Wait what, that insane... she's such an important scientist!

@@nononsensegames oh, because you give for granted that I am an English native speaker, right? And you give for granted that she is not a US citizen, right?

​ Dr Dr 44

@@beares6281 In the USA, it's "take" for granted, not "give". Maine says "hello".

@@BeeFunKnee thank you for your comment. I didn’t understand the “give” until you pointed out that it’s “take” around the US.

yeah, I think scientists should be paid more than footballers.

@@English_Lessons_Pre-Int_Interm They should, however it's a supply demand thing. Far more people care about sports than science.....welcome to the dumbass world.

​@@English_Lessons_Pre-Int_Interm absolutely

​@English_Lessons Pre-Int_Intermediate Never happen Not enough people are interested. Most scientists live off grants. Not by hordes of people willing to pay for tickets.

You're so right! My father was a senior scientist and worked on NASA projects as a contractor, that's given me a real appreciation of what's required to accomplish these things. It's a wonderful thing, we can do amazing things, if we are motivated.

Yes....And this really frustrated the normally friendly Jupitonians as they valiently tried to capture them whizzing by, for they wanted to display them in their living quarters as a trophies of strange creatures which actually walk on only their hind legs! I actually closely followed ALL of those launchings and once, while on a trip to the Florida Keys with my wife, visited the Kennedy Space Center.

in otherwords cause jupiter is THICC

@@jebes909090 Please translate into English!

​@@blackholeentry3489 you mean 2023 Gen Z speak 😂

Also many scientists are biased toward planets with potential for life, or potentially used to have life. I think even if it was easy to get to Mercury, like Venus it would have less interest than Mars, Europa, or Enceladus. (NOTE: Venus may have had life in the past, but unlike Mars there would be no way to tell because of Venus' volcanism, heat, and acidic atmosphere)

Cool! Just looked that up.

You've never been to Mercury, so your story can't be trusted.

Fun fact- we can know stuff about places we've never been. Ikr?

@@ahmadsantoso9712 Go back and read the only book you have in your library

Isn’t that what he goes over at around 26:00?

"I'm in this photo and I don't like it." 😀

I think I blinked, can we get a redo?

I guess space itself does such an amazing job of dispersing heat that without an atmosphere to trap it, facing away from the sun even that close still manages to be so cold.

@@gregrowe1168 What I learned in school is that the air absorbs heat, and that's what cools objects. This is a Topic, I think. Such a vast difference is pretty amazing for such a large mass.

@@akiramenai4973 I guess we’re lucky Earth has just the perfect atmosphere for humans. If it were too thick, we’d be similar to Venus. Probably not as hot but still too hot for any life to exist l. Too thin and we’d be just like our moon. Very hot days in excess of boiling point of water and -200 at night.

​@@gregrowe1168 To be fair, the Earth's atmosphere has fluctuated for hundreds of millions of years, and part of the reason the atmosphere seems so perfect for us was because of the great oxygenation event 1.8-0.8 billion years ago, which could be seen as a mass extinction event for the primitive microbes that lived at the time. Which is to say, life itself greatly aided in Earth's habitability over billions of years. Of course the Earth itself was lucky enough to not be too close or far away from the sun, and the moon was pretty important too.

You seem surprised about this temperature information. It's not something newly discovered, or recently calculated though. We've known it for _decades!_

There are many sources out there that still make this claim, not because they're outdated, but because they define tidal locking differently from traditional synchronous rotation, which is what most people associate with tidal locking. You can look it up online for details, but essentially it's the difference between regular tidal locking and elliptical tidal locking.

What year was that?

Larry Niven wrote a story assuming that Mercury was tidally locked - and the news that it isn't tidally locked came out just before the story was published!

As long as I can remember, I knew a year on Mercury was 88 earth days, but somewhere along the way a DAY on Mercury went from 88 to 59 earth days. I never knew why they changed that until now.

Try Ahoy too then, you will love it.

The best part is that you can hear him smiling while reading most lines, and that gives me joy knowing others get such joy in these types of things too. (after a long, hard day at work, it's humbling to find our lives so inconsequential and see these neat shapes on the surface of another planet and know/hypothesize what happened.)

I can totally relate to your passion, if all that is what you desire then i think it's achievable. Joining the Illuminatus Brotherhood can lead to the enlightenment you seek and more. I am well aware that the idea of this group may sound mythical but it is possible to join.

@@bartholetbay412 Hi, isn't the brotherhood a myth? I mean sometimes i just feel like it's all just a conspiracy theory.

@@Margart526 Yeah I acknowledge that misunderstanding can occur when people encounter what they don't fully grasp, especially in this internet era. The Illuminatus advocates for the acceptance of all religions. You can look up "Anthony Szymon". Will give you clarity and answers to any questions you might have.

@@bartholetbay412 oh really, i just saw his website, which is interesting. I will leave him a message.

This is the weirdest bot comment I have seen. Enough internet for today.

I doubt there's a human out there who _hasn't_ mourned an inanimate object at some point in their life.

Often times NASA engineers will spend their entire, or a good portion of their career on one project. I can imagine how it would feel to have something you put years of your life into, come to inevitable end.

Think of the ones that blew up on the pad or launch

​@@quantumblauthor7300I dropped a plate of food one time and I cried for 3 hours... I was hungry😢

But kinda badass to be responsible for something you helped with touch another planet.

If something is "free" it means you are the product.

@@MBronko "That u are a slave .... Neo !!!" 😂😂🤣

​@@neytiritetskahamoatite7688 This isn't some dumb deep philosophical thing. It's a fact, nothing is free. Someone's always paying something.

@@chrish4439 Yeah, i'm paying electricity on my pc. That's true :| And I wasn't really jokes earlier, in the previous comment. That "Matrix" movie is real from many points of view 🙂😉

@@MBronko So, it's no cost to me to observe Mercury in the sky.

But density has nothing to do with size. Mercury is not as dense as earth, so even at earths size, it would have less mass

@@AverageAlienDensity does have to do with mass, because a planet's gravity compresses its interior. If Mercury were enlarged to the size of Earth it would naturally shrink slightly and end up a smaller, denser planet than Earth.

@user-pk9qo1gd6r Assuming it would maintain its high Iron composition

where in *FUCK* did you come up with all that *GARBAGE* about "compressing IRON"???

it's

Have you ever tried landing in the Mohole?

You won’t find a proof for the theory of relativity for a very good reason

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Most of it !!

About 3x larger compared to what it is on earth according to what I saw and worked out in my head on average. So pretty big, but not taking up most of it. About the size of your wedding ring fingertip at arms length from your face if I had to guess.

It'd be roughly three times larger than on our sky, I reckon.

@@friendlytalbot4050 and ~seven times brighter.

@@rog2224 And equally as warm to boot, I'd melt! XD

At school you usually learn about the names of the planets, the order in which they are orbiting the sun, the number of moons, and maybe some general specifics. Oh yeah probably some comets and planetoids stuff too. Most of your classmates don't give a ** about the solar system, and if you are really interested in the solar system you will have to find all the information you want about it yourself.

@@Emdee5632 That's what I said.

It seems you had a stupd scool 😅🤣 2:01 Earth is ridiculosly dense, not because of the chemistry, but because is SO BIG that it starts, at it's core, to have ELECTRONIC OUTER LAYERS OF ATMOMS CRUSHED, MAKING REGULAR CHEMICAL COMPOUND FAR MORE DENSE THAT THAT OF A NORMAL PRESSURE 😂😂🤣 P.S. A planet twice, in size, than Earth, (eight times the Earth's volume) would have, at the same chemical composition, a gravity around 7 to 10 G, or even 15G, makeing it almost impossible to live there ! 🤪😅😂🤣

Same here in Australia, all i bloody learned about was social studies which meant aboriginal studies... I swear Ive learnt more about their culture than they know themselves. riddiculous.

True Now much is taught about astronomy in school.

That explains a lot. Lol

Real

Straight to the point, metallic homie

I prefer gallium, mercury has a burning sensation and mercury has a bit of a kick to it

@@ThePixelated_kris LMAO

Because it is professionally created then all the information must be true? Do you question anything or are you easily persuaded? Do you ever ask how do they know such information and could you see the data? Why do you accept this information as true? Isn't science supposed to be verified and repeatable? Who verified the information given in this presentation? Did you? Anyone can see that Mercury is a brilliant light but the images they show do not show a light at all. So which is true? If the solar system is true can you tell me how Mercury can be seen in the night sky in a full light phase if it is a reflection of the sun? Draw that out and tell me how that works?

By breeding children and driving cars?

The planets outside our solar system have their own quirks too. Our galaxy is a crazy place

​@@mikeoxmall69420 Yes

@@CordeliaWagner Please take your hatred and small-thinking elsewhere.

yes, except when it is 2am and i'm still watching :D

@@pmajoros lol I know your pain! Too interesting to shut off. Love these as a wind down before bed - killing three birds with one stone. Relaxing before bed, learning something and supporting a content creator I enjoy.

We also live in an era where we don't have to grow our own crops, and raise our own animals for food. Other people do that for us. Other people transport and distribute that food throughout the nation. All we do is go to the market and buy it. We don't have to chop our own wood to cook, and keep warm during the winter. We also don't have to worry about being eaten by a five hundred pound predator, when we leave our homes. All those activities used to consume most of the day, not too long ago. Only about two hundred years. Not anymore. That's why so many of us are fat. I have to monitor my weight, and how much food I eat, all the time. I spend a good portion of my day watching videos like this, and reading digital comic books, and novels. Great time to be alive !! There are no words to describe how lucky we are. Cheers all.

Because the moon only has a thin skin covering A hollow spheroid inner body. Apollo missions would crash their service modules into the moon before returning to Earth, which would cause the moon to "ring like a bell"... sometimes resonating for hours.

The moon isn't hollow, and Michael has been watching or reading too many conspiracy theories.

Oh sure...the next thing you'll tell us is the pyramids weren't built by Aliens, right?!?! The truth is out there...😁

​@@michaellee6489 they ridicule when they can't respond. 😁👍

@@michaellee6489 my man watching too much naruto

You can cops the channel name, paste it into the searchbar and add sun.

I am not a big fan but I can remember the list of videos.

If I understand right, Earth was once covered in water and a thick cloudy atmosphere over that. I once read that scientists were considering different radioactive isotopes to find one which would have created a lot of heat while decaying at the right rate to boil off a lot of the water but leave what we have now. They came up with an isotope of aluminium, though I can't remember the atomic number.

That, or Mercury 's original crust and mantle were blown off in a grazing impact.

Check out Jupiter's moon Io and Neptune's moon Triton.

This is one of things many people should ponder a bit. Far too many people imagine the solar system as a line, not a disk. Even a disk is bit of an approximation. But when you're trapped into thinking of the solar system as a line you are locked into a horribly incorrect idea of all the planets arranged in a simple sequence along that line. Why Mercury is the closest planet to all the other planets is something that... well... becomes obvious if you think about it a wee bit but is impossible to believe when you are stuck thinking in 1D.

I guess that’s true since it zips around the sun faster than any other planet. So if you measured distance for a whole year for instance, mercury would be on average closer because it spends more days on the same side of the sun as the other planets. It just keeps lapping them and meeting them again at a later date.

Venus gets much more close, however.

I was wondering that, too!

It says view of the earth and moon on the top left so

@@TheCore1089 omg, TY! 🤦‍♀️ lol

@@TheCore1089 i feel so stupid right now

@@headsplits no worries 😊