Well, Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Makemake got some respect as well. Hell, Ceres used to be a planet before being the thing used to define what an asteroid IS.
In case anyone is wondering about the identity of the song playing in the background, it's the theme to "The Forgotten Pistolero" (originally known as "Il pistolero dell'Ave Maria", sometimes known as "Gunman of Ave Maria"), written by Roberto Pregadio.
Cierah Catastrophe I'm assuming you're joking, but if not, then SpongeBob premiered more than four years after this footage of Bill's scale model of the solar system was first broadcasted.
According to a really recent article I read yesterday, Pluto might actually be reclassified as a planet because it now has five moons and it has other characteristics of what we consider a planet.
This has been my baseline for thinking about planet distances for years. Elite Dangerous finally gave me a chance to see it on a 1:1 scale. Thanks for this Bill.
Music is called "Ballata Per Un Pistolero", also known as "The Gunfighter" by Roberto Predagio and Franco Micalizzi, written for the 1969 spaghetti western "The Forgotten Pistolero" (The Gunman of Ave Maria).
This was made before 2008 i think Also why not include pluto? Im planning on building a model like this (smaller) and i already drew them, including pluto
.....and of course the scale of the distance between the stars is even more mind blowing! If our sun was the size of a grain of sand, its nearest neighbor (Proxima Centauri) would be 4 miles away. If each star were the size of a grapefruit, you would have to place them 2,500 miles apart for proper scale. That is the approximate distance from Los Angeles to New York!
Great biking excercise! Here's a neat approach for the Earth and the Moon. The ratio in diameters of the Earth and the Moon is aprox. (6371 km / 1737 km =) 3.7. Pick a basketball for the Earth and a tennis ball for the Moon, which have aprox the same ratio (9.5" / 2.7" = ) 3.5. Set the basketball and the tennis ball next to each other on the floor. Now roll the basketball away from the tennis ball 10 full circles. That would be their relative distance. Note that whatever ball you use for the Earth, 10 full circles away is the aprox. distance to the Moon, the Earth's full Meridian circle being aprox. 40,000 km and the distance to the Moon being aprox. 400,000 km. Cheers!
A very good illustration.Like it. I just did some basic calcs and I estimate on this scale he would have to cycle another 12km+ (~8miles?) to catch up with voyager 1 probe. Further out - The nearest star is more than half way round the world (>25,000km). Thats a whole lotta cycling Bill.
+Vejo81 Pluto were not in our hearts and minds BEFORE its degradation to dwarf planet, so why start now? I'm thinking more like it was about time we finally got rid of that freakin mooch, after 85 years of BIRGing as the 9th member of The Planets!
+Mike Patton Speak for yourself Mr. Patton. Pluto has always been my favorite planet. The little planet that could. Just hanging on, far out there by itself.
Still waiting for Nye to give me credit for this demonstration: My father met him on a flight to Seattle and showed him my science fair project, a 9 mile scale model of the solar system, featured in a local news article.
Seriously? Isn't there a chance that at that same time, there were others doing the same thing, and maybe others years earlier? Maybe none of you was first. Science teachers are trying hard to keep their students engaged, so I would think many others have done this, too.
How fucking amazing is it that they sent a spacecraft 10 freaking years ago on it's way to Pluto and only missed their ETA of the closest point by a bit more than ONE MINUTE? I swear, NASA people are not humans. They are just too smart.
Stuff like this is why I love TH-cam. My kids (and I) saw this when they were little. I just put a few terms in the search bar, and this came right up! It amazes me to think that YT is only seven years old--can't imagine how I got along without it. And big kudos to grinc333 for posting--THANKS!
I remember seeing this while I was in highschool and it really is a great model to put the distances into a form we can somewhat comprehend. The distances to the stars are uncomprehendable no model can be made to allow us to understand how vast those distances are.
Nesmaniac There is a model that displays the whole Solar System from Sun to the edge of the heliosphere on a 1:20 Million scale and if covers the distance of 590 Miles
I remember after this he shows how far away the next closest star was to scale and he hops on a plane then a bus then he hikes he goes hella far......that was crazy
@@dogsareawesome9197 I've met him in person. He is 6ft tall. A meter is about as tall as the bike he's riding, and that visual of the sun is smaller in diameter than the bike wheels.
It frustrates me a bit that every picture of our solar system has all the planets bunched up together and only illustrates their order and maybe their size. I remembered this episode and that the distance between bodies in the solar system are like atoms, with each body far apart with empty space between them (in the case of atoms I mean the nucleus being so far from its electron cloud.)
I hear you man, that's one of the annoying things about illustrating The Solar System, the reason why people don't, is only because of how far they are from one-another.
2:31 the funny thing is that Bill Bye is the last person that the person in the car though it was that would be riding by them on a bike in the middle of nowhere.
I've worked it out for other measures: if the sun is the size of "@", then the distance between the sun and earth is about twice the width of youtube's comment collum.
Think about it this way: All of the gravitational pull of (practically)all of the mass of the Earth on a paperclip can be overcome by a mere kitchen magnet.
At this scale, Eris would be about 6.7 km away, Sedna 46 km away and Planet Nine 60 km away. Oh, and Proxima Centauri would be 26452 km away, more than halfway around the Earth. Proxima b would be only 6 meters away from its parent star.
I did a simple piece of math that to scale, 100 meters in the model is about one AU in real terms, that means Pluto and Charon are 40 AU from the sun o.o;
Everything is empty space. In a hydrogen atom, for example, if the nucleus were the sun, the electron would be 55 billion km away. We are all empty space.
Not to mention that higher orbits are even further away. If the lone electron jumps to n=2, the distance becomes 220 billion km. If it's n=3, that will be 495 billion km. Distance increases as r°*n².
I find it incredibly hard to believe, considering the relative sizes and distances of the planets from our sun, that the sun would still have gravitational influence on the planets. It is mind boggling to he honest and in fact it makes doubt if it is indeed the sun gravity that keeps these planets revolving around it
tamale26 Newtonian mathematics demonstrates that gravity indeed does hold it together. The sun is massive, so is the sun. Also gravity doesn't just "stop" working at a specific distance, it drops off (inverse square of distance). It is the reason the Earth takes a whole year to circle the sun and for the outer planets to take hundred of years to circle the sun
@seanheb Dunno the song name, but it's in the same vein as the Ennio Morricone Spaghetti Westerns (Fistful of Dollars, Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.)
its just a model it doesnt have to be exact a little smaller or bigger doesnt mess up the universe plus he is just showing how far away they are from each other
The sun's "a little over a metre" in diameter, so 0.5 m radius. 4/3pi(0.5)^3 = 0.5236 m^3. That Earth looks about 2cm in diameter, so 0.01 m radius. 4/3pi(0.01)^3 = 4.189e-6 m^3. 0.5236/(4.189e-6) = about 125000 earths in that sun, which is 1/8 of a million. So it's not quite there. But I think it's meant to show the distances a bit more than the sizes.
I like how he had to go down a hill to get to Pluto since it's not on the same plane as the planets. Very subtle.
Back when there was some respeck on Pluto's name.
Go to the postoffice and ask for the new Pluto stamp. It's awesome and shows a new respect for our little frozen buddy!
Well, Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Makemake got some respect as well. Hell, Ceres used to be a planet before being the thing used to define what an asteroid IS.
In case anyone is wondering about the identity of the song playing in the background, it's the theme to "The Forgotten Pistolero" (originally known as "Il pistolero dell'Ave Maria", sometimes known as "Gunman of Ave Maria"), written by Roberto Pregadio.
+Jake Self I thought it was Bubblebass's theme from Spongebob
Cierah Catastrophe I'm assuming you're joking, but if not, then SpongeBob premiered more than four years after this footage of Bill's scale model of the solar system was first broadcasted.
Cierah Catastrophe It is.
I remember this video being the first time it really got put into perspective to me how far everything is from each other in space
Here's Saturn, the one with the big rings
*bell rings*
god damn I love this show
It's important to wear a bicycle helmet when travelling at several times the speed of light and narrowly dodging planets.
According to a really recent article I read yesterday, Pluto might actually be reclassified as a planet because it now has five moons and it has other characteristics of what we consider a planet.
BUT, it hasn't cleared it's orbit of other scattered disk objects, or TNOs, which, Pluto needs to be able to do.
He actually simplified the orbits of mercury and Pluto, which are highly elliptical (at time Pluto's orbit is inside Neptune's).
This has been my baseline for thinking about planet distances for years. Elite Dangerous finally gave me a chance to see it on a 1:1 scale. Thanks for this Bill.
"Now we've gotta get serious"
Unknown man: "UH OH"
I FUCKING LOVE THAT RANDOM VOICE.
Pat Cashman
Music is called "Ballata Per Un Pistolero", also known as "The Gunfighter" by Roberto Predagio and Franco Micalizzi, written for the 1969 spaghetti western "The Forgotten Pistolero" (The Gunman of Ave Maria).
Poor Bill. If only he knew back then that he only needed to stop at Neptune.
This was made before 2008 i think
Also why not include pluto? Im planning on building a model like this (smaller) and i already drew them, including pluto
@@dogsareawesome9197 Yeah, this show aired from 1993 to 1998.
@@dogsareawesome9197 the comment you are replying to was a joke....... -_-
.....and of course the scale of the distance between the stars is even more mind blowing! If our sun was the size of a grain of sand, its nearest neighbor (Proxima Centauri) would be 4 miles away. If each star were the size of a grapefruit, you would have to place them 2,500 miles apart for proper scale. That is the approximate distance from Los Angeles to New York!
you're disqualified for using the metric system
@@BothellPlaysMusic you men imperial system
Great biking excercise!
Here's a neat approach for the Earth and the Moon.
The ratio in diameters of the Earth and the Moon is aprox. (6371 km / 1737 km =) 3.7.
Pick a basketball for the Earth and a tennis ball for the Moon, which have aprox the same ratio (9.5" / 2.7" = ) 3.5.
Set the basketball and the tennis ball next to each other on the floor. Now roll the basketball away from the tennis ball 10 full circles. That would be their relative distance.
Note that whatever ball you use for the Earth, 10 full circles away is the aprox. distance to the Moon, the Earth's full Meridian circle being aprox. 40,000 km and the distance to the Moon being aprox. 400,000 km.
Cheers!
A very good illustration.Like it.
I just did some basic calcs and I estimate on this scale he would have to cycle another 12km+ (~8miles?) to catch up with voyager 1 probe. Further out - The nearest star is more than half way round the world (>25,000km). Thats a whole lotta cycling Bill.
interesting! thanks
what about the proposed oort cloud?
Oort cloud is about 1 quarter that so about the distance from Canada to Mexico
And the dwarf planet Eris is 6.77km away from the model Sun.
The good old days when pluto was a planet. Poor Pluto.
Vejo81 The way I see it, it still is one. It will always be one, and nothing can change it.
***** Yeah never forget. Pluto in our hearts and minds.
+YTWarrior100 Less than two centuries ago, people were saying the same thing about Ceres.
+Vejo81 Pluto were not in our hearts and minds BEFORE its degradation to dwarf planet, so why start now?
I'm thinking more like it was about time we finally got rid of that freakin mooch, after 85 years of BIRGing as the 9th member of The Planets!
+Mike Patton Speak for yourself Mr. Patton. Pluto has always been my favorite planet. The little planet that could. Just hanging on, far out there by itself.
Cool demonstration. Shows how large the distances are even with a small scale model.
Still waiting for Nye to give me credit for this demonstration: My father met him on a flight to Seattle and showed him my science fair project, a 9 mile scale model of the solar system, featured in a local news article.
Seriously? Isn't there a chance that at that same time, there were others doing the same thing, and maybe others years earlier? Maybe none of you was first. Science teachers are trying hard to keep their students engaged, so I would think many others have done this, too.
And my mother is mother Theresa.
Sorry kid, we were doing this back in the 60s. Pluto was discovered February 1930, and I'm sure somebody was scaling it out before the year was over.
How fucking amazing is it that they sent a spacecraft 10 freaking years ago on it's way to Pluto and only missed their ETA of the closest point by a bit more than ONE MINUTE?
I swear, NASA people are not humans. They are just too smart.
Lobster with Mustard and Rice I bet they don't have girlfriends either.
+Mysterious Squirrel Yeah, they probably have husbands and wives.
+Mysterious Squirrel "The Astronaut Spouses Group"
Camaron Townsend True, as a scientist I can assure you people that we are very good at fucking. Especially each other. No joke here.
Camaron Townsend Listen, I want my space scientists working, number crunching and using their slide rules, not distracted by some busty bimbo ditz.
I liked the part when he was telling me how far away my ass hole is from the sun.
There's a scale model like this in Boston. Sun is in the science museum, and pluto is at the end of one of the subway lines.
POV: You came here from your science teacher.
yes i did
Yup. Hello Hyde Middle
@@leosong829 hi
@@dylank.8857 hi dylan
@@leosong829 Hello
I’ve had that whistle melody stuck in my head for 25 years
he's got such quiet enthusiasm and scholary wackiness, thanks Bill Nye for being such a legend :)
Awesome! This planets episode was probably my favorite
Stuff like this is why I love TH-cam. My kids (and I) saw this when they were little. I just put a few terms in the search bar, and this came right up! It amazes me to think that YT is only seven years old--can't imagine how I got along without it.
And big kudos to grinc333 for posting--THANKS!
One of my favorite Nye sequences. Watched this just for fun!
Man, in my childhood I learned more watching Bill Nye than I did in school (R.I.P Childhood)
I remember seeing this while I was in highschool and it really is a great model to put the distances into a form we can somewhat comprehend. The distances to the stars are uncomprehendable no model can be made to allow us to understand how vast those distances are.
Nesmaniac There is a model that displays the whole Solar System from Sun to the edge of the heliosphere on a 1:20 Million scale and if covers the distance of 590 Miles
I remember watching this specific one at elementary. I'm not crying 😭
Thanks for this clip. Was my favorite demonstration he did.
Pluto has a huge inclination too. It would have been great if they placed it on top of a radio tower.
Despite the distance I can see the real Jupiter & Saturn with my 8 inch telescope at home at night sometimes!
Apparently the next nearest star to us to scale, is around 100 miles!
The song is called Ballard of a Gunman.
We need Bill back om national tv.
Ballata per un Pistolero II - Roberto Pregadio is the name of the song in case you were wondering.
i used to watch this bit over and over just for the music
2024.... and still one of my favorite demonstrations.
ZOMG I REMEMBER THIS EPISODE WHEN IT FIRST AIRED! NOSTALGIA!!!!
I love his Ennio's work
Only person that ever made more interested in science...
He used metric units. Bless him.
Why didn't Bill simply make the Sun a lot smaller?
+terminat1 how big would pluto have been then?
I think you're trolling though.
Daniel Veeken Yeah, good point. I wasn't trolling.
cool, sorry!
You better be! ;-)
Great idea. Then mars can be the size of the dot at the end of this sentence.
I remember after this he shows how far away the next closest star was to scale and he hops on a plane then a bus then he hikes he goes hella far......that was crazy
bill nye the science guy.....BILL! BILL! BILL! BILL!
ohhh how i loved these movies (:
I really wanna know where they shot this.
This is real television. I miss it so much.
0:18 - That model of the Sun only looks like it is a half of a meter across, comparing it with how tall Bill is.
Plot twist: bill is the tallest human in the world
@@dogsareawesome9197 I've met him in person. He is 6ft tall. A meter is about as tall as the bike he's riding, and that visual of the sun is smaller in diameter than the bike wheels.
@@carultch r/woooosh
@@carultch also you're lucky you met bill nye
If more science teachers were like Bill Nye, more students would pay attention!
Song is called Ballata Per Un Pistolero
Elementary school nostalgia
This is one of the best videos ever made.
Love the music!
Space will leave you breathless.
I love this man!!!
damn the things he does to educate is amazing. great guy
I still need to do the Bill Nye audio tour of the Sagan Planet Walk in Ithaca, NY.
This is how I think about music and commercial radio.
awesome :) blast from the past!
He signaled his lane change at 2:37 Even after he already looked to see that there were no cars. What a nice guy!
I prefer the old clips they show. Those 1950 or 1960 clips seem more informative. They should show them in entirety.
It frustrates me a bit that every picture of our solar system has all the planets bunched up together and only illustrates their order and maybe their size. I remembered this episode and that the distance between bodies in the solar system are like atoms, with each body far apart with empty space between them (in the case of atoms I mean the nucleus being so far from its electron cloud.)
I hear you man, that's one of the annoying things about illustrating The Solar System, the reason why people don't, is only because of how far they are from one-another.
The Forgotten Pistolero by Roberto Pregadio or "Uno sguardo sereno" you can preview it on iTunes.
BEST CLIP OF SCIENCE EVER!
"oh hey everybody"
I love how they put Pluto off the side of the road to represent its really eccentric orbit.
@rogermwilcox But to be fair, Bill also didn't call Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, or Uranus planets either.
2:31 the funny thing is that Bill Bye is the last person that the person in the car though it was that would be riding by them on a bike in the middle of nowhere.
Geeze learn English please
Bill: "Now we gotta get serious"
Announcer: "Uh-oh"
I love this show.
It's just as exiting as he was.
The label doesn't change what it is.
What it is changed it's label.
In my astronomy class, we did a similar project, except the scale was smaller.
Bing brought me here. Bill Nye, one of the greatest.
@rogermwilcox Note that he said Uranus and not YourAnus ^^
I miss learning like this.
@ClairvoyantTruth In the US, the metric system is always used in any scientific environment.
"There is a lot of space... in space..." - no shit, mr. Bill!
I've worked it out for other measures: if the sun is the size of "@", then the distance between the sun and earth is about twice the width of youtube's comment collum.
Think about it this way: All of the gravitational pull of (practically)all of the mass of the Earth on a paperclip can be overcome by a mere kitchen magnet.
This is amazing.
At this scale, Eris would be about 6.7 km away, Sedna 46 km away and Planet Nine 60 km away. Oh, and Proxima Centauri would be 26452 km away, more than halfway around the Earth. Proxima b would be only 6 meters away from its parent star.
I did a simple piece of math that to scale, 100 meters in the model is about one AU in real terms, that means Pluto and Charon are 40 AU from the sun o.o;
Finally a real model:D
whoa (mindblown) ! i didnt know outer planets were that far away
When I was a kid, this scene blew my mind. ALL THE MODELS LIED TO ME!
The way this video ends is hilarious.
Everything is empty space. In a hydrogen atom, for example, if the nucleus were the sun, the electron would be 55 billion km away. We are all empty space.
Mason Vank if that's accurate, that's crazy! Good fact!
I'm not entirely sure about his ratio's but in general he's correct. Most atoms are empty space.
Not to mention that higher orbits are even further away. If the lone electron jumps to n=2, the distance becomes 220 billion km. If it's n=3, that will be 495 billion km. Distance increases as r°*n².
This video: Good.
The five suggestions all mentioning Nibiru? Very, very bad.
So, this video was scaled so that 1 AU = 100 meters.
Using this scale, the nearest star would be 26,852 kilometers away.
The good ole days when Bill Nye would come on and Pluto was a planet, oh well
I find it incredibly hard to believe, considering the relative sizes and distances of the planets from our sun, that the sun would still have gravitational influence on the planets. It is mind boggling to he honest and in fact it makes doubt if it is indeed the sun gravity that keeps these planets revolving around it
tamale26 Newtonian mathematics demonstrates that gravity indeed does hold it together. The sun is massive, so is the sun. Also gravity doesn't just "stop" working at a specific distance, it drops off (inverse square of distance). It is the reason the Earth takes a whole year to circle the sun and for the outer planets to take hundred of years to circle the sun
Oh Pluto. It was fun while it lasted.
@seanheb Dunno the song name, but it's in the same vein as the Ennio Morricone Spaghetti Westerns (Fistful of Dollars, Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.)
its just a model it doesnt have to be exact a little smaller or bigger doesnt mess up the universe plus he is just showing how far away they are from each other
I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. - HHGG
I could have cosmic scale explained to me 1000 times 1000 different ways and it wouldn't stop blowing my mind
Beautiful!!! I would like to point out though that the Earth-Sun distance is much closer to 109x the Sun diameter than 100x.
oh my, the distances are quite huge.
The sun's "a little over a metre" in diameter, so 0.5 m radius. 4/3pi(0.5)^3 = 0.5236 m^3. That Earth looks about 2cm in diameter, so 0.01 m radius. 4/3pi(0.01)^3 = 4.189e-6 m^3. 0.5236/(4.189e-6) = about 125000 earths in that sun, which is 1/8 of a million. So it's not quite there. But I think it's meant to show the distances a bit more than the sizes.
he rode his bike farther than i could since he past mercury.
@FE511bhs You may be right, but I think it was filmed near Drumheller Valley in Alberta