The Impossible Hugeness of Deep Time

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    Humans have a hard time with really big numbers, especially when it comes to DEEP TIME. The history of the Earth took a lot longer than you think, trust me. But I’m here to help you put it in perspective. With some string.
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  • @besmart
    @besmart  5 ปีที่แล้ว +466

    Want to make your own Geologic Time Scale string experiment? Here's some measurements to get you started: bit.ly/DeepTimeString
    What other events would you add from Earth's history?

    • @brijeshsingh8460
      @brijeshsingh8460 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Liked your own comment

    • @TheOrganicartist
      @TheOrganicartist 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      ..and this is just the history of Earth.. deep time is huge. It took forever for stars to form and die and form new systems etc etc (I don't think i have enough yarn for this)

    • @micachupepperoni7368
      @micachupepperoni7368 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My Dad thought me the same thing
      Kind of,
      Maybe!!!!!!

    • @notsure6187
      @notsure6187 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      IDK why, but using distance to represent time just throws me off. I guess I'm just so used to doing the math in my head. this only helps me imagine large distances.

    • @evanbookout
      @evanbookout 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sorry but how did you get to Zilker Park on a day where it wasn’t absolutely crowded?

  • @HumanistAtheist
    @HumanistAtheist 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2853

    The whole Cleopatra / Taco Bell thing, followed by the T-Rex / Stego thing, pretty much broke me. Good job.

    • @spinyslasher6586
      @spinyslasher6586 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      Well Cleopatra even isn't even a pure Egyptian to speak of. She's of Greek heritage, so she's not all that closely related to the original Nile river valley residents.

    • @IceSpoon
      @IceSpoon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake's marriage is closer to the Fall of the Soviet Union than us in the present day.

    • @parthasarathyvenkatadri
      @parthasarathyvenkatadri 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @DINEI NUNES well alternate universes are real...

    • @ryanjones9498
      @ryanjones9498 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      All that for people to get hooked on heroin and live under a bridge

    • @philo3838
      @philo3838 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Trex?

  • @johntannius1330
    @johntannius1330 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2831

    The arrogance of humanity is that most of us view humans as an end product of all that time rather than just another tag on the timeline.

    • @StarboyXL9
      @StarboyXL9 5 ปีที่แล้ว +168

      Well by definition we are the result of all of that, we just aren't in our "finished product" state yet. We aren't fit for shelves right now, we're still under construction.

    • @marcmarc4776
      @marcmarc4776 5 ปีที่แล้ว +133

      There is no timeline without humanity, so arrogance was a poor choice of a word.

    • @antonystringfellow5152
      @antonystringfellow5152 5 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      The VP of the US reckons the Earth is just 5,000 years old.
      Are you suggesting he's a little out?

    • @Burt1038
      @Burt1038 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      shyut up.

    • @nilesbutler8638
      @nilesbutler8638 5 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      @@nathanielmathews2617
      Even the Idea that we are at "the peak" can be viewed quite differently.
      We could be described as an accident, a catastrophe.
      Like the first cyanobacteriae who poisened nearly everyt other living thing with their poisonous oxygen.
      Our impact might yet get to be as destructive. possibly even more, making it hard for life itself to hold on the already started die-off.

  • @tc2241
    @tc2241 3 ปีที่แล้ว +461

    Sooo, to Cleopatra the Pyramids were ancient history?!

    • @noxaj6507
      @noxaj6507 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      Pretty much.

    • @user-ff1fv6ub7c
      @user-ff1fv6ub7c 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      No…how could this

    • @AlbertM170
      @AlbertM170 2 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      Not just that.
      To Cleopatra, Tutankhamun was ancient history. To Tutankhamun, the Pyramids were ancient history.

    • @wilbur8D
      @wilbur8D 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@AlbertM170 A-what?

    • @MissSpaz
      @MissSpaz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I mean, if you think of Cleopatra as ancient history, then yes.
      I think of the Pyramids more as slightly pre-history. I would imagine Cleopatra would've thought so aswell, although she may have had a better idea of how they were made, how they looked, an how ancient Egypt looked in it's prime.
      Personally, it's hard for me to think of Cleopatra as ancient history. Just history.

  • @SM-hr1ww
    @SM-hr1ww 2 ปีที่แล้ว +141

    My perspective of time has completely changed since being diagnosed with cancer this year. It’s been completely cured now, but if I was born 50 years ago I wouldn’t have lived past 18 years old. Such a small difference in time in the scale of things.

    • @AbboyeLawrence
      @AbboyeLawrence 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Glad to read you beat it!

    • @ruthmckay9086
      @ruthmckay9086 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Hope you're still alive and kicking!

  • @Spika94
    @Spika94 4 ปีที่แล้ว +479

    Man, I really wish I could just spectate the earth and rewind as much time as I wanted to see how it was at any time I wanted. It would be so fascinating and exciting.

    • @ataraxia7439
      @ataraxia7439 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      What’s your icon pic?

    • @darkerknight7010
      @darkerknight7010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You would likely see that none of this stuff is true.

    • @pineapplepenumbra
      @pineapplepenumbra 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@darkerknight7010 Some of it would be, but history, as they say, is written by the winners.

    • @TreyAnderson528
      @TreyAnderson528 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      travel out of your body and see for yourself :)

    • @logand9655
      @logand9655 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      History's timelines are mostly estimations and are most likely entirely made up. We know nothing but what can be accurately be verified by multiple unbiased witnesses. Except in the history of the Earth we have none. The written historical record of today will be entirely unlike what many people see as "their history" in 200 years. Except now its written by mainstream liberal media and educators. You have to also take into account that history is likely only one half of a population's viewpoint. Nobody will be able to see even a losing viewpoint because of censorship and destruction.

  • @schlurfen
    @schlurfen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4739

    Remember when the Earth didn’t even exist?
    Only 4600000000BC kids can relate

    • @siregirl9599
      @siregirl9599 5 ปีที่แล้ว +127

      actually its four billion five hundred thirty-nine million nine hundred ninety-seven thousand nine hundred eighty-two kids

    • @yamemeguy4744
      @yamemeguy4744 5 ปีที่แล้ว +193

      Only “The sun is a deadly laser” kids can understand

    • @luisuribe5432
      @luisuribe5432 5 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      I was born in the wrong generation

    • @ihavenodimples114
      @ihavenodimples114 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@zerof8772 r/whooshh

    • @ThinkerYT
      @ThinkerYT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Yeah thats the early notification squad... tsss...

  • @anthonyhutchins2300
    @anthonyhutchins2300 4 ปีที่แล้ว +830

    When people say technology is too advanced I laugh. We are literally at the beginning. Internet has only been used by the public for 27 years. People have only been driving cars for over 100 years. Electricity for Christ sake is about 150 years ago. We are the start and no where even close to hitting stride yet when you consider time on a universal scale.

    • @kevinolson7660
      @kevinolson7660 4 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      Anthony, I completely agree. That point has always made me wonder what a civilization just a few thousand years ahead of us would be like. But more than likely, if we ever encounter or discover an advanced civilization, they will be millions of years ahead of us.

    • @Qwerty-jc3so
      @Qwerty-jc3so 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      We're gonna end so soon😪

    • @Fandango541
      @Fandango541 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      I agree with you. Sadly, I do not hold out much hope for humanity to reach its stride. We will kill ourselves and many innocent co-inhabitants in the NTDF.

    • @thatguy4087
      @thatguy4087 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Ah the straw man argument

    • @masonb9788
      @masonb9788 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      People want to feel important. Hence the lack of understanding of time scales beyond basically their lifetime.

  • @mauilawrenceangeles7802
    @mauilawrenceangeles7802 3 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    "This is the best/worst time to live"
    --- said by almost every human being who lived in each time period

    • @matthewwells1606
      @matthewwells1606 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      A historian I like was asked about time travel, and he said as a general rule when asked these questions, his answer is invariably, "I wouldn't go back in time any farther than I could get easy access to antiseptics and painkillers." I tend to agree. THIS is the best time to be alive, because it's easier to stay alive than in any other period in human history.

    • @danielg.w5733
      @danielg.w5733 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@matthewwells1606 yup

    • @joey9511
      @joey9511 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@matthewwells1606 does ease of ability to stay alive = the best time to live or does living the most meaningful and happy life = the best time to be alive? Because its a fact that with every year we progress we are less happy and find less meaning in our lifes...

    • @matthewwells1606
      @matthewwells1606 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@joey9511 That's a fair point. I wonder, though, if in part that's a product of warped expectations and perceptions, i.e., people in the modern world (especially younger people) feel like they need to be manically HAPPY all the time in ways that earlier people did not. In 1840, how much expectation for "happiness" could you have if 4/6 children died by the age of 10? Or if a minor cut while gardening could result in your death? Heartbreak was just part of life in earlier periods. As for me, I'm incredibly happy being able to run, swim, and ride my bike after two knee surgeries that wouldn't have happened 100 years ago. I have all my teeth at 49 years old. I've explored more of the world than Sir Francis Drake or Marco Polo. I live 3,000 miles from my mom and talk to her every day. I have indoor plumbing and light and heat whenever I want it. I grant you that the modern world can be complicated, but it is also a miracle.

    • @themissile3120
      @themissile3120 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@matthewwells1606 I see it the same way - there's a lot of fallacies in the measurements of 'happiness' and 'meaning', and trying to compare old studies or surveys to modern ones brings up both empirical and perceptive problems. I will say I think there's something to the fact that we're biologically designed to handle a pretty brutal lifestyle, struggle and pain gives a sense of meaning, but appreciating that fact and the comforts that we have easy access to really undermines the idea that things are 'worse' - more accurately, culture hasn't caught up to modern standards of living, and people having (relatively) easy lives are prone to expecting more without respecting everything that *isn't* wrong.

  • @npc6817
    @npc6817 4 ปีที่แล้ว +632

    What I take from this is that I just barely missed my chance at dating Cleopatra

    • @fahrinurlaub01vg
      @fahrinurlaub01vg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      You might be better off for it, considering the fate of the men she dated and married...

    • @fredriksvard2603
      @fredriksvard2603 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      She wasnt hot, it turns out

    • @Chris-hp9be
      @Chris-hp9be 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      She only dates Roman generals

    • @tigerjonn
      @tigerjonn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@Chris-hp9be Psh, hold my gladius.

    • @jeffreymedeiros6253
      @jeffreymedeiros6253 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@tigerjonn - well done. I nerd laughed-snorted.

  • @owenbartrop8963
    @owenbartrop8963 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1098

    That breeze though. Bending space time.

  • @MicahBuzanANIMATION
    @MicahBuzanANIMATION 2 ปีที่แล้ว +275

    As someone who was raised to believe the earth was created only 6,000 years ago, this is really blowing my mind.

    • @sttonep242
      @sttonep242 2 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      Don't try religion, kids

    • @jasonwilde197
      @jasonwilde197 2 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Quit reading manmade crap and read other manmade crap.

    • @evolutionaryadvantage
      @evolutionaryadvantage 2 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@jasonwilde197
      Except physics, cosmology, biology etc isn’t man made.

    • @LilScotty10
      @LilScotty10 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@jasonwilde197 lmao this cracked me up🤣

    • @YoItsDoc
      @YoItsDoc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      @@evolutionaryadvantage The subjects are literally man-made. The universe doesn't have any sciences without humans. It sits there without description. We also get things wrong about the behavior of the universe in these subjects quite a bit. Some of the stuff you've learned will probably be disproven in the future. They absolutely are man-made.

  • @englandbengal
    @englandbengal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    “Nowhere did we fail harder than deep time”
    Deep Distance: Am I a joke to you?!

    • @karmajustwatchingyoutube6803
      @karmajustwatchingyoutube6803 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      speeed = distance/time find the speed for me

    • @tklyte
      @tklyte 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      😂So true. Every time they talk about millions of light years in distance, my brain gives up. I just can't imagine light travelling for a whole year before reaching its destination. Millions of years fries up neurons.

    • @theyellowmeteor
      @theyellowmeteor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Between Earth and the Moon we can fit all the rest of the planets in the solar system.

    • @dynamicflashy
      @dynamicflashy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@theyellowmeteor Really? I thought it was between Earth and the Sun.

    • @romzeezthegreat8585
      @romzeezthegreat8585 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tklyte The light travel is instant. From it's perspective

  • @shivg9010
    @shivg9010 5 ปีที่แล้ว +960

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  • @ruinenlust_
    @ruinenlust_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +895

    I love Joe. Such a fun host.

    • @rudyerickson3830
      @rudyerickson3830 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      He is the best

    • @thenasadude6878
      @thenasadude6878 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      He's THE POWERHOUSE OF THE SHOW! (thunder and lighting follows)

    • @smokey6455
      @smokey6455 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Me too, but he definitely smokes meth.

    • @CosmicErrata
      @CosmicErrata 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      He's not your average joe. He's THE JOE.

    • @ssiddarth
      @ssiddarth 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I just wanted to say this 😀

  • @MrMcSnuffyFluffy
    @MrMcSnuffyFluffy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +420

    AI - 200 years from now - "And, we've only been here for 197 years, right before the extinction of humans."

    • @mateusmohan3233
      @mateusmohan3233 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      T-2 years remaining

    • @TheBookwormAlly
      @TheBookwormAlly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      haha

    • @medexamtoolsdotcom
      @medexamtoolsdotcom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      AI is unlikely to wipe out humans in a bloody revolution in a short amount of time. They're more likely to replace humans slowly in a bloodless coup. Imagine this. A new company provides a service, you get a brain scan, and then send away for a robot son who will be more like you than your natural son would be, more your son than your actual son is. Except he doesn't need to worry about getting diseases, and won't ever get cold or hot and doesn't need to eat. That would be a popular product, right? It doesn't matter though, humans will be wiped out by a genetically engineered doomsday virus created by a renegade scientist who hates the world, and there won't be any AI to replace it anyway.

    • @KentoKei
      @KentoKei 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      uh... I guess humanity goes extinct in.. 2022... oh god...

    • @clorox1676
      @clorox1676 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@medexamtoolsdotcom A little like 12 Monkeys movie then. I don't think humanity can be wiped out by a virus because there still are extremely isolated aboriginal populations. Probably the best motivation to leave them alone and stay away from them is the fact they may be our only chance.

  • @Matthew_Murray
    @Matthew_Murray 4 ปีที่แล้ว +359

    If you compressed all of Earth’s history into a 24hr day, humans don’t show up till 11:59pm

    • @bobbean4702
      @bobbean4702 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      God must have been jerking off all that time.

    • @JulieWallis1963
      @JulieWallis1963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Bob Bean well he certainly wasn’t bothering with people. So you’re probably correct. 👍🏻

    • @gorkemgulan
      @gorkemgulan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Same if you make it a whole year....

    • @jacksavage6354
      @jacksavage6354 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Modern sapiens didn’t even show up until 4 seconds before midnight!!

    • @nobleeso633
      @nobleeso633 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      11:59:24

  • @TommoCarroll
    @TommoCarroll 5 ปีที่แล้ว +695

    Deep Time: *"Do you even lift, bro?"*

    • @Dimi-nj4tk
      @Dimi-nj4tk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Love your channel man

    • @TommoCarroll
      @TommoCarroll 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      mmm 3 thanks a lot! :)

    • @ryantjoa
      @ryantjoa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hey! I recognize you! :)

    • @ThinkerYT
      @ThinkerYT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lmaoo xD

    • @aero4277
      @aero4277 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      666th like

  • @fugithegreat
    @fugithegreat 5 ปีที่แล้ว +254

    I printed out the strips today to do this tomorrow in class with my students. Also, thanks for helping me feel a whole lot younger! Yesterday I had a mini midlife crisis because I realized that I got my driver's license over 20 years ago. 😂

    • @jred7
      @jred7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I'm ~5 years behind you buddy, and I just started my career last year.
      We're all on different paths.

    • @scipioafricanus5871
      @scipioafricanus5871 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      20 years is but a knot on the Deep Time String.

    • @Fandango541
      @Fandango541 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Boo phucking Hoo. That's nothing. Try 55 years ago. 🤣😎

    • @johnborat3113
      @johnborat3113 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      So you are just 36?? Not bad man!

    • @skelet8337
      @skelet8337 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@scipioafricanus5871 more like hair thin

  • @milsrichburg6066
    @milsrichburg6066 4 ปีที่แล้ว +260

    Finally, I feel like I understand “string theory”

  • @aarontacker8411
    @aarontacker8411 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Man that was super smooth when the dog ran past and he just slipped in “dogs and all”.
    True professional.

    • @robcohen7678
      @robcohen7678 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      was that dog, or was that god?

  • @Taikamuna
    @Taikamuna 5 ปีที่แล้ว +353

    Wow this video was _deep_

    • @kennethdicke2125
      @kennethdicke2125 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ouch! Hey! I'm still working at getting my brain around this concept!
      Stop killing my brain cells with bad puns!

    • @shrine4210
      @shrine4210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why are you everywhere??

    • @resoltion9851
      @resoltion9851 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      First in a cubing video, now in this?
      YOU ARE A STALKER.

    • @perfectlypurepinkpompompan3467
      @perfectlypurepinkpompompan3467 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes... it's about time.

    • @medexamtoolsdotcom
      @medexamtoolsdotcom 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      So is my toilet.

  • @tcarrotgaming1639
    @tcarrotgaming1639 5 ปีที่แล้ว +201

    That is what is called string theory.
    (Yes, I understand that string theory involves 1-dimensional items that make up the things that make up the things that make up everything, etc, etc, and is not, in fact, related to actual threads, and especially not timelines.)

    • @sebw89
      @sebw89 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Exactly what I was thinking! :D

    • @LILLYBRONX
      @LILLYBRONX 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No, string theory is more complicated

    • @stardust4001
      @stardust4001 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@LILLYBRONX
      r/wooooooooosh

    • @raz0229
      @raz0229 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thanks! Only comment that helps me feel better for my exams!

    • @myhc640
      @myhc640 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Haha

  • @ekrak0ski87
    @ekrak0ski87 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    As an academic specializing in evolutionary bio, I have to say it’s hard to convey to most people the *overwhelming magnitude* a period of 3.5 billion years is. Of course the math of it isn’t too conceptually challenging, but the actual vastness of that number when put into the perspective of our relatively minuscule lifetimes, and all of the enormity of events we perceive within... it goes over the heads of most. I really like this string analogy. It gives a relative visual perspective on a scale small enough to not be so mind boggling.

    • @andyf4292
      @andyf4292 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      i always liken it to distance... 1 year = 1mm..

    • @LandonAshworthDirects
      @LandonAshworthDirects 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Couldn’t help but drop in you’re an academic huh😉

    • @ekrak0ski87
      @ekrak0ski87 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@LandonAshworthDirects I do bio research and work for a university. Sorry if you dislike the term.

    • @joey9511
      @joey9511 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@LandonAshworthDirects an academic means someone who works with/for an academy.... Its not like saying "as an intellectual thinker"

    • @allenhaywood9608
      @allenhaywood9608 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      so hard it was accomplished witha string

  • @graphixkillzzz
    @graphixkillzzz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I think Carl Sagan did a good job of explaining Deep Time, in the first Cosmos t.v. series, using a calendar with the big bang occurring at the first second on the 1st of January, and the final second of December 31st being present day. by comparison, all of human history occurred somewhere in the last hour of the last day, with all of written history occurring in the last few seconds of the last day. it's a good way to understand it.

    • @FrederickTheGrt
      @FrederickTheGrt 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Carl Sagan was the real deal, unlike some of these TH-cam jokesters.

  • @alexray230
    @alexray230 5 ปีที่แล้ว +99

    I did something like this in ninth grade science. We used the entire length of the hallway and human history was less than half a floor tile

    • @viridianquarry
      @viridianquarry 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oofersh

    • @firstnamelastname061
      @firstnamelastname061 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lol..i suppose your hallway is way longer than this park then.

    • @slumpkiid3570
      @slumpkiid3570 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@firstnamelastname061 or it could've been scaled down.. Idk

    • @firstnamelastname061
      @firstnamelastname061 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@slumpkiid3570 nah..In the scale of the video human history was less than a millimeter. So for human history to be less than a floor tile the hallway has to be longer than the park.

    • @slumpkiid3570
      @slumpkiid3570 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@firstnamelastname061 well I see where you're comin from, maybe the school just didn't care to be accurate

  • @drewmur
    @drewmur 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    People run into the same issue with space. Trying to comprehend the VAST distances between stars is difficult, even for people that study it.

    • @RictusHolloweye
      @RictusHolloweye 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Try just atoms. It boggles the mind, but apparently every object, including people, has more empty space than substance.

    • @Gashdal
      @Gashdal 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      we also run into the same problem with wealth. people don't understand how mind bogglingly wealthy someone like elon musk is. if people really understand how much 100 billion dollars really was, i think they would be much less okay with the idea of one person having anywhere near that much money.

  • @CodEliteQS
    @CodEliteQS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +98

    “THE POWERHOUSE OF THE CELL”

    • @nicholasjameslee5616
      @nicholasjameslee5616 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      literally just what i needed this morning hahahahaha, dead.

    • @Chillerll
      @Chillerll 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Whoever started calling it that way didn't know what he was starting.

    • @xsardas1999
      @xsardas1999 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      OF POWECELL THE HOUSE!

  • @SkyAnthro
    @SkyAnthro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Our whole lives are like 10 atoms long on that thread :/

  • @JamesR624
    @JamesR624 5 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    5:35 ♩♫It's the cambrian explosion♫♩"Wow, That's animals n' stuff."

    • @Jana-ho9mu
      @Jana-ho9mu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I read it like how bill wurtz sang it

    • @sergiontothetop
      @sergiontothetop 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      But the sun is a DeAdLy Lazer

    • @raymondsnailing1352
      @raymondsnailing1352 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@sergiontothetop ~ not anymore there's a blanket ~

    • @sergiontothetop
      @sergiontothetop 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@raymondsnailing1352 lamo

    • @zak7181
      @zak7181 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was hoping he'd sort of sing it like the guy in Eons did.

  • @FridgeMaan
    @FridgeMaan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +158

    "Ah, liquid water! Love this stuff."

  • @moxxy3565
    @moxxy3565 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    "mommy why's that man wrapping yarn around the park?"
    "Don't look at him sweetie"

  • @workfleaux5600
    @workfleaux5600 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I’ve seen this visualized many times and my overall understanding is that we are really new and nothing much has happened yet

  • @wall_rot
    @wall_rot 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    I wanna knit earth’s history into a comfortable sweater

    • @Mark-Wilson
      @Mark-Wilson 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      thats an interesting comment

    • @HeftyYeti8764
      @HeftyYeti8764 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      thats an interesting comment

    • @qualityguacamole9142
      @qualityguacamole9142 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      thats an interesting comment

    • @yuuji3795
      @yuuji3795 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's an interesting comment.

    • @deadfurydbf9647
      @deadfurydbf9647 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thats an intresting comment

  • @cesarverazzu2485
    @cesarverazzu2485 5 ปีที่แล้ว +151

    I know it's difficult, but...let's try to imagine 3 millions subscribers

    • @besmart
      @besmart  5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      😣(this is me imagining this as hard as I can)

    • @theyeolderoman4442
      @theyeolderoman4442 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@besmarthuh.... Neat.

    • @theyeolderoman4442
      @theyeolderoman4442 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@besmart .

    • @hundobestest
      @hundobestest 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well it happened a year later

    • @micahbirdlover8152
      @micahbirdlover8152 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@besmart are you okay joe you sound sick🤔🤢

  • @WaaDoku
    @WaaDoku 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    "Ah, liquid water. Love this stuff".
    Me too, Joe. Really cool stuff.

  • @TROOPERfarcry
    @TROOPERfarcry 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    6:22 - "Pangea comes together.... _maybe you've heard of it_ "
    Weird flex.

  • @isaacnorwood4463
    @isaacnorwood4463 5 ปีที่แล้ว +298

    now do the 13.5 billion years of the universe...that a lot of yarn...

    • @Min3styl3r
      @Min3styl3r 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      It 3x times more. Nothing rly special in my opinion.

    • @isaacnorwood4463
      @isaacnorwood4463 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@Min3styl3r well ur no fun! 😤

    • @sk198181
      @sk198181 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Somebody did it with thousands of dominos. Look it up. Great video.

    • @passthebutterrobot2600
      @passthebutterrobot2600 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You could go back even further than that, but prior to the big bang, yarn itself did not exist.

    • @isaacnorwood4463
      @isaacnorwood4463 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@passthebutterrobot2600 no, yarn is an inter-dimentional substance that transcends time and space.

  • @ChristopherMoom
    @ChristopherMoom 5 ปีที่แล้ว +186

    "Hi smart people"
    Oops, sorry, wrong video.

    • @sigridhofer5576
      @sigridhofer5576 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Chris, you need to stop hanging around in comment sections of the wrong videos. If you want smart people, then watch roblox.

    • @goddamnpiero6153
      @goddamnpiero6153 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Relatable.

    • @evanbookout
      @evanbookout 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      rip

  • @EobardFerguson
    @EobardFerguson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +179

    This dude looks like Bill Nye and Johnny Knoxville had a baby.

    • @JulieWallis1963
      @JulieWallis1963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Eobard Ferguson yeah? Who are *they* ?

    • @EobardFerguson
      @EobardFerguson 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      julie Wallis If only there were a resource where you could search for and find information almost instantaneously...

    • @UpheavaI
      @UpheavaI 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eobard Ferguson hahahahaha this comment is underated

    • @Flint-Dibble-the-Don
      @Flint-Dibble-the-Don 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      69 Dude

    • @EobardFerguson
      @EobardFerguson 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      williamtate79 😂

  • @amdl270
    @amdl270 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Dang he put so much effort into making this!! I hope that gave him a big end of year bonus

  • @iversonpaulalay5514
    @iversonpaulalay5514 5 ปีที่แล้ว +207

    God, that new logo is soo cool👏👏👏😍😍

    • @Friendship1nmillion
      @Friendship1nmillion 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dr Joe Hanson *ISN'T* God -> He's JUST a man {good at science}. 😡

    • @uclinhvu5041
      @uclinhvu5041 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Friendship1nmillion its how cathilics share their emoition

    • @kunneman
      @kunneman 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah was about time😅

    • @isaacnewton7574
      @isaacnewton7574 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      G

    • @iversonpaulalay5514
      @iversonpaulalay5514 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      username1nmillion wasn't referring to Joe as God, it was a figure of speech, but yeah, I realize my mistake sorry bout' that😅

  • @JustinY.
    @JustinY. 5 ปีที่แล้ว +701

    Time... time never changes

  • @steveaitch729
    @steveaitch729 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i am 67 and have stayed curious about everything. there is so much to learn. thanks for this channel.

  • @MactheMinion2014
    @MactheMinion2014 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I love things like this, they make me feel very small and in a good way

  • @217Kapil
    @217Kapil 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    When you see Joe lying on the grass to explain us relative time, you can see his love for what he does best. Science

    • @LadyDoomsinger
      @LadyDoomsinger 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      All I could think about was what the people walking by must've been thinking...

  • @megafusrodah
    @megafusrodah 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    This is huge, but can you tell us how you kept the yarn from tangling up? Thats a greater mystery

    • @adamkendall997
      @adamkendall997 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      During Fire science 101 class they taught us a a technique called stuffing a bag. Its where you just push rope into a bag instead of coiling it up. 99.9% of the time it comes back out in reverse order without tying itself in a knot.

  • @gibsonman507
    @gibsonman507 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Your delivery is actually hilarious in this.

  • @adamschneider868
    @adamschneider868 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    its funny how two siblings can be so different. Daniel Tosh is a comedian and this guy teaches people things. Now that I think about it, they both aren't so different.

  • @joshuathalathoty3242
    @joshuathalathoty3242 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

    • @sergiontothetop
      @sergiontothetop 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      And the sun is a DeAdLy Lazer

    • @isramohamed5535
      @isramohamed5535 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not anymore there's a BLAnKeT

    • @raz0229
      @raz0229 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      You just literally copied and pasted the line from the textbook!

  • @IOioiIO
    @IOioiIO 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    This is a pretty neat episode. Like, production wise. Very simple, very fun, very informative. Wish more of these were shown(available) back in my school years.

  • @Annibals
    @Annibals 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of the best channels on TH-cam period

  • @nathanm.8823
    @nathanm.8823 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm more impressed with the consistency of the audio as you moved from a small room to an open field, than I am with deep time.

  • @mmsibi
    @mmsibi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +300

    So the Egyptians opened the first taco bell🤔. Mind BLOWN

    • @copyrighted4382
      @copyrighted4382 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      No you idiot Cleopatra did it and she wasn't even Egyptian

    • @aoe9015
      @aoe9015 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Facepalm

    • @markburch6253
      @markburch6253 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      No you moron. Taco Bell is clearly Hebrew. I can prove it. When they were lost in the wilderness they ate lentils and unleavened bread. Lentils are beans, and unleavened bread is a tortilla. Beans and tortillas.

    • @michiel7716
      @michiel7716 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep my greatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreat grandfather

    • @Carl-LaFong1618
      @Carl-LaFong1618 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      yes, but they didn't have Chalupa's.

  • @aimeewhellans7853
    @aimeewhellans7853 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    399 balloons? BUT CAN YOU DO THIS-

  • @sipmonschmook9942
    @sipmonschmook9942 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just stumbled upon your channel and you earned my subscription in the first two minutes. I love the way you present the information to us!

  • @DittoKing0523
    @DittoKing0523 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thou hast earnest my subscription my man 👌🏼 well done

  • @gigglysamentz2021
    @gigglysamentz2021 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    That was a great demonstration of time scales!!

  • @emptycrate3050
    @emptycrate3050 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    You forgot the first flat earther humanity really took a huge step back

    • @coolguy284_2
      @coolguy284_2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      nope, only the flat earthers took a step back

    • @boggers
      @boggers 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It occurred to me recently that flat Earthers are kinda right for the wrong reasons. Earth *really is* flat but only in the sense that the surface is roughly parallel with the curved lines of spacetime as shown by Einstein's field equations. 3 dimensional Cartesian coordinates with parallel lines along x,y,z work fine on a human scale where up is up, but when we extrapolate Cartesian coordinates to a planetary scale, where the curvature of spacetime is noticeable and outwards becomes upwards, that's when we see the sphere - but it only exists in that Cartesian x,y,z frame of reference, which is this entirely imaginary, made up thing. Yep.

    • @superiklisthewatcher7269
      @superiklisthewatcher7269 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      they wouldnt use the flat earth model if it wasnt simpler to use SOMETIMES

    • @nikolotolentino
      @nikolotolentino 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The first flat earther probably grew a brain and finally accepted the earth is a globe. The modern flat earther devolved. Actually don’t call them flat earthers, the correct term is globe deniers.

    • @Wurmo
      @Wurmo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The flat earther movement was a 4chan meme that gained momentum. They noticed ppl would absolutely freak out at just a mere thought of a flat earth and would become hysterical. Pay attention, flat earthers are always calm and round earthers just throw insults. Hardcore trolls.

  • @tayomas6552
    @tayomas6552 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love people like you that love teaching and goes the extra MILE to explain 😅 great vid.

  • @mattabaloz
    @mattabaloz 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video and sense of humor, new SUB!

  • @KnightSlasher
    @KnightSlasher 5 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    Hi smart people
    *I have left the chat*

  • @jonpaulcer3128
    @jonpaulcer3128 5 ปีที่แล้ว +532

    And we count 99% of those years backwards because of one carpenter

    • @postmorton2493
      @postmorton2493 5 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      Not to be a nerd, but geologists tend to use MYA (millions of years ago) rather than BC when talking about anything more than a few thousand years ago.

    • @MrGustaphe
      @MrGustaphe 5 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      99% is bad rounding. It's way closer to 100%.

    • @evan-moore22
      @evan-moore22 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Julius Caesar reformed the calendar, taking effect in 45 BC. The attribution to Christ was made in the 6th century by Exiguus.

    • @helicopter_traffic
      @helicopter_traffic 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      More like 99.9999999%

    • @Nikotin-lu1xo
      @Nikotin-lu1xo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Holocene calendar is much better imo, while it's still centered around humans instead of age of Earth or the universe, at least it's not centered around *1 man* for religious reasons.

  • @gifzwerk
    @gifzwerk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Shout-out to the scientists who went back in time to document this!

    • @davidross5593
      @davidross5593 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cool story bro
      But Didn't happen

  • @Casedilla73
    @Casedilla73 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Can’t wait till I’m 31.7 years old and can say that I’ve lived and breathed for a billion seconds.

    • @Aeturnalis
      @Aeturnalis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      31 years, 8 months, 7 days if you want to have a party on the specific day that you'll pass 1 billion seconds old lol

    • @chloepeifly
      @chloepeifly 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Aeturnalis just put it in my calendar! (13 years from now!)

  • @mehryad1907
    @mehryad1907 5 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    4:30
    I don't want to be a smartass but as a biologist I have to be one right now. Eukaryotes are not defined as organelle-posessing cells. The important organelle that distinguishes prokaryotes and eukaryotes is the nucleus (which you mentioned) that is not found in prokaryotes and contains the cell's genome. Some prokaryotes do have organelles thus rendering any other definition useless.
    Otherwise very interesting video guys. Big fan. Stay curious!

    • @NoSTs123
      @NoSTs123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Habe mir das gleiche gedacht.

    • @kamwow9469
      @kamwow9469 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don’t prokaryotes only have ribosomes as organelles

    • @massimookissed1023
      @massimookissed1023 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      IIRC Joe's doctorate was in biology.

    • @noahway13
      @noahway13 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      What does it mean that we came from a common ancestor?

    • @mehryad1907
      @mehryad1907 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@kamwow9469 No, ribosomes aren't organelles, they are nucleoproteins. It is in fact true that prokaryotes usually lack organelles but the definition of "eukaryote" is still rather based on the absence of a nucleus in prokaryotes than on all other organelles. This detail becomes especially important when looking at the numerous organelles of some prokaryotes (the magnetosomes of magnetotactic bacteria, photosynthetic membranes, and the internal membrane structures of the Planctomycetes).
      If you're interested, check out the research article "Cell Biology of prokaryotic organelles" by Dorothee Murat, Meghan Byrne, and Arash Komeili

  • @pepperpotts9424
    @pepperpotts9424 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This must have taken so long to make!! Thank you it’s okay to be smart team for spending so much time on a complex string to help us better understand time 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️

  • @Fush1234
    @Fush1234 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant work.. good to see perspective

  • @cerka27
    @cerka27 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video. I’ve seen this done with a calendar but I love the visual aid.

  • @Kenxclout
    @Kenxclout 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    A prisoner's favorite punctuation mark is the period. It marks the end of his sentence.

  • @SuicideBunny6
    @SuicideBunny6 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    5:38 "The Cambrian explosion" *distant sound effect in the background*

    • @alexwang982
      @alexwang982 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      SuicideBunny6 bill wurtz

    • @imveryangryitsnotbutter
      @imveryangryitsnotbutter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Wow, that's animals and stuff.

    • @crabdabs8497
      @crabdabs8497 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Toughen Up, Fluffy All our nomenclature ever is fucked up and we're stupider for it

    • @alexruddies1718
      @alexruddies1718 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yet everyone forgets about the poor ediacaran fauna.

  • @abhi_k4867
    @abhi_k4867 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    These videos are Awesome & i love the funny bits you add in them. Thank you for making them.

  • @Goawaystalker69
    @Goawaystalker69 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This put it in to perspective better than any video ive ever seen thank you

  • @lia-zr8ye
    @lia-zr8ye 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    great new logo. plus i learned more from this one video than i did in my highschool science classes

  • @cosmicchaos7510
    @cosmicchaos7510 5 ปีที่แล้ว +219

    Da balloons
    I can’t even imagine objects
    APHANTASIAAAAAAA

  • @Misses-Hippy
    @Misses-Hippy ปีที่แล้ว

    That was a great illustration! I like your sense of humor.

  • @AbdilHando
    @AbdilHando 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yo I love this guy. Good job on a great video!

  • @CMDR_Verm
    @CMDR_Verm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    1 million years ago you could leave your doors unlocked coz there was no crime.

    • @Fandango541
      @Fandango541 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A million years ago there was no time. Now ponder that. Time is a human invention which is wrapped around our sense of self. The Universe knows nothing about time or how humans perceive it. We are completely irrelevant

    • @noxaj6507
      @noxaj6507 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Fandango541 What? No! As long as there is continued motion in the universe than time will always be a thing. Time’s definition is just the continued motion of existence, we as humans can perceive the change of something through continued motion which is indicative of time. The labels of year, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds, etc is just us trying to put a measure of time on OUR own relative scale. Now, the Universe itself doesn’t have its own scale of time to our knowledge, we had to create these labels so we could UNDERSTAND time as a construct.

  • @gigglysamentz2021
    @gigglysamentz2021 5 ปีที่แล้ว +203

    That did not look like 1,000 balloons :P

    • @whatrtheodds
      @whatrtheodds 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah I also decided that I didn't like the image and used my own imagination, because he said imagine.

    • @lks5878
      @lks5878 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      ​@@whatrtheodds Yu ARe 0fENd1nG mEe bECoUSe i HAv AphANtaSiA pLEas DEleT u´re COmENt

    • @SSingh-wq9fs
      @SSingh-wq9fs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yeah it didnt.. i just assumed since its a 3d rendering of 2d ballon shapes, some are hidden behind the front ones.

    • @David-di5bo
      @David-di5bo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If he had said 50 balloons at the 399 animation most of us would have agreed and it would have worked way better.

    • @whatrtheodds
      @whatrtheodds 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lks5878 why don't you take out your eyes because your offensive to the blind man. Your logic dosnt make sense.

  • @o.osuq-madiq2008
    @o.osuq-madiq2008 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Jumped really quick through some crucial information... But what can ya do w less than 10 minutes and still plug the ad?
    You guys do great work. Thank you!

  • @katrinauchitel
    @katrinauchitel 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Woahh!! This is such a good video, which clearly explains how new we humans are to life and the planet. Mind blowing stuff😆🤯

  • @spoopyduck4651
    @spoopyduck4651 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Thing: **exists**
    Joe: thing is _kind of_ a big deal

  • @sapelesteve
    @sapelesteve 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Even though I knew all of this, seeing it laid out like that was pretty amazing! Well done......

    • @DblTap317
      @DblTap317 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      So you need some credit for knowing or the poster should know hes been pardoned by you due to the part you did like?

    • @andrewfitts3654
      @andrewfitts3654 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sapele Steve nobody cares

    • @lotanowo
      @lotanowo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow you must be pretty smart. You probably don't have to watch videos on a channel called "Be Smart" as it seems like you're already pretty smart.

  • @vanillasteez9848
    @vanillasteez9848 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Never heard of you until this video. Thanks for giving me some cool stuff to watch!

  • @alinonymous
    @alinonymous 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very clever presentation of a very abstract subject. Duly appreciated here.

  • @BeCurieUs
    @BeCurieUs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Good job not getting into any fistycuffs with rouge Frisbee golfers!

    • @besmart
      @besmart  5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      They are relegated to the other side of the park these days. And it’s called DISC GOLF!!! Gah

    • @BeCurieUs
      @BeCurieUs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@besmart Oh man, how embarrassing. Not only got the name wrong, but also haven't been to the park in so long I didn't realize it moved...shame shame shame!

    • @ipissed
      @ipissed 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Evi1M4chine I thought it was mandatory to drink Rogue.

    • @Abdega
      @Abdega 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Christopher Willis
      It’s okay, the Disc Wars took a toll, but they now respect the treaty to stay on their side of the park

    • @ziril3972
      @ziril3972 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      disc golf?
      What ?

  • @eidolor
    @eidolor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    First, there were dominoes. Then, there was string. Next comes the Rube Goldberg machine.

  • @kevinolson7660
    @kevinolson7660 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cool videos!! I've always been curious, loved knowledge and the wonder of learning new things. I can remember going to the library in 3rd grade at my elementary school and while other students were getting choose your own adventure books, I was getting astronomy books. I grew up in the 80's, so that's when the Voyager spacecraft's were doing their outer planets fly by, and I couldn't get enough of that stuff.

  • @Treece
    @Treece 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this was awesome
    really put things into perspective

  • @justblaze4707
    @justblaze4707 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is insane. Thank you.

  • @markburch6253
    @markburch6253 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Or you can go the other direction. Try to picture a Planck length

    • @lesediamondamane
      @lesediamondamane 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That hurts my head more than imagining a billion light years.

    • @Mukna132
      @Mukna132 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @pyropulse I'm sure your mother is very proud of you!

    • @jovetj
      @jovetj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      *@pyropulse* _“Just because you can string words together to form an ostensibly valid statement does not mean that that statement is, in fact, valid.”_
      ...As just proved by yourself! Bravo!! *_*slow clap*_*

    • @jovetj
      @jovetj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      *@pyropulse*
      I _do_ understand irony! That's why your original comment was so funny!
      One person's stupid question is another's key to unlocking the universe. Pray tell, up there on your high horse, can you tell us the difference between imagining bacterium and imagining a Planck length? Both can't be seen in a traditional sense, so what's the point, right?
      Your whole premise of "knowing which questions to ask, which ones are valid" is horseshit. If you don't question everything you're not asking the right questions. That's how science works! It doesn't prove things. The only stupid question is a question you already know the answer to but ask anyway. Life isn't about finding the right questions. It's about recognizing the answers.
      But, finally, "Try to picture a Planck length" is not a question.

    • @markburch6253
      @markburch6253 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @pyropulse ...first and foremost you haven't demonstrated that you understand what a Planck length is.

  • @nillawat
    @nillawat 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video lots of information!

  • @aq9714
    @aq9714 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the perspective!

  • @CeeLoGreen666
    @CeeLoGreen666 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    this guy is like a drug-free johnny knoxville

    • @Aeturnalis
      @Aeturnalis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He sort of looks like halfway between a sober Johnny Knoxville and an educated Willem Dafoe

  • @gigglysamentz2021
    @gigglysamentz2021 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    1:44 Those time comparisons really blew my mind...
    I guess we think more in logarithmic scale.

    • @dundee6402
      @dundee6402 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      GiggitySam Entz Not really to me,
      3 x 11 days = 1 month
      36 x 11 days = 1 year
      360 x 11 days = 10 years
      1080 x 11 days = 30 years
      1116 x 11 days = 31 years
      1116 ~ 1000
      1.000.000 x 1.000= 1.000.000.000
      All you need is a little perspective

    • @ikrar26
      @ikrar26 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dundee6402 thats literaly what he said.. he just said logarithmic scale perspectiv

    • @gigglysamentz2021
      @gigglysamentz2021 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dundee6402 I don't get it... Why these numbers ?

    • @dundee6402
      @dundee6402 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      GiggitySam Entz Because apparently
      1.000.000 seconds = 11 days
      1.000.000.000 seconds = 31 years
      is mind-blowing for some reason

  • @walmet302
    @walmet302 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The string was such a help lol... No cap, it really helped putting deep time in perspective. Thank you.

  • @davegoldspink5354
    @davegoldspink5354 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved science at school over 40 years ago. It’s thanks to videos like these that has taken my love of science to a whole new level. Great job. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @skittlemuffin
    @skittlemuffin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "the entire history of the earth..." *dog enters the timeline*

  • @LaineyBug2020
    @LaineyBug2020 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I don't know why but this made me kind of emotional...

  • @danieljay5493
    @danieljay5493 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great job. Very interesting and entertaining.