@@Hurricane000007 If I could stand on a planet and throw an ewok into a lake of fart... That would just be... Well you couldn't, because it would shatter Even better! So I could be tossing ewoks into a lake of fart When you say tossing ewiks into a lake of farts *Steady on* No, hat's exactly what I meant. They'll ask "Where is he?" He's off tossing ewoks again in his lake of farts, in a peddlo made of smoke th-cam.com/video/5r_TlPwZOvU/w-d-xo.html
"There's a Socratic acceptance of the limits of one's own knowledge, and there's ignorance. I'm not saying which is which." Now, there's a beautiful put down :)
I wonder how much the Elves sweat when they have Brian Cox on. If a question comes up in his field he can just be like, "Nope. Thats what people used to believe until last month"
I saw Brian Cox live and it was one of the most fascinating events I ever went to. I don't really know a whole lot about the cosmos, but the way he explained it was so perfect, and it made so much sense. A wonderful science educator and a pretty fun dude to watch.
Brian Cox was on an Australian panel show with a senator from Queensland who was a climate change denier. Cox was incredulous at the stupidity and at one stage threw a bunch of papers from NASA across the desk to him. "Skeptic" blogs want bananas at Cox. YT Brian Cox vs Malcolm Roberts | Q&A 2016
@@trollop_7 Oh, answering a question with a question, now that makes me totally trust whatever you're saying, lol. Unless you're a miserable passionless bore or a corporat, people tend to do a job they're good at and, ideally, passionate about. How would that be relevant? If your next comment doesn't include any solid evidence that Brian hates science / talking science, it will be clear that you have been spreading baseless bullshit.
Absolutely adore how the entire studio goes silent and just listens intently as Brian talks at 3:40. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the entire panel on QI just sit and listen to another panelist like that without trying to throw in a joke. Definitely need more of him on the show!
I was disappointed when he said the foreskin was invisible. I had really hoped this mad woman was going around with some foreskin of unknown provenance on her finger for years.
@@hive_indicator318 The band formally known as "Prepuce of Unknown Provenance" but they renamed after touring the UK and found there was already a band there named that.
@@daxriley8195 Just for fun, I tried "Prepuce of Unknown Provenance" in the search bar. I got, "How to make your own foreskin retainer cone at home"...
"she believed christ gave her his foreskin as a wedding ring" no one so much as chuckles. everyone stares in horror and abject confusion, waiting for stephen to say "lol jk"
@@WiggyWamWam I reckon this is why Aliens are yet to make contact- it's not that we're a savage, uncivilised lot, it's that we're clearly all completely and irredeemably potty.
The way Stephen leans over when Ross starts asking a question to Brian Cox expecting something interesting and intellectual 😂. "which moon is most likely to be home to ewoks?" The subtle dissapointment of Stephen is amazing
@@OriginalPiMan Absolutely, and they're definitely my favourite- it's always nice to learn new things from people who actually have studied the subject matter... I didn't realise, for example, that a denser atmosphere meant you'd need to be furry to survive, but Brian said it, so it must be true. :)
@SaintPhoenix Dara O Briain is another brilliant scientist/comedian who has been on QI and hosts Mock the Week. I saw both of them together on a British show and not only are they funny, but amazingly brilliant !
@@peterclarke7240 To be fair, you don't have to be furry in a denser atmosphere. Fur is there to protect you from the (extreme) cold. Fur as nothing to do with the density of the atmosphere, it is an insulator. Now, that being said, a denser atmosphere means that things cool and warm up faster in them, depending on their temperature, but it is again tied to temperature, not the density itself. For instance, water is denser than air - in 10 degrees Celsius air on Earth you'd be mostly fine even naked, while in 10 degrees Celsius water, you'd get cold very fast. It is denser, meaning more molecules touch you and take away your heat. So in that sense, in a very cold atmosphere that is also dense, every level of insulation is a plus. In this case fur. On the other hand, in a dense but hot atmosphere, you wouldn't really like fur, just like you would not like a blanket when going to the beach in the middle of summer.
@@Wustenfuchs109 Wouldn't the purpose of the fur be to protect from wild swings of internal temperature. A cool breeze will freeze you quicker. A hot dessert gust will rise your core temperature quicker. So you'd need the fur to essentially slow that effect. However, Titan is cold, so what Brian Cox said is still correct by what you said.
It's always fascinating how people become so interested when talking to a scientist and start asking them all sorts of questions that they've been wondering about for probably ages
Maybe it was the colour? BTW despite what Stephen said about 18 places claiming to have it, some say that when he ascended, all his body whether or not it was attached came with him. Maybe it got lost along the way and ended up around this planet.
Well the question that created the need for this discussion in the first place is what exactly happened to it when Jesus ascended to heaven. It was still part of his body so wherever it was it couldn't have stayed on earth, but the idea of it ascending separately and jut sort of sitting there in heaven, or of Jesus putting it back on was a bit too weird. Saying he put it in the sky was a relatively elegant solution really, if a rather random choice.
To clarify on Enceladus being "the size of Britain", what I think Brian means is if you were to circumnavigate the moon, you would travel a similar distance to the length of mainland Britain. (around 1000km). It is around 1/7 the diameter of Earth's moon.
Not really. All the claimed pieces of the true cross have been catalogued and together they would make up a piece of wood which is about a 0.004 cubic metres. Look up 'True cross' in wikipedia. The story about the vatican librarian is hardly well attested either. A nineteenth century writer claims that Leo Allatius, the Vatican librarian, wrote a treatise on the Holy Foreskin in the 17th century, but no-one has ever found the treatise.
So if you rub Saturn’s rings you get a galaxy? That rimshot aside, I liked how Brian fielded Ross’s absurd question with the most plausible scientific answer.
Interestingly enough, Mars may have it's own rings 'soon' (in ~40 M years) as Phobos gets so close that it exceeds the Roche limit (meaning the gravity of the parent body will overcome the local gravity of the orbiting body, and likely will tear it apart). Now Phobos is not dense enough to be made of rock and some scientists think there may be significant ice deposits under the surface. So if everything goes perfectly, tiny shepherd moons could form and keep the ice rings around Mars just a tiny bit longer. Of course, there could've been recent discoveries about Phobos that I missed and completely dismiss this idea, but the idea that some moon broke up and made the rings of Saturn isn't immediately dismissable out of hand.
I thought they were going to say 'Oh it's where he put his halo' and it was going to be 'oh that's a bit over the top religious guys, that'd be a big halo'. But no, it had to go to genitalia.
As knowledgeable as Stephen Fry is on a lot of subjects, I detect a sense that he's trying to wing it when talking to Brian. You know when you're trying to blag a conversation by dropping a few keywords and the few snippets of knowledge you have?
At the end of a previous episode Stephen quoted someone who once said "A fool is someone who doesn't know what I just found out." Or something like that.
I love your channel dearly. Please change out the bit at the end in which Sandy nags us to pick a new video. I mostly let the algorithm take me from BBC show to BBC show in the background. I hate to hear her cross at me every few minutes. Thank you for your consideration.
And please every other channel note this too. However good you think your endboard is, and however good it actually is, it's gonna be desperately tedious once somebody's seen it ten times inside an hour.
But also I suspect this is a reference to the fact that female comedians tend to report having a bad time on there (particularly when this episode came out). It can be quite an adversarial/survival of the fittest show in terms of shouting loudest to get your material shown and there's a bit of a boy's club to contend with. So it would be a degrading experience for her.
Interesting. I've only seen mock the week as clips, and generally enjoy it, but didn't go with watching the show for some reason. Interesting to note about female comedians, since QI has been vociferous in including women (especially since Sandi became host), so that may well be a reason for Alan's barbed comment 🤔
So it was a man of god who had trouble with the difference between small and far away. Dougal, have you been playing around with the time, machine again?
The fact that the rings are made of ice is not incompatible with the theory that they're a disrupted moon -- since Saturn's moons are in fact mostly made of ice and not rock. (Phoebe may be an exception to this.) Enceladus, for instance, has a density almost exactly that of water ice, it's surface spectra shows that it is covered in water ice, and the material that comes out of its geysers is definitely water.
Cassini’s data show that the ejections, localised in a confined region of the south pole, are dominated by the presence of water, with SIGNIFICANT amounts of carbon dioxide and methane.
They didn't even cover the most likely explanation of Saturn's rings, which are they are the remnants of moons that were ripped apart by tidal forces as they got too close to Saturn. And it's well supported because the rings are right around where the Roche limit for icy bodies would be.
When he went to Rome for a vacation, Steven Hawking met with the Pope and asked if he could read the minutes from Galileo's trial, because they are OF COURSE still on record at the Vatican. The Pope told him ''no.''
If that nun lived in our times she could have just gone to the local SM dungeon, instead she had to join the church. But, alright, Stephen said she did seek out degrading experiences ...
So if the rings of Saturn are mostly water is it possible that instead of using his foreskin to make them Jesus instead peed the rings into existence as he ascended?
Yes indeed... Given that Jar Jar Binks is a Sith Lord more powerful than Palpatine, yes, we would need to destroy that planet... Although i would cautious that any attempt to destroy the planet he is occupying may not turn out so well for those attempting to destroy it.
I noticed Mr Smartipants ‘scientist’ didn’t even consider the Saturn Rings\Jesus Foreskin hypothesis. There’s a lot to be said for the ‘wisdom of the ancients’.
When you have a infinite space, you have infinite possibilities... So quite simply... they are formed by the many factors of chance and physics. Simple :D
@@Codex7777 considering a material percentage of the world's greatest educational and scientific bodies were founded by RCC entities, ghheee let me think....lol.... You're welcome!
@@mmmail1969 - As I thought, you're plucking figures out of thin air... I'm not saying you're wrong necessarily. However you have no evidence with which to back up your claim, other than mere supposition and unfounded assumption. :)
Actually it's now thought the rings are less than 100 million years old so they weren’t part of the formation of the planet. Also Brian says that moons are made of rock but then also says the moon Enceladus is mostly ice.
The way he said "You'd need to be... Furry"
Hmm... I'd still prefer to be on earth.
Subtle way for the scientist to take the mickey out of _Star Wars_ fans ...
Right at that moment he's thinking... "Do I really need the money?"
I thought he said "You'd need to be very..." and was wondering why he wasn't finishing his sentence.
Did that change your life or.....
😶
"Go on, pick SOMETHING"
I'M READING THE COMMENTS, SANDI
You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you can't pick your friends nose
@@zapkvr you can, but preferably with a cotton swab or similar....
Ffs innit
Omg I’m always frantic to choose a new video before Sandi says that!!! lol
@@zapkvr Than they aren't really your friends...
I love whenever Titan was mentioned later and Ross was like “THATS THE ONE WITH THE EWOKS!”
Agreed, it's so funny. "You can throw ewoks into a late of fart." "Actually, they'd shatter." "EVEN BETTER!!!" lmfao
"where is he?"
_hes off tossing ewoks again. Tossing ewoks into a lake of farts, from a boat of smoke_
I know it isn't *perfect* but it's _close enough_ for the next 20 minutes until I check the compilation of him and correct it.
@@Hurricane000007 If I could stand on a planet and throw an ewok into a lake of fart... That would just be...
Well you couldn't, because it would shatter
Even better! So I could be tossing ewoks into a lake of fart
When you say tossing ewiks into a lake of farts
*Steady on*
No, hat's exactly what I meant. They'll ask "Where is he?" He's off tossing ewoks again in his lake of farts, in a peddlo made of smoke
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@@chorusofoddities You're a star, I laughed even harder at the linked video than this| XD
"There's a Socratic acceptance of the limits of one's own knowledge, and there's ignorance. I'm not saying which is which." Now, there's a beautiful put down :)
Looking for and may I ask if you know, is this comes from Fry or it came from someone else and Fry just said it?
@@RasPutintheGreat Ummm, Socrates said it first
@@johnfisher437 well...can't argue with that but...it is possible that someone said that and mentioned "socratic". But anyway...thanks.
@@RasPutintheGreat Socrates also said "food goes in here" while pointing to his mouth. A brilliant mind.
@@RasPutintheGreat It was either Abe Lincoln or Wayne Gretsky, i believe.
I wonder how much the Elves sweat when they have Brian Cox on. If a question comes up in his field he can just be like, "Nope. Thats what people used to believe until last month"
@@FenceThis So wait, I was conned when I bought that phial of Elf Sweat?
Good thing I paid for it with Pixie Corns, then.
Sometimes, it feels like if they just say "nobody knows", they will get the question right.
I saw Brian Cox live and it was one of the most fascinating events I ever went to. I don't really know a whole lot about the cosmos, but the way he explained it was so perfect, and it made so much sense. A wonderful science educator and a pretty fun dude to watch.
It must have been the most enlightening experience
Cannot stand him.
Brian Cox was on an Australian panel show with a senator from Queensland who was a climate change denier. Cox was incredulous at the stupidity and at one stage threw a bunch of papers from NASA across the desk to him.
"Skeptic" blogs want bananas at Cox.
YT Brian Cox vs Malcolm Roberts | Q&A 2016
That panel was just perfect
The question was selected for this particular panel so you could say the panel is perfect because the elves made it so with their question
Yes
If you replace Perkins with Bill Bailey, sure
@@bastiaan1150 Replace Perkins with an empty chair it would be better
@@cvwright sue is quirky. hmm so is BB 🤔
It's awesome how whenever Brian talks science he sounds like a poet in love
It's literally his job to sound that way. In reality, there's nothing he likes less.
@@trollop_7 what? Can you prove that in any way? Kinda hard to believe...
@@Stormchantress Tell me why you think he is employed in his capacity as a "science communicator"?
@@trollop_7 Oh, answering a question with a question, now that makes me totally trust whatever you're saying, lol. Unless you're a miserable passionless bore or a corporat, people tend to do a job they're good at and, ideally, passionate about. How would that be relevant?
If your next comment doesn't include any solid evidence that Brian hates science / talking science, it will be clear that you have been spreading baseless bullshit.
Educate yourself, Sir. Brian is a good friend of mine, and there's nothing he hates more, but the money's good, so....
Absolutely adore how the entire studio goes silent and just listens intently as Brian talks at 3:40. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the entire panel on QI just sit and listen to another panelist like that without trying to throw in a joke. Definitely need more of him on the show!
And the little gasp when he talks about the little fountains of ice.. so cool (no pun intended)!
They were probably falling asleep
"They thought it had ears"
"That was galileo, who was sensible"
I was disappointed when he said the foreskin was invisible. I had really hoped this mad woman was going around with some foreskin of unknown provenance on her finger for years.
"Foreskin of Unknown Provenance" is my favorite jazz fusion album.
@@hive_indicator318 The band formally known as "Prepuce of Unknown Provenance" but they renamed after touring the UK and found there was already a band there named that.
@@daxriley8195 Just for fun, I tried "Prepuce of Unknown Provenance" in the search bar.
I got, "How to make your own foreskin retainer cone at home"...
I had this brief moment where I was picturing her doing the Beyonce Dance and singing "Well he liked it so he went and put a ring on it..!"
More the point when they said the foreskin was 50,000 kms across my immediate thought was, "no wonder Mary Magdalene was bow legged."
2:26 "I'm going to play the card there..."
The self-confidence with which he knows nobody knows is amazing!
I like how Alan asks a semi-sensible question about the relationship between Saturn's rings and moons while Ross just asks about Ewoks!
🤣
...and later in that episode, proceeds to fantasise about tossing an Ewok into a lake of liquid farts.
And Brian treats them both the same, that's class.
So.. Jesus was both crucified, and hung.
Yup, I must confess.
I laughed out loud.
Very well in both cases
This deserves more likes
You Sir, you nailed it.
I can confirm.
"she believed christ gave her his foreskin as a wedding ring"
no one so much as chuckles. everyone stares in horror and abject confusion, waiting for stephen to say "lol jk"
Who's surprised by the madness amongst the religious.
@@Snaakie83 Who’s surprised by the madness among the irreligious?
@@WiggyWamWam I reckon this is why Aliens are yet to make contact- it's not that we're a savage, uncivilised lot, it's that we're clearly all completely and irredeemably potty.
Whataboutism
@@WiggyWamWam Examples..?
The way Stephen leans over when Ross starts asking a question to Brian Cox expecting something interesting and intellectual 😂.
"which moon is most likely to be home to ewoks?"
The subtle dissapointment of Stephen is amazing
... which makes it sooo much sweeter when Brian gives an answer that (at face value) sounds remotely sensible.
Ive watches enough of Ross noble to know what was coming ... and he didn’t disappoint 🤣
They missed an opportunity there. Enceladus is basically an ocean world which can house underwater cities of Gungan (the race of Jar Jar).
What a brilliant idea to have Ross on the same time as Brian
Comic gold
A pretty back-handed compliment for Ross.
The show should have Brian as like the resident science nerd, whenever they have a science question, they defer to him to explain it.
If you pay attention there are definitely episodes where questions appear to have been written with their guest's specialist knowledge in mind.
@@OriginalPiMan Absolutely, and they're definitely my favourite- it's always nice to learn new things from people who actually have studied the subject matter... I didn't realise, for example, that a denser atmosphere meant you'd need to be furry to survive, but Brian said it, so it must be true. :)
@SaintPhoenix Dara O Briain is another brilliant scientist/comedian who has been on QI and hosts Mock the Week. I saw both of them together on a British show and not only are they funny, but amazingly brilliant !
@@peterclarke7240 To be fair, you don't have to be furry in a denser atmosphere. Fur is there to protect you from the (extreme) cold. Fur as nothing to do with the density of the atmosphere, it is an insulator. Now, that being said, a denser atmosphere means that things cool and warm up faster in them, depending on their temperature, but it is again tied to temperature, not the density itself. For instance, water is denser than air - in 10 degrees Celsius air on Earth you'd be mostly fine even naked, while in 10 degrees Celsius water, you'd get cold very fast. It is denser, meaning more molecules touch you and take away your heat.
So in that sense, in a very cold atmosphere that is also dense, every level of insulation is a plus. In this case fur.
On the other hand, in a dense but hot atmosphere, you wouldn't really like fur, just like you would not like a blanket when going to the beach in the middle of summer.
@@Wustenfuchs109 Wouldn't the purpose of the fur be to protect from wild swings of internal temperature. A cool breeze will freeze you quicker. A hot dessert gust will rise your core temperature quicker. So you'd need the fur to essentially slow that effect. However, Titan is cold, so what Brian Cox said is still correct by what you said.
Steven: She sought out degrading experiences
Alan: Has she appeared on Mock the Week?
It's true, that was an exchange in the video
Can also confirm that I witnessed this statement in the video above
I think, maybe, she “sought” out degrading experiences. If you’re going to regurgitate something we all heard, please spell it accurately.
Actually I really appreciate this comment....I couldn't understand what he was saying
@@benjo_5 ^ Looks like many agree...👍 Thanks Ian!
That was glorious. Brian Cox is amazing playing off Stephen Fry, and vice versa.
It's always fascinating how people become so interested when talking to a scientist and start asking them all sorts of questions that they've been wondering about for probably ages
Brian Cox is right, this stuff would interest teenagers in Astronomy. In fact, I'm showing it to my high school class tomorrow now!
My grandson hero worships Brian for his knowledge.
Brian Cox on this is so smart/funny.. he nailed this episode xD
I would have thought an angel's halo would have been their first thought. Foreskin? I don't get it.
Maybe it was the colour? BTW despite what Stephen said about 18 places claiming to have it, some say that when he ascended, all his body whether or not it was attached came with him. Maybe it got lost along the way and ended up around this planet.
We are talking Catholic here. They do have some freaky stuff in their storage areas👍
@@Areyousayingidontknowmyname no shit.
Yes, sometimes i feel that religion should be outlawed and made punishable by death, so they can meet their makers more quickly.
They needed to get laid.
Love this group of people and friends!
One ring to rule them all
One ring to find them :o
One ring to bring them all
And in the foreskin, bind them
One skin to rule them all
in the land of Mohel where the forceps lie.
"You just have to destroy the moon that has Jar Jar Binks on it"
So true.
Although already high, this just increased my estimation of Mr. Frye.
My main concern with this is that it's suggesting that Jesus _held onto his severed foreskin for his entire life._
Well, he didn't have a teddy bear so....
I think he might have been more justified given that it's also suggesting he had a penis that was bigger than any planet in the solar system
And then a few centuries afterwards in the case of Catherine of Siena.
Well the question that created the need for this discussion in the first place is what exactly happened to it when Jesus ascended to heaven. It was still part of his body so wherever it was it couldn't have stayed on earth, but the idea of it ascending separately and jut sort of sitting there in heaven, or of Jesus putting it back on was a bit too weird. Saying he put it in the sky was a relatively elegant solution really, if a rather random choice.
That "mock the week" jab was so quick
I love Brian Cox! I could listen to him explain anything and be fascinated.
The life just drained out of Brian’s eyes when he said “you’d need to be furry…” lol
I've always really liked brian cox, and I've never understood why people hate him. Id love to get his autograph someday
To clarify on Enceladus being "the size of Britain", what I think Brian means is if you were to circumnavigate the moon, you would travel a similar distance to the length of mainland Britain. (around 1000km). It is around 1/7 the diameter of Earth's moon.
And after this, they talked about liquid nitrogen. Stephen: "I think you're humoring me. You want me to go back to foreskins."
Prof. Brian Cox is just brilliant❤❤❤
There are enough relics of the true cross to build an ark.
And they can copy the Ark from all the other Arks that have been discovered.
Banach and Tarski have no problem with this.
Not really. All the claimed pieces of the true cross have been catalogued and together they would make up a piece of wood which is about a 0.004 cubic metres. Look up 'True cross' in wikipedia. The story about the vatican librarian is hardly well attested either. A nineteenth century writer claims that Leo Allatius, the Vatican librarian, wrote a treatise on the Holy Foreskin in the 17th century, but no-one has ever found the treatise.
That’s commonly said but not actually true.
@@lawrencecalablaster568 it's normally used as satire.
When's Brian Cox coming on again?
So if you rub Saturn’s rings you get a galaxy?
That rimshot aside, I liked how Brian fielded Ross’s absurd question with the most plausible scientific answer.
He's a professor, and teaching requires some skills
Always the wise and wonderful professor. And talk of beautiful Saturn.... Nice clip!
I genuinely think this is how schools should teach. The whole QI way of teaching has taught me more than I ever thought I would.
“destroy the one with Jar Jar Binks on it”
maybe Mr. Fry knows of Jar Jar’s true identity, Darth Jar Jar.
The title of this video lends itself to comedians much more than Stephen's wisely worded prompt.
It's all fun and games until Darth Bings reveals himself
I dunno who the guy to Stephen's right (or his left) is, but gosh he makes astronomy sound so fascinating.
brians voice is soo soothing
They need more panellists like Brian that know some stuff.
Ted(x) Talks?
The Royal Institution lectures?
😊
@@ZeHoSmusician ists
I was expecting to think it was his halo. Which wouldn't have been absurd all things considered.
Brilliant that Brian Cox has an proper answer to the Ewok question!
Interestingly enough, Mars may have it's own rings 'soon' (in ~40 M years) as Phobos gets so close that it exceeds the Roche limit (meaning the gravity of the parent body will overcome the local gravity of the orbiting body, and likely will tear it apart). Now Phobos is not dense enough to be made of rock and some scientists think there may be significant ice deposits under the surface. So if everything goes perfectly, tiny shepherd moons could form and keep the ice rings around Mars just a tiny bit longer.
Of course, there could've been recent discoveries about Phobos that I missed and completely dismiss this idea, but the idea that some moon broke up and made the rings of Saturn isn't immediately dismissable out of hand.
how could there be ice so close to the Sun tho
@@dariogutierrez6716 Mars is further away from the sun than earth though.
@@tiaxanderson9725 yeah... it is. I wonder whose memories are these?
So what I'm taking from this is that we need to send the Furries to Titan
Probably best to avoid eating breakfast while watching this one 🤣
I thought they were going to say 'Oh it's where he put his halo' and it was going to be 'oh that's a bit over the top religious guys, that'd be a big halo'. But no, it had to go to genitalia.
What happened to shattering ewoks? :'(
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Best part of of one of the best episodes. The joy on Ross and Alan's faces when contemplating a lake of frozen farts is hilarious!
They were shattered
Now I have to find the clip about shattering Ewoks in a lake of farts.
Stephen says he's mocking the church, but you just know that librarian had a smirk on his face when he made that claim
I wish I could be so certain.
As knowledgeable as Stephen Fry is on a lot of subjects, I detect a sense that he's trying to wing it when talking to Brian. You know when you're trying to blag a conversation by dropping a few keywords and the few snippets of knowledge you have?
3:58 Me, having English as my second language: Fountains of EYES?!?!?!?
Ice
@@TheHoipoloi yes I know that he meant ice. My point is that having a second language can be a reason for confusion and hilarity at times.
"There's a Socratic acceptance of one's own limits of knowledge, and then there's ignorance.". Goodness gracious Stephen Fry is something special.
At the end of a previous episode Stephen quoted someone who once said "A fool is someone who doesn't know what I just found out." Or something like that.
This show is everything that can be good about television unfortunately they are a rare thing these days
Love me some Brian Cox
I love your channel dearly. Please change out the bit at the end in which Sandy nags us to pick a new video.
I mostly let the algorithm take me from BBC show to BBC show in the background. I hate to hear her cross at me every few minutes. Thank you for your consideration.
And please every other channel note this too. However good you think your endboard is, and however good it actually is, it's gonna be desperately tedious once somebody's seen it ten times inside an hour.
can someone explain the Mock the Week joke? I don't get it :/
Similar bunch of people involved, so I suspect some good natured rivalry :-)
The show is known for shock comedy and off-color humor, so Alan was joking that what Stephen described would fit right in on the show.
But also I suspect this is a reference to the fact that female comedians tend to report having a bad time on there (particularly when this episode came out). It can be quite an adversarial/survival of the fittest show in terms of shouting loudest to get your material shown and there's a bit of a boy's club to contend with.
So it would be a degrading experience for her.
Interesting. I've only seen mock the week as clips, and generally enjoy it, but didn't go with watching the show for some reason. Interesting to note about female comedians, since QI has been vociferous in including women (especially since Sandi became host), so that may well be a reason for Alan's barbed comment 🤔
@@hippyfriend that's probably because female "comedians" generally aren't.
I was half expecting a reference about Uranus
he said "unlike a choir boy, those rings are not accessible"
3:21 from behind they look almost identical
Thank you
So it was a man of god who had trouble with the difference between small and far away.
Dougal, have you been playing around with the time, machine again?
"Ehhm....... Sorry about that"
Poor old Jar-Jar. Even Stephen picks on him!
The fact that the rings are made of ice is not incompatible with the theory that they're a disrupted moon -- since Saturn's moons are in fact mostly made of ice and not rock. (Phoebe may be an exception to this.) Enceladus, for instance, has a density almost exactly that of water ice, it's surface spectra shows that it is covered in water ice, and the material that comes out of its geysers is definitely water.
Cassini’s data show that the ejections, localised in a confined region of the south pole, are dominated by the presence of water, with SIGNIFICANT amounts of carbon dioxide and methane.
McLovin' Stephen's Nice little side note comment at the end about murdering Jar-Jar Binks...... 😉😁😁😁
They didn't even cover the most likely explanation of Saturn's rings, which are they are the remnants of moons that were ripped apart by tidal forces as they got too close to Saturn. And it's well supported because the rings are right around where the Roche limit for icy bodies would be.
Wonderful watching this clip from QI again. Loving the guests and Stephen and then that old bag comes along at the end to tell me to subscribe.
The rings project our reality through frequency
"Heave is eating foie gras to the sound of trumpets".
Would have thought the pope , would be more interested in Uranus just saying 😂
When he went to Rome for a vacation, Steven Hawking met with the Pope and asked if he could read the minutes from Galileo's trial, because they are OF COURSE still on record at the Vatican. The Pope told him ''no.''
He said "that's nothing, you should see the rings around uranus"
Someone has to say it...
If that nun lived in our times she could have just gone to the local SM dungeon, instead she had to join the church. But, alright, Stephen said she did seek out degrading experiences ...
Well, back in those days, maybe the local SM club WAS the church.
He said, "That ring is too old for me to enjoy entering".
So if the rings of Saturn are mostly water is it possible that instead of using his foreskin to make them Jesus instead peed the rings into existence as he ascended?
I've been watching Citation Needed so I keep thinking that Mystery Biscuits should have been given out
QI elves I am begging you for captions
Foreskins as wedding rings? I doubt I'll ever get married, but if I do, I'll suggest it to her.
Will yours still be attached at the time?
Yes indeed... Given that Jar Jar Binks is a Sith Lord more powerful than Palpatine, yes, we would need to destroy that planet... Although i would cautious that any attempt to destroy the planet he is occupying may not turn out so well for those attempting to destroy it.
he wrote an essay on it?
She drank what now?! I'm too scared to listen to it again.
I noticed Mr Smartipants ‘scientist’ didn’t even consider the Saturn Rings\Jesus Foreskin hypothesis. There’s a lot to be said for the ‘wisdom of the ancients’.
Hoping this is a joke, Christian logic makes me think otherwise.
I do alevel physics. Does anyone know what he's talking about
Could you be a little more specific about which of the four men on show you're talking about?
You do realise that alevel is not a word, the correct term is A Level ! Good luck with your physics!
@@TonyWhite22351 thanks because I fu*king need it
When you have a infinite space, you have infinite possibilities... So quite simply... they are formed by the many factors of chance and physics.
Simple :D
"It's fifty thousand miles across!"
Which is why they needed Saturn's rings to hold it, silly scientist.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to bind them,
One Ring to give them all, and in the darkness circumcise them.
What about the rings around Uranus?
Today in "Catholics are weird..."
Substitute 'Catholics' with, 'the religious' and you may be on to something! ;) :)
Roman Catholics are generally actually pretty smart people!
@@mmmail1969 ...and you reached this conclusion, how?
@@Codex7777 considering a material percentage of the world's greatest educational and scientific bodies were founded by RCC entities, ghheee let me think....lol.... You're welcome!
@@mmmail1969 - As I thought, you're plucking figures out of thin air... I'm not saying you're wrong necessarily. However you have no evidence with which to back up your claim, other than mere supposition and unfounded assumption. :)
Is it far from Uranus?
Of all things to think about when you first observe the rings of a planet
Actually it's now thought the rings are less than 100 million years old so they weren’t part of the formation of the planet. Also Brian says that moons are made of rock but then also says the moon Enceladus is mostly ice.
Brian Cox Rules them all ❤
How did Mr. Fry ever hear about Jar-Jar Binks, let alone have an opinion on him?
He said *NOT THERE. MIRAAAGE.*
Of course Ross Noble would be the one to ask the big question.