@@gtownwr That is Europe. There are places, you can visit four countries in less than a half day with a car. Or you can visit three countries by foot in some hours.
Hopefully he was already going to Spain on vacation and the video was an afterthought. If not and he indeed traveled that far just to make this video, that's freaking awesome, Man!
Is it a great visualization though? I don't even have a good intuition about the difference between a golfball diameter and the distance to the next town over, let alone UK and Spain. I would have to do the math to have any idea how many golfballs away that is. If I can't intuit it within like an order of magnitude, i'd say it doesn't even meet the qualification to be a visualization. If the star was actually at he other side of the park, maybe this part would be useful. But we havent even touched on the comparison between the diameter of the sun and the golfball, so any intuition we could have gained from the analogy fails here again. How many golfballs is the sun? No clue, I'd have to pull out my calculator (and google). The only way this is in any way helpful is if you've never ever actually even seen the numbers on how far the next star is and in that case it'll just make you go "wow, that's really far (how far? no idea, just really far)". I'd say just saying the star is 4 * 10^13 km away gives at least as good of an idea, but I'd argue much better.
What blows my mind is that the space between stars is so huge, 2 galaxies could pass through each other and the chances of 2 stars colliding from those galaxies is pretty much zero. Space is the perfect name for it.
Yea, and just think this was the closest star. Now imagine how far away other galaxies are... To be so far away from them to see them as a little dot in a telescope but its a huge collection around 300 billion stars with this kind of distance between each one... Tell me there aint more life out there :)
Elandil5 the alleged trick to long distance interstellar travel is to bend space time. Which is some what possible. Gravity does it. There is hope. Just keep in mind we know so little about what’s really going on. Nd that any day a discovery could be made that completely changes the very fundamentals of what we consider reality.
= 30 m/h or 30 meters per hour which is 0.5 m per min, so about the speed of a garden snail. I converted the speed into units easier for us to understand. 0.030 km/h is difficult to imagine so it doesn't help you appreciate how slow light must be travelling in this analogy.
@@GonzoTehGreat So, if a common garden snail can drag itself to Spain from the UK in its lifetime and humans can somehow find a way to move at the speed of light, then there still is a chance???
@@koona1992 you deserve a hard punch to the face. He's wasted all that time, fuel and money to make one pathetic video to show what "scientists" believe without justifiable evidence.
@@RevGary I'm sorry but you must be talking to the wrong person because I was talking to the person who said 'Why?!' not the main comment. I thought that putting his name first then saying what I have to say, would help identify who I'm talking to but apparently you fail to see that.
It is difficult to be able to covey the vastness of space to people who most probably rarely if ever even think about it. Some people will not believe it, as it seems too unreal, but reality is often stranger and more daunting than we think. Well done.
This made me realize that the fact that we can see any light from stars besides our sun must mean they are unimaginably bright, considering how far away they are. The universe is astounding.
@@TheComputec a lot of the stars we “see” don’t even exist anymore. Their light takes so long to reach us that we essentially see thing millions of years in the past.
@@stevienguyen2047 And everything around you as well. People, cars, cities, the planet. It's all not really there, only a memory that you interact with.
As an American, it very strange to me how you can drive/ferry from England to Spain within a couple days. To get from east to west coast would take almost a week driving
This is all I thought about the whole drive. Is it a testament to how bright stars are? or how incredibly dark and empty the universe is? How far of a drive is a star in Andromeda? on a clear night we can see Andromeda. How is it possible that we can see light from that far away?
Pretty sure Andromeda is something like hundreds of million of light years. The lights we perceive now was emitted when humanoids were in very early development, only reaching us now
@@Sentinel_ICBMAndromeda is over 2.5 million light years away, as compared to the star exampled here, which is 4 light years away. He would have to drive 466,250,000 miles to reach the equivalent in this model, well past the orbit of Jupiter which is 365,000,000 miles away in real life. Since there is not much to alter light wave lengths in space, and since these objects are incredibly bright, the light can still reach us.
@@ItinerantIntrovert way before humans my friend. Creatures we would recognise as humans are in the range of 135,000 years and 2 Million years old depending on your definition of human
Really! The AB Centauri pair are one of the brightest stars (ok, pair) visible in my part of the world and is only slightly further away than Proxima Centauri... relatively speaking
The rule of UA-cam once again is applied here. No overly edited thumbnail; the video answers the title exactly and in a very interesting and intuitive way; it's short, given how far he had to travel. This is the video I hope people will find or get recommended when they're interested in the question.
Bruh, I randomly watched a random space video two days ago and now half of my feed is random space videos. Obviously, I keep watching them because I'm here
UA-cam: Hmmm, he watched a space video. I'll give him another one. You: You watch it. UA-cam: Ah! He loves space videos! I'll inundate his feed with space videos!
The fact that they interact gravitationally (in form of galaxy) is much more mind blowing , given that gravity decreases in inverse proportion to the square of the distance.
The only reason you wouldn't be able to see it would be light pollution from the much bigger light sources, the sun and other stars. If there was no other light in the universe I would bet you could see a lit light bulb from any distance, as long as the light from it has had enough time to reach you.
This video is modern-day art! 23.5 hours for a 5-minute video sounds like months of handmade drawings to make a 7-minute fully animated cartoon, like in the 50’s and 60’s. Truly humbling to see the scale of the Universe being portrayed like this. This makes me wonder where we stand on the galactic scale and how advanced the civilization is that can already travel at some percentage of light speed. Thank you so much for your effort! 🙏🏻🌞
@@omit4727 the fact that people in England voted for Brexit would be the most shocking vote outcome in my life, had my country not elected the worst possible supreme narcissist douchebag in our last election.
There is also another simple way to compare the distance from Sun to Earth with the distance from Sun to Proxima Centauri: the light takes about 8 minutes and 4 years, respectively.
*Fun fact* Using the same scale as this videos, the distance from Earth to Kepler-452b (the most habitable planet discovered thus far) would roughly be the distance from the Earth to the moon we r smol
As we see the galaxies as a thick flurry of stars, we easily think they are quite dense. In fact they are not, as this fine demonstration shows. Our sun is not exceptionally far away from other stars - I think its quite the contrary. So there is plenty of empty space inside the galaxies. Not to mention the complete emptiness of the space between them!
My favorite scale model of the solar system is at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The sun is on one side of campus, about the size of a grapefruit, and the planets are laid out to scale across about half of a mile to the other side of campus. When you get to Pluto at the very end ( a tiny metal dot barely visible on its plaque), it says at this scale, Proxima Centauri would be in Panama.
@@winstonbeech3418 An interesting idea that the progress toward interstellar space travel for any intelligent life may be largely a matter of which civilization happens to have an unusually close neighbor, not necessarily which civilization is the most technologically advanced. Makes sense I guess -- presumably cultures on Earth that had many nearby islands would be the first to build ships and become seafaring. I wonder how close two systems could be and still have their planetary orbits be stable enough for life.
Its amazing that things like this makes you realise how much of the universe is just nothing. That actual 'matter' part of it is so infintesimally small compared to the empty space
@@MrJamberee Not a 100 miles but on the scale of shrinking the Sun to the size of a golfball the next star is over 1,200 km away. That gives a person a dose of reality about the size of the universe.
He couldn't have driven all the way to Spain to convey his point a/b 'space distance between our Sun and the nearest star'.....he's probably got a 'mama sita' there, waiting for him ~
If his scales are correct then for the brains of others it is well worth the trip. I'm not sure myself but I doubt he's troll us or not be sure with his info.
Imagine THAT conversation with Spain's port of entry authorities.... "What's the nature of your visit to Spain?" "I've come to show the internet where the next nearest star is"
This also made me understand why, when the milky way and the andromeda galaxy will collide in a few billion years, there won't actually be any stars crashing into each other.
It takes the speed of light: Just one second to reach the moon. Mars in three minutes, The Sun in eight minutes, And it would still take 2.5 million years to reach our nearest galaxy, Andromeda. Beyond that, there are trillions of galaxies scattered across the universe, as countless as grains of sand on a vast beach.
I guess so. But relatively distant stars are typically dimmer than near stars. So distance must mean something. Im guessing there must be stars out there that we can’t detect because they’re too far away. This video just opened my eyes to the scale. I would have guessed the nearest star would have been a mile away from a golf ball sized sun. I was off by nearly a factor of 1000x
I've heard it described as similar to a blow torch in it's intensity (using a very small scale) so we're talking about extremely bright objects. Basically stars are continuous nuclear explosions and we know how bright they are.
@@cdtapeinteresting fact: proxima centauri is actually not visible with the naked eye because it is a red dwarf star that is too dim too see without a telescope. Alpha centauri is visible with the naked eye though
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It doesn't have to be uber bright. If he also compressed the laws of the universe(which is unlikely) then it would take roughly 75 hours for the light to reach Britain from Spain. May be wrong though
@@markburch6253 But we can see stars that are farther away. I just find it a little baffling how we can see something so relatively small from such a distance.
Now remember, standing in Spain, that golfball back in England would shine so bright, that you could easily spot it with the naked eye from that distance against a dark backdrop with nothing in the way. That's the craziest part about all of that
@@LarsRyeJeppesen Proxima Cent is a red dwarf of 0.15 solar radii, when observed in the wavelengths of visible light the eye is most sensitive to, it is only 0.0056% as luminous as the Sun (wikipedia). You can't see Proxima, but I'm pretty sure you would be able to see the sun.
@@LarsRyeJeppesen Proxima Centauri would be indeed too dim to see, but the sun would have an apparent magnitude of around +0.4, which is very bright. To put it into perspective, this would make it the 9th brightest star in our own night sky, and one could easily spot it from even the most light polluted places.
This is totally fake, because if he could reach the next star with only his car, then why the NASA cant reach it with all the hypertech, cyberspace equipment?! Makes no sense!
The Sun isn't the nearest star to Proxima Centauri. Those would be the binary stars Alpha Centauri A and B, which are about 0.2 light years from Proxima Centauri. Alpha Centauri A and B are the second and third closest stars to the Sun at 4.3 light years - Proxima is 4.22 light years from the Sun.
For scale: Voyager 1's been traveling for almost 50 years at 38,000 MPH. It's gone .0016 of a light year. At this rate, it will take 18,000 years to go a full light year in distance.
38,000 MPH. It was built in the 1970s. I bet today we could build a probe to travel to other solar systems and get it to go _even faster._ Not just a little faster, but by enough to make a big difference. 😏
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i just did this in chatgpt waiting for your results. The closest star to the Sun is Proxima Centauri. It is part of the Alpha Centauri star system, which includes three stars: Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B, and Proxima Centauri. Distance: Proxima Centauri is approximately 4.24 light-years away from the Sun. This distance means that light from Proxima Centauri takes 4.24 years to reach Earth. In terms of space travel, this is relatively close on a cosmic scale, but it would still take tens of thousands of years to reach with current technology.
I once did a similar comparison with deep time, using a ruler. One millimeter equaled one year, one inch equaled approximately 25 years. Four inches represented the last 100 years. The distance to the dinosaur Allosaurus, the object of my comparison, was 93 miles!
Neil degrase Tyson in the documentary “cosmos” does a good time concept of from big bang to current time using a cosmic year calendar. Jan 1 is big bang, dec 31 11:59:59 is current time. On that calendar Life on earth began on sept 15th, on dec 26 mammals evolved, human went from hunt gathers to farmers on the last minute of the cosmic calendar. Gives you a perspective of how short of time we have been here.
Good illustration of scale! Proxima Centauri is about 4,2 LY away. Takes 50.000 - 100.000 years to get out there with current propulsion technique. We must move faster. Much much faster. The interesting stars, Glise et all, are min 10 times further away. It's a big ass universe out there !
If you would have said "this is the Sun and Neptune is at the other end of the park away, now let's go for a drive" and then asked where do you think we would be now, I would have said at the edge of the milky way or in another galaxy, but only reaching the next star really does begin to help us grasp the mind boggling distances out there.
Mhm. Another way to think about it is simply the speed of light. In just 1 second, light circles Earth 7 times. It takes over 4 years to reach Proxima Centauri going at that speed, and a mind-boggling 25,000 years at that speed to reach the next nearest galaxy to us, and there are 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe. Space is unfathomably large.
Y’all really thought it was gonna be close when a light year is almost 6 _trillion_ miles (10 trillion km) and Proxima Centauri is over 4 light years away?
@@kabob21 Interesting but I was just going to say a lot of people are on the tip of the iceberg of the depth of knowledge about space so a video like this can attract people from all walks of life
and people talk about colonizing the galaxy.................please on that scale the voyagers have gone maybe two thousand feet in 46 years...............right.
To summarize with: If a Sun were a size of a GolfBall, the nearest star(Proxima Centauri) would be 1,200kms away. And to think that the Earth is just a fine grain of a sand. That's crazy! Hats off to you Sir.;-)
Its not IN spain,a star is waaay too big to fit inside spain, the video just shows the distance of the nearest star IF the sun was the size of a golf ball, the actual distance is about 4 light years away
Here's the math to those who like this stuff: Distance to Proxima Centauri: D = 4.24 light years = 4.01 × 10^16 m Sun's diameter: S = 1.39 × 10^9 m Diameter of a golf ball: G = 42.7 mm = 42.7 × 10^-3 m Final relative distance: (D/S) G = 1230 km = 762 miles
But the Sun's diameter is about seven times that of Proxima Centauri, so on that scale Proxima Centauri would be about the size of a pea. Also, interestingly, even though it is the nearest star it is so small and dim (a red dwarf) that it can't actually been seen with the naked eye.
If I've seen one of these astronomical scale videos I've seen a hundred but this may very well be the best of the lot. I think a lot of people understand intellectually what the distances are, but this was an astonishingly vivid and visceral demonstration of the distances involved. Well done!
Yeah, to be honest even after having taken planes all over the world it's still hard to wrap your head around just how vast the Earth is... but it's just a grain of sand in this demonstration... mind is blown 🤯
I totally get you. But it is not as impressive seeing this on the map. Actually the intent was also to get a grasp at the journey it would take. The time and the distance. Just seeing it kinda blew my mind.
"A human-made flying machine will be possible sometime between one-million to ten-million years." -New York Times, 1903 There are so many ideas for Interstellar travel. Light sails for example could be accelerated to ¼ the speed of light and could make it to Alpha Centauri in just a few decades. (There are ongoing space missions in our own solar system that have lasted longer) For all we know, medicine could become severely perfected, you and I could live to be 400 and catch a ride on a faster passenger version of this and spend our retirement in another system.
@@cosmicacorn you're forgetting that the one who wrote that article was an idiot, considering heavier-than-air crafts were made beforehand (blimps and hot air balloons). Even for their time, it shouldve been obvious that they were near controlled flight.
Unless we actually aquire some type of wormhole technology, i'm afraid we'll never gonna be able to travel past our own solarsystem. Just to put this into perspective, a trip to the moon and back takes weeks for us currently. The sun is approximately 480 times further away from us than the moon. So even traveling our own solarsystem will require a massive progress of technology.
I saw one done with a millimetre sun and it was just under 20 miles. A pea sized sun: 125 miles. So was thinking you're gonna have to drive nearly 800 miles.
I thought you were just gonna throw the ball to the other side of the park...
But no, you drove from England to Spain.
Lol me too
that doesn't even make sense he just said pluto was further away in the park -_-
@@hotsmine1573 he said Neptune
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Damn, so he drove across the ocean?
Drove 700+ miles to make a 5 minute video. My hat goes off to you sir.
700+ miles I could drive and still be in Texas. He went through 3 countries. Man.
Maybe he was going there anyways and decided to make an educational video at the same time
@@gtownwr That is Europe. There are places, you can visit four countries in less than a half day with a car. Or you can visit three countries by foot in some hours.
Hopefully he was already going to Spain on vacation and the video was an afterthought. If not and he indeed traveled that far just to make this video, that's freaking awesome, Man!
Give him views to pay the tab for that trip.
Not only a great visual representation of the sheer distances involved, but a genius way to write off a road trip.
I do have same thought
I was wondering if a University paid!
Is it a great visualization though? I don't even have a good intuition about the difference between a golfball diameter and the distance to the next town over, let alone UK and Spain. I would have to do the math to have any idea how many golfballs away that is. If I can't intuit it within like an order of magnitude, i'd say it doesn't even meet the qualification to be a visualization. If the star was actually at he other side of the park, maybe this part would be useful.
But we havent even touched on the comparison between the diameter of the sun and the golfball, so any intuition we could have gained from the analogy fails here again. How many golfballs is the sun? No clue, I'd have to pull out my calculator (and google).
The only way this is in any way helpful is if you've never ever actually even seen the numbers on how far the next star is and in that case it'll just make you go "wow, that's really far (how far? no idea, just really far)". I'd say just saying the star is 4 * 10^13 km away gives at least as good of an idea, but I'd argue much better.
@@s1mppeli what a comment... bet you can't measure how insufferable you are
@@s1mppeli 🤓
What blows my mind is that the space between stars is so huge, 2 galaxies could pass through each other and the chances of 2 stars colliding from those galaxies is pretty much zero. Space is the perfect name for it.
Yes its like 2 grains of sand on a football field that collide. Like distance between earth and neptune
Another amazing thing is that once it was all crunched together in a size of an atom!
The Germans call it "World Room" for some WEIRD reason.
Nat at the galaxy centres where stars are light days away from each other - ie 10 times the Neptune distance - other side of the park.
@@balbirnegi6452yea that isn’t true lol
I honestly thought he was just going to drive to the end of the road of something. WTF!
This scared me.
There's a lot of space out there!
Yea, and just think this was the closest star. Now imagine how far away other galaxies are... To be so far away from them to see them as a little dot in a telescope but its a huge collection around 300 billion stars with this kind of distance between each one... Tell me there aint more life out there :)
Well that puts colonization of Proxima Centauri b in the realm of science fiction. I'm honestly depressed now...
@@John-ir4id Lets just hope someone puts humans on Mars before that point, so there is still a chance for mankind.
Elandil5 the alleged trick to long distance interstellar travel is to bend space time. Which is some what possible. Gravity does it. There is hope. Just keep in mind we know so little about what’s really going on. Nd that any day a discovery could be made that completely changes the very fundamentals of what we consider reality.
For reference, at this scale, the speed of light would be approximately 0.03km/h.
Wow, fascinating perspective, thanks !
= 30 m/h or 30 meters per hour which is 0.5 m per min, so about the speed of a garden snail.
I converted the speed into units easier for us to understand. 0.030 km/h is difficult to imagine so it doesn't help you appreciate how slow light must be travelling in this analogy.
@@GonzoTehGreat So, if a common garden snail can drag itself to Spain from the UK in its lifetime and humans can somehow find a way to move at the speed of light, then there still is a chance???
@@JohnMcCulloch75 yes due to relativity there is a chance
@@pasarell2222 Hahahaha equating the energy output of a star to a 3 volt light torch is so funny.
1200 km drive for one video, now that deserves a like
Probably had another reason to drive there because i think most wouldnt do that for a few minutes video.
@@koona1992 you deserve a hard punch to the face. He's wasted all that time, fuel and money to make one pathetic video to show what "scientists" believe without justifiable evidence.
i hope he didnt make all this trip just for video. still fun video
@@RevGary Obviously he went there on holiday.
@@RevGary I'm sorry but you must be talking to the wrong person because I was talking to the person who said 'Why?!' not the main comment. I thought that putting his name first then saying what I have to say, would help identify who I'm talking to but apparently you fail to see that.
It is difficult to be able to covey the vastness of space to people who most probably rarely if ever even think about it. Some people will not believe it, as it seems too unreal, but reality is often stranger and more daunting than we think. Well done.
Wife: Where were you the past 4 days?
Me: I was looking for the nearest star system.
If star were a stripper
Ever heard of instant transmission??
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I'm the 999th like 😁
@@QuincyStallworth77 I use to know one named star I wasted lots of money
It was shockingly illustrative of the truly immense scale of just what 4 light year distance means!
Now imagine 100 billion light years
@@rchycola7744 most of these stars are dead already.... ☠
@@rchycola7744the universe is 93 billion light years across (that we know of)
Doesn't light lose intensity over distance? How bright do objects have to be for us to perceive them as being billions of miles away?
@@ruledbysaturni think they redshift.
He went across the continent to hold a golf ball infront of a camera. Give this man an applause
Given that he drove to Spain i would assume he combines the trip with his holiday vacation.
@@HR-yd5ib true
@@HR-yd5ib A really shitty holiday cos he forgot his golf clubs.
@@CorkyMcButterpants , how do you know?
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Absolutely fun way to present proper perspective on the vastness of space the distances between things.
This made me realize that the fact that we can see any light from stars besides our sun must mean they are unimaginably bright, considering how far away they are. The universe is astounding.
And don't forget the light we see is not the actual star itself, it is the light it emitted that has travelled many light years to get to us
@@TheComputec a lot of the stars we “see” don’t even exist anymore. Their light takes so long to reach us that we essentially see thing millions of years in the past.
@@TheComputec Well, it *_is_* from the actual star itself, it's just old light.
@@stevienguyen2047not exactly. A million light years is almost halfway to the Andromeda galaxy.
@@stevienguyen2047 And everything around you as well. People, cars, cities, the planet. It's all not really there, only a memory that you interact with.
I admire the dedication it took for this video to happen
He must have a lot of time on his hands
I'm hoping the man took a vacation while he was there. If he drove right back to England then he's a real boss man bro.
He had to get groceries in Spain anyway.
As an American, it very strange to me how you can drive/ferry from England to Spain within a couple days. To get from east to west coast would take almost a week driving
Dissapointing Person funny. That’s what fascinates me about the US: the sheer size of your country! The distances are unreal
It’s amazing how small stars are compared to how far apart they are and yet we can still see their light.
This is all I thought about the whole drive. Is it a testament to how bright stars are? or how incredibly dark and empty the universe is?
How far of a drive is a star in Andromeda? on a clear night we can see Andromeda. How is it possible that we can see light from that far away?
And that thier heat can still essentially cook us alive. I think about that stuff sometimes too
Pretty sure Andromeda is something like hundreds of million of light years. The lights we perceive now was emitted when humanoids were in very early development, only reaching us now
@@Sentinel_ICBMAndromeda is over 2.5 million light years away, as compared to the star exampled here, which is 4 light years away. He would have to drive 466,250,000 miles to reach the equivalent in this model, well past the orbit of Jupiter which is 365,000,000 miles away in real life. Since there is not much to alter light wave lengths in space, and since these objects are incredibly bright, the light can still reach us.
@@ItinerantIntrovert way before humans my friend. Creatures we would recognise as humans are in the range of 135,000 years and 2 Million years old depending on your definition of human
I've shown this video to so many people since its release I can't even count. Such a powerful representation of the size of our universe!
Amazing how bright stars are - can you imagine being able to see a golf ball at a distance of 1200 km?
Imagine the golf ballin space and a telescope in your hand
@@kingoftennis94you don't need a telescope to see the nearest stars.
@@kingoftennis94brother. All the stars in the sky that you can notice with naked eyes are far far more distant than the nearest star
Really! The AB Centauri pair are one of the brightest stars (ok, pair) visible in my part of the world and is only slightly further away than Proxima Centauri... relatively speaking
Maybe you could if it was suspended in space and burning as brightly as the Sun
The rule of UA-cam once again is applied here. No overly edited thumbnail; the video answers the title exactly and in a very interesting and intuitive way; it's short, given how far he had to travel.
This is the video I hope people will find or get recommended when they're interested in the question.
Bruh, I randomly watched a random space video two days ago and now half of my feed is random space videos. Obviously, I keep watching them because I'm here
@@Defendo99ignore em
UA-cam: Hmmm, he watched a space video. I'll give him another one.
You: You watch it.
UA-cam: Ah! He loves space videos! I'll inundate his feed with space videos!
@@Defendo99 The answer was 700 miles. Never saw it. Would have made for a sorter video that wasted less of my time.
@@billywild5440 He showed the whole thing to really show how far it was, if you want a short answer then just Google how far away is the nearest star
Image doing this with a basketball and having to drive across Russia
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@@user-nd2hw6vb8i no
Thomast Tham Pluto is not a sun!
@Thomast Tham I'm sorry but i dont understand your answer
Yes. About 25+ times and back of course and then youre there.
Yet another valiant attempt to explain the scale of the universe that my mind fails to comprehend
I cant believe you went to Proxima Centauri with just your car.
Yes and in a jet he can go to Andromeda
I can't believe he drove 745mi just for this YT video!
@@snatchinyopeople That looked like the same golf ball to me.
I don’t think that’s impossible for a guy who holds the Sun with bare hands.
@@user-jc6pr5el5g the money he made with his video more than makes for it
Imagine a light source the size of a golf ball so bright you can see it 1200 km away. Absolutely mind blowing
The farthest away ones that we still see with our naked I are hundreds of times farther
The fact that they interact gravitationally (in form of galaxy) is much more mind blowing , given that gravity decreases in inverse proportion to the square of the distance.
To be fair there isn’t much in the way and no curvature
it is a source, that will EVENTUALLY reach a recipient.. If you fart, it does not dissipate, it will reach the other side of planet.
The only reason you wouldn't be able to see it would be light pollution from the much bigger light sources, the sun and other stars. If there was no other light in the universe I would bet you could see a lit light bulb from any distance, as long as the light from it has had enough time to reach you.
I got increasingly depressed the more you traveled in the video.
I wasn't...until this comment showed up.
I felt the same way. Humans will be stuck here for a long time.
Why do people play with the word depressed anyhow?
You are insignificant. We all are insignificant.
mind you this is SCALED DOWN.... if its original scale... yeah I dont think it's feasible with out technology.
This video is modern-day art! 23.5 hours for a 5-minute video sounds like months of handmade drawings to make a 7-minute fully animated cartoon, like in the 50’s and 60’s.
Truly humbling to see the scale of the Universe being portrayed like this. This makes me wonder where we stand on the galactic scale and how advanced the civilization is that can already travel at some percentage of light speed.
Thank you so much for your effort! 🙏🏻🌞
I hope the Brexit isn't gonna make the yearly summer trips to Proxima Centauri more difficult.
this comment truly deserves more likes
Well played!
I hope brexit doesnt happen because uk will become poor
@@omit4727 the fact that people in England voted for Brexit would be the most shocking vote outcome in my life, had my country not elected the worst possible supreme narcissist douchebag in our last election.
Kevin Potts UK, not England C: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are the UK, you know the people that voted
Seems like UA-cam Recommendations has brought us all together again.
Been a while
Yes indeed
Exactly ,doubt anyone searched this question FFS.....yet we all still watch Catchya next time 👍
Until next time ✌️
Video idea is stolen from Codys lab
I wonder if he ever realized he could have used a grain of sand as the sun and just drove home.
Could have been worse what if he had used a football.
Seany Carolan he would circle the earth and come back to his garden again 😂
it would not make such a good video
@@smd2030 wtf 😂😂😂
😅😅😅
There is also another simple way to compare the distance from Sun to Earth with the distance from Sun to Proxima Centauri: the light takes about 8 minutes and 4 years, respectively.
Son: Dad, how far is the Andromeda Galaxy?
This man: Come, son. Let’s go for a drive
Actually laughed out loud. I'll be smirking to myself all day. Ta.
Proxima centauri is in the milky way, think u have to go to the moon for andromeda lol
Actually, I'm pretty sure you need to drive to another Planet for that. :D
If the sun is as small as the ball in the clip, then the dad would need to drive his son all the way pass Jupiter in order to reach Andromeda galaxy
@@kuribayashi84 i am thinking the other side of the planet
*Fun fact*
Using the same scale as this videos, the distance from Earth to Kepler-452b (the most habitable planet discovered thus far) would roughly be the distance from the Earth to the moon
we r smol
Underrated comment.
Can you show us your calculations?
@@rtyuu999 He's right.
Earth -> Proxima Centaur = 4,243 lightyears
Earth -> Kepler 452b = 1402 lightyears
He drove 1200km.
Earth -> Moon are 380.000km
1402 ly / 4,243 ly = 330,4266
1200km * 330,4266 = 396,511km.
Even a bit more than the moon. Unbelivable brainfuck isn't it?
What about Andromeda galaxy????
Well poop...
I guess it's time to stop fucking the planet
Bruh when I saw him at the ferry terminal I knew we were in for some serious education...
What's your Moug score for this video?
You videos are hilarious man
🤣🤣🤣🤣
As we see the galaxies as a thick flurry of stars, we easily think they are quite dense. In fact they are not, as this fine demonstration shows. Our sun is not exceptionally far away from other stars - I think its quite the contrary. So there is plenty of empty space inside the galaxies. Not to mention the complete emptiness of the space between them!
My favorite scale model of the solar system is at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The sun is on one side of campus, about the size of a grapefruit, and the planets are laid out to scale across about half of a mile to the other side of campus. When you get to Pluto at the very end ( a tiny metal dot barely visible on its plaque), it says at this scale, Proxima Centauri would be in Panama.
There’s also one up on Mt Evans that’s pretty good too it’s used for outdoor lab if they still do that
I would be walking around campus and run across one of the planets. Like, holy crap Neptune is far!
Wait, I haven't found Proxima Centauri around here, are you sure it in Panama?
Out there I'm sure there are other stars that are closer together, such that the fastest ship would only take 10-15,000 years and not 40,000 years.
@@winstonbeech3418 An interesting idea that the progress toward interstellar space travel for any intelligent life may be largely a matter of which civilization happens to have an unusually close neighbor, not necessarily which civilization is the most technologically advanced. Makes sense I guess -- presumably cultures on Earth that had many nearby islands would be the first to build ships and become seafaring. I wonder how close two systems could be and still have their planetary orbits be stable enough for life.
Niqqa really drove from England to Spain. You are the real star.
Epic
😂
30 second point stretched to over 5 minutes
vinny p Nigga*
@@tpl608 After all the effort he went to you surely aren't going to quibble about that!
I hope, for your sake, there was another reason for driving that far 🤣
Nope just the golf ball
Nope, just to teach us a lesson.
I was thinking the same thing 😂
Yeah, to go to Spain! That’s the real reason!
💀💀💀
Its amazing that things like this makes you realise how much of the universe is just nothing. That actual 'matter' part of it is so infintesimally small compared to the empty space
3:11
The car driving in the time lapse sounds like one of those dentist tools 😂
My teeth r clean now
This comment gave me anxiety
Fr
lol so true
One of those drills that taste like tic tac
These stellar distances are hard to fathom. Thanks for helping to put these crazy scales in perspective.
The fact that the earth is the size of a grain of sand in this scenario blew my mind.
The nearest star is over 100 miles away. This is not news.
MrJamberee who said it was news? It’s putting it into perspective. Stay in school
@@jamesthomas1649 They teach you what you need to know if you get a decent job, if you didnt learn it then clearly you wont be getting a decent job
@@MrJamberee Not a 100 miles but on the scale of shrinking the Sun to the size of a golfball the next star is over 1,200 km away. That gives a person a dose of reality about the size of the universe.
I don't know about Proxima Centauri, to me the nearest star is you who drove all the way to Spain from England just for a video.
Damn, that was smooth son.
cheesy af
Emin
But accurate
Probably not more likely he was going to Spain anyway and decided to make the video. 😉
Oh how disarming 😝😝😝
Remind me never to ask this guy where the next nearest galaxy is. Great effort!!. I pressed the like button 3 times.
Imagine driving to Spain and forgetting to click record...
Why would he record the journey back?
oof
That would be cool, hes already got the journey there.
@@zebran4 he would remember that he didnt record the journey to spay
He couldn't have driven all the way to Spain to convey his point a/b 'space distance between our Sun and the nearest star'.....he's probably got a 'mama sita' there, waiting for him ~
My hope is that he was going there anyway on holiday, with family maybe, and this was a perfect opportunity to show this
Business tax deduction for his holiday vacation.
Hahaha
no, that's no fun
@@Go-Getter sorry ! I'm Learning English and....
If his scales are correct then for the brains of others it is well worth the trip. I'm not sure myself but I doubt he's troll us or not be sure with his info.
Imagine THAT conversation with Spain's port of entry authorities....
"What's the nature of your visit to Spain?"
"I've come to show the internet where the next nearest star is"
You need to imagine first a port of entry between France and Spain
He didn’t take the Ports of Spain. I believe you meant France.
They would point him toward Antonio Banderas
Thought the same
Brexit shits will have to state that in the future, yes.
Excellent visual representation. Brings home the sheer size of the galaxy.
Well, thank goodness he didn't use a basketball instead of a golf ball!
If it were a basketball he would have driven less...
@@matty7758 Nopo, a lot more
@@matty7758 incorrect the smaller the scale the smaller the distance.
@@matty7758 what? does that mean that proxima centauri and the sun are actually closer than england and spain?
@@matty7758 i bet you feel pretty stupid now...
How far away is the nearest star? I think I’ll need to get in my car for this.
Gets in car....
Actually tries to drive into space...
to the nearest star
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
lol
France border: sir what’s your purpose in France?
Uhm I’m trying to get the nearest star.
....
Jokes on you, France lets everyone in
@@isaacbruner65 lol
There are no hard borders in the EU
There are (in General) no border controls in the Schengen area :D
@@isaacbruner65 He didn't say the dude was not going to be allowed in, was just asked the purpose of the trip.
Thanks for showing this distance so we can understand.
RichardB1983: *drives and drives*
Me: "If he keeps on driving, he's going to get to France."
RichardB1983: *gets on ferry*
Me: "Oh. Ok, then."
This man drove from England to Spain using a dentist tool just for this video
TheYoyoGamer comment of the day
Lmao I thought of a dentist drill too damn
Why you like this 🤣⚰️
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Must have been a rough ride zzzzzzz,-chizle chizle .
This also made me understand why, when the milky way and the andromeda galaxy will collide in a few billion years, there won't actually be any stars crashing into each other.
Nope. But the sun could be pushed closer to the center of the galaxy by gravitational forces. This, in turn, could cause global warming.
@@Erdbeerschorsch2011and higher food prices
@@Erdbeerschorsch2011personally i'd be more worried about the catastrophic effects of global warming by 2100 stopping us before we get to that point
@@Erdbeerschorsch2011 And would be bad for the stock market
@@Erdbeerschorsch2011 and this would totally impact the trout population
It takes the speed of light:
Just one second to reach the moon.
Mars in three minutes,
The Sun in eight minutes,
And it would still take 2.5 million years to reach our nearest galaxy, Andromeda.
Beyond that, there are trillions of galaxies scattered across the universe, as countless as grains of sand on a vast beach.
It’s amazing that we can even see light from even the nearest star.
Why? There's nothing stopping that light
I guess so. But relatively distant stars are typically dimmer than near stars. So distance must mean something. Im guessing there must be stars out there that we can’t detect because they’re too far away. This video just opened my eyes to the scale. I would have guessed the nearest star would have been a mile away from a golf ball sized sun. I was off by nearly a factor of 1000x
I've heard it described as similar to a blow torch in it's intensity (using a very small scale) so we're talking about extremely bright objects. Basically stars are continuous nuclear explosions and we know how bright they are.
@@cdtapeinteresting fact: proxima centauri is actually not visible with the naked eye because it is a red dwarf star that is too dim too see without a telescope. Alpha centauri is visible with the naked eye though
nearest star is called the sun 😎
Found your video on reddit. Thanks for the perspective!
Same here. Damn that really puts things into perspective.
Same here, it’s great!
Same for me
@@TheDavemarz Just saw it on Reddit too!
This guy is going to wake up tomorrow and wonder what the hell happened lol
*RichardB1983 gets to Spain* "Shit... forgot the golf ball"
*RichardB1983 returns to England a broken man*
@@ajitnagarkar5096 Life for Gareth Bale would have no meaning if Spain didn't have golf balls.
@@ajitnagarkar5096 no they don't, you can only buy them in Scotland an Northumbria. They have been banned from all other regions in the world, selling wise, since 1896 with the Munich accord.
@@-gemberkoekje-5547 Plot twist: He's got a spare golf ball in Uranus and he's saving it for the next video.
@@evilubuntu9001 Oh, kinky 😘
@@solomon6083 that made me chuckle good one haha
*Clever idea you have for imagining big numbers, but still the vastness is truly mindbogglingly. KUDOS!*
It's all an excuse for him to go on a road trip to Spain lmao
Awesome video
😊🥜
I think you were right when you said
“I think I’ll need my car for this”
attu he needed a plane!
@James same
I kept guessing how many km he was gonna travel and it just kept getting higher and higher.
Let be high but you better not get high
Sherry lol
Mind-blowing, I couldn't visualise the distance until you showed us. Thank you!
just imagine he realised in spain that he forgot his golfball
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I thought the same thing haha
@@ebriheemazeez4812 Did you have a stroke or something?
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He can just buy another lol
Science fiction writers: We'll explore the universe, travel the stars, colonize worlds, meet other civilizations!
Space: ....am I a joke to you?
@Saul Goode earth is a donut
😂😂😂
Saul Goode your eyes are flat. Fact.
Saul Goode
The earth is fat!
space is a flake*
FACT!
Spot on, sir, spot on.
How bright would that golf ball in Britain need to be to see it from Spain? Mind-boggling.
It doesn't have to be uber bright. If he also compressed the laws of the universe(which is unlikely) then it would take roughly 75 hours for the light to reach Britain from Spain. May be wrong though
Technically we can't see proximal centauri with our eyes alone
@@kathodenProxima Centuri is 4 light years away. I assume that is the scale he was depicting.
@@markburch6253 But we can see stars that are farther away. I just find it a little baffling how we can see something so relatively small from such a distance.
Canuck Fundy put a candle light at the end of a dark hallway
Appreciate the video. Can you do a similar video but with the sun at a 1:1 scale so I can show it to my kid? Thanks in advance.
LOL! Nice one!
Now remember, standing in Spain, that golfball back in England would shine so bright, that you could easily spot it with the naked eye from that distance against a dark backdrop with nothing in the way. That's the craziest part about all of that
Not really, the Sun is not visible with the naked eye, seen from Centauri. It's too dim. You cannot see Centauri from Earth with your eyes either.
@@LarsRyeJeppesen Proxima Cent is a red dwarf of 0.15 solar radii, when observed in the wavelengths of visible light the eye is most sensitive to, it is only 0.0056% as luminous as the Sun (wikipedia). You can't see Proxima, but I'm pretty sure you would be able to see the sun.
@@memyshelfandeye318 Ah yes you are right
@@LarsRyeJeppesen Proxima Centauri would be indeed too dim to see, but the sun would have an apparent magnitude of around +0.4, which is very bright. To put it into perspective, this would make it the 9th brightest star in our own night sky, and one could easily spot it from even the most light polluted places.
No you couldn't because the curvature of the earth would preclude it, if the world was flat then yes you could see it as you say.
This really gives me early UA-cam vibes I dunno why. Really 2008-2011 esque. Very informative video, and very simply made. Gotta love it
This is a remake of an American who did it in the U.S. about 15 years ago.
@@blaster-zy7xxEvery generation every UA-cam video gets remade for the new generation.
It's 5 years ago, that's like 2015...oh
@@nullieee1995 was 57 years ago.
@@sandro327 29 years, I'm not that old.
The only thought he had on his whole trip :
"Please like this video, please like this video,..."
No worries, I did.
1K dislikes though but why? I liked too.
@@iNathanLite dude I have no idea some people are nuts. Brain.exe not found
Stil one of the best videos on the internet
The fact he did this to show the scale of it is truly remarkable.
he went on vacation to spain
This is totally fake, because if he could reach the next star with only his car, then why the NASA cant reach it with all the hypertech, cyberspace equipment?! Makes no sense!
The next nearest star to Proxima Centauri? Welcome to Pakistan.
Nice one
The Sun isn't the nearest star to Proxima Centauri. Those would be the binary stars Alpha Centauri A and B, which are about 0.2 light years from Proxima Centauri. Alpha Centauri A and B are the second and third closest stars to the Sun at 4.3 light years - Proxima is 4.22 light years from the Sun.
Recent headline: British citizen arrested at Spanish border for smuggling golf balls, one at a time.
With a silliest cover story they ever heard.... "...you're filming what?!"
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LOL
For scale: Voyager 1's been traveling for almost 50 years at 38,000 MPH. It's gone .0016 of a light year. At this rate, it will take 18,000 years to go a full light year in distance.
38,000 MPH.
It was built in the 1970s.
I bet today we could build a probe to travel to other solar systems and get it to go _even faster._
Not just a little faster, but by enough to make a big difference. 😏
As an American, I'm just here admiring the roads and people driving like rational humans.
As a non American I'm shocked this is admirable and not normal to you.
As an Australian on holiday in Hawaii, I was so impressed by the American drivers, no aggression at all.
@@elale8016 Traffic is hell if you live near a large American city, but anywhere else on the open road is normal
As an American we don’t consider Hawaii as American as apple pie. So if you want to see how Americans drive, go to Los Angeles, California on a rainy day. You’ll get cutoff, honked at, middle finger to you, almost hit, road rage, and if you get unlucky you’ll get shot 😭💀
@@elale8016it's normal once you get out of the cities. People in rural areas and on the rural freeways tend to be more considerate
"So why'd you drive to Spain, Richard?"
Richard: *Science*
Genius way to write off a vacation to Spain by just grabbing a golf ball and making a short video! Well done Sir 😉
i just did this in chatgpt waiting for your results.
The closest star to the Sun is Proxima Centauri. It is part of the Alpha Centauri star system, which includes three stars: Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B, and Proxima Centauri.
Distance: Proxima Centauri is approximately 4.24 light-years away from the Sun. This distance means that light from Proxima Centauri takes 4.24 years to reach Earth.
In terms of space travel, this is relatively close on a cosmic scale, but it would still take tens of thousands of years to reach with current technology.
OMG you are still driving...walking away.
Start of video: wow, the Earth sure is small
End of video: why does his car sound like a mouse on crack
Fucking hybrids
@thatdudefromearth hey wait... Aren't you that dude from Earth?? Are all the cars like that down there?
because u use apple audio hardware
Because the video is fastened so the audio pitch is higher
Saikat Patra What? Really? I would have never guessed that...
I once did a similar comparison with deep time, using a ruler. One millimeter equaled one year, one inch equaled approximately 25 years. Four inches represented the last 100 years. The distance to the dinosaur Allosaurus, the object of my comparison, was 93 miles!
Sheesh! Good one!
holy shit.... but whynot in centimeters though? 😂
Mixing your units! That's a thing in the USA and England.
Neil degrase Tyson in the documentary “cosmos” does a good time concept of from big bang to current time using a cosmic year calendar. Jan 1 is big bang, dec 31 11:59:59 is current time. On that calendar Life on earth began on sept 15th, on dec 26 mammals evolved, human went from hunt gathers to farmers on the last minute of the cosmic calendar. Gives you a perspective of how short of time we have been here.
@@digitalveiBecause metric is too easy to convert. 😂
150 million years is equivalent to 15 million centimetres. 🤷
Is it just me or did this video pop up in your recommendation nearly a year after it was uploaded????? 🤔🤔
Mustafa Yamin judging by the comments, this just happened to a lot of us
Same oh well😕
Sure did
It's because he was so far away when he uploaded it, it's only just reached us -_-
@@kevfromnorwichUKGGKev
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Good illustration of scale! Proxima Centauri is about 4,2 LY away. Takes 50.000 - 100.000 years to get out there with current propulsion technique. We must move faster. Much much faster. The interesting stars, Glise et all, are min 10 times further away. It's a big ass universe out there !
Would be nice to reach in a lifetime of 110 years
If you would have said "this is the Sun and Neptune is at the other end of the park away, now let's go for a drive" and then asked where do you think we would be now, I would have said at the edge of the milky way or in another galaxy, but only reaching the next star really does begin to help us grasp the mind boggling distances out there.
Same, I was expecting him to go for a 2 km drive
Mhm. Another way to think about it is simply the speed of light. In just 1 second, light circles Earth 7 times. It takes over 4 years to reach Proxima Centauri going at that speed, and a mind-boggling 25,000 years at that speed to reach the next nearest galaxy to us, and there are 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe. Space is unfathomably large.
Y’all really thought it was gonna be close when a light year is almost 6 _trillion_ miles (10 trillion km) and Proxima Centauri is over 4 light years away?
@@kabob21 Interesting but I was just going to say a lot of people are on the tip of the iceberg of the depth of knowledge about space so a video like this can attract people from all walks of life
and people talk about colonizing the galaxy.................please on that scale the voyagers have gone maybe two thousand feet in 46 years...............right.
All this effort for a 5 minute video, crazy man. Great work!
Noah Ahmed Cavazade how am I supposed to know this. This is the first video I see from him
You seriously thought he did this just for a video? Wow. Really wow.
Azoui this is the first video I saw from him as well and I’m pretty sure the trip was not about accidentally picked some golf ball star comparisons
Darren Evans yeah why not I can tell you he definitely took his gas money from the views
Darren Evans You seriously think that’s the craziest thing someone’s done for a video on this site? Wow. Really wow.
To summarize with: If a Sun were a size of a GolfBall, the nearest star(Proxima Centauri) would be 1,200kms away.
And to think that the Earth is just a fine grain of a sand. That's crazy!
Hats off to you Sir.;-)
If the sun were the size of a golf ball the nearest star would be as far away as it is when the sun is it's normal size
Gel Alonzo think about size of us - humans on that scale...
@@amateurmusicstudio about as big as OP's Dick
Gel Alonzo , there are more stars in the heavens than there is sand on all the beaches of all of the world
@@jimthomas777 I was always taught that..it's just so unfathomable!!!
Thanks for demonstrating this. Mind blowing how vast our Galaxy is and of the universe. Our brains cant even comprehend the vastness of it all.
Son: Dad, how far is the nearest sun in our galaxy?
Me: Its in Spain, son. Spain.
Yesnog05 😂😂😂
Audibly laughed at this one
Its not IN spain,a star is waaay too big to fit inside spain, the video just shows the distance of the nearest star IF the sun was the size of a golf ball, the actual distance is about 4 light years away
Tune BoyZ I think you will find that he was having a laugh.
@@tuneboyz5634 eassy boi
Here's the math to those who like this stuff: Distance to Proxima Centauri: D = 4.24 light years = 4.01 × 10^16 m
Sun's diameter: S = 1.39 × 10^9 m
Diameter of a golf ball: G = 42.7 mm = 42.7 × 10^-3 m
Final relative distance: (D/S) G = 1230 km = 762 miles
Thanks, Will
I wish I understood whatever language that is it sounds cool
Math
Wowza, that's awesome mate. Cheers.
But the Sun's diameter is about seven times that of Proxima Centauri, so on that scale Proxima Centauri would be about the size of a pea. Also, interestingly, even though it is the nearest star it is so small and dim (a red dwarf) that it can't actually been seen with the naked eye.
Yeh … now that TRULY allows you to process how vast interstellar distances are . Thanks for bringing it home so well !👍
If I've seen one of these astronomical scale videos I've seen a hundred but this may very well be the best of the lot. I think a lot of people understand intellectually what the distances are, but this was an astonishingly vivid and visceral demonstration of the distances involved. Well done!
I think it's just not possible for us to imagine that distance, even if we understand it. It's too much for our ape brain.
Yeah, to be honest even after having taken planes all over the world it's still hard to wrap your head around just how vast the Earth is... but it's just a grain of sand in this demonstration... mind is blown 🤯
Having travelled at warp speed on numerous occasions this report is outdated.
I think very few people actually intellectually understand this
If I've done my math right your car goes over a trillion miles an hour. SLOW DOWN YA MANIAC!!!
Hah!!
He even broke the speed limit on the Autobahn.
😂
this dude drove through 3 countries just to teach people how far the nearest star to out solar system would be.
MAD RESPECT
And to look at hot Spainish women
Aka drove across texas
Our nearest star is the Sun.
Thought the same FUKING LIKE AND FAKEN SUBSCRIBED!
Yes but he could have saved himself a lot of trouble had he gone with a tiny grain of salt instead of a golf ball. Then he'd only have to drive 10 km
He is correct, I also drove down to Spain and found that their nearest star is also far warmer and brighter than ours in England.
Imagine his calculation was wrong and he realized it halfway through
What if he realised it after uploading the damn video?!!😂😂😂
"oh fuck it... Someone will prove me wrong anyway"
U people are a real nerd.
So he would just go 200 km less/more?
Alex Barčovský He drove 1200km. If 1200km was halfway then would the whole way be 1400km???
200-250 miles i was convinced that you actually were driving to the nearest star
Furtad0 lol
Furtad0 bru fuckin same
Haha
💀
SHOCKING! I have never seen a star in that area and I go there often!
It's a very small star. The size of a golf ball.
Just look up at night.
Light of the star must've blinded you
@@coconoisette then it`s a black hole
scrolled down to see this comment
Right so to the Andromeda galaxy next? 🙂
Imagine driving 1200 miles *TWICE* just to make a point
I totally get you. But it is not as impressive seeing this on the map. Actually the intent was also to get a grasp at the journey it would take. The time and the distance. Just seeing it kinda blew my mind.
I don't have to imagine, I just saw it, and it was awesome!
Point made
Epileptic Wizard the stubbornness of an English man.
Drive to Holland for the coffeeshops --> forget wallet at home
Idk
Maybe he did not
My dreams of interstellar travel
This video: I'm about the end this man's whole career.
"A human-made flying machine will be possible sometime between one-million to ten-million years." -New York Times, 1903
There are so many ideas for Interstellar travel. Light sails for example could be accelerated to ¼ the speed of light and could make it to Alpha Centauri in just a few decades. (There are ongoing space missions in our own solar system that have lasted longer) For all we know, medicine could become severely perfected, you and I could live to be 400 and catch a ride on a faster passenger version of this and spend our retirement in another system.
@@cosmicacorn you're forgetting that the one who wrote that article was an idiot, considering heavier-than-air crafts were made beforehand (blimps and hot air balloons).
Even for their time, it shouldve been obvious that they were near controlled flight.
@@cosmicacorn It is just not going to happen dude. Sorry to bust your bubble.
Unless we actually aquire some type of wormhole technology, i'm afraid we'll never gonna be able to travel past our own solarsystem.
Just to put this into perspective, a trip to the moon and back takes weeks for us currently. The sun is approximately 480 times further away from us than the moon.
So even traveling our own solarsystem will require a massive progress of technology.
@@cosmicacorn you are dellusional comrad!
I saw one done with a millimetre sun and it was just under 20 miles. A pea sized sun: 125 miles. So was thinking you're gonna have to drive nearly 800 miles.
Next episod:
Let's suppose the sun is as big as this basketball.
He drives all the way to China to show us the nearest star!
Lmao good idea...
Let's suppose the sun is the size of the sun...
*gets in car*
@@practicemore6877 In that case we need Einstein's car!
Or takes a plane instead
Lets suppose the sun is the size of a super colossal black hole. Get in car a head explodes.