I love these types of videos because they make people start to realize things in the universe if they didn't already know. It is quite interesting to see reactions
In fact, you will see the past and history when you look at the sky. Since light travels at 300,000 kilometers per second, many events in the universe you will not be able to observe until its light reaches your eyes. The Andromeda galaxy can be seen with the naked eye (you will see it better with a telescope). But the Andromeda galaxy is 2,500,000 light-years away from Earth, which means that the Andromeda galaxy you see is an image of the past more than 2. 5 million years ago. Kepler 452b was discovered in 2015 and is 1400 light years away from Earth. That means when we look at Kepler 452b we are seeing its past 1400 years ago. We have no way of observing the planets, stars and galaxies in real time. If a star 10 light-years away from Earth explodes, you won't see that event until 10 years later
In 1980 I shook hands with Admiral Alan B. Shepard; Apollo 14 Commander and the fifth man on the Moon. He was also the first American in space. He handed me my Diploma, when I graduated from Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N.H. For an 18 year old, it was quite a rush.
The day I realized the Universe is way bigger than I thought: the day I found out there are more stars than there are grains of sand on all the beaches.
This video is so powerful. I always watch it when I have any kind of worries and problems. It makes me realize how irrelevant my problems and worries are.
Dr. Carl Sagan is a legend when it comes to explaining the Cosmos. I remember running to the TV everytime the music of the cosmos came on. For those so inclined, the original Cosmos series is a must watch.
There's an old "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip that mentions how vast the Universe is, and THAT is why we like to spend time indoors, especially at night...the idea of just how vast everything is is just so far beyond our ability to comprehend that it blows our synapses.
Born too late to explore the Earth, and born too early to explore the universe. I can only imagine what the first humans who crossed the oceans were thinking.
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 We actually know a lot about the oceans. The only things left to find in the ocean are some new fish, that are similar to the old fish. Imagine living in the ancient Roman times and seeing an elephant, giraffe, or a rhino for the first time. For the majority of human history, nobody knew anything about the world. Imagine living 10,000 years ago and seeing a thunderstorm with lightning, or a tornado, or a tsunami...or a rainbow. The Earth is an amazing place, but the magic is gone :(
@@bucketheadkfc You have no bloody idea what you're going on about. In the past 5 years alone, we've discovered that there's a plant that moves to new locations when the going gets rough, a gecko that skins itself alive in order to escape predators, and sea slugs that can amputate their own heads and survive. We still don't know how they're pulling off that little trick. Although, personally, my favorite new species are the giant tree rats.
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 Wow, so scientists have discovered a plant, a gecko, and a slug. These are amazing discoveries, but it proves what I have already said. I have been obsessed with biology and astronomy since I was 6 years old.... discovering a new plant is not the same as discovering nuclear fusion.
aside- Pluto was reclassified as a “dwarf planet”, like Ceres or Eris, not a “moon”. It has it’s own moon - Charon, though they are so close to each other in size that there is debate about if they should be considered some sort of binary system rather than Charon being Pluto’s satellite.
We’re all just specks in a vast universe, but, in all that vastness, you remain a uniquely beautiful and special “speck”. Have a glorious day! God Bless and Happy Valentine’s Day!❤️
I think aliens know about us but treat our solar system like a wildlife refuge. I'm sure a spacecraft was checking out the Oort cloud, picked up Jerry Springer and was like, "um, no."
the fact that there's locations out in space that's SO unfathomably far away that we technically can't even officially verify they're existence is insane ...who's to say that there isn't an entire other place like earth with "people" ...just so surreal
A massive assumption we make, is that our type of life (carbon based) is all that is possible. That assumption biases which planets we look at turning us away from others. It's entirely possible life exists that doesn't need what we do to live, water, food, air, etc.
@@maxdrags3115 They used to use an equation that, based on what we knew at the time, "proved" that statistically there couldn't be life anywhere but earth. Then as we learned more and more about the universe and what's actually out there that very same equation now "proves" that life HAS to exist out there somewhere. The simple truth is that for now it's impossible to know for sure either way.
I find it amazing that people today could watch this video and still insist there is no intelligent life out there. For me I can't image how many different intelligent life forms are out there, a thousand , a million, a billion?. These life forms being thousands or millions of years more advanced then us would easily have develop propulsion drives or ways of travel we can't comprehend that could reach us. Even if we were able to travel at warp speed (using star Trek as an example) we would never be able to explore the complete galactic multiverse. That would also be true I assume for the other intelligent life forms......maybe. Thank you for the great reaction and bringing us this video.
Trust me, listening to Carl Sagan saying it himself is about a trillion times better than how it sounded in this video. Look up Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot. You will not be disappointed.
Here is a link to a video that shows that if you zoom all the way in to the size of the very smallest "thing" (Quantum foam or the Planck Length) the zoom "factor" is virtually the same as the zoom out factor of the entire universe, so basically you can go as small as you can go large. Pretty mind blowing! th-cam.com/video/5AAR7bNSM_s/w-d-xo.html
As a biologist, life has to be out there, however it is most likely microbial. The problem that is faced is something known as the Fermi Paradox, where it is postulated that a civilisation can only become so advanced before it becomes self destructive and wipes itself out, hence why we find nothing out there in the universe That and considering how vast the universe is of course. Also, Pluto is a dwarf planet as opposed to anything else.
I wasn't bothered by the noise of the construction. The way I look at it is like this: If I can hear noise then my hearing is fine and I am alive. It's a good day!
Devin Collins I suffered a couple severe head injuries when I was a teenager. --Woken up surrounded by women wearing all white more than once! Come dinner time, as long as I'm still conscious, upright and breathing under my own power, with no recently broken bones... I figure it's been a relatively good day! :-D
People really need to see these sorts of videos as Sci Fi movies, as fun as they are, have given people very little appreciation for just how vast and inconceivably large. It might seem scary but...to paraphrase Doctor McCoy from Star Trek, imagine that in all that vastness there is still only one of you. How unique!
In Ancient Greece, Anaximander suggested “apeiron” referring to how big the universe must be. The Greek word “apeiron” means without limit in time and space, suggesting the universe is boundless. In other words, infinite. This makes perfect sense to me. Since things exist, there must be no limit to existence and existence must be limitless. So I think there’s that the so called “big bang” was the “beginning” of “everything”. Meanwhile, evolutionarily, the odds of us being here, not to mention being here as humans, is unbelievably small, yet here we are. That renders us individually and collectively responsible for consciously choosing to always educating and informing ourselves and each other scientifically and to abandon our archaic, outdated, untrue, primitive superstitions and fairytales and fearmongering. You only fear something if you don’t understand it or don’t know about it. When barrier is crossed, new possibilities open that you likely haven’t even imagined before. Only a few centuries ago we didn’t even know kat if what we know about the universe today. Going back to Ancient Greece which no longer exists, all those great philosophers didn’t know anywhere near what the average person knows today thanks to the enlightenment reformations and the industrial as well as technological revolutions, breakthroughs and discoveries. Back to cosmos, I still think the universe has no beginning or end, and is ultimately exempt from time. So there was never a creation. Only evolution. And we as an ape species are but one amongst possibly countless others that are intelligent enough to compose and comprise entire civilisations, regardless of their levels and scales. And there’s no way any species is the so called “center of the universe”. We just be, and that’s it.
They dont mention it in the video but for the Voyager probe, 1AU(astronomical unit) is roughly 93,000,000 miles, and 138 au=roughly 11,000,000,000 miles. And its speed is 17km/s or 38,000miles per hour
Basically it’s called “ observable” because at night we can see it all from your back yard. Because that’s what the light we can see from them shining it’s light at us. But imagine if we were at a different part of our galaxy, like if we lived at our neighboring star then one corner of the universe we would no longer see but there would be an entire new corner of the universe we could see
You can look at this video in one of two ways: The kinda nihilistic way is: "holy shit we are not even the size of a speck of dust in comparison to everything there is out there in the observable universe, we don't mean shit, we're completely irrelevant" or The hopeful way: "this is incredible, this gives us something to strive for so that one day when whatever species we evolve into a billion years from now we can take our first confident steps into our wider galaxy and maybe even beyond that and begin to explore everything that reality has to offer, uncover possibly unknowably ancient civilisations who hit their technological peak when we were cavemen, learn their secrets, record and learn from what they knew and rise to a whole new level of understanding the grand cosmos and our place in it. We may not live to see it but our destiny is out there, amongst the stars."
I think that is awesome because it makes each of us truly unique. Not in the entire history of the galaxy theirs be another you. They say there could be a multiverse so there could be another you. But it can’t be truly you because you have breathed different molecules which interacted with your body chemistry. How can a duplicate of you breath those same molecules at the same time you do? You’re unique.🙂
The universe is infinite and does not end, ever. It can't. If it did, there would have to be some sort of boundary, which would then have to be infinitely thick. It's damn near impossible for us to wrap our finite minds around this but it is the way it is and the only way that it can be when you break it down to the simple fact. I understood this as a young child when I started asking myself these questions and visualizing it and incorporating common sense. There's really no other way around this.
Courtney, I heard about a year ago or so that Voyager had finally crossed over the line into interstellar space. In case someone watching isn't sure about the word sextillion, the progression is million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion.
Remember this feeling, after watching this video. Cosmic Horror is partially about this. Lovecraft loved science and fear/phobias. Cosmic Horror is about fear of the unknown, at its absolute core. As well as existentialism, human limitations and so on. The horrid leviathans are too frightening to gaze upon, that chacters literally commit suicide on the spot, because we do not comprehend what we are looking at. I know it seem unrelated to this video, but it's not in terms of astronomy and too much knowledge (almost). Good reaction.
When you asked if we'd ever land on Mars... when you said "Mars", in that wonderful accent, I was reminded of the character of Bobbie Draper, a bad-ass Martian marine in "The Expanse", who is played by a New Zealander. ;-] Cheers from Canada! PS: If anyone has an interest in good sci-fi, "The Expanse" is the series to watch! It's the most accurate depiction of humans in space I've ever seen!
Being a single planet species is the ultimate personification of putting all your eggs in one basket. We need to be a multi-planet species in order to secure our long term survivability. There's been far too many mass extinctions to think it won't happen again to us this time.
Lold, thinking in colonizing other planets when we still die to virus xD And you are not even taking into consideration all the things we need to be able to survive in other planets...
Great reaction video! But there's a little correction to do: Pluto is not a moon, it is categorized as "dwarf planet" (since it's no longer categorized as "full" planet anymore). A moon is something which circles around a planet which Pluto doesn't do though.
No. Saturn would also appear as a little dot, this picture was shot waaaayyyy farther away. Those "streaks" you see in that picture are just reflections of the sunlight within the camera lenses.
Moving at a speed of 143 Miles per second around the center of our Milky Way we have travelled 1/4 of a revolution since Tyrannosaurus rex was roaming the Earth.
Love your reaction :D Got some recommendations for you: Videos by melodysheep: "Timelapse of entire universe" ; "Timelapse of the future" ; "The Secret History of The Moon"
Not a moon, a dwarf planet, but its more how we classify planets changed, we didn't change the classification because of learning something. Its classification as a planet has been debated since the 90's.
"Pluto was changed into a moon" I guess that's been already tackled by many other people; but in case it's not XD... Pluto was not changed into a moon, but reclassified as a "dwarf planet". And yet there was still some debate some time ago if this should be again reconsidered. Pluto was "downgraded" to a dwarf planet because the discovery of more celestial bodies at the edge of the solar system began to challenge the notion of what should be the size of a body to call it a planet (remember the celestial bodies exist, but we are the ones classifying them to better understand them). Nonetheless, moving Pluto to the list of "dwarf planets" doesn't mean that it was dishonored... it just means we have found more bodies sharing some attributes with Pluto (like the, then, asteroids Ceres, Haumea, Makemake or Eris) and there were two choices: we could expand the list of planets to 13 or create a new middle category and put Pluto there. The latter option was taken (and this list isn't even totally set because now the debate could be "when a celestial body stops being an asteroid to be considered a dwarf planet", meaning that there may be more bodies, mostly considered asteroids, beyond Neptune that could make it into the category of planet). For a celestial body to be considered a moon, the celestial body has to orbit a bigger celestial body, most of the times a planet. Fun fact: Science tries to classify celestial bodies based on size and the matter of the body. But many times, once science has mostly agreed a classification something else pops up that challenges that classification. There is also an interesting debate for when a giant gas "planet" should be instead called a star. Second fact: there are some "rogue moons", celestial bodies wandering the universe with size enough to imagine they once orbited planets, but by some catastrophic event they were launched into space. Third fun fact: there are also moons with moons XD.
It’s so crazy to me there’s more than 100 billion planets in every galaxy and there’s over 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe alone. There’s gotta be life out there, I’d be surprised if not. It would take a long time to observe every planet just in our galaxy.
They estimated there are atleast about 20 billion planets in the habital zone of their star in this galaxy alone. There are galaxies with 100 trillion stars atleast.
I always find it kind of funny when people say "out in space" or anything like that. As if space only exist when leaving Earth. Not realizing that Earth itself IS in space too. :)
It’d take 50 years to travel to Mars FYI, I’m 26 so by the time I made it their I’d almost be 80 years old. It’s crazy how massive the universe truly is and we haven’t even explored the majority of it.
Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 and has long left our solar system. In the year 40,272, the spacecraft will sail within 1.7 light-years of the star Gliese 445 in the constellation Camelopardalis. In 56,000 years, Voyager 1 will exit the Oort cloud, then brush by the stars GJ 686 and GJ 678 in 570,000 years.Sep 6, 2017 It's a big universe.. imagine those dates. The year 40,272? Its mind boggling.....
This just points out that since it is unlikely that we will ever (without the fictional warp speed) reach another habitable planet, how important it is to not ruin this planet.
We are truly insignificant beings living on a tiny, water covered speck of space dust. One more thing to think about... when we "throw something away" here on Earth... there is truly no "away" to which to throw it! Mind blown.
Wonderfully insightful video. thanks for doing this one! Hugs from The frozen tundra called North Dakota which is minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit here today! : * )
Damn you just made me think sooo hard I imagine there are beings so big that the earth is like a grain of salt to them And we can see them because our eyes cant like see the colour or whatever
Based on what we already know about how life started on earth with the building blocks arriving in comets, we can assume that, given the literally unmeasurable size of the universe that this has happened in other places. We may never have physical evidence of it but assuming that there isn't any just out of skepticism is fairly ignorant at this point.
I used to give myself headaches. Where did it all start? The big bang (expansion as the boffins like to call it now) everything from nowt? What's beyond the universe? What is it expanding into? Now? I just drink...
The sad part is that all this extraordinary large distances mean that we will never be able to observe anything outside of our galaxy, and probably not even that. Even if we could travel at almost the speed of light, it would just be way too far away for us to reach it in a reasonable time :(
I believe there’s absolutely no way we’re alone. We’re in the habitable “Goldilocks” zone in our solar system within our single galaxy and if there are TRILLIONS of other galaxies with their very own planets, stars and solar systems, i think there must be manyyyy others that have their own habitable zone as well, where planets are at the perfect distance from their sun in order for life to be able to thrive and evolve... the possibilities are endless
You should totally react to the timelapse of the future by melodysheep it is in my opinion the best video on youtube, and I'm sure there are some others who agree. If anyone agrees please like so that she sees.
Ohayo gozaimasu! Love your posts.. Denton, Tx.. I enjoy your Japan references.. spent 20 years with NEC in the US. Visited Japan 3 times for business.. being in a homogeneous culture is so different than the US.. enjoyed your Super Bowl as well.. keep up the good work.. you have many fans out here..
hehe, I suggested you watch this exact thing a week or two ago :)...and was sure that whether you saw my request or not that someone else would request it as well and you'd watch it!
Heres an interesting thought.. what if, we are inside a more complex structure or a massive entity? We all know everything is made up small particles, humans and most things we see is made up of small particles. Now, instead of these subatomic particles.. that massive structure/entity is made up of universes or galaxies. Universe -Uni (one) Verse (song) is just one song.. so it's safe to assume that there is a whole orchestra out there.
As far as I'm concerned, this is proof that we simply can't be alone. That number of planets that exist is so large that there has to be others. The real question is will we ever meet them, hear from them or even have proof they exist. They could be more advanced or they could be just starting out. We may never know for sure.
Early bird gang where you at?
I was lost in the massive universe.
Hahaha ayyyy 💯 💯
@@CourtneyCoulston I Was trying Ask you How you like the Super bowl U Never said anything 🤷♂️
@@larrycollins1538 Joan Jett was better.
@Doug Sawyer Doug you really have some,really big problems. Did people or somebody bully you as a Child 🧒 .
"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Both are equally terrifying." - Arthur C. Clarke
The first sentence in "Life Beyond Chapter One" by melodysheep.😄
Truly
Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
@@sdpints3189 Which is based on faith, not fact.
@@W1ckedRcL - Genuine faith is based on fact.
I love these types of videos because they make people start to realize things in the universe if they didn't already know. It is quite interesting to see reactions
In fact, you will see the past and history when you look at the sky. Since light travels at 300,000 kilometers per second, many events in the universe you will not be able to observe until its light reaches your eyes.
The Andromeda galaxy can be seen with the naked eye (you will see it better with a telescope). But the Andromeda galaxy is 2,500,000 light-years away from Earth, which means that the Andromeda galaxy you see is an image of the past more than 2. 5 million years ago.
Kepler 452b was discovered in 2015 and is 1400 light years away from Earth. That means when we look at Kepler 452b we are seeing its past 1400 years ago. We have no way of observing the planets, stars and galaxies in real time. If a star 10 light-years away from Earth explodes, you won't see that event until 10 years later
@@Yangpeiling-de-zhangfu speechless
In 1980 I shook hands with Admiral Alan B. Shepard; Apollo 14 Commander and the fifth man on the Moon. He was also the first American in space. He handed me my Diploma, when I graduated from Pinkerton Academy in Derry, N.H. For an 18 year old, it was quite a rush.
The day I realized the Universe is way bigger than I thought: the day I found out there are more stars than there are grains of sand on all the beaches.
Rockinghorse Winner Not just beaches. Grains of sand on the entire earth. All the beaches & all the deserts too..
@@susanmaggiora4800
And ocean floor
@@susanmaggiora4800 that's mind numbing
Not just beaches
"Born to late to explore the world, born to early to explore the universe."
wow that is facts!
too
It sucks 😩
Born just in time to witness covid
Well said
This video is so powerful. I always watch it when I have any kind of worries and problems. It makes me realize how irrelevant my problems and worries are.
Dr. Carl Sagan is a legend when it comes to explaining the Cosmos.
I remember running to the TV everytime the music of the cosmos came on.
For those so inclined, the original Cosmos series is a must watch.
@@ksronlinemedia3798 That haunting music by Vangalis'.
it's one of those things that if you think about it too much, it's overwhelming
Indeed 🌌
Here is where spritual touchdown starts to indulge for soul purpose, growth and healing the world .
Or inspiring.
There's an old "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip that mentions how vast the Universe is, and THAT is why we like to spend time indoors, especially at night...the idea of just how vast everything is is just so far beyond our ability to comprehend that it blows our synapses.
Born too late to explore the Earth, and born too early to explore the universe. I can only imagine what the first humans who crossed the oceans were thinking.
Probably similar to the thoughts the first people to the moon had.
@tyler
Not too late or too early to explore the oceans. We still know so little about them, that they might as well be an alien world.
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 We actually know a lot about the oceans. The only things left to find in the ocean are some new fish, that are similar to the old fish. Imagine living in the ancient Roman times and seeing an elephant, giraffe, or a rhino for the first time. For the majority of human history, nobody knew anything about the world. Imagine living 10,000 years ago and seeing a thunderstorm with lightning, or a tornado, or a tsunami...or a rainbow. The Earth is an amazing place, but the magic is gone :(
@@bucketheadkfc
You have no bloody idea what you're going on about. In the past 5 years alone, we've discovered that there's a plant that moves to new locations when the going gets rough, a gecko that skins itself alive in order to escape predators, and sea slugs that can amputate their own heads and survive.
We still don't know how they're pulling off that little trick.
Although, personally, my favorite new species are the giant tree rats.
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 Wow, so scientists have discovered a plant, a gecko, and a slug. These are amazing discoveries, but it proves what I have already said. I have been obsessed with biology and astronomy since I was 6 years old.... discovering a new plant is not the same as discovering nuclear fusion.
aside- Pluto was reclassified as a “dwarf planet”, like Ceres or Eris, not a “moon”. It has it’s own moon - Charon, though they are so close to each other in size that there is debate about if they should be considered some sort of binary system rather than Charon being Pluto’s satellite.
I would argue that they should call it a binary system because the gravitational epicenter is outside the surface of Pluto.
The most impressive phrase:
👉 "we are incredibly small"
And so many people out there believing themselves bigger than others ...
We’re all just specks in a vast universe, but, in all that vastness, you remain a uniquely beautiful and special “speck”. Have a glorious day! God Bless and Happy Valentine’s Day!❤️
We stuck here. No one knows about us and probably will not ever. Small little blue dot. let's take care of it.
I think aliens know about us but treat our solar system like a wildlife refuge. I'm sure a spacecraft was checking out the Oort cloud, picked up Jerry Springer and was like, "um, no."
On a positive note, it's unlikely Evil Aliens will ever find us.
@@jsl151850b Oh. we just got to hope the goody aliens do then? Sorry, couldn't resist, just joking.
@@jsl151850b And they looking our way have the same thought most likely .,
@@jsl151850b it's unlikely we find anyone and they won't find anyone
I love learning about the universe its such a mystery but it always blows my mind.
the fact that there's locations out in space that's SO unfathomably far away that we technically can't even officially verify they're existence is insane ...who's to say that there isn't an entire other place like earth with "people" ...just so surreal
A massive assumption we make, is that our type of life (carbon based) is all that is possible. That assumption biases which planets we look at turning us away from others. It's entirely possible life exists that doesn't need what we do to live, water, food, air, etc.
Of course there has to be life out there way to big for there not to be.
Totally agree!!!
It being big means nothing, do some research, or just think about what is out there in the universe.
@@maxdrags3115 They used to use an equation that, based on what we knew at the time, "proved" that statistically there couldn't be life anywhere but earth. Then as we learned more and more about the universe and what's actually out there that very same equation now "proves" that life HAS to exist out there somewhere. The simple truth is that for now it's impossible to know for sure either way.
@@SunwardRanger83 Can't prove anything until we find something.
And just to be clear, I believe in plant life, but that's all.
@@maxdrags3115 Fair enough.
It gets even harder to comprehend if you include the theories of a multiverse.
In essence, we're located way, way out in the sticks, in a thin, pinky finger length wisp of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Tis the saying: "Its A Small World".
I think you would definitely love to watch TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time
I find it amazing that people today could watch this video and still insist there is no intelligent life out there. For me I can't image how many different intelligent life forms are out there, a thousand , a million, a billion?. These life forms being thousands or millions of years more advanced then us would easily have develop propulsion drives or ways of travel we can't comprehend that could reach us. Even if we were able to travel at warp speed (using star Trek as an example) we would never be able to explore the complete galactic multiverse. That would also be true I assume for the other intelligent life forms......maybe. Thank you for the great reaction and bringing us this video.
THE LONGEST GOLF SHOT WAS MADE ON THE MOON WITH A 30 SECOND HANG TIME
Yes and he hit a hole in one.
Found ball in Crater.
Trust me, listening to Carl Sagan saying it himself is about a trillion times better than how it sounded in this video. Look up Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot. You will not be disappointed.
Or better still, watch the whole original Cosmos series
This!
You should do a video on how small the smallest things are, from atoms to quarks to strings to who knows what? lol
Here is a link to a video that shows that if you zoom all the way in to the size of the very smallest "thing" (Quantum foam or the Planck Length) the zoom "factor" is virtually the same as the zoom out factor of the entire universe, so basically you can go as small as you can go large. Pretty mind blowing! th-cam.com/video/5AAR7bNSM_s/w-d-xo.html
@taun your video is nice but i think th-cam.com/video/02Kgf9dCgME/w-d-xo.html this one is done a lot better
I'm no scientist, but I've always found the universe discussion very interesting. 👍👍❤️❤️
As a biologist, life has to be out there, however it is most likely microbial. The problem that is faced is something known as the Fermi Paradox, where it is postulated that a civilisation can only become so advanced before it becomes self destructive and wipes itself out, hence why we find nothing out there in the universe
That and considering how vast the universe is of course.
Also, Pluto is a dwarf planet as opposed to anything else.
I wasn't bothered by the noise of the construction. The way I look at it is like this: If I can hear noise then my hearing is fine and I am alive. It's a good day!
Devin Collins
I suffered a couple severe head injuries when I was a teenager. --Woken up surrounded by women wearing all white more than once! Come dinner time, as long as I'm still conscious, upright and breathing under my own power, with no recently broken bones... I figure it's been a relatively good day! :-D
With all the construction work, at least you know we are not alone in the universe....
People really need to see these sorts of videos as Sci Fi movies, as fun as they are, have given people very little appreciation for just how vast and inconceivably large. It might seem scary but...to paraphrase Doctor McCoy from Star Trek, imagine that in all that vastness there is still only one of you. How unique!
Courtney, if you think this is mindblowing, you should check out a similar video talking about how deep the ocean is. :)
In Ancient Greece, Anaximander suggested “apeiron” referring to how big the universe must be. The Greek word “apeiron” means without limit in time and space, suggesting the universe is boundless. In other words, infinite. This makes perfect sense to me. Since things exist, there must be no limit to existence and existence must be limitless. So I think there’s that the so called “big bang” was the “beginning” of “everything”. Meanwhile, evolutionarily, the odds of us being here, not to mention being here as humans, is unbelievably small, yet here we are. That renders us individually and collectively responsible for consciously choosing to always educating and informing ourselves and each other scientifically and to abandon our archaic, outdated, untrue, primitive superstitions and fairytales and fearmongering. You only fear something if you don’t understand it or don’t know about it. When barrier is crossed, new possibilities open that you likely haven’t even imagined before. Only a few centuries ago we didn’t even know kat if what we know about the universe today. Going back to Ancient Greece which no longer exists, all those great philosophers didn’t know anywhere near what the average person knows today thanks to the enlightenment reformations and the industrial as well as technological revolutions, breakthroughs and discoveries.
Back to cosmos, I still think the universe has no beginning or end, and is ultimately exempt from time. So there was never a creation. Only evolution. And we as an ape species are but one amongst possibly countless others that are intelligent enough to compose and comprise entire civilisations, regardless of their levels and scales. And there’s no way any species is the so called “center of the universe”. We just be, and that’s it.
I'm just patiently waiting for Kal-El to arrive... lol
They dont mention it in the video but for the Voyager probe, 1AU(astronomical unit) is roughly
93,000,000 miles, and 138 au=roughly
11,000,000,000 miles. And its speed is 17km/s or 38,000miles per hour
I'm not a huge reaction video fan but I love her video's!! She is so genuine and doesn't try for likes. She is just a joy. I love it!
I've been a hobby astronomist from a small child. I know everything what is told here :)
From when it was discovered to when it was decided it wasn't a planet, Pluto only made it one quarter of a lap around the sun.
Basically it’s called “ observable” because at night we can see it all from your back yard. Because that’s what the light we can see from them shining it’s light at us. But imagine if we were at a different part of our galaxy, like if we lived at our neighboring star then one corner of the universe we would no longer see but there would be an entire new corner of the universe we could see
You can look at this video in one of two ways:
The kinda nihilistic way is: "holy shit we are not even the size of a speck of dust in comparison to everything there is out there in the observable universe, we don't mean shit, we're completely irrelevant"
or
The hopeful way: "this is incredible, this gives us something to strive for so that one day when whatever species we evolve into a billion years from now we can take our first confident steps into our wider galaxy and maybe even beyond that and begin to explore everything that reality has to offer, uncover possibly unknowably ancient civilisations who hit their technological peak when we were cavemen, learn their secrets, record and learn from what they knew and rise to a whole new level of understanding the grand cosmos and our place in it. We may not live to see it but our destiny is out there, amongst the stars."
To put a Light Year in to context as Professor Brian Cox said if 1 Light Year is = to 1 mile then 1 Mile is equivalent to 1 Inch
Two possibilities either we are alone in the universe or we are not both are equally terrifying.
Absolutely love the New Zealand accent.
I think that is awesome because it makes each of us truly unique. Not in the entire history of the galaxy theirs be another you. They say there could be a multiverse so there could be another you. But it can’t be truly you because you have breathed different molecules which interacted with your body chemistry. How can a duplicate of you breath those same molecules at the same time you do? You’re unique.🙂
The universe is infinite and does not end, ever. It can't. If it did, there would have to be some sort of boundary, which would then have to be infinitely thick. It's damn near impossible for us to wrap our finite minds around this but it is the way it is and the only way that it can be when you break it down to the simple fact. I understood this as a young child when I started asking myself these questions and visualizing it and incorporating common sense. There's really no other way around this.
Courtney, I heard about a year ago or so that Voyager had finally crossed over the line into interstellar space.
In case someone watching isn't sure about the word sextillion, the progression is million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion.
Remember this feeling, after watching this video. Cosmic Horror is partially about this. Lovecraft loved science and fear/phobias. Cosmic Horror is about fear of the unknown, at its absolute core. As well as existentialism, human limitations and so on. The horrid leviathans are too frightening to gaze upon, that chacters literally commit suicide on the spot, because we do not comprehend what we are looking at. I know it seem unrelated to this video, but it's not in terms of astronomy and too much knowledge (almost). Good reaction.
I actually wanted to suggest this after your WWII casulties video, awesome somebody did and that you're reacting to it!
The chilling part is is that there are so many planets in the universe and as far as we know of earth is the only planet with life.
When you asked if we'd ever land on Mars... when you said "Mars", in that wonderful accent, I was reminded of the character of Bobbie Draper, a bad-ass Martian marine in "The Expanse", who is played by a New Zealander. ;-]
Cheers from Canada!
PS: If anyone has an interest in good sci-fi, "The Expanse" is the series to watch! It's the most accurate depiction of humans in space I've ever seen!
Thanks for explaining the sound, I was freaking out!
If we found a second Earth, the air might be super toxic, or just not suitable for us. We need to love Earth.
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Courtney's smile is life. 😍
This Video was absolutely amazing and mind blowing! 🌏
Courtney you need to react to the Minnesota Vikings intro at home games it is actually insane. Also congrats on your channels growth
Being a single planet species is the ultimate personification of putting all your eggs in one basket. We need to be a multi-planet species in order to secure our long term survivability. There's been far too many mass extinctions to think it won't happen again to us this time.
Lold, thinking in colonizing other planets when we still die to virus xD And you are not even taking into consideration all the things we need to be able to survive in other planets...
Great reaction video! But there's a little correction to do: Pluto is not a moon, it is categorized as "dwarf planet" (since it's no longer categorized as "full" planet anymore). A moon is something which circles around a planet which Pluto doesn't do though.
Take it in the opposite scale, from the tip of your nose to a sub-atomic particle... same thing.
In the 'Pale Blue Dot' image, the 'streaks' in that image were actually the rings of Saturn
No. Saturn would also appear as a little dot, this picture was shot waaaayyyy farther away. Those "streaks" you see in that picture are just reflections of the sunlight within the camera lenses.
Moving at a speed of 143 Miles per second around the center of our Milky Way we have travelled 1/4 of a revolution since Tyrannosaurus rex was roaming the Earth.
And then you bring in the theory of the multiverse or bubble-verse and things get even crazier.
Love your reaction :D Got some recommendations for you:
Videos by melodysheep: "Timelapse of entire universe" ; "Timelapse of the future" ; "The Secret History of The Moon"
You watch this and realize just how ridiculously naive anybody is the thinks we're the only ones , they are out there somewhere
Not a moon, a dwarf planet, but its more how we classify planets changed, we didn't change the classification because of learning something. Its classification as a planet has been debated since the 90's.
"Pluto was changed into a moon"
I guess that's been already tackled by many other people; but in case it's not XD... Pluto was not changed into a moon, but reclassified as a "dwarf planet". And yet there was still some debate some time ago if this should be again reconsidered.
Pluto was "downgraded" to a dwarf planet because the discovery of more celestial bodies at the edge of the solar system began to challenge the notion of what should be the size of a body to call it a planet (remember the celestial bodies exist, but we are the ones classifying them to better understand them).
Nonetheless, moving Pluto to the list of "dwarf planets" doesn't mean that it was dishonored... it just means we have found more bodies sharing some attributes with Pluto (like the, then, asteroids Ceres, Haumea, Makemake or Eris) and there were two choices: we could expand the list of planets to 13 or create a new middle category and put Pluto there. The latter option was taken (and this list isn't even totally set because now the debate could be "when a celestial body stops being an asteroid to be considered a dwarf planet", meaning that there may be more bodies, mostly considered asteroids, beyond Neptune that could make it into the category of planet).
For a celestial body to be considered a moon, the celestial body has to orbit a bigger celestial body, most of the times a planet.
Fun fact: Science tries to classify celestial bodies based on size and the matter of the body. But many times, once science has mostly agreed a classification something else pops up that challenges that classification. There is also an interesting debate for when a giant gas "planet" should be instead called a star.
Second fact: there are some "rogue moons", celestial bodies wandering the universe with size enough to imagine they once orbited planets, but by some catastrophic event they were launched into space.
Third fun fact: there are also moons with moons XD.
It’s so crazy to me there’s more than 100 billion planets in every galaxy and there’s over 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe alone. There’s gotta be life out there, I’d be surprised if not. It would take a long time to observe every planet just in our galaxy.
They estimated there are atleast about 20 billion planets in the habital zone of their star in this galaxy alone.
There are galaxies with 100 trillion stars atleast.
Awesome Video, Love the reactions and love that nail color! The universe is so mind blowingly huge.
I always find it kind of funny when people say "out in space" or anything like that. As if space only exist when leaving Earth. Not realizing that Earth itself IS in space too. :)
The universe is not only stranger than we imagined, it's stranger than we can imagine.
The universe is massive like unfathomably big.
But still dwarfed by the magnitude of humanity's capability for stupidity.
Put on your peril sensitive glasses, grab your towel, and prepare for the total perspective vortex!
Even knowing this stuff it sounds bonkers.
It’d take 50 years to travel to Mars FYI, I’m 26 so by the time I made it their I’d almost be 80 years old. It’s crazy how massive the universe truly is and we haven’t even explored the majority of it.
Hey there, just an FYI but you can get to mars in about 6-7 months if the if you pick the right launch window.
Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 and has long left our solar system.
In the year 40,272, the spacecraft will sail within 1.7 light-years of the star Gliese 445 in the constellation Camelopardalis. In 56,000 years, Voyager 1 will exit the Oort cloud, then brush by the stars GJ 686 and GJ 678 in 570,000 years.Sep 6, 2017
It's a big universe.. imagine those dates.
The year 40,272?
Its mind boggling.....
honey, I'd stop and watch your vids even if you were standing in the middle of an intersection with truck horns blaring. You're the best girl !
This just points out that since it is unlikely that we will ever (without the fictional warp speed) reach another habitable planet, how important it is to not ruin this planet.
We are truly insignificant beings living on a tiny, water covered speck of space dust. One more thing to think about... when we "throw something away" here on Earth... there is truly no "away" to which to throw it! Mind blown.
Throughout all that immensity there is not another pair of eyes as lovely as Courtney's.
Wonderfully insightful video. thanks for doing this one! Hugs from The frozen tundra called North Dakota which is minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit here today! : * )
And that's why we're insignificant... but if our existance is insignificant... imagine what significance is.
Damn you just made me think sooo hard
I imagine there are beings so big that the earth is like a grain of salt to them
And we can see them because our eyes cant like see the colour or whatever
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Just think of all the cool stuff out there to see.
Not only were humans on the moon, we left our car there.
Based on what we already know about how life started on earth with the building blocks arriving in comets, we can assume that, given the literally unmeasurable size of the universe that this has happened in other places. We may never have physical evidence of it but assuming that there isn't any just out of skepticism is fairly ignorant at this point.
I've seen this video a lot of times from the other reactions the scale is mind blowing and how scientists even measure this scale
Every construction worker lives on that speck of dust on a sunbeam...
Reality truly puts things into perspective.
I used to give myself headaches. Where did it all start? The big bang (expansion as the boffins like to call it now) everything from nowt? What's beyond the universe? What is it expanding into? Now? I just drink...
Pluto was reclassified as a "dwarf planet". A moon is a natural satellite of a planet or dwarf planet. Charon is Pluto's moon.
The sad part is that all this extraordinary large distances mean that we will never be able to observe anything outside of our galaxy, and probably not even that.
Even if we could travel at almost the speed of light, it would just be way too far away for us to reach it in a reasonable time :(
Amazing when you realize we are so small in this universe.
I believe there’s absolutely no way we’re alone. We’re in the habitable “Goldilocks” zone in our solar system within our single galaxy and if there are TRILLIONS of other galaxies with their very own planets, stars and solar systems, i think there must be manyyyy others that have their own habitable zone as well, where planets are at the perfect distance from their sun in order for life to be able to thrive and evolve... the possibilities are endless
Space is soooooooo fascinating!
You should totally react to the timelapse of the future by melodysheep it is in my opinion the best video on youtube, and I'm sure there are some others who agree.
If anyone agrees please like so that she sees.
Hi Courtney, love your vids!!!
Ohayo gozaimasu! Love your posts.. Denton, Tx.. I enjoy your Japan references.. spent 20 years with NEC in the US. Visited Japan 3 times for business.. being in a homogeneous culture is so different than the US.. enjoyed your Super Bowl as well.. keep up the good work.. you have many fans out here..
hehe, I suggested you watch this exact thing a week or two ago :)...and was sure that whether you saw my request or not that someone else would request it as well and you'd watch it!
Heres an interesting thought.. what if, we are inside a more complex structure or a massive entity? We all know everything is made up small particles, humans and most things we see is made up of small particles. Now, instead of these subatomic particles.. that massive structure/entity is made up of universes or galaxies. Universe -Uni (one) Verse (song) is just one song.. so it's safe to assume that there is a whole orchestra out there.
$9/ applause. I approve.
"This is not acceptable" land ho.
Army Ranger vs. Airbnb +9
Search for "lightspeed from the sun to jupiter" on YT, you'll get a graphical simulation of what it would look like 🤗 very cool
Actually, I feel that it makes our existence more significant than insignificant because the universe is a reflection of us.
Courtney look into the Fermi Paradox. It's about the strange abcense of other life based on how large the universe is. It's very interesting.
As far as I'm concerned, this is proof that we simply can't be alone. That number of planets that exist is so large that there has to be others. The real question is will we ever meet them, hear from them or even have proof they exist. They could be more advanced or they could be just starting out. We may never know for sure.
Courtney, today's my birthday, thank you for posting a very interesting video!!