Hi. If you liked this video but wished it were longer, less organized, and rambly: You're in luck. Here's an 18 minute version: th-cam.com/video/b65D6i7K8is/w-d-xo.html -John p.s. The Anthropocene Reviewed just had its FOURTH week on the NYT bestseller list?!?!?! Thank you.
John loves to say that he doesn't understand "young people" today but then says things like "welcome to my TED talk" which makes me firmly believe that he does understand them
Or that we're equally out of touch with young people these days but still hold ourselves up to that concept, whereas we'd shun the idea of someone our age being young a decade ago. But maybe that's just me.
Everyone should be. I think Hank even kind of underestimated how unlikely the existence of matter is in his description of it. I'm surprised more religious people don't point to it as evidence for their faith because when you look at the math it's miraculous that the universe has matter in it.
@@vlogbrothers Perhaps applying the anthropic principle will make you feel better. The reasoning goes something like this: in a universe without matter, there cannot exist any conscious beings to wonder why there is or isn't any matter. Then again, I guess it lies in the nature of conscious beings to never be quite satisfied with that explanation. (Which is good for the employment prospects of physics students - full disclosure: I am one) Or perhaps it would help to become even more uncomfortable about a different fundamental physical concept, in which case I highly recommend Carlo Rovelli's book "The Order of Time". Edit: Never mind, you already mentioned the anthropic idea in the extended version. I stand by the book recommendation, though.
This video is just John giving me beautiful facts about humanity while Hank changing my whole world view as I know it. They balance eachother so beautifully.
“Do you not wake up in the morning and your first thought is of me and my needs?” If only more people in the world said/thought this as sarcastically as John did just now, I feel we would have fewer problems.
So my school hosted a TED event (I gave a talk!) and my friend, who was a high school junior at the time, ended her ACTUAL TED TALK with “thank you for coming to my TED talk” 😂😂😂
Here’s a fact I enjoy: the human brain is basically curled up into itself to fit inside our skulls. The brain is this remarkable self repairing computing system that rooms full of processors still can’t quite match, and it’s shoved into our meat case like a 5th graders gym clothes in an overstuffed backpack
The way I like to think about it is that the brain is a super advanced alien computer that does things we couldn’t dream of, except the only example we have to work with is a 14 year olds homemade gaming rig. All of the parts are dirt cheap, it’s jury rigged in a thousand ways, if you hit it wrong it starts speaking French for some reason, but it’s still incredible. Brains are ridiculous and I love them.
Have we ever sent out a giant "Thank You" to the parents of these two for raising such stupendous human beings? We should throw them a party. Just a thought.
I truly do not know how or why, but everytime I see one of your comments I chuckle at the same thing everytime, like the fact that JC is verified on YT is hilarious to me
@@creesch when I commented, there were 0 dislikes, so I meant undefined in the mathematical sense of divided by 0, but your interpretation is funny too
Here after a couple episodes of "The Universe" being released, the Hank explain Big Bang to John it hits different. As in i totally get it now, i get the science. And i now know, as does future John.
My favourite sneezing fact is that light can cause people to sneeze. If the nerve from their eye is too close to another one connected to sneezing, a change in light levels which sends a signal down their optic nerve can accidentally trigger the nerve connected to sneezing and so they sneeze.
@@Ross_mo It’s from one of the recent episodes of the Dear Hank and John podcast, where a doctor told a patient that sneezing wasn’t normal and that she (the doctor) never sneezes.
Omg, so yesterday I had to get an MRI, and as I’m lying there inside of the giant loud machine trying not to move so that the pictures of my brain aren’t blurry all of a sudden I had to sneeze So. Bad. and my first thought was, “I never sneeze, sneezing isn’t normal,” and my second thought was “this has got to be the worst possible place to have to sneeze.” I don’t know how, but somehow I managed to not bust out laughing and kept my head still!!!
What I love that’s happening now, is you guys are repeating things you’ve already told each other in the past. The sky being white thing was shared on a Dear Hank and John I think over a year ago. The equal parts of matter was also on a more recent episode. Repeating stuff is also happening in conversation on the podcast itself. It’s such dad energy in the best way - excitedly sharing something you’ve said before and the other not realizing it.
Seriously. I guess maybe because music is such an essential part of being human, and for all us, recorded music has always just been a way we experience music, so it feels like it should be something that’s been around much much longer.
I watch a lot of TH-cam videos on a faster speed, anywhere from 1.5x upwards, but I always make sure to leave Vlogbrothers at the normal speed because I want to spend as much time with Hank and John as possible.
Most mindblowing fact I learnt recently is that there’s a moon in our solar system that is only 3km (1.86 miles) across. There’s a moon smaller than the radius of the distance I was allowed to travel in Stage IV lockdown. I DID NOT KNOW MOONS COULD BE THAT SMALL
Another favourite fact: an atom is surrounded by a begative field of electrons, which repel like charges. This repulsion makes it impossible to touch two atoms together, so when you touch something, your atoms never actually touched the object’s atoms; and that whenever two objects touch, there is this minute, nano-scale distance that will never be bridged. The feeling of touch is generated by the repulsion of forces that are specifically avoiding touching.
@@sion8 Astronomers probably do use some common sense (well, at least to them) size boundaries when talking about them, because otherwise every particle in the rings of Saturn would be a moon.
@@sion8 or.. maybe, remembering the Pluto situation, they just prefer not to express their opinions about Saturn's rings' particles being moons, because they realise it's too controversial 🤔🤔🤔
@@harry.tallbelt6707 Nah, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) just hasn't come out and decided on a definition. They've help their guns on Pluto, I don't think they care about popular opinion. However, the definition they came up with for ‘planet’ is actually exclusive to the Solar System, not the rest of the Universe, something often missed. So, exoplanets aren't bound by the same definition that “demoted” Pluto, at least not yet. I'm, sure they'd be eager to update their definition to encompass all planets in the Universe, not just make it a Solar System-centric definition. However, I've heard some astronomers have wanted to update the definition so that Pluto is once again a planet, but that would also mean we would have more than 9 planets. Frankly, I'm a fan of the current definition.
My mindblower is that dust from the Sahara Desert gets swept up in air currents, travels across the Atlantic ocean, and the minerals and nutrients in that dust fertilizes the Amazon rain forest. This is mind blowing for two reasons 1) that enough dust can get carried that large of a distance to actually make a significant difference. 2) That one of the most desolate places on earth is essential for life in one of the most fertile places.
My partner recently explained to me (a 28-year-old) that the reason pasta gets soft when cooking it is not the water, but the heat. I found that so unbelievable that I put some noodles into a cup of cold water and waited for a few hours. Mind = blown
this is... inaccurate. It's a result of water being heated. You still need water. For your next experiment, try cooking pasta in a pan with no water or oil. Good luck.
@A. Dings Technically your partner is correct that the heat makes the difference, but realistically you were correct in the general idea that "water alone" would work for how we normally think of water (i.e. being at room temperature). Dry spaghetti rehydrates in about ten minutes in boiling water, and in around two hours in room-temperature water, so you can soak your spaghetti for a couple of hours to complete the first half of the process without using energy to boil water. In cold water, which you attempted (not freezing cold, though), it will take several more hours, but the pasta will soften ... eventually. The water would need to be above freezing though, as frozen water is a solid and would therefore keep the spaghetti in a hard, solid state (frozen). Basically, the warmer the water is above freezing, the faster the rehydration process will go, but "water alone" does work as long as it's not freezing cold. You just needed to apply more time to allow the process to complete. :)
The white night sky fact made me miss the music fact so I had to go back, pause, and sit for a while before I was able to continue meaningfully in the video. *Mind blown*
Wow, always a great start to the morning is Facts with Vlogbrothers. Brings some extra fun to my workday. Good morning Hank and John, I hope y'all have a great day!
I need to send this to my friend. He refuses to believe that one of the Green brothers isn't dead. He also doesn't believe in Sun-sneezing - which is a thing I do.
@@raemills3089 actually all insect have a system with 'pipes' that transports the oxygen where it needs to be. I am sorry, I am bad at explaining this since I'm not a native english speaker, but since it's actually 8th grade school stuff, there must be a good video about it. Here it is: th-cam.com/video/l79FuGuk1qE/w-d-xo.html (At around 1:56 it gets explained)
@@_the_ That makes perfect sense. (Your English is great, better than a lot of native English speakers I know haha) they're like little air sack things, right ? It does ring a bell but 8th grade was longer ago than I would like to admit hahah Thanks !!
These last few videos have been just lovely. Truly. Not to say that there has been zero silliness in the past few years because there has been, but these "old school" feeling vlogbrothers style videos feel like such a breath of fresh air and exactly what is needed...right now. It's caused me to feel a sort of sense of nostalgia and also made me smile from ear to ear with a warm fuzzy feeling inside. The two are you together are just...awesome. Thank you per usual. (P.S. - The Anthropocene Reviewed is incredible John. What a way to encapsulate what it means to be a human!)
in conclusion, humans are cool and we know a lot of stuff but mostly we know nothing. also one thing we do know is that it’s really nice to see you two together again 😊
Here’s a mindblowing fact: I was introduced to Nerdfighteria in January 2021, and as of today, I’ve now seen EVERY vlogbrothers video!! As if I weren’t already completely lost in the timeline since COVID hit, I’ve now experienced 14.5 years of Nerdfighter Time, in 6 months of Earth Time. (And apparently “time” isn’t what I think it is anyway, so… 🤯) This content and community have been soooooo good for my soul through a really difficult time! It’s meant so much to have this steady diet of passion, compassion, deep thought, and deep laughs. My understanding and commitment have grown around topics I was already passionate about…. and I’ve discovered interest in topics I never thought I’d care about! (Mars? The third tier of English football? Neither of those were on my 2021 vision board, but here we are.😂) THANK YOU, John, Hank, and Nerdfighteria, for making me a better person, and the world a better place. 💜
Dear John, I just received my signed copy. I live in the Netherlands and had already given up on getting a signed one, but somehow I managed to order it. Now I have finally found my 'object that I would save out of a burning house', I love it and it's so dear to me. Thank you, thank you, thank you. :)
I felt John's point at 3:39 though the feeling doesn't have to be negative: it can be a cozy smallness and excited wonder at the bigness. It was a relief to me to hear someone else feels that way, since other people seem to react with "existential crises" and I worry I'm feeling wrongly (like I'm too shallow or too heartless to "get it")
I know they've been doing it for over a decade but I am so thankful and happy to have the Green Bros educating us in such a way. They make really large complex concepts tangible and even fun which is so hard to do. Thanks Green Bros
"We don't know why matter exists at all " "So we don't really know why I am here" Uh oh, I marvel at Hank's capacity to be so casually cruel in the name of being honest 😂
The fact that the universe isn´t infinite freaks me out way more than it should. Like you get to a point in the universe and then you just can´t get further? Weird
It is possible that the universe is infinite in distance (also a weird thing to think about), but it isn't infinitely old. Based on our current understanding of physics, of course (subject to change as we learn more).
We're not entirely sure what happens, but there is most likely no edge (if there were there would also be a center, and that's not consistent with our observations). So most likely it's finite by you can go on and on forever in the same direction without ever stopping, kind of like those old arcade games where you leave one side of the screen and reappear on the opposite side.
Also, the farther apart two galaxies are the faster the distance between them expands. That implies two galaxies could be moving apart faster than the speed of light, in which case it would be impossible to reach one from another even in a finite but very large universe, which in a sense would make space infinite.
I often wonder if I will ever get to see or hear you guys talk where I don’t smile, laugh, think, learn something and/or have my mind blown! And this video did all of that and more. Truly love seeing you in the same shot! Thank you for all you do !!!
Hi. If you liked this video but wished it were longer, less organized, and rambly: You're in luck. Here's an 18 minute version: th-cam.com/video/b65D6i7K8is/w-d-xo.html -John
p.s. The Anthropocene Reviewed just had its FOURTH week on the NYT bestseller list?!?!?! Thank you.
You're really spoiling us with all this content with you both together. ❤️
Thank you!
I'm subscribed to hankschannel, so...
tHANK YOU
Thanks muchly!
John loves to say that he doesn't understand "young people" today but then says things like "welcome to my TED talk" which makes me firmly believe that he does understand them
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Or that we're equally out of touch with young people these days but still hold ourselves up to that concept, whereas we'd shun the idea of someone our age being young a decade ago.
But maybe that's just me.
Who's Ted and why do people want to hear him talk?
"Space and time continue to bang, but matter does not"
Sounds like my 2020 TBH.
This is a hell of a good joke. -John
I went looking for this comment because I knew I couldn’t be the only one.
@@Hippopotalust
Nope, you guys aren't the only ones! 😉
In that case I must be the Higgs boson.
I appreciate that I scrolled down and saw this comment exactly when it was being said, thank you
John knowing the timelines of historical facts in relation to the creation to Dr. Pepper is VERY on brand for him
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Yep, his era is B.Dr.P. and A.Dr.P.
But what about diet Dr. Pepper?
Read his new book! He reviews Diet Dr. Pepper lol
Dr. Pepper is the drink of true intellectuals after all
John looks really uncomfortable about the idea of matter.
Super uncomfortable. -John
Not only what or how is matter but why it matters
Everyone should be. I think Hank even kind of underestimated how unlikely the existence of matter is in his description of it. I'm surprised more religious people don't point to it as evidence for their faith because when you look at the math it's miraculous that the universe has matter in it.
@@vlogbrothers Perhaps applying the anthropic principle will make you feel better. The reasoning goes something like this: in a universe without matter, there cannot exist any conscious beings to wonder why there is or isn't any matter. Then again, I guess it lies in the nature of conscious beings to never be quite satisfied with that explanation. (Which is good for the employment prospects of physics students - full disclosure: I am one)
Or perhaps it would help to become even more uncomfortable about a different fundamental physical concept, in which case I highly recommend Carlo Rovelli's book "The Order of Time".
Edit: Never mind, you already mentioned the anthropic idea in the extended version. I stand by the book recommendation, though.
Who isn't? It is the sort of thing that I need to stop thinking real quick lol
"that's not a fact about pi, it's a fact about humans" why did that hit me so much, I want to write a poem about it
hi skyler
ooo! do it!
@@Carebearritual hi cara sorry I commented so many times on this video (if you saw them whoops)
Pie poem? Yum
@@skylerwitherspoon woah you have more than 500 Comments on this channel
"this whole thing is weird" - the most accurate and concise TedTalk i've ever heard
Came here to say this
Mindblowers with Hank and John: NO. EDGE.
haha yesss
This phrase makes me feel so happy
FRENCH THE LLAMA! that's an old reference!
@@YellowTissueBox It's been so long since I've heard "French the Llama." Love it.
Dude!
John Green did not even say "Thank you for coming to my TEDTalk" at the end of his actual TEDTalk.
This video is just John giving me beautiful facts about humanity while Hank changing my whole world view as I know it. They balance eachother so beautifully.
CONGRATS BEST FRIEND
This video could also be titled: John has a series of existential crises while Hank speaks for 4 minutes.
I'm not sure John thought through this concept enough, lol
“We don’t really know why I’m here”? John, we’re here because we’re here because we’re here because we’re here
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I love that super obscure reference from the twilight zone.
I sang it
seeing u two together makes me happy it’s like the world is going back to normal 🥺
Nature is healing 😊
Vaccines are working :D
Yeesss
Woooo
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“This whole thing is weird” is the best description of pretty much everything.
The more I learn about everything, the weirder it gets. Thanks, internet.
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“Do you not wake up in the morning
and your first thought is of me and my needs?” If only more people in the world said/thought this as sarcastically as John did just now, I feel we would have fewer problems.
this gave me the ultimate older younger brother vibes
That was the crowning jewel of this video
“This whole thing is weird” really captures the human experience
Whenever I hear sayings like that I think about Neutral Milk Hotel: how strange it is to be anything at all
I think John is the first person to use the “thank you for coming to my TEDTalk joke” and has actually given a real TEDTalk.
So my school hosted a TED event (I gave a talk!) and my friend, who was a high school junior at the time, ended her ACTUAL TED TALK with “thank you for coming to my TED talk” 😂😂😂
Woah, why hasn't he boasted about that around here? I had no idea. They have had such fascinating lives.
Here’s a fact I enjoy: the human brain is basically curled up into itself to fit inside our skulls. The brain is this remarkable self repairing computing system that rooms full of processors still can’t quite match, and it’s shoved into our meat case like a 5th graders gym clothes in an overstuffed backpack
The way I like to think about it is that the brain is a super advanced alien computer that does things we couldn’t dream of, except the only example we have to work with is a 14 year olds homemade gaming rig. All of the parts are dirt cheap, it’s jury rigged in a thousand ways, if you hit it wrong it starts speaking French for some reason, but it’s still incredible. Brains are ridiculous and I love them.
"The brain is the most important organ in the body" -- The Brain
This is my favorite comment. Ever. 💕
Not mine. I have a smooth brain.
This is now my favourite fact of the video
Have we ever sent out a giant "Thank You" to the parents of these two for raising such stupendous human beings? We should throw them a party. Just a thought.
As someone recovering from a fair amount of parental trauma. The Green brother parents are literally the reason I even consider being a parent.
It’s largely just chance bro. You don’t get to decide if your kids end up awesome or not.
that was awesome
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Jesus!
I truly do not know how or why, but everytime I see one of your comments I chuckle at the same thing everytime, like the fact that JC is verified on YT is hilarious to me
Doesn't the big bang theory go against your Dad's book?
Why are you here dad? I mean why am I here?
John’s “...wut???” at 2:23 has the same energy as that GIF of a guy blinking repeatedly in confusion
The dislike ratio is undefined
As it should be
Let’s see how long we can make it last!
I think you just applied quantum mechanics, at the moment you stated it was undefined it was inevitably no longer going to be undefined. Sort of...?
About 18 minutes apparently
@@creesch when I commented, there were 0 dislikes, so I meant undefined in the mathematical sense of divided by 0, but your interpretation is funny too
Here after a couple episodes of "The Universe" being released, the Hank explain Big Bang to John it hits different. As in i totally get it now, i get the science. And i now know, as does future John.
The most mind blowing fact that I know is that sneezing isn’t normal
My favourite sneezing fact is that light can cause people to sneeze. If the nerve from their eye is too close to another one connected to sneezing, a change in light levels which sends a signal down their optic nerve can accidentally trigger the nerve connected to sneezing and so they sneeze.
I *never* sneeze.
please explain
@@Ross_mo It’s from one of the recent episodes of the Dear Hank and John podcast, where a doctor told a patient that sneezing wasn’t normal and that she (the doctor) never sneezes.
Omg, so yesterday I had to get an MRI, and as I’m lying there inside of the giant loud machine trying not to move so that the pictures of my brain aren’t blurry all of a sudden I had to sneeze So. Bad. and my first thought was, “I never sneeze, sneezing isn’t normal,” and my second thought was “this has got to be the worst possible place to have to sneeze.” I don’t know how, but somehow I managed to not bust out laughing and kept my head still!!!
I literally can not imagine how it must feel to be as smart as Hank. Like actually, what is that life like?
This is like a comedic spin on The Anthropocene Reviewed and I love it.
Oh well if you haven't listened to scishow tangents you're going to love it
The Anthropocene, Improvised
I love not only the mind blowing facts, but also seeing the Greens together again
I miss Dave though
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What I love that’s happening now, is you guys are repeating things you’ve already told each other in the past. The sky being white thing was shared on a Dear Hank and John I think over a year ago. The equal parts of matter was also on a more recent episode. Repeating stuff is also happening in conversation on the podcast itself. It’s such dad energy in the best way - excitedly sharing something you’ve said before and the other not realizing it.
My twin sister and I do this all the time lmao
I was not aware I'd get an existential crisis with my lunch today, but you both provided, so thank you
The music one… why does that feel so insane???
Seriously. I guess maybe because music is such an essential part of being human, and for all us, recorded music has always just been a way we experience music, so it feels like it should be something that’s been around much much longer.
The part that got me for that was recorded music being younger than Dr Pepper.
I had to re-listen to Henry Reich's fact a few times because my mind was so blown
I watch a lot of TH-cam videos on a faster speed, anywhere from 1.5x upwards, but I always make sure to leave Vlogbrothers at the normal speed because I want to spend as much time with Hank and John as possible.
This is the first time I've heard a person who has an actual Ted Talk say "Thank you for coming to my Ted talk"
The chuckle before John says "assuming we knew all of the other numbers"
Hank: "space and time continue to bang, but matter does not"
me: "I am matter"
Matter: the original third wheel
big smoops will now be shared amongst my friend groups, thank you
John's face whenever Hank is talking about matter o_o
I really appreciate how you can see in John's face at 2:44 that he's, like, teetering on the edge of the rabbit hole but manages not to fall down it
Most mindblowing fact I learnt recently is that there’s a moon in our solar system that is only 3km (1.86 miles) across. There’s a moon smaller than the radius of the distance I was allowed to travel in Stage IV lockdown. I DID NOT KNOW MOONS COULD BE THAT SMALL
Another favourite fact: an atom is surrounded by a begative field of electrons, which repel like charges. This repulsion makes it impossible to touch two atoms together, so when you touch something, your atoms never actually touched the object’s atoms; and that whenever two objects touch, there is this minute, nano-scale distance that will never be bridged. The feeling of touch is generated by the repulsion of forces that are specifically avoiding touching.
Well natural satellites are whatever orbits a planet before humans put something there, there's no definition more precise than that.
@@sion8 Astronomers probably do use some common sense (well, at least to them) size boundaries when talking about them, because otherwise every particle in the rings of Saturn would be a moon.
@@sion8 or.. maybe, remembering the Pluto situation, they just prefer not to express their opinions about Saturn's rings' particles being moons, because they realise it's too controversial 🤔🤔🤔
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Nah, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) just hasn't come out and decided on a definition.
They've help their guns on Pluto, I don't think they care about popular opinion. However, the definition they came up with for ‘planet’ is actually exclusive to the Solar System, not the rest of the Universe, something often missed.
So, exoplanets aren't bound by the same definition that “demoted” Pluto, at least not yet. I'm, sure they'd be eager to update their definition to encompass all planets in the Universe, not just make it a Solar System-centric definition.
However, I've heard some astronomers have wanted to update the definition so that Pluto is once again a planet, but that would also mean we would have more than 9 planets. Frankly, I'm a fan of the current definition.
My favourite mind-blowing fact is that Sainsbury's the UK supermarket, is two years older than the country of Germany (1869 against 1871).
Still can’t fathom ✨no edge✨
Three reunion videos in a row! Lucky us!
My mindblower is that dust from the Sahara Desert gets swept up in air currents, travels across the Atlantic ocean, and the minerals and nutrients in that dust fertilizes the Amazon rain forest. This is mind blowing for two reasons 1) that enough dust can get carried that large of a distance to actually make a significant difference. 2) That one of the most desolate places on earth is essential for life in one of the most fertile places.
That's cool.
“It big bangs and then it big smoops” is my mood for the week
My partner recently explained to me (a 28-year-old) that the reason pasta gets soft when cooking it is not the water, but the heat. I found that so unbelievable that I put some noodles into a cup of cold water and waited for a few hours. Mind = blown
Oh my god, so that is why oven pasta dishes work! And dont turn the pasta all crispy!
this is... inaccurate. It's a result of water being heated. You still need water.
For your next experiment, try cooking pasta in a pan with no water or oil. Good luck.
@@Ross_mo Right - that was what was meant. I was just surprised that the water wasn't enough, I though the warming up was done just for the taste!
@A. Dings Technically your partner is correct that the heat makes the difference, but realistically you were correct in the general idea that "water alone" would work for how we normally think of water (i.e. being at room temperature).
Dry spaghetti rehydrates in about ten minutes in boiling water, and in around two hours in room-temperature water, so you can soak your spaghetti for a couple of hours to complete the first half of the process without using energy to boil water.
In cold water, which you attempted (not freezing cold, though), it will take several more hours, but the pasta will soften ... eventually. The water would need to be above freezing though, as frozen water is a solid and would therefore keep the spaghetti in a hard, solid state (frozen).
Basically, the warmer the water is above freezing, the faster the rehydration process will go, but "water alone" does work as long as it's not freezing cold. You just needed to apply more time to allow the process to complete. :)
@@xzonia1 oh that's interesting, thanks!
I want the uncut version of this, please and thank you.
Oh, nevermind, it's in the doobly doo.
You two should DEFINITELY do more Mindblowers like this, it was great!
The white night sky fact made me miss the music fact so I had to go back, pause, and sit for a while before I was able to continue meaningfully in the video.
*Mind blown*
The most mind blowing fact in this video is that Hank’s first thought in the morning is not John and his needs
"I'll continue to see you right now" is, for some reason, the most heartwarming thing. I can't explain why.
I’ve so enjoyed these reunion videos. I didn’t realize just how much I missed them. Glad you were able to gather as a family!
Hank & John together?!?
My mind is blown.
I would think the world would tip over with such intellect & nerdiness in one place.
“space and time continue to bang” me too 😎
jail
John’s “what” at 2:23 is great and so sincere lol
Wow, always a great start to the morning is Facts with Vlogbrothers. Brings some extra fun to my workday.
Good morning Hank and John, I hope y'all have a great day!
“feeling of wonderful smallness” truly one of the most beautiful phrases i’ve ever heard, lowkey wanna get it tattooed/turned into art
I need to send this to my friend. He refuses to believe that one of the Green brothers isn't dead. He also doesn't believe in Sun-sneezing - which is a thing I do.
Maybe that's what happened to David Green. RIP Dave.
Yep definitely Dave
Hmm. So he thinks it's a faux-tic reflex?
it's not normal to sneeze. i never sneeze.
I need a half hour uncut version of this
John constantly hyping Hank's book just makes me so happy
John defining mindblowing in his gorgeous, thoughtful way is honestly the best.
my mind blowing fact is that bees don’t have lungs
Wait, what ?
@@raemills3089 actually all insect have a system with 'pipes' that transports the oxygen where it needs to be. I am sorry, I am bad at explaining this since I'm not a native english speaker, but since it's actually 8th grade school stuff, there must be a good video about it.
Here it is: th-cam.com/video/l79FuGuk1qE/w-d-xo.html
(At around 1:56 it gets explained)
@@_the_ That makes perfect sense. (Your English is great, better than a lot of native English speakers I know haha) they're like little air sack things, right ? It does ring a bell but 8th grade was longer ago than I would like to admit hahah
Thanks !!
Hearing John say "Hank, I'll continue to see you right now" brings me so much joy
“This whole thing is weird” was the only part my brain was able to fully comprehend in this 4 minute video.
These last few videos have been just lovely. Truly. Not to say that there has been zero silliness in the past few years because there has been, but these "old school" feeling vlogbrothers style videos feel like such a breath of fresh air and exactly what is needed...right now. It's caused me to feel a sort of sense of nostalgia and also made me smile from ear to ear with a warm fuzzy feeling inside. The two are you together are just...awesome. Thank you per usual. (P.S. - The Anthropocene Reviewed is incredible John. What a way to encapsulate what it means to be a human!)
"This whole thing is weird" is a pretty good way to describe a lot of things.
a mindblower of my own: i have now been part of nerdfighteria for over five years. who better to tell than you guys!
I just watched in real-time John's OCD dread growing exponentially while he was listening to Hank talk about banana radiation.
"we're amazing. I can't get enough of us." this is why I'm inspired to learn by these two great men
in conclusion, humans are cool and we know a lot of stuff but mostly we know nothing. also one thing we do know is that it’s really nice to see you two together again 😊
Here’s a mindblowing fact: I was introduced to Nerdfighteria in January 2021, and as of today, I’ve now seen EVERY vlogbrothers video!! As if I weren’t already completely lost in the timeline since COVID hit, I’ve now experienced 14.5 years of Nerdfighter Time, in 6 months of Earth Time. (And apparently “time” isn’t what I think it is anyway, so… 🤯)
This content and community have been soooooo good for my soul through a really difficult time! It’s meant so much to have this steady diet of passion, compassion, deep thought, and deep laughs. My understanding and commitment have grown around topics I was already passionate about…. and I’ve discovered interest in topics I never thought I’d care about! (Mars? The third tier of English football? Neither of those were on my 2021 vision board, but here we are.😂)
THANK YOU, John, Hank, and Nerdfighteria, for making me a better person, and the world a better place. 💜
This had a very pleasant 2013 energy. I feel the need to reblog this and fancast the TFiOS movie
Dear John, I just received my signed copy. I live in the Netherlands and had already given up on getting a signed one, but somehow I managed to order it. Now I have finally found my 'object that I would save out of a burning house', I love it and it's so dear to me. Thank you, thank you, thank you. :)
Mindblowers is an interesting way to spell “existential crisis.” 😂
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I felt John's point at 3:39 though the feeling doesn't have to be negative: it can be a cozy smallness and excited wonder at the bigness. It was a relief to me to hear someone else feels that way, since other people seem to react with "existential crises" and I worry I'm feeling wrongly (like I'm too shallow or too heartless to "get it")
I love the vibe of John looking at Hank and saying "WHAT!"
OH HECKIN YASSS NEW VLOGBROTHERS HI GUYS HOPE YOU’RE BOTH WELL
I think we don't give enough credit to how wonderful it is that we can so easily fill the world with music.
my mindblower: foxes in south america aren't actually foxes. they're another subgenus completely and actually closer to wolves in taxonomy
Another animal fact: Red and giant pandas are not in the same family of animals
Subgenus facts are my favorite kind of facts
The mongoose-like Rock Hyrax is the closest living relation to the elephant.
@@Yurt_enthusiast7 Thank you for calling them Red Pandas. I hate the name Lesser Panda.
That's pretty common - some European sees a thing and says "that looks like that other thing in Europe." Same with robins.
I may not show it...but this week of videos of them together is giving me more hope than I've felt in a long time
I wasn't quite prepared for an existential crisis on a Tuesday afternoon but here we are... Then again, is it really a good Tuesday without one?
Yeah, I mean, to be fair, John serves up existential crises on the regular, so ....
@@RainaRamsay so true. But for some reason I thought that since they were having a reunion video, I thought it would be all silliness
@@authorrin7086 That's fair -- Existential Crises are usually a solo-John thing
Some truly superb facial expressions from John in this one
Heck yea
I started watching John and hank because of Charlie McDonnell (may he live long and prosper)
Omg!!! A reunion video…!
You guys just made my day!
We know why John is here, we just don't know why he exists.
We’re here because we’re here!
I know they've been doing it for over a decade but I am so thankful and happy to have the Green Bros educating us in such a way. They make really large complex concepts tangible and even fun which is so hard to do. Thanks Green Bros
Just remember Bill Murray's great quote from the movie "Meatballs": "It just doesn't matter, IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER"
John and Hank just said "Big Smoop" as an alternative process to the Big Bang, and neither of them batted an eye at one another
Fun fact: there are more Grammerly ads on TH-cam than grains of sand on all the beaches of the Earth.
The sheer joy when y’all make videos together is infectious ☺️👏🏼
"We don't know why matter exists at all "
"So we don't really know why I am here"
Uh oh, I marvel at Hank's capacity to be so casually cruel in the name of being honest 😂
But will John remember it all too well?
"I am the most interesting part of the universe." that is BEAUTIFUL.
John: let’s discuss fun facts. Dr Pepper is older than album music.
Hank: okay, now let’s make you doubt your existance.
John, it's so heartwarming to see how much more you smile when Hank is around.
I’m sorry, but Dave matters the most 😌✋🏼
My favourite part is John looking VERY ANXIOUS through every Hank fact, and getting INCREASINGLY ANXIOUS as the fact goes on
I'm pretty sure the "the night sky would be white" thing isn't true, and also Steven Hawking discusses it in a brief history of time
I love how the cool backdrop for normal Hank videos is just a tiny segment of the wall. It doesn't even reach the ceiling. I just love it
The fact that the universe isn´t infinite freaks me out way more than it should. Like you get to a point in the universe and then you just can´t get further? Weird
It is possible that the universe is infinite in distance (also a weird thing to think about), but it isn't infinitely old. Based on our current understanding of physics, of course (subject to change as we learn more).
We're not entirely sure what happens, but there is most likely no edge (if there were there would also be a center, and that's not consistent with our observations). So most likely it's finite by you can go on and on forever in the same direction without ever stopping, kind of like those old arcade games where you leave one side of the screen and reappear on the opposite side.
Also, the farther apart two galaxies are the faster the distance between them expands. That implies two galaxies could be moving apart faster than the speed of light, in which case it would be impossible to reach one from another even in a finite but very large universe, which in a sense would make space infinite.
I keep backing up and watching John's "what?" to Hank's "We do not know why there is matter" over and over. That is the exact moment a mind is blown.
4:01?
I think sometimes it adds on an extra second? It’s 4:00 on my phone
@@phoebelambdon I’m on a tablet and the thing before I clicked said 401 but the actual video says it’s just 4 so idrk
TH-cam rounds videos up by 1 second. So while the preview says 4:01, the video itself is 4 minutes.
I often wonder if I will ever get to see or hear you guys talk where I don’t smile, laugh, think, learn something and/or have my mind blown! And this video did all of that and more.
Truly love seeing you in the same shot! Thank you for all you do !!!