very bright clothes to avoid getting hot
11:50 EarthShine because the light originates from the Sun and reflects off the Earth first then the moon and back to Earth. Moonshine the Sun’s light reflects off the moon first. If you are away from artificial lights EarthShine supplies enough light to cause shadows in the pre-dawn or post-sunset dark. The phenomenon only lasts for a short period though, before the Sun rises or the moon sets.
"WHAT!" Chuck is out here sounding like DMX!(RIP)
11:32 Gravity plays no part in seeing the dark outline of the Moon?
No.
@@fromnorway643 Why is it just the ridge then?
Damn Chuck is smart af!
Albido sounds like 'I'll be there'
so, is there anything with albedo 1 ?
A mirror.
Well, I suppose that no human-made mirror is so perfect to be Albedo 1, so the best ones should be a 0.9999999something albedo.
I only know because I played Star Frontiers (among hundreds of other RPGs) and an Albedo Suit protects you from LASERs
Albedo sounds like a phychoanalytic term, like Libido and Albedo xD
I had the same juxtaposition in my brain and decided to scroll before I commented lol
Can that low light on the dark side of the crescent moon come from other planets as well?
No, the full Earth is nearly 100,000 times brighter than the second brightest thing in the lunar night sky (Venus when at its brightest).
Other moons can also be lit by their parent planets. Here's Jupiter's moon Io lit by the Sun from the left and Jupiter from the right. Several active volcanoes are also visible:
www.nasa.gov/images/content/170756main_tvashtar.jpg
The image was taken by NASA's New Horizon probe in 2007 when it passed Jupiter on its way to Pluto.
EARTHSHINE IS THE REASON WHY I CAN SOMETIMES SEE A NEW MOON EVEN THO ITS NOT ILLUMINATED
BADASS
So.... When he asks "What's the albedo of earth is?" I just said - .3 and then chuck said .3 and then Neil said its right.
Nothing specific, just thought it was too co-incidental 🤔😅
And..... EARTH SHINEEEEEE 😄😄