What If Earth Were the Size of A Schoolroom Globe?
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Published 2024-05-16
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00:00 - Earth the Size of a Schoolroom Globe
00:22 - Where Would the Moon Go?
1:55 - Where Would Mars Go?
2:56 - Where is the ISS?
3:38 - How High Did the Billionaires go?
4:21 - Where Does Space Start?
5:43 - Earth’s Mountains
6:30 - Closing: Fun with Globes
All Comments (21)
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What was your biggest takeaway from this Explainer?
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Chuck is getting so good at this.
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" You Neil'd It" - Should Be OnA Shirt 👕
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Neil does a great job making physics/astronomy fun
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I just looked on Google Earth, Chuck really did nail it, the American Museum of Natural History is EXACTLY 1 mile from the middle of the Hudson River.
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My biggest takeaway is... give these guys a bigger studio and space for guests!
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The scale at which you can sort of begin to grasp the size of the universe - if you make the Sun a golf ball, the known universe fits inside the Oort cloud. The Milky Way fits easily within Mercury's orbit around the Sun. Local galactic group fits within Saturn's orbit. Etc.
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My favorite one. If you consider the distance to Alpha Centauri.. and convert it down and make it 200 miles. The distance a human being has traveled, to the moon, ends up equaling 3 inches. Out of a 200 mile journey, we have gone 3 inches. This one really makes you want to fight to save this planet rather than sit back and assume we will be able to move to another planet.
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YOUR STARTALK SHOULD BE PLAYED/SHOWN IN EVERY ELEMENTARY AND HIGH SCHOOL AROUND THE WORLD SO PEOPLE WILL BE AWARE OF HOW FRAGILE OUR PLANET IS. THANK YOU FOR SHARING🙏🙏🙏🙏
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It’s so cool to seeing you guys in the same room (non zoom episodes).
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I wish Neil would have asked them to guess the distance of the nearest star, that would have totally blown their minds
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My favorite explanation for how close "space" is is: If you live in Seattle, you're closer to space than you are to Portland or Vancouver. If you live in New York, you're closer to space than to Boston or DC. If you live in Atlanta, Raleigh, NC, San Antonio, TX, Sacramento, CA, you you're closer to space than you are to the ocean. (Never mind Denver!)
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now i wish this episode was longer and not only would we talk distances, but we would also talk sizes. like for example how large would the sun be compared to the schoolroom globe. we know that a million earths could fit in the sun but i wonder how that translates to scale, like the sun at the scale of a schoolroom globe would be like... a 4 story building 5 blocks away? im just coming up with numbers i didn't do any maths.
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Bill nye did it first! Anyone else remember the bill nye science guy segment where he scaled down the solar system and then biked across the country to illustrate the vast distances between our planets? It's one of my absolute favorite science lessons and I'll never forget it.
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Flat earthers listen up
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I flew in Concorde twice in the 1980s. From 60,000 ft altitude, the sky above is a very dark purple colour. Not quite as dark as night time, but not far off.
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3:33 that moment of realization was just excellent
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Love to open youtube and first video i see is this starting my day off good
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6:50 Antarctica: Hey how about me??
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These are always so fun and informative in such a short dialogue, great for breaks to ease the body and energize the mind. Thanks for all you do at star talk for our nation.
