"A chunk no bigger than a chihuahuas head" is definitely a simpsons reference from the episode when springfield was going to be hit by an asteroid. Thats pretty cool they snuck that in.
Witnessed a meteor fly overhead when I was around twelve. Playing baseball with several friends must have been late Spring when we saw and heard it fly what seemed like right over us. We could actually hear the amazing sound it made as the fireball, loudly sizzled, popped and ferociously burned up like a giant blowtorch. It left a multi colored smoking trail in the sky. It was so close we all thought it would land in the fields and woods behind the park where we were playing. We all raced up the trail to search for it, but we soon realized it just kept on going. It was that close thinking it was landing right by us. Seeing it blazing and the sound, that’s what I remember almost the most. It landed a 100+ miles away. Not very much news about it back in those days. That was 60 years ago.
I wrote a short story once about the future when Mars is a thriving, independent human settlement with millions of people living there. They discover a planet killing asteroid is about to hit Mars. They backtrack its orbit and discover that it's the same asteroid their Earthling ancestors redirected to keep it from impacting and killing everyone on Earth long before Mars was settled. I thought it was funny but no one else seemed to think so.
look at the current political field now. Satire only becomes satire when it's based in reality to look worse. Like the Regan sketch in SNL back in the 80's
@@Baelor-BreakspearCabin in the Woods was a great movie. I loved the comedy aspect of the film. It wasn't over the top like some semi-satire films can be.
I think trying to confine media to one genre is stifling to creativity and people should open their minds to one piece of media blending multiple genres together to create something new. To me that’s what I enjoyed most about Don’t Look Up.
I, for one, am not in favor of the new canine skull equivalency scale. The classic fruit equivalency system served my father and his father before him just fine. If you are curious a Chihuahua head is about 1.4 peaches or .8 navel oranges.
No it isn't. Movies never get it right and if you look to our actual past, differences dissolve faster than a company that goes woke. You'd just like to think something you like is the most probable, but you're in fact way off base.
I totally agree. People who make decisions at that level are very self-interested. They'll let everyone die for even a miniscule advantage for themselves. If you don't believe me look at all the wars that have been fought in recorded history. Look at the death toll and look at the reasoning for going to war. Its shocking anyone would kill so many people over ego, women, religious belief etc.
@@MikeJones-mf2fw No you don't. I think you get the jest of what I'm saying. Some people don't give a F what happens to other people as a result of their selfish decisions. Don't look up highlighted that fact. Its not about people not getting it. Its about people in power not giving a shit about the consequences of their actions.
I actually saw a meteor come down, break apart and then burn up while I was driving home last month. I don't think anything hit the ground as it was very small, but to see that happen a few hundred feet from my car was amazing.
I see them daily. But I see brake up every couple weeks. If you live in a small town where its not lit up like daytime then you'll see it a lot more often.
One time while driving through the thunder basin in Wyoming I saw a big, bright orange meteor that lasted for at least 10 seconds before burning up completely/disappearing
Yeah there's over 500k near earth objects flying around us at all times. And those are just the ones we have discovered. Most of the time we only learn about them after they've safely passed us. Its difficult to put into perspective because earth is so huge, but the odds are extremely low for anything major. Imagine how many tries it would take you to hit a spec of dust with another spec of dust. Thats how likely it is.
One of the more interesting aspects of the Chelyabinsk event was that one of the reasons that we didn’t see it coming was that most of the relevant optics or viewers were watching another NEO coming from the opposite direction. The Chelyabinsk object was an almost perfect melding of position in sky (coming from near the sun) and timing (we were all looking the other way).
My wife (now ex) and I watched one graze the atmosphere about 10 years ago. At first we thought we were watching an airplane on fire and it’s wing breaking off, then it spun a little more and we realized we were watching a meteor burning through the atmosphere. The coolest part was it bounced off of the atmosphere and went back into space and we watched the entire thing. The weirdest part was it seemed like it was in slow motion the entire time. The angle was unique as well. The sun was almost setting, and the meteor was coming in at such an extreme angle that the sunlight was underneath it lighting it from the bottom. Just one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
I would love to watch an asteroid get blown up by a nuke via cubesat. That would be the coolest thing ever. And the buckshot argument is valid, but shattering an asteroid into smaller fragments would also decrease the risk of sizeable pieces hitting the ground. Exploding, say, a 300m asteroid into hundreds of
In 1959 when living in Santa Fe, NM I was playing marbles with some friends. We heard a roar sort of sound above us we looked up and saw a meteorite in the late afternoon. It was huge and seemed to be very close. You could see a giant red hot ball that was boiling; there was material spitting off it. We weren't in a location like the salt flats enabling us to see it go from horizon to horizon but we did see it enter from our right and head out of sight on our left. It went slow, seriously it didn't look like the one in Russia that blew up in terms of speed. If I had counted how long it was visible I'm thinking I could have used the one thousand, two thousand method and reached five one thousand. I don't recall any discussion about what we'd witnessed; we just went back to shooting marbles out of the circle we drew in the dirt. We had serious business to attend to considering it was a keepsie game. It seems like yesterday, I can still see it clear in my mind after 63 years.
Saw a similar slow (4 seconds?), low, dim orange one cover 3/4 of the sky. We both swore we could hear it hiss as it went by. Another followed 5 seconds later. Coolest thing.
@@ntdscherer They said they could hear it? So if it were so high up to cause the object look at if it were moving slow how could they have heard it,,, I watched the ISS travel from horizon to horizon and it was very fast mover,,, What gives?
For me, the danger comes from these interstellar objects like Oumuamua that move so fast, by the time we discovered it, we couldn't even catch up with it with a probe if we wanted to. And we wanted to. Highly, highly unlikely... but so was the one from 65 million years ago (the impact, not the object).
I always knew the vredefort dome/vredefort crater was something interesting, but this video made me look into it. I knew it was in my country, but never realised it was only an hours drive away... Thank you Joe, weekend plans sorted 😁
Does that mean an asteroid is only called that when in space, but once it enters the atmosphere it becomes an aster and then on hitting the ground it becomes an asterite?
I find it insane that people keep forgetting that a huge meteor hit Russia just a few years ago and shattered windows and created a dust cloud for several hours.
The most amazing thing to me is that the meteor didn’t even hit the ground, except in small fragments. The extensive damage was almost entirely from an air burst.
Since I don't know you (but I do share your enthusiasm for Meteor Crater) I have no idea if you already know this, but the significance of Meteor Crater (aka Barringer Crater) goes way beyond the fact that it's a, well, meteor crater. Barringer Crater was the first location where it was demonstrated by Eugene Shoemaker that the impacts by extraterrestrial objects weren't just something that happened very early in Earth's history, that instead impacts have been continually occurring. Prior to Shoemaker's work, which was just in the 1950s!, the thinking in geologic circles was that Meteor Crater and other similar astroblems where volcanic in origin. This set the stage for acceptance of the Alvarez theory and, of course, the search for Near Earth Objects (as well as a couple bad Hollywood movies). Oh, and he also helped find that fragmented comet that hit Jupiter in 1994 called, appropriately enough, Shoemaker-Levy 9. Amazing guy, a bit of a hero of mine. Eugene Shoemaker's story is really cool, it sucks that he died in, of all things, a car wreck in the Australian outback. The biography of him, "Shoemaker by Levy" by David Levy, is well worth reading. Come to think of it, Gene Shoemaker would make a great topic for Joe Scott.
@@johnhodge5871 I saw Meteor Crater during a cross country trip from Boston to California, and once it was decided that we would be stopping there, I studied as much as I could beforehand. The funny part about Shoemaker Levy 9 being named after Eugene Shoemaker, is the fact that the collision with Jupiter shined a light onto Jupiter's role in basically vacuuming up the Solar System. So, on one hand, you have the man, Eugene Shoemaker, who helped prove that Barringer Crater was the result of a meteor impact... While on the other hand, you have the comet, which was named after the man, help prove that Jupiter was almost like a safety net because of its impact of the planet. You have 2 different impacts, on 2 different planets, involving man or the name "Shoemaker", that taught us SO much. Talk about leaving your name on something.
@@danieldevito6380 That is a perceptive and an outstanding observation! If Joe Scott does a video about Eugene Shoemaker, he really should include this. That one person, Eugene Shoemaker, showed that, yes, we do get hit but he also showed why we don't get hit more often is somehow very appropriate. Gene Shoemaker dared question scientific orthodoxy and in doing so propelled the science vastly forward.
3:45 There's a bunch of craters which are bigger than Chicxulub other than Sudbury and Vredfort that are most likely to be impact craters: Bangui (Africa), Ross (Antarctic Ocean), Mistassini-Otish (Canada), Shiva (Indian Ocean), Wilkes Land (Antarctica), Urals Ring (Russia), Nastapoka (Canada), Bedout (Australia), etc 14:35 I think that if a city-killer was heading our way, we'd find out where it was gonna land *exactly* and then determine fate from there.
A Ulysses scenario would leave us screwed though. An enormous object collides with one of Jupiter's moons and the debris trajectory set for earth as a cloud of continent sized rocks impacting in 5 years. The response was to build a bunch of massive rail gun turrets to blast them around lunar orbit.
Even something that big can miss us. Depending on the size of the moon obliterated will drastically spread the stream of debris meaning less debris per AU. The gaps between space bodies are so massive an object the size of continent will likely miss us the further away from concentrated debris.
Surely turning a 100 metre asteroid into a cloud of sand, dust and gravel, would be at least as bad as the original asteroid? Think Hatton round. I've had discussions where naive respondents have pointed out how air resistance burns up a single meteor of the sand, gravel or cobblestone size, before they hit the surface. What is a hatton round? It is the special military shotgun shell soldier use to shoot out hinges or door-locks, when entering a building full of enemies. Where a buckshot round contains about a dozen ball bearings the size of a dried chick pea a hatton round contains the equivalent weight of metallic dust. The soldier with the shotgun holds the muzzle almost right up against the hinge. At that range the dust is just as effective at blowing off the hinge as a buckshot round, because, at that range, air resistance won't have time to slow the dust down. But the dust has a huge advantage over buckshot - no ricochets to injure the soldier or his comrades. And the dust will not be fatal to anyone on the other side of the door. A single cobble-stone size meteor? If you were high up in the stratospher, in a hot air balloon, and a single cobble-stone sized meteor passed nearby, you'd feel the sonic boom. You'd survive, so long as it didn't hit you or your balloon. But what if 1000 cobble-stone sized meteors passed near you, all at the same time, and you were simultaneously struck by 1000 sonic booms? Would that collapse your balloon? Would it bring enough overpressure to kill you? What about 10000 simultaneous meteors? If I am doing my arithmetic correctly, if a nuke broke a 100 metre object into 10 centimetre cobbles, there would be 1 billion cobbles. Maybe all 1 billion cobbles would burn up before actually hitting the surface. But the shock wave generated would be as bad as if the original object had hit the surface. Maybe only the first 100 million cobbles would burn up. Just as they would be strongly affected by the air they passed through. But the air nearest a meteor is also strongly affected. 100 million cobbles might be enough to rip the atmosphere apart, so that the remaining 900 million cobbles do strike Earth's surface.
Every time I watch Answers with Joe, I get the feeling that we would be best friends. I can pictures us standing round the grill talking about all the stuff that's going to go wrong and kill us. Ah good times.
Yeah, life is a chance if not aborted, inheriting inferior qualities of perfection in DNA/RNA IRREGULARITIES, born to die from tainted air, water, food we consume, and negative news about everything that could/would do us in...Like a transit accident, military injury, sports melee, or just plain torture by ones government! Seems there's no regard for human life except to survive it day one...a time to learn bushcraft & skills to see another day before the inevitable big bang occurs!
Best content on youtube - just wanted to add this... Prior to impact, it took Dimorphos 11 hours and 55 minutes to orbit its larger parent asteroid Didymos. Astronomers used ground-based telescopes to measure how Dimorphos’ orbit changed after impact. Astronomers using the NSF's NOIRLab's SOAR telescope in Chile captured the vast plume of dust and debris blasted from the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos by NASA's DART spacecraft when it impacted on 26 September 2022. In this image, the more than 10,000 kilometer long dust trail - the ejecta that has been pushed away by the Sun's radiation pressure, not unlike the tail of a comet - can be seen stretching from the center to the right-hand edge of the field of view. Comet-like debris trail spotted after spacecraft crashes into asteroid Now, it takes Dimorphos 11 hours and 23 minutes to circle Didymos. The DART spacecraft changed the moonlet asteroid’s orbit by 32 minutes.
@@charleslivingston2256 he has said before they get the absolute most views by far. Its not always his preference, but he has people on staff that need to get paid- and this is what most of his viewers seem yo respond to. I love them. People really don’t seem to get how fragile and rare the odds of intelligent life are- because of all the things that can wipe us out at any point now or before we reached this stage. In times of great upheaval and especially times of existential crisis, people get more morbidly curious. There were waves of interesting apocalypse fiction after each WW and throughout the cold war, and most recently much of it has been fueled by climate change in the last 20 years.
@@charleslivingston2256 what’s truly random is that my last name is actually Livingston too :D that crazy but I agree, Joe has some sorta niche for apocalyptic scenarios. Lol
What's sadder is the idea of a projectEd impact that wasn't species ending but would be catastrophic for a locality. "WHT should my taxes prevent Argentina from being a crater?" type thing.
Thanks for this video. I just thought of this Canadian film I once saw at a film festival; Last night (It's not the end of the world... there's still six hours left) from 1998. Shot in 16mm to look more like a private recording with brilliant screenplay - probably one of the best films I've seen.
10:30 Hitting an astroid a SECOND time with an atom bomb seems very unlikely to have any impact. Atomic bombs on the Earth get most of their impact from the pressure wave. As there is no air in space, you loose that impact, and are only left with the highly energetic, but low mass, debris of the bomb itself. The first bomb would probably be most effective if you manage to plant it inside the astroid somehow. That might blow up the astroid. But the second bomb would just be a little bit more bomb debris inside a large mess of astroid debris.
The Tunguska impact event in 1908 happened at about the same latitude as Leningrad. So, had the object hit 3 hours later, the city would have been wiped out.
Hey joe, about the exposition part, we currently don’t possess a strong enough explanation to destroy an astroid , resent experiment shows that even if we “Armageddon” the astroid with our biggest bomb we possess, it wont be enough the simulation shows that the astroid will “pull itself together” and will add to it with a cloud of debris surrounding it… loved that episode (as usual!)
A spacerock, in the middle of endless space, that is roughly the size of a football field found 18months out from impact is extremely impressive. I can't imagine the difficulty these scientists have in finding these things
The simpsons reference in the episode "Bart's Comet" Homer says "The comet will break up in the atmosphere and would be no bigger then a chiuaua's head."
The question would be what else could you do? The technology to "just nuke it away" is for a real astroid just not available. So you see it, you are screwed. So probably don't look up and live your life like it's your last day - because it is.
12:28 "Currently it takes 11 hours and 55 minutes to orbit and it's expected that after the blast it will orbit every 10 minutes." Big mistake. It's expected that after the blast the orbit will take 10 minutes SHORTER, this is, 11 hours and 45 minutes.
4:03 "I mean.........." I was honestly concerned for a brief moment during that pause lmfao, felt like the perfect movie scenario for it to actually happen right here right now.
The photo at 4:31 is not an image of Tunguska but rather a photo from the Hokan Bacau Forest, Romania, area where a strange area of limited plant growth occurs. As far as no one getting killed from the Tunguska event, True no one died directly from getting smashed from the falling space rock but indigenous people did die from the gases produced from the event according a Russia documentary about 1908 meteor, The standard for information about it.
I’d imagine those “6 months not enough” and “5 years at least” timeframes are based on not just existing tech, but existing institutions. I’d think if we really did have an earth killer on track to hit us in 6 months, we’d mobilize the very best of the human race, not just in terms of scientists and engineers to design new tech, but manufacturing to produce it incredibly quickly. And we could be doing all manner of testing in parallel rather than sequentially. Nothing else would matter if the world were destroyed. It would be a fairly singular focus. Could we get it done? Idk, but if NASA thinks 5 years, I’d have to guess we could compress that timeframe a lot under those circumstances. Humans are really good at dealing with a clear short term threat. We just suck with the long slow ones. Edit: ok, you kinda touch on this shortly afterward. I think COVID was a bit of a different situation than an asteroid would be (especially since we already have a few movies showing the world coming together to save itself from an asteroid or other space threat, which, perhaps ironically, I think would actually help if the situation ever arose-not in terms of the solutions but the message of this is a major threat and we all need to come together to save the world. Messaging is powerful. I don’t think COVID or masks would’ve been the political issue they are if not for certain people pushing certain messages early on that spiraled out of control). I know it’s not a science issue, but I think the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a bit indicative. Many of the same people who pushed anti-science COVID misinformation also pushed misinformation about Russia (pro Putin) and Ukraine (anti Zelensky and Biden corruption allegations) for years that were mostly bought. But the war clarified things a lot, and many of those message pushers had to reverse. The war is just too clear and understandable (and the underdog story of Ukraine I think plays a big part in how people feel about it, too, at least in the US, where we love an underdog story). I think an asteroid headed for earth would be similar. It would be a lot harder to deceive millions about something we could more easily understand, because we already have a Bruce Willis movie about it. Also, there’s a lot less reason to try to deceive people if the world is going to end. Covid was bad, but (and I’m not one who ever makes this point), it only killed 2-3% at its peak. I only say that to compare it to the potential 100% kill rate of a huge asteroid.
20 years ago I would have agreed with you but recent history leads me to imagine half of society would not believe the science and complain that it is a waste of time and money.
recent events make me believe that there'd be pro astroid convoys traveling through countries and they'd convince half the population that this is just a nazi/communist/whatever tactic to take away your freedoms and savings. There'd be calculations about which side of the earth will be hit and those countries on the other side would waste time and energy on preparing for the apocalypse instad of actually avoiding it because "we're not the ones who get pulverized right...right?". I know it's a bit exaggerated but as a whole, we're not capable of acting as one force.
@@scottcarter6623 What unfounded promises? Making electric cars? Selling 500K of them in 2020? Making rockets? Landing rockets? Reusing rockets? Reusing them over 10 times? Flying astronauts to the ISS? Flying civilian crews? Starship? And I could go on and on. Elon is often optimistic with his timelines, but always delivers. And even when he's late, he's still way much faster than anyone else. For example compare Crew Dragon to Boeing Starliner. Or Starship to SLS.
I despised the movie, the reason was because it didn't feel like satire. It felt like what is happening right now. The more I watched the more it pissed me off.
I love-hate “Don’t Look Up” because it was comically ridiculous but also scarily close to the truth. I didn’t view it as satire because, given all that’s happened during the pandemic, I don’t think it exaggerated society’s reaction at all . . .
I loved it but also it terrified me, too, because you are right. It’s unfortunately not that exaggerated. Imagine if that came out ten years ago. Lol We’d laugh at it like “yea, K 🙄” but here we are. This is our reality. 😂😭🤭
Love-love for me, after not seeing part of the family for two years due to their not-comic resistance to masks and vaccines. A near-fatal bout with the 'VID...didn't change a durned thing.
Yeah, while watching it I was constantly flip-flopping between enjoying the humor and satire and being depressed that we as a society are too stupid to deserve to survive.
You know what always bugged me? When some celebrity achieves greatness quickly and people call it a "meteoric rise". Isn't that confusing? If I was that celebrity I'd wonder if you're subtly insulting me.
The younger dryas impact was around 12-14000 years ago. I believe after research and videos that this impact sent us back to the stone age. Not quite a planet killer but it killed off a lot of the worlds population.
@@jim-stacy I don't seriously believe in this, but I do remember people who do. Theorize it impacted in ice fields, seeing that it was (possibly) during the ice age. And wound up flash heating a lot of the ice But it's just a whacky theory as far as I know
The interesting thing about the Sudbury crater is that Sudbury today is a major Nickel mining area. They're basically mining an asteroid from earth 🌎 🪨 😁
My dream was to watch a movie that accurately depicted the depressing and terrifying scenario of an asteroid impacting the planet and pretty much ending global civilization. From Hollywood, Deep Impact (1998) was the closest one to show this, at least until 'murica saving the planet in the last minute. What they also got wrong was the impact of the smaller piece, with people staring at it without as it traveled in this really weird angle in the sky without being burned alive or blinded, not to mention it would only take seconds rather than a full minute. From international movies, These Final Hours (2013) was the almost-perfect depiction. We don't get to see the actual impact, but the debris cloud reaching Australia after an impact in the North Atlantic. Although depicted as this wave of fire, it is symbolically the same as what would likely be in real life (temperatures high enough to kill every human). Not to mention this movie has such a hopeless atmosphere throughout it's really terrifying, and so masterfully crafted, you just KNOW there is nothing they can do about it. (PS. There were some pretty neat viral ARG that never caught on, which shows even more details about the event.) Now, there were other movies over the years. Armageddon (1998) and Greenland (2020), which are just silly pro-America blockbusters with some silly "science", and then you have Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) and now this one, and in both of these, the actual disaster and its very-much serious risk is not the main focus, but just a vessel for comedy/satire. What this leads me to believe is that an actual, scientifically-based movie about this scenario is pretty much impossible now since it has become an overused topic. It would be harder to sell for studios to pick up and give the greenlight. And as someone else said in the comments, the message of this movie is as subtle as a sledgehammer, which I dislike, because it could've easily be a very-much serious drama tackling with the same issues in a more intelligent way. I also believe The Road (2009) could be "considered" a post-impact scenario, but both the movie and the book leave the actual cataclysm ambiguous. For it to work as a post-impact scenario, the people in the movie would have have survived the "summer" first somehow, to only then experience the "winter" as shown in the movie, and that would require some obvious changes, so it's not really a post-impact story. But this is just my ramblings since no one else would hear my venting, I guess in the end what matters is to keep it simple and funny for movies nowadays. Guess tastes are tastes.
The main reason we don’t have a dinosaur killer event more frequently on earth is a combination of most of them happening during the early bombardment phase of earths creation and more importantly Jupiter. You can think of Jupiter and even Saturn has giant vacuum machines that are sucking up a lot of the large objects. Particularly ones coming from trans Neptunian areas or even from the Oort cloud.
@@waynemyers2469 It is indeed a team effort! The complete uniqueness of our planetary system and how every odd quirk protects us REALLY well may be the answer to the Fermi Paradox. The universe is so big so this probably is false, but definitely something to think about.
@@luke-i1w in terms of life existing out there besides on planet Earth, I think it’s obvious that it does. Whether it is sent in or not I can’t say but the odds are also in favor of that. The biggest reason why I think life is out there is because all life on earth is made up of the same elements that exist everywhere in the universe. We are basically the product of exploding stars and because of that it seems obvious that life exists across our galaxy and multiple other galaxies. Also space is immensely large. Just our radio frequencies leaving earth is similar to the size of a BB dropped in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. One phenomena that could be eradicating intelligent life, particularly before it becomes so advanced that it can travel long distances in the universe would be supernovas, Hypernova, gamma rays, asteroid hit and other similar issues. Particularly if a civilization developed within an area that was full of stars as the odds would go up that a nova would destroy them. We might be in a good position because we live in the rural part of our galaxy.
@@luke-i1w The universe is not only big but very, very old! The Earth is 4.5 billion years old. The universe is over 14 billion years old. Humanity has been around for only a few thousand years and the technology to view the stars for only a few hundred. The Fermi Paradox totally ignores the time aspect. From just the time aspect alone, the chances of another (alien) civilization existing anywhere near our level of technology is less than a million million to one! That is also why SETI is so stupid. We've known about electromagnetic (radio) waves for only ~200 years and are on the verge of developing quantum entanglement networks. SETI's looking for radio signal is like the Aborigines looking for smoke signals for intercontinental signs of civilization!
@@ttrestle Space is indeed huge. My personal belief is that there is other intelligent life out there for that reason alone. Even if the odds are staggeringly low, there is just too much space for it to not happen more than once. I like to play devil's advocate with myself though and see things from the other side. Until reading your original post, I had never really though about just how lucky we are to have the protections we take for granted.
I saw a fireball twice. Once back in the 90's. It was so impressive i thought I might be able to smell it burning. I couldn't have smelled it anyway, it being it the upper atmosphere. And all. I was driving south on the belt one 4am morning, and I really hoped that someone else saw it too. Almost as bright as the first one.
As a geologist I must admit that most of us have a small obsession with wanting to see a "small" impact in our lifetimes! I know I do. Nothing involving the loss of human life though. Maybe another one in Siberia or Antartica. Then we could test the 11.8Ka impact theory on an ice sheet!
Dang Joe, your content is so good! Way to bring our collective conscientiousness together and make it so darn entertaining too! (rivaling the afore mentioned film)
Finally, someone who knows the difference between a meteor and a meteorite! Seen a load of space videos where the words meteor and meteorite are used wrongly Good video Joe
When you hear of the amount of material hitting the Earth every day, it makes you wonder about satellite safety and Moon missions. No atmosphere to stop them!
I like the tactics demonstrated in The Expanse. Orbital railguns in combination with nuclear warheads to disburse the mass. Of course, the assumption being that those systems are already active, in place, and validated.
@@altortugas5979 I was actually thinking that, rather than true, military "railguns," we could set up the orbital equivalent of a maglev train. That way, when we sequester megatons of CO2, we can quickly ship it to Mars. Then, when big, bad asteroid arrives, we can just shoot a massive tungsten bolt at it doing about 50,000 mph. Or light pumps. Light pumps are cool, too.
The two richest men on earth would be expected to step up and handle it with their rocket programs and infinite money. Otherwise, we eat them at our final feast.
Yassssss!! Life got busy and I stopped watching you & I'm so happy that I came across your channel again! Yep I'm one of those people who have subscribed to way more UA-cam channels than I could ever conceivably watch in 24 hr period 🙄 so super happy to catch a fresh video 👍
Or just mine the crap out of the moon! Build a stonking base in one of those massive lava tubes and use the raw mats as the launching point for solar system colonization. IMHO, Mars is the wrong target.
@@prestonrodenkirch8412 to some extent that is correct. as long as we don't blast the damn thing out of it's orbit, we're gonna be alright.......as alright as the future humans could be, since we're slowly but surely putting rakes on our own path
@@itsdokko2990 Oh come on man. You know humans will totally screw that up. If we start messing with the moon directly we will do way more damage there than we have here . Considering that if the moon goes wonky it could create planetary tectonic and oceanic chaos is it really worth the risk? Humans need to reassess our behavior before we start expanding into space with our reckless consumption of what's around us with self destructive consequences. Otherwise if we do find other life out there it isn't going to like us regardless of who's superior.
I thought I heard if you blow up an asteroid it’s own gravity can pull it back together pretty quickly. I imagine it could still change the trajectory tho.
To a certain extent it depends on the asteroid and how hard you hit it. If it's a ball of gravel and you hit it gently it probably will collapse relatively quickly. Hit something under a few kilometers with a nuke and those fragments will be moving far too fast to collapse before the cloud gets torn apart by the complex web of intersecting gravity fields.
Outta curiosity, what's your thoughts on the younger dryas impact theory? Mile thick ice sheet or ocean impact or atmosphere skip etc (I've gone on a Randall Carlson binge lately lmao)
Yo, Joe. Meteors don't actually "burn up" in the atmosphere. They are heated until they vaporize, but that vapor that consists mainly of the minerals and/or elements that made up the meteor. So then, presumably, that material will eventually cool and make its way all the way down to the earth as very fine dust. It may take years, decades, or even centuries, but it will get here some day.
How well is Hollywood promoting their movies these days? Hint: this is the first time that I've ever heard of "Don't Look Up". Must have fallen through the cracks between all those comic hero movies and reboots of yesteryear nostalgia.
I wouldn’t say there has been a loss of trust in science. I mean some people don’t, and never have, that hasn’t changed. What there has been a massive loss of trust in over the last few years is government. And not just one in particular.
Great point. Trust in science that is bent to governmental and political pressure has come under much greater suspicion, and rightly so. Science, itself, though, is, should be, and still could be, a unifying factor.
You'd have to have the nuke buried deep into the asteroid for the blast to be effective (unless trying to change the asteroids course. ) The other issue... is alot of the energy from a nuclear blast, is in the form of 'heat'... this massive blast of heat propels the shockwave through the medium the bomb explodes in. Though deep penetration into a loosely consolidated rubble pile style asteroid might disperse it... it may also fuse chunks of it together forming a more solid object, still headed towards us. In the case of a nickel/Iron asteroid... I doubt it'll blow apart even if deeply penetrated (if the asteroid is several km across. ) Might be able to redirect it that way though.
You omitted the scenario of a comet coming from the general direction of the Sun. Comets are quite large and that trajectory would make them difficult to detect.
That boy was at the top of his game and suddenly, as if someone were just *Slapped* across the face, it came to an absolutely grinding halt. Books will be written about that fall from grace.
8:19 Riker: Could we blow it into pieces? Data: The total mass would remain the same. And the impact of thousands of fragments would spread destruction over an even wider area. SFDebris: Let's call that Option Moron after it's creator, Commander William T. Moron, wreaker of falling death. (Sorry, just seeing if I'm the only one with this extremely niche source of humor haha)
thousands of fragments have a vastly increased surface area - if you split an asteroid into pieces small enough to burn up? then it doesn't matter how many of those pieces there are.
@@JohnnyWednesday you still get the majority of the energy, just as atmospheric heat. If you spread it enough, you spread it over more time, and thus have less heat damage. But you still shed the same energy upon the earth.
@@WilliamHostman any explosion large enough to make smaller debris would make enough pecies small enough to not create the heat energy of larger pieces, and deflect so completely away from hitting the planet. While not ideal, not a planet killer of the consolidated mass.
@@williamcrowley5506 most likely, any such attempt would spread the heat input over more time. A needed threshold exists for maximum safe temp (~70°C); fragmentation only is effective if it keeps surface temps overall to about that; above that, even most desert life dies. If that lasts more than a week, most everything dies on the surface. And we get a fine mixed seafood broth over 70% of the planet. Shattering to miss isn't likely, simply because any shatter attempt is too late for the drift to ensure a miss.
Honestly I liked that movie tbh, shows how npc and robotic people have become and how fear and being oblivious living in bliss truly how most people are
So I know we always talk about an impact with earth, but what about impact with the moon? For instance, what size of impact would be needed to have an effect on it's orbit and how much debris would be ejected towards earth?
"A chunk no bigger than a chihuahuas head" is definitely a simpsons reference from the episode when springfield was going to be hit by an asteroid. Thats pretty cool they snuck that in.
I’d give you a No Prize, but it was a comet in The Simpsons. So close! 😆
@@ryantwombly720 ah your right!
So many good moments from that episode!
"Let's go burn down the observatory, so this'll never happen again!"
Americans will do everything to avoid using the metric system. Even using TV references seem to be an acceptable option.
The question you should be asking yourself is, did the scientists sneak in a The Simpsons reference or did The Simpsons once again predict the future?
I read this comment right as he said it 😳😂
Shooting a laser towards an asteroid from earth is probably the closest thing we'll ever get to making our planet into a literal Deathstar
Oh come onnnnn, we can get closer
Nope no laser beam could be focused enough to actually make a bit of difference......the farther away the less photons hit the object
Let’s do it deathstar sounds good to me
Watching too many sci-fi movies you are!
@@midbc1midbc199 well I can dream, ok ? 😂
Witnessed a meteor fly overhead when I was around twelve. Playing baseball with several friends must have been late Spring when we saw and heard it fly what seemed like right over us. We could actually hear the amazing sound it made as the fireball, loudly sizzled, popped and ferociously burned up like a giant blowtorch. It left a multi colored smoking trail in the sky. It was so close we all thought it would land in the fields and woods behind the park where we were playing. We all raced up the trail to search for it, but we soon realized it just kept on going. It was that close thinking it was landing right by us. Seeing it blazing and the sound, that’s what I remember almost the most. It landed a 100+ miles away. Not very much news about it back in those days. That was 60 years ago.
I have seen the same over Montreal 20 years ago, while waiting on a red traffic light. It looked like a firework but going down.
My comment currently above is correct..
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the comet is a metaphor for the Communist Party of China.
I wrote a short story once about the future when Mars is a thriving, independent human settlement with millions of people living there. They discover a planet killing asteroid is about to hit Mars. They backtrack its orbit and discover that it's the same asteroid their Earthling ancestors redirected to keep it from impacting and killing everyone on Earth long before Mars was settled. I thought it was funny but no one else seemed to think so.
You are now on Elon Musk's Watch List.
I like that story idea
@@millec60 thanks
That's what you call, "Cosmic irony." Literally.
@@dennisbergendorfii5440 Hehe. See? You get it. No one else likes it. Maybe I'll republish it.
"Don't Look Up" seemed more like horror than a satire. The changes in tone and behavior make more sense when you look at it that way.
Like cabin in the woods. Everything ends at the end of the film and it’s sad knowing we could’ve done something to fix that impending doom
look at the current political field now. Satire only becomes satire when it's based in reality to look worse. Like the Regan sketch in SNL back in the 80's
@@theadventurer2628it’s even more like horror now than it was when it first came out to me honestly
@@Baelor-BreakspearCabin in the Woods was a great movie. I loved the comedy aspect of the film. It wasn't over the top like some semi-satire films can be.
I think trying to confine media to one genre is stifling to creativity and people should open their minds to one piece of media blending multiple genres together to create something new. To me that’s what I enjoyed most about Don’t Look Up.
Asteroids are the universe's way of asking "How's that space program coming along?"
I, for one, am not in favor of the new canine skull equivalency scale. The classic fruit equivalency system served my father and his father before him just fine. If you are curious a Chihuahua head is about 1.4 peaches or .8 navel oranges.
Are those California or Georgia peaches?
Hahaha that got me rolling 😂
@@ronjones-6977 California standard only applies to almonds
The only acceptable scale is Bananas.
@@1993httphil Bananas for length (up to one Carlos), and Freedoms per Eagle for speed
My fave Berrenger crater quote, "Amazing how close that meteor came hitting that building and parking lot. Good thing it missed."
When I visited, a park ranger told me a similar story: a couple had asked her how the meteor managed not to destroy the buildings.
What happened in "Don't look up" is exactly what would happen in reality. We're just not built for threats we can't see with our own eyes.
No it isn't. Movies never get it right and if you look to our actual past, differences dissolve faster than a company that goes woke. You'd just like to think something you like is the most probable, but you're in fact way off base.
Speak for yourself. Some get new abstract ideas perfectly well.
I totally agree. People who make decisions at that level are very self-interested. They'll let everyone die for even a miniscule advantage for themselves. If you don't believe me look at all the wars that have been fought in recorded history. Look at the death toll and look at the reasoning for going to war. Its shocking anyone would kill so many people over ego, women, religious belief etc.
@@tbrokeboy417 do I have toooooooo
@@MikeJones-mf2fw No you don't. I think you get the jest of what I'm saying. Some people don't give a F what happens to other people as a result of their selfish decisions. Don't look up highlighted that fact. Its not about people not getting it. Its about people in power not giving a shit about the consequences of their actions.
I actually saw a meteor come down, break apart and then burn up while I was driving home last month. I don't think anything hit the ground as it was very small, but to see that happen a few hundred feet from my car was amazing.
I see them daily.
But I see brake up every couple weeks.
If you live in a small town where its not lit up like daytime then you'll see it a lot more often.
One time while driving through the thunder basin in Wyoming I saw a big, bright orange meteor that lasted for at least 10 seconds before burning up completely/disappearing
Yeah there's over 500k near earth objects flying around us at all times. And those are just the ones we have discovered. Most of the time we only learn about them after they've safely passed us. Its difficult to put into perspective because earth is so huge, but the odds are extremely low for anything major. Imagine how many tries it would take you to hit a spec of dust with another spec of dust. Thats how likely it is.
Yeah shooting stars are freaky. I've seen a couple that look like they were drawn by an impressionist artist who regularly takes shrooms.
Once I saw a blimp.
"No bigger than a chihuahua's head" ...It would seem the scientists behind that study were Simpson's fans.
Exactly! For reference: S06E14 - Bart's Comet
@@Spiff99 thanks! Too many Simpsons episodes for me to pick up on the reference lol
after a distaste for the metric system, the Simpsons is the most American thing ever created.
Yeah, I didn't catch that reference. 😄
@@joescott You really hit a Homer this time!
Imagine the repercussions of ignoring an event or series of events that could change the coarse of history until it was outside the publics control 🤔
One of the more interesting aspects of the Chelyabinsk event was that one of the reasons that we didn’t see it coming was that most of the relevant optics or viewers were watching another NEO coming from the opposite direction. The Chelyabinsk object was an almost perfect melding of position in sky (coming from near the sun) and timing (we were all looking the other way).
Excellent point, Darren. Just like humans to make that fatal mistake, isn't it?
@@marktwain368 doesnt ALL the news get us to look the wrong way ?
Kind of how the Moskva was looking at a Bayraktar TB2 drone and didn't see the missiles until it was too late? 😎🇺🇦
Hey Darren are you and Twain there nonhuman?😎🤙
Try PBS news it's not fox, CNN or fox.
If it's a problem that can be solved via launching a giant weapon at it, then I think humanity would step up to solve the problem with enthusiasm.
Hehe, good point!
I'm sensing a very strong American/Texan vibe from this one.
Exactly! If all it took was some gentle nudge and humanity working together we would be doomed 😆
@@werbnaright5012 😁 I'm British, i just have faith In....... human aggression 😅
@@ogrehaslayers605 We suck at unity
Pretty amazing how the meteor that caused Meteor Crater barely missed the ONLY building in the area!!
My wife (now ex) and I watched one graze the atmosphere about 10 years ago. At first we thought we were watching an airplane on fire and it’s wing breaking off, then it spun a little more and we realized we were watching a meteor burning through the atmosphere. The coolest part was it bounced off of the atmosphere and went back into space and we watched the entire thing. The weirdest part was it seemed like it was in slow motion the entire time.
The angle was unique as well. The sun was almost setting, and the meteor was coming in at such an extreme angle that the sunlight was underneath it lighting it from the bottom. Just one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.
So ........
It was a shallow angle?
@@jdc1957 not sure how to describe it… shallow angle seems good though
It 100 percent didn't bounce off the atmosphere. It just burned up or exploded and if you saw it change direction it was an exploded peice
@@MikeJones-mf2fw Mike Jones: time traveler, psychic, read a science book. 👍
@@ogrehaslayers605 a CRT science 📖 book
Pretty convenient that the Arizona meteor landed right next to the visitor centre.
I would love to watch an asteroid get blown up by a nuke via cubesat. That would be the coolest thing ever.
And the buckshot argument is valid, but shattering an asteroid into smaller fragments would also decrease the risk of sizeable pieces hitting the ground. Exploding, say, a 300m asteroid into hundreds of
In 1959 when living in Santa Fe, NM I was playing marbles with some friends. We heard a roar sort of sound above us we looked up and saw a meteorite in the late afternoon. It was huge and seemed to be very close. You could see a giant red hot ball that was boiling; there was material spitting off it. We weren't in a location like the salt flats enabling us to see it go from horizon to horizon but we did see it enter from our right and head out of sight on our left. It went slow, seriously it didn't look like the one in Russia that blew up in terms of speed. If I had counted how long it was visible I'm thinking I could have used the one thousand, two thousand method and reached five one thousand. I don't recall any discussion about what we'd witnessed; we just went back to shooting marbles out of the circle we drew in the dirt. We had serious business to attend to considering it was a keepsie game. It seems like yesterday, I can still see it clear in my mind after 63 years.
Keepsies are most critical for sure
It only looked slow due to distance; there is no such thing as a slow meteor.
Saw a similar slow (4 seconds?), low, dim orange one cover 3/4 of the sky. We both swore we could hear it hiss as it went by. Another followed 5 seconds later. Coolest thing.
The way you tell the story, I'd say you haven't yet lost all your marbles.
@@ntdscherer They said they could hear it? So if it were so high up to cause the object look at if it were moving slow how could they have heard it,,, I watched the ISS travel from horizon to horizon and it was very fast mover,,, What gives?
For me, the danger comes from these interstellar objects like Oumuamua that move so fast, by the time we discovered it, we couldn't even catch up with it with a probe if we wanted to. And we wanted to.
Highly, highly unlikely... but so was the one from 65 million years ago (the impact, not the object).
1:06 _"and nothing else interesting happened that night"_ I lost it 🤣😂😹
I always knew the vredefort dome/vredefort crater was something interesting, but this video made me look into it. I knew it was in my country, but never realised it was only an hours drive away... Thank you Joe, weekend plans sorted 😁
500 rands petrol to go to a dusty section of veld
@@MrSimonw58 Well you must be fun at parties.
Good chance to stick the 4x4 in low range and explore
Does that mean an asteroid is only called that when in space, but once it enters the atmosphere it becomes an aster and then on hitting the ground it becomes an asterite?
Once it enters the atmosphere it's scientifically reffered to as a 'very big problem'
I think when one reaches the atmosphere it becomes a big hemorrhoid...
For a few minutes, yeah. But then after, no words will exist.
And its crater is called an asterhole.
@@nmxsanchez The exact scientific term for this is “Uh oh”
I love the fact that Joe was just a little too satisfied with the term: 'kinetic impactor'
I find it insane that people keep forgetting that a huge meteor hit Russia just a few years ago and shattered windows and created a dust cloud for several hours.
That was almost a decade ago. To be fair to me 9/11 seems like it was yesterday as well.
The most amazing thing to me is that the meteor didn’t even hit the ground, except in small fragments. The extensive damage was almost entirely from an air burst.
Did you even watch the video?
@@MrT------5743 i did, but in general the public conscience seems to have forgotten about it
@@safebox36 how do you know people forgot about it? Because it isn't in the news all the time?
I went to Meteor Crater and the Grand Canyon back in 2014 and, because of my obsession with space, I found Meteor Crater 1000x more AMAZING.
Since I don't know you (but I do share your enthusiasm for Meteor Crater) I have no idea if you already know this, but the significance of Meteor Crater (aka Barringer Crater) goes way beyond the fact that it's a, well, meteor crater. Barringer Crater was the first location where it was demonstrated by Eugene Shoemaker that the impacts by extraterrestrial objects weren't just something that happened very early in Earth's history, that instead impacts have been continually occurring. Prior to Shoemaker's work, which was just in the 1950s!, the thinking in geologic circles was that Meteor Crater and other similar astroblems where volcanic in origin. This set the stage for acceptance of the Alvarez theory and, of course, the search for Near Earth Objects (as well as a couple bad Hollywood movies).
Oh, and he also helped find that fragmented comet that hit Jupiter in 1994 called, appropriately enough, Shoemaker-Levy 9. Amazing guy, a bit of a hero of mine.
Eugene Shoemaker's story is really cool, it sucks that he died in, of all things, a car wreck in the Australian outback. The biography of him, "Shoemaker by Levy" by David Levy, is well worth reading.
Come to think of it, Gene Shoemaker would make a great topic for Joe Scott.
Yeah, great idea. Thanks for sharing this. It is amazing that our understanding is so recent.
@@johnhodge5871 I saw Meteor Crater during a cross country trip from Boston to California, and once it was decided that we would be stopping there, I studied as much as I could beforehand. The funny part about Shoemaker Levy 9 being named after Eugene Shoemaker, is the fact that the collision with Jupiter shined a light onto Jupiter's role in basically vacuuming up the Solar System. So, on one hand, you have the man, Eugene Shoemaker, who helped prove that Barringer Crater was the result of a meteor impact... While on the other hand, you have the comet, which was named after the man, help prove that Jupiter was almost like a safety net because of its impact of the planet. You have 2 different impacts, on 2 different planets, involving man or the name "Shoemaker", that taught us SO much. Talk about leaving your name on something.
Water and large meteorites/bolides the great equalizers.
@@danieldevito6380 That is a perceptive and an outstanding observation! If Joe Scott does a video about Eugene Shoemaker, he really should include this. That one person, Eugene Shoemaker, showed that, yes, we do get hit but he also showed why we don't get hit more often is somehow very appropriate. Gene Shoemaker dared question scientific orthodoxy and in doing so propelled the science vastly forward.
Honestly, I don’t think we could all come together at this point. We’ve gotten so divided. A big reset might be what we need as a species.
"Most of them land in the drink"
I like the way you worded that
It's like me on Friday nights.
A big one would create one hell of a tsunami.
3:45 There's a bunch of craters which are bigger than Chicxulub other than Sudbury and Vredfort that are most likely to be impact craters:
Bangui (Africa), Ross (Antarctic Ocean), Mistassini-Otish (Canada), Shiva (Indian Ocean), Wilkes Land (Antarctica), Urals Ring (Russia), Nastapoka (Canada), Bedout (Australia), etc
14:35 I think that if a city-killer was heading our way, we'd find out where it was gonna land *exactly* and then determine fate from there.
Yup in Quebec there is one of 600km probably the biggest 2.2 bilions year ago !!
Hey Joe… i signed up to that curiosity stream and nebula thing through your link… its dope, thankyou!
A Ulysses scenario would leave us screwed though.
An enormous object collides with one of Jupiter's moons and the debris trajectory set for earth as a cloud of continent sized rocks impacting in 5 years.
The response was to build a bunch of massive rail gun turrets to blast them around lunar orbit.
Was wondering when someone would bring up the Stonehenge Turret network in a asteroid impact scenario.
Is this like a video game or something? Sounds dumb.
@@filonin2 But you get nice anti-aircraft weaponry out of it tho
@@filonin2 ace combat 4. That's all just the prologue
Even something that big can miss us. Depending on the size of the moon obliterated will drastically spread the stream of debris meaning less debris per AU. The gaps between space bodies are so massive an object the size of continent will likely miss us the further away from concentrated debris.
The "s" is silent in Fresnel. It's a French name. Freh-nell. He's the guys to designed the lens, used in lighthouses to this day.
Surely turning a 100 metre asteroid into a cloud of sand, dust and gravel, would be at least as bad as the original asteroid? Think Hatton round.
I've had discussions where naive respondents have pointed out how air resistance burns up a single meteor of the sand, gravel or cobblestone size, before they hit the surface.
What is a hatton round? It is the special military shotgun shell soldier use to shoot out hinges or door-locks, when entering a building full of enemies. Where a buckshot round contains about a dozen ball bearings the size of a dried chick pea a hatton round contains the equivalent weight of metallic dust. The soldier with the shotgun holds the muzzle almost right up against the hinge. At that range the dust is just as effective at blowing off the hinge as a buckshot round, because, at that range, air resistance won't have time to slow the dust down. But the dust has a huge advantage over buckshot - no ricochets to injure the soldier or his comrades. And the dust will not be fatal to anyone on the other side of the door.
A single cobble-stone size meteor? If you were high up in the stratospher, in a hot air balloon, and a single cobble-stone sized meteor passed nearby, you'd feel the sonic boom. You'd survive, so long as it didn't hit you or your balloon. But what if 1000 cobble-stone sized meteors passed near you, all at the same time, and you were simultaneously struck by 1000 sonic booms? Would that collapse your balloon? Would it bring enough overpressure to kill you? What about 10000 simultaneous meteors?
If I am doing my arithmetic correctly, if a nuke broke a 100 metre object into 10 centimetre cobbles, there would be 1 billion cobbles. Maybe all 1 billion cobbles would burn up before actually hitting the surface. But the shock wave generated would be as bad as if the original object had hit the surface.
Maybe only the first 100 million cobbles would burn up. Just as they would be strongly affected by the air they passed through. But the air nearest a meteor is also strongly affected. 100 million cobbles might be enough to rip the atmosphere apart, so that the remaining 900 million cobbles do strike Earth's surface.
'Nothing else happened that night'
Classic!
Every time I watch Answers with Joe, I get the feeling that we would be best friends. I can pictures us standing round the grill talking about all the stuff that's going to go wrong and kill us. Ah good times.
This was the first time I've watched Answers with Joe. I've never subscribed to a channel quicker than just now.
Joe, send this fan a cardboard cut out of you. We know you have them.
Shoot your shot king
C'mon if you were standing around the grill you'd all be saying things like "oh hey, watch out that one needs flipping! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😎🤙JK
Yeah, life is a chance if not aborted, inheriting inferior qualities of perfection in DNA/RNA IRREGULARITIES, born to die from tainted air, water, food we consume, and negative news about everything that could/would do us in...Like a transit accident, military injury, sports melee, or just plain torture by ones government! Seems there's no regard for human life except to survive it day one...a time to learn bushcraft & skills to see another day before the inevitable big bang occurs!
Best content on youtube - just wanted to add this...
Prior to impact, it took Dimorphos 11 hours and 55 minutes to orbit its larger parent asteroid Didymos. Astronomers used ground-based telescopes to measure how Dimorphos’ orbit changed after impact.
Astronomers using the NSF's NOIRLab's SOAR telescope in Chile captured the vast plume of dust and debris blasted from the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos by NASA's DART spacecraft when it impacted on 26 September 2022. In this image, the more than 10,000 kilometer long dust trail - the ejecta that has been pushed away by the Sun's radiation pressure, not unlike the tail of a comet - can be seen stretching from the center to the right-hand edge of the field of view.
Comet-like debris trail spotted after spacecraft crashes into asteroid
Now, it takes Dimorphos 11 hours and 23 minutes to circle Didymos. The DART spacecraft changed the moonlet asteroid’s orbit by 32 minutes.
Another Random Thursday?! These are always the best 😌
But it isn't random how many are doom and gloom topics
Agreed!
@@charleslivingston2256 he has said before they get the absolute most views by far. Its not always his preference, but he has people on staff that need to get paid- and this is what most of his viewers seem yo respond to.
I love them. People really don’t seem to get how fragile and rare the odds of intelligent life are- because of all the things that can wipe us out at any point now or before we reached this stage.
In times of great upheaval and especially times of existential crisis, people get more morbidly curious. There were waves of interesting apocalypse fiction after each WW and throughout the cold war, and most recently much of it has been fueled by climate change in the last 20 years.
I love it when thursdays come after Monday’s or halfway through a Saturday afternoon.
@@charleslivingston2256 what’s truly random is that my last name is actually Livingston too :D that crazy but I agree, Joe has some sorta niche for apocalyptic scenarios. Lol
What's sadder is the idea of a projectEd impact that wasn't species ending but would be catastrophic for a locality. "WHT should my taxes prevent Argentina from being a crater?" type thing.
I happen to know a few people that would respond that way
Don't worry if an asteroid gets too close to Argentina, we'll probably just send two dudes on a scooter to steal it before it hits...
I'm not going to stand around and let those damn bugs wipe Buenos Aires off the map!
Or, if they prayed harder to the "right" God that wouldn't be happening.
Thanks for this video. I just thought of this Canadian film I once saw at a film festival; Last night (It's not the end of the world... there's still six hours left) from 1998. Shot in 16mm to look more like a private recording with brilliant screenplay - probably one of the best films I've seen.
Just used your link and got curiosity stream and just put it up on my TV and I can’t wait to start watching because I love documentaries !Thanks !
Awesome! You'll like it. :)
It has accounted for about 100 hours of my life so far.
10:30 Hitting an astroid a SECOND time with an atom bomb seems very unlikely to have any impact. Atomic bombs on the Earth get most of their impact from the pressure wave. As there is no air in space, you loose that impact, and are only left with the highly energetic, but low mass, debris of the bomb itself.
The first bomb would probably be most effective if you manage to plant it inside the astroid somehow. That might blow up the astroid. But the second bomb would just be a little bit more bomb debris inside a large mess of astroid debris.
The Tunguska impact event in 1908 happened at about the same latitude as Leningrad. So, had the object hit 3 hours later, the city would have been wiped out.
I saw a UFO once. Turned out to people playing glow in the dark frisbee golf. I got smacked in the head. And thought I was being abducted.
😂😂
You WERE abducted - They changed your mind, you only thought it was a frisbee. I know this because Donald Trump told me. And he is an alien.
That's what they want you to believe 😉
Thanks for the laugh 😆
Absolutely none of that is what I expected when I started reading your comment
Hey joe, about the exposition part, we currently don’t possess a strong enough explanation to destroy an astroid , resent experiment shows that even if we “Armageddon” the astroid with our biggest bomb we possess, it wont be enough the simulation shows that the astroid will “pull itself together” and will add to it with a cloud of debris surrounding it… loved that episode (as usual!)
What if we use two bombs
@@theminer2526 please watch this for better explanation then I suggested: ua-cam.com/video/3gmtSTpZvRY/v-deo.html
don't we have thousands of bombs, tho? i though the USA was known for his MAD stockpile. or do you mean we only have a few "big ones"?
@@theminer2526 or get this.. and I may be going a little too far here but hear me out... what if we use THREE?
@@nmxsanchez I think that would be a little unethical... I honestly can't believe you just suggested that. 🤔
Joe you're only getting better with time. Love it
A spacerock, in the middle of endless space, that is roughly the size of a football field found 18months out from impact is extremely impressive. I can't imagine the difficulty these scientists have in finding these things
Imagine there is a white sperm whale somewhere in our oceans. Let’s just call it Moby. How much time do you think will it take us to find Moby?
No problem at night, but try to see one in the day time. That's the trick.
It is even more impressive when these things find us..
Only 17 meteorites?!? That makes me truly appreciate the one a saw. I didn't see the impact, but I heard it
The simpsons reference in the episode "Bart's Comet" Homer says "The comet will break up in the atmosphere and would be no bigger then a chiuaua's head."
You are so on par with the dad jokes and it's amazing!
I have a feeling if something was coming our way, it would be dismissed and denied until the very end.
Absolutely!!!!
A micronova is more likely to wipe out modern civilisation; and by the 12,000yr disaster cycle, it's overdue.
That's the plan. Avoid mass riots and panic so the elites have a clear path to their bunkers.
The question would be what else could you do? The technology to "just nuke it away" is for a real astroid just not available. So you see it, you are screwed. So probably don't look up and live your life like it's your last day - because it is.
@@dlynchious1157 must be terrifying living believing the elites have an evil plan for every eventuality
12:28 "Currently it takes 11 hours and 55 minutes to orbit and it's expected that after the blast it will orbit every 10 minutes." Big mistake. It's expected that after the blast the orbit will take 10 minutes SHORTER, this is, 11 hours and 45 minutes.
4:03 "I mean.........."
I was honestly concerned for a brief moment during that pause lmfao, felt like the perfect movie scenario for it to actually happen right here right now.
One of my most beloved possessions is a little meteorite that I used to wear as a necklace.
I am impressed Joe has one!
The photo at 4:31 is not an image of Tunguska but rather a photo from the Hokan Bacau Forest, Romania, area where a strange area of limited plant growth occurs. As far as no one getting killed from the Tunguska event, True no one died directly from getting smashed from the falling space rock but indigenous people did die from the gases produced from the event according a Russia documentary about 1908 meteor, The standard for information about it.
The problem is not trust in Science, the problem is trust in politics.
^^^^ THIS
I’d imagine those “6 months not enough” and “5 years at least” timeframes are based on not just existing tech, but existing institutions. I’d think if we really did have an earth killer on track to hit us in 6 months, we’d mobilize the very best of the human race, not just in terms of scientists and engineers to design new tech, but manufacturing to produce it incredibly quickly. And we could be doing all manner of testing in parallel rather than sequentially. Nothing else would matter if the world were destroyed. It would be a fairly singular focus. Could we get it done? Idk, but if NASA thinks 5 years, I’d have to guess we could compress that timeframe a lot under those circumstances. Humans are really good at dealing with a clear short term threat. We just suck with the long slow ones.
Edit: ok, you kinda touch on this shortly afterward. I think COVID was a bit of a different situation than an asteroid would be (especially since we already have a few movies showing the world coming together to save itself from an asteroid or other space threat, which, perhaps ironically, I think would actually help if the situation ever arose-not in terms of the solutions but the message of this is a major threat and we all need to come together to save the world. Messaging is powerful. I don’t think COVID or masks would’ve been the political issue they are if not for certain people pushing certain messages early on that spiraled out of control).
I know it’s not a science issue, but I think the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a bit indicative. Many of the same people who pushed anti-science COVID misinformation also pushed misinformation about Russia (pro Putin) and Ukraine (anti Zelensky and Biden corruption allegations) for years that were mostly bought. But the war clarified things a lot, and many of those message pushers had to reverse. The war is just too clear and understandable (and the underdog story of Ukraine I think plays a big part in how people feel about it, too, at least in the US, where we love an underdog story).
I think an asteroid headed for earth would be similar. It would be a lot harder to deceive millions about something we could more easily understand, because we already have a Bruce Willis movie about it. Also, there’s a lot less reason to try to deceive people if the world is going to end. Covid was bad, but (and I’m not one who ever makes this point), it only killed 2-3% at its peak. I only say that to compare it to the potential 100% kill rate of a huge asteroid.
Get Elon on the job.
20 years ago I would have agreed with you but recent history leads me to imagine half of society would not believe the science and complain that it is a waste of time and money.
recent events make me believe that there'd be pro astroid convoys traveling through countries and they'd convince half the population that this is just a nazi/communist/whatever tactic to take away your freedoms and savings.
There'd be calculations about which side of the earth will be hit and those countries on the other side would waste time and energy on preparing for the apocalypse instad of actually avoiding it because "we're not the ones who get pulverized right...right?".
I know it's a bit exaggerated but as a whole, we're not capable of acting as one force.
@@tarsxenomorph8845 because you want unfounded promises to make you fell better before it destroys us?
@@scottcarter6623
What unfounded promises?
Making electric cars? Selling 500K of them in 2020? Making rockets? Landing rockets? Reusing rockets? Reusing them over 10 times? Flying astronauts to the ISS? Flying civilian crews? Starship? And I could go on and on.
Elon is often optimistic with his timelines, but always delivers. And even when he's late, he's still way much faster than anyone else. For example compare Crew Dragon to Boeing Starliner. Or Starship to SLS.
I despised the movie, the reason was because it didn't feel like satire. It felt like what is happening right now. The more I watched the more it pissed me off.
I love-hate “Don’t Look Up” because it was comically ridiculous but also scarily close to the truth. I didn’t view it as satire because, given all that’s happened during the pandemic, I don’t think it exaggerated society’s reaction at all . . .
I loved it but also it terrified me, too, because you are right. It’s unfortunately not that exaggerated. Imagine if that came out ten years ago. Lol We’d laugh at it like “yea, K 🙄” but here we are. This is our reality. 😂😭🤭
Capitalism is your pet alligator. Well we're outta other things to eat so now it's gonna eat us too.
Love-love for me, after not seeing part of the family for two years due to their not-comic resistance to masks and vaccines. A near-fatal bout with the 'VID...didn't change a durned thing.
Same here. Found it funny, low brow, smart and annoying. Weird movie.
Yeah, while watching it I was constantly flip-flopping between enjoying the humor and satire and being depressed that we as a society are too stupid to deserve to survive.
You know what always bugged me? When some celebrity achieves greatness quickly and people call it a "meteoric rise". Isn't that confusing? If I was that celebrity I'd wonder if you're subtly insulting me.
Don't forget extrasolar objects like oumuamua, they can also constitute an unexpected threat
Thanks for the explanation on what a meteorite is. I always get confused (seriously).
The younger dryas impact was around 12-14000 years ago. I believe after research and videos that this impact sent us back to the stone age. Not quite a planet killer but it killed off a lot of the worlds population.
where was that impact crater?
@@jim-stacy I don't seriously believe in this, but I do remember people who do. Theorize it impacted in ice fields, seeing that it was (possibly) during the ice age. And wound up flash heating a lot of the ice
But it's just a whacky theory as far as I know
Love your channel! Enjoy your sense of humor and the "nerdy" stuff on your bookshelf makes me feel right at home 🤓. Thanks!
If our entire species makes it to the next one it would be incredible 😂
I've said that, not sure why we're so sure that we are it for human evolution, I pray we're not.
Joe, I love your channel but isn't Ceres technically classified as a Dwarf Planet due to its ability to pull itself into a spherical shape?
That makes me into that classification.
@@gastonpossel bruh
The interesting thing about the Sudbury crater is that Sudbury today is a major Nickel mining area. They're basically mining an asteroid from earth 🌎 🪨 😁
This Sudbury boy says "thanks for the shout out" Justin. Greatest place on earth. Three thumbs up 🤣
My dream was to watch a movie that accurately depicted the depressing and terrifying scenario of an asteroid impacting the planet and pretty much ending global civilization.
From Hollywood, Deep Impact (1998) was the closest one to show this, at least until 'murica saving the planet in the last minute. What they also got wrong was the impact of the smaller piece, with people staring at it without as it traveled in this really weird angle in the sky without being burned alive or blinded, not to mention it would only take seconds rather than a full minute.
From international movies, These Final Hours (2013) was the almost-perfect depiction. We don't get to see the actual impact, but the debris cloud reaching Australia after an impact in the North Atlantic. Although depicted as this wave of fire, it is symbolically the same as what would likely be in real life (temperatures high enough to kill every human). Not to mention this movie has such a hopeless atmosphere throughout it's really terrifying, and so masterfully crafted, you just KNOW there is nothing they can do about it. (PS. There were some pretty neat viral ARG that never caught on, which shows even more details about the event.)
Now, there were other movies over the years. Armageddon (1998) and Greenland (2020), which are just silly pro-America blockbusters with some silly "science", and then you have Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) and now this one, and in both of these, the actual disaster and its very-much serious risk is not the main focus, but just a vessel for comedy/satire.
What this leads me to believe is that an actual, scientifically-based movie about this scenario is pretty much impossible now since it has become an overused topic. It would be harder to sell for studios to pick up and give the greenlight. And as someone else said in the comments, the message of this movie is as subtle as a sledgehammer, which I dislike, because it could've easily be a very-much serious drama tackling with the same issues in a more intelligent way.
I also believe The Road (2009) could be "considered" a post-impact scenario, but both the movie and the book leave the actual cataclysm ambiguous. For it to work as a post-impact scenario, the people in the movie would have have survived the "summer" first somehow, to only then experience the "winter" as shown in the movie, and that would require some obvious changes, so it's not really a post-impact story.
But this is just my ramblings since no one else would hear my venting, I guess in the end what matters is to keep it simple and funny for movies nowadays. Guess tastes are tastes.
Do you really expect anyone to read this
You should try Melancholia.
@@BOOGiNS I did !
@@BOOGiNS 🤡
@@lyreparadoxI found Melancholia to be quite disturbing
You never fail to make my day that bit more interesting💙
That film was like a joke that I got instantly but it still got explained for 2 more hours.
The main reason we don’t have a dinosaur killer event more frequently on earth is a combination of most of them happening during the early bombardment phase of earths creation and more importantly Jupiter. You can think of Jupiter and even Saturn has giant vacuum machines that are sucking up a lot of the large objects. Particularly ones coming from trans Neptunian areas or even from the Oort cloud.
Nobody says it enough, so I will here. Thank you, Jupiter.
@@waynemyers2469 It is indeed a team effort! The complete uniqueness of our planetary system and how every odd quirk protects us REALLY well may be the answer to the Fermi Paradox. The universe is so big so this probably is false, but definitely something to think about.
@@luke-i1w in terms of life existing out there besides on planet Earth, I think it’s obvious that it does. Whether it is sent in or not I can’t say but the odds are also in favor of that. The biggest reason why I think life is out there is because all life on earth is made up of the same elements that exist everywhere in the universe. We are basically the product of exploding stars and because of that it seems obvious that life exists across our galaxy and multiple other galaxies. Also space is immensely large. Just our radio frequencies leaving earth is similar to the size of a BB dropped in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. One phenomena that could be eradicating intelligent life, particularly before it becomes so advanced that it can travel long distances in the universe would be supernovas, Hypernova, gamma rays, asteroid hit and other similar issues. Particularly if a civilization developed within an area that was full of stars as the odds would go up that a nova would destroy them. We might be in a good position because we live in the rural part of our galaxy.
@@luke-i1w The universe is not only big but very, very old! The Earth is 4.5 billion years old. The universe is over 14 billion years old. Humanity has been around for only a few thousand years and the technology to view the stars for only a few hundred. The Fermi Paradox totally ignores the time aspect. From just the time aspect alone, the chances of another (alien) civilization existing anywhere near our level of technology is less than a million million to one!
That is also why SETI is so stupid. We've known about electromagnetic (radio) waves for only ~200 years and are on the verge of developing quantum entanglement networks. SETI's looking for radio signal is like the Aborigines looking for smoke signals for intercontinental signs of civilization!
@@ttrestle Space is indeed huge. My personal belief is that there is other intelligent life out there for that reason alone. Even if the odds are staggeringly low, there is just too much space for it to not happen more than once. I like to play devil's advocate with myself though and see things from the other side. Until reading your original post, I had never really though about just how lucky we are to have the protections we take for granted.
I saw a fireball twice. Once back in the 90's. It was so impressive i thought I might be able to smell it burning. I couldn't have smelled it anyway, it being it the upper atmosphere. And all.
I was driving south on the belt one 4am morning, and I really hoped that someone else saw it too. Almost as bright as the first one.
woah. you were alive in the 90s???
7:53 *for those who are curious the latin phrase hic servare diem translates as keep the day here*
*it's good to be geek*
"Danger Boys"....was that off Duran Duran's second album?
Thanks for the great (read: terrifying) content as always, Joe.
Know Professor Dave and his videos about James Tour and the Discovery Institute?
As a geologist I must admit that most of us have a small obsession with wanting to see a "small" impact in our lifetimes! I know I do. Nothing involving the loss of human life though. Maybe another one in Siberia or Antartica. Then we could test the 11.8Ka impact theory on an ice sheet!
@@vottoduder Don't. Just, don't.
@@vottoduder You know exactly how horrible what you are saying is, don't pretend otherwise. Some thoughts you just do not share with people.
@@vottoduder “can’t I just have this one thing? All I want is to kill millions of people,” is something nothing short of a psychopath would say.
I remember getting excited when a few years back when a comet was initially predicted to hit Mars.
Now I'm curious
I think don't look up is accurate. We will act exactly like that.
After the pandemic, I have absolutely no faith in our politicians to lead us through the event. None what so ever.
its sad. the government are braindead and will be the death of us all
Dang Joe, your content is so good! Way to bring our collective conscientiousness together and make it so darn entertaining too! (rivaling the afore mentioned film)
Finally, someone who knows the difference between a meteor and a meteorite!
Seen a load of space videos where the words meteor and meteorite are used wrongly
Good video Joe
When you hear of the amount of material hitting the Earth every day, it makes you wonder about satellite safety and Moon missions. No atmosphere to stop them!
They ARE just a tad smaller than the Earth though. It is a concern, just astronomically (heh) unlikely
I love your view on these topics. no bs. love this channel !!!
I like the tactics demonstrated in The Expanse. Orbital railguns in combination with nuclear warheads to disburse the mass. Of course, the assumption being that those systems are already active, in place, and validated.
Let’s validate moon lasers for this purpose. Giant mirrors for light pumps. It would be glorious.
@@altortugas5979 I was actually thinking that, rather than true, military "railguns," we could set up the orbital equivalent of a maglev train. That way, when we sequester megatons of CO2, we can quickly ship it to Mars. Then, when big, bad asteroid arrives, we can just shoot a massive tungsten bolt at it doing about 50,000 mph.
Or light pumps. Light pumps are cool, too.
The two richest men on earth would be expected to step up and handle it with their rocket programs and infinite money.
Otherwise, we eat them at our final feast.
And yet the two richest are already practicing to say "So long suckers"
Joe I appreciate your attempt at humor and you're very funny sometimes and even when you're not the effort is appreciated. 👍
Yassssss!! Life got busy and I stopped watching you & I'm so happy that I came across your channel again! Yep I'm one of those people who have subscribed to way more UA-cam channels than I could ever conceivably watch in 24 hr period 🙄 so super happy to catch a fresh video 👍
Don't feel bad I've subbed to do many channels that I've lost count. Some of them don't even post anymore.😂😂😂😂
I would like to imagine that one day we could capture one of these PHAs and park or impact them on the far side of the moon for exploration or mining.
i hope i get to see such thing before i eventually kick the bucket
Or just mine the crap out of the moon! Build a stonking base in one of those massive lava tubes and use the raw mats as the launching point for solar system colonization. IMHO, Mars is the wrong target.
Hitting the moon would be really really bad. Don't mess with the moon.
@@prestonrodenkirch8412 to some extent that is correct.
as long as we don't blast the damn thing out of it's orbit, we're gonna be alright.......as alright as the future humans could be, since we're slowly but surely putting rakes on our own path
@@itsdokko2990 Oh come on man. You know humans will totally screw that up. If we start messing with the moon directly we will do way more damage there than we have here . Considering that if the moon goes wonky it could create planetary tectonic and oceanic chaos is it really worth the risk? Humans need to reassess our behavior before we start expanding into space with our reckless consumption of what's around us with self destructive consequences. Otherwise if we do find other life out there it isn't going to like us regardless of who's superior.
Can't wait till the next party so I can be the guy to explain the difference between meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites... One of these days...
I thought I heard if you blow up an asteroid it’s own gravity can pull it back together pretty quickly. I imagine it could still change the trajectory tho.
Nope. Most of the pieces will stay on the same trajectory tho. Basically turns it into a buckshot blast instead of a cannon ball.
I imagine that would take awhile. Interesting though I’ve never considered that
To a certain extent it depends on the asteroid and how hard you hit it. If it's a ball of gravel and you hit it gently it probably will collapse relatively quickly. Hit something under a few kilometers with a nuke and those fragments will be moving far too fast to collapse before the cloud gets torn apart by the complex web of intersecting gravity fields.
Outta curiosity, what's your thoughts on the younger dryas impact theory? Mile thick ice sheet or ocean impact or atmosphere skip etc (I've gone on a Randall Carlson binge lately lmao)
Best explanation for humanities reset 12,000 years ago
Yo, Joe. Meteors don't actually "burn up" in the atmosphere. They are heated until they vaporize, but that vapor that consists mainly of the minerals and/or elements that made up the meteor. So then, presumably, that material will eventually cool and make its way all the way down to the earth as very fine dust. It may take years, decades, or even centuries, but it will get here some day.
How well is Hollywood promoting their movies these days?
Hint: this is the first time that I've ever heard of "Don't Look Up". Must have fallen through the cracks between all those comic hero movies and reboots of yesteryear nostalgia.
It's quite good. Meryl Streep is perfect as the complete idiot President playing to her constituents.
Hollywood is going down because they have backed amandaturd. She really really is a bad person.
That’s funny because I watched it. You might just be ignorant hahaha
I wouldn't have heard about it either, as a movie, but it's message was widely discussed.
Not a Hollywood movie, though. It's a Netflix production, so it was promoted just like any other new production on their service. :)
I wouldn’t say there has been a loss of trust in science. I mean some people don’t, and never have, that hasn’t changed. What there has been a massive loss of trust in over the last few years is government. And not just one in particular.
Great point. Trust in science that is bent to governmental and political pressure has come under much greater suspicion, and rightly so. Science, itself, though, is, should be, and still could be, a unifying factor.
I worked for a lighting company, and they pronounced it Fer-Nel. Maybe it's French or something.
I love how happy and passionate talking about this stuff makes u. And yes... you could've been a comedy as well😜
You'd have to have the nuke buried deep into the asteroid for the blast to be effective (unless trying to change the asteroids course. )
The other issue... is alot of the energy from a nuclear blast, is in the form of 'heat'... this massive blast of heat propels the shockwave through the medium the bomb explodes in. Though deep penetration into a loosely consolidated rubble pile style asteroid might disperse it... it may also fuse chunks of it together forming a more solid object, still headed towards us.
In the case of a nickel/Iron asteroid... I doubt it'll blow apart even if deeply penetrated (if the asteroid is several km across. ) Might be able to redirect it that way though.
You omitted the scenario of a comet coming from the general direction of the Sun. Comets are quite large and that trajectory would make them difficult to detect.
1:08 Every one would have forgotten that joke in 15 seconds, Will Smith made everyone remember it for a lifetime !
That boy was at the top of his game and suddenly, as if someone were just *Slapped* across the face,
it came to an absolutely grinding halt. Books will be written about that fall from grace.
streissand effect
8:19
Riker: Could we blow it into pieces?
Data: The total mass would remain the same. And the impact of thousands of fragments would spread destruction over an even wider area.
SFDebris: Let's call that Option Moron after it's creator, Commander William T. Moron, wreaker of falling death.
(Sorry, just seeing if I'm the only one with this extremely niche source of humor haha)
"You should eat Harry"
thousands of fragments have a vastly increased surface area - if you split an asteroid into pieces small enough to burn up? then it doesn't matter how many of those pieces there are.
@@JohnnyWednesday you still get the majority of the energy, just as atmospheric heat. If you spread it enough, you spread it over more time, and thus have less heat damage. But you still shed the same energy upon the earth.
@@WilliamHostman any explosion large enough to make smaller debris would make enough pecies small enough to not create the heat energy of larger pieces, and deflect so completely away from hitting the planet. While not ideal, not a planet killer of the consolidated mass.
@@williamcrowley5506 most likely, any such attempt would spread the heat input over more time. A needed threshold exists for maximum safe temp (~70°C); fragmentation only is effective if it keeps surface temps overall to about that; above that, even most desert life dies. If that lasts more than a week, most everything dies on the surface. And we get a fine mixed seafood broth over 70% of the planet. Shattering to miss isn't likely, simply because any shatter attempt is too late for the drift to ensure a miss.
I was there for the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteorite impact. Glazers had a good couple months replacing thousands of windows.
Honestly I liked that movie tbh, shows how npc and robotic people have become and how fear and being oblivious living in bliss truly how most people are
So I know we always talk about an impact with earth, but what about impact with the moon? For instance, what size of impact would be needed to have an effect on it's orbit and how much debris would be ejected towards earth?