Why Planets Are Round
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Published 2024-03-19
We explore why soap bubbles, cold pigeons, planets, and the sun are all round. Learn about asteroid Ceres’ upgrade to dwarf planet and how Saturn got its rings. We also get into disks: why are some object spheres and other are disks?
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00:00 - Introduction: The Universe Love Making Round Things
00:48 - Surface Tension in Soap Bubbles
2:34 - Why Birds Get Round
3:43 - Why Planets & Stars Are Spherical
6:25 - Ceres & Spheres in Zero Gravity
8:25 - How Planets Have Rings
10:09 - Galactic Disks
All Comments (21)
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Do you still believe in flat Earth?
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If the Earth was flat, cats would have pushed everything off it by now.
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@2:56 that explains my weight gain in the winter months, i am just puffing up to stay warm
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“I can’t afford Cold Duck, I’m drinking Cold Pigeon”😂😂😂
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When you’re so early that there are no angry flat earther’s unpopular comments around
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3:25 Chuck made a perfect pigeon noise🐦
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New camera? Picture is sharp 👌
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The sun has badass gravity is a sentence I've never heard before lol
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i love that after corona years, they are finally both in the same room :)
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God bless u Dr Tyson n chucks for the COMEDY, IT MAKES LEARNING EXTREMELY EASY N FUN! THANK U SIR! FROM NIGERIA!
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I am an ex flat earther. I would LOVE the chance to talk with you Neil and Chuck. I've learned a lot since leaving the belief system of flat earth and gaining my trust back into science. From Dunning Kruger to Cognitive dissonance, to personal bias and tribalism. We have a LOT to talk about Startalk. Your own flat earth debunk is one of the most viewed videos on the channel. An actual chat on here with somebody that once believed the earth was flat would probably "break the internet" My email is in the description on my channel. Please get in touch 🙏
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The opposite of cold pigeon is "cat sunning itself" - stretched out as long as possible to maximize surface area-to-volume ratio.
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....! In underlying sentences Neil T have spoken about the earth's changes in a smart way for years in my head anyway. Thanks from Sweden!
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Today is my Friday… I think I’ll go get myself some ‘Cold Pigeon’ to celebrate the weekend 😂 🍾
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Dr. Tyson explains everything and anything so well. Love him.
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These video sessions are great , great host and commentator.
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Chuck and Tyson I njoy watching u 2
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Love these two talk! Always highly entertaining and highly educational!
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I'm not fat, it's just the forces in the universe conspiring against me.😎
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I am so happy someone finally gave the difference between spherical and round. I've been trying to tell people this for a while now and they always give me that WTF look!
