Love how Brian's reaction to Ross' "tossing Ewoks into a lake of fart." isn't anything about how it's impossible, and Ewoks aren't even really. No; it's simply "they'd shatter."
Yeah, you analize the possiblitiee quickly based on how an organism is buolt and you give people the anwser they are waiting for instead of laughing like a school kid. ...it's a normal person's approach to conversation. Here a scientist.. That's about it.
Yeahbut they *wouldn't* shatter becuse its well cold so the Ewoks would obvioulsy wear coats and hats and stuff. They'd look more like Paddington Bear. ............ And if any creature should be tossed in a lake of frozen methane if there's a god it *has* to be Paddington sodding Bear *first*
I came here for tossing ewoks, not to have a classic pause and think moment from Stephen. Love how quickly this show changes topics from something beautiful to something so wierd
Liquid nitrogen is about 35 degrees (centigrade) colder than liquid methane, so the methane might not have quite the same shattering properties as nitrogen. They'd have to test ewoks in different formulations.
"I must beat it down so we can continue" is what's been floating through my mind lately on the non stop. Yes: women can say that (..yes, here, we go again, I know I KNOW EVERYTHING!) 😅
@ExpoFever Liquid oxygen has a pale blue color and is strongly paramagnetic and can be suspended between the poles of a powerful horseshoe magnet. Liquid oxygen has an expansion ratio of 1:861 at 20 °C (68 °F); and because of this, it is used in some commercial and military aircraft as a source of breathing oxygen.
@TheStarwarssuperfan I assume you know by now, but Ross Noble had earlier asked which moon in the solar system would be best for Ewoks to live and Prof. Cox explained why Titan would be best.
you have to watch the whole thing to get it, earlier in the show, Brian Hecox stated that Titan was the place in our solar system where it was most likely to find ewoks.
@@chrisplunkett2814 yeah i can't see how anyone finds a man so obsessed with his own understanding of a subject he studied for years that he would constantly talk over his own peers entertaining.
I have no idea why you'd think Endor is a moon of Alderaan. Alderaan was destroyed and turned into a poorly-ordered asteroid field. Endor is a moon of a gas giant called Endor in a system also called Endor.
Never mind the Ewoks, or the lake of fart. I want to partner up with Ross Noble on his pedalo made of smoke! Has there ever been a more surreal but funny image?
Having the clips is better than nothing, I suppose, but I really hate that the whole episodes aren't available in my country. If I had BBC America, I sure as hell wouldn't be on RUclips! Boo@BBC!!!!!
All joking aside, methane is a component of farts but it's odourless, so it's not one of the gases we actually smell. One of the components which is not odourless is Hydrogen sulphide. Farts contain a variety of gases depending on your diet. Methane is produced whenever anything biodegrades and is the major component of what's called Natural gas. It's used for cooking, space heating, generating electricity, as rocket fuel and it's also one of the simplest carbon molecules with a high abundance in our Universe as a whole; so it's a bit silly to associate methane with farts specifically.
@@CathyKitson I didn't spoil the joke, the joke was flawed to begin with and I just pointed it out. It's no different to, for example, someone making a joke associating Sumo wrestling with Chinese culture. Those who know that Sumo wrestling is Japanese will rightly point it out. Farts are hydrogen sulphide, not methane. Associating methane with farts is like associating water with urine. Water and methane are among the most abundant molecules in the Universe, so it's very silly to talk about them as if they're mainly found in urine and farts.
@@CathyKitson That's cool. However, QI is not just an entertainment show; it's also supposed to be slightly educational (especially when one of the guests is a science communicator). I just wanted to set the record straight for those who may find such details Quite Interesting. I never said it's not funny.
Earlier in the show, Russell had asked Brian where ewoks were most likely to live. Brian said Titan because the atmosphere's thicker so you'd need fur.
Just came back to check on my original comment, ~7 years on, only to find it doesn't seem to be here anymore? It originally read, 'When Brian Cox stops smiling, the end is nigh', and it had 1.3k likes when I last checked ~5 years ago
Love how Brian's reaction to Ross' "tossing Ewoks into a lake of fart." isn't anything about how it's impossible, and Ewoks aren't even really. No; it's simply "they'd shatter."
Yeah, you analize the possiblitiee quickly based on how an organism is buolt and you give people the anwser they are waiting for instead of laughing like a school kid. ...it's a normal person's approach to conversation. Here a scientist.. That's about it.
Brian's hilarious. He's the thinking woman's crumpet. Brain the size of a planet PLUS a great sense of humour. What's not to like??
Yeahbut they *wouldn't* shatter becuse its well cold so the Ewoks would obvioulsy wear coats and hats and stuff. They'd look more like Paddington Bear.
............ And if any creature should be tossed in a lake of frozen methane if there's a god it *has* to be Paddington sodding Bear *first*
Brian Cox is an absolute legend
Love Brian Cox
"If you only have access to a wookie, you will need a bigger lake. That's just basic science" - that one gets me each and every time
I love how Brian asks a question and Stephen answers it.
2:10 "Where is he? He's off tossing Ewoks again." I love his Geordie accent, it makes it sound hilarious.
Brian explaining Methane Lakes on Titan in Wonders of The Solar System is the reason I am doing a Physics degree.
Hahaha! I've always believed this is the best way to get people interested in science!
Did you get your degree? 😂
@Mäkirannantörmä yes and the episode this clip is from is almost 9 years old, your point?
Just put Prof.Brian Cox and Ross Noble together in a room and film it. That'd be quality entertainment for hours.
"Cox & Noble" seems a rather catchy title for a show, too...
@@lewistodd7536 Noble Cox has a better ring to it...
I'd watch it 🤣🤣
This is one of the funniest things I have ever heard. I listen to it every few months when I need a good laugh!
I recommend Ross Noble's stand up dvd's in that case!
Thanks, I will check it out :)
This clip so very eloquently demonstrates why I fucking adore this show :D
Shattering Ewoks On Titan, best name for a band ever?
Great album title, anyway.
Not as good as Toblerone Rollo Combo
Tossing Ewoks on Titan would be better.
@@huntonpeck I was gonna say, more like album
"Celebrity Scientist," like Cox have to have the patience of a saint.
Most scientists are pretty chill
I saw Ross Noble live when I went to Canberra, Australia over a week ago. He was brilliant, he talked about this near the end!
Utterly one if my most favourite parts of the series. Split my sides every time. XD
This is the chaos I watch this show for.
One of the best clips from the series, ever... :)
I love this. The funniest ever moment in the history of QI. I just choked on some crisps again. This will never get old
You should've adding the clip from before this when Brian and Ross were discussing where ewoks live....
Brian Cox saying 'light your fart'.
My day = made
ross noble = legend
I've seen it with a fully painted version, NOT translucent, and it still works!
I have an essay due tomorrow and I am absorbed in these QI sessions.
I came here for tossing ewoks, not to have a classic pause and think moment from Stephen. Love how quickly this show changes topics from something beautiful to something so wierd
brian cox is a genius....
One of the best QI clips... ever... along with the Galapagos Tortoise episode! :D
Earlier in the episode Ross asked Brian where ewoks would live within our solar system. He proposed Titan.
Love Brian Cox so much!!
The show is amazing and professor Brian fantastic
Paulina Morton
"If I could stand on a planet and throw and ewok in to a lake of fart. That just be..."
My top qi moment. TOTALLY.
Love this episode
this brought me to tears
Liquid nitrogen is about 35 degrees (centigrade) colder than liquid methane, so the methane might not have quite the same shattering properties as nitrogen. They'd have to test ewoks in different formulations.
It would just take longer to freeze the Ewok
Ewoks on Titan getting smashed into a thousand pieces in a lake smelling of farts is the most high conversation I've heard from sober people!
"I must beat it down so we can continue" is what's been floating through my mind lately on the non stop.
Yes: women can say that (..yes, here, we go again, I know I KNOW EVERYTHING!)
😅
Who knew that professor Brian Cox had such a dirty mind?!lmao, xxxx
@ExpoFever Liquid oxygen has a pale blue color and is strongly paramagnetic and can be suspended between the poles of a powerful horseshoe magnet. Liquid oxygen has an expansion ratio of 1:861 at 20 °C (68 °F); and because of this, it is used in some commercial and military aircraft as a source of breathing oxygen.
At :16 can anyone else hear something smashing right as he mimes it?
i cry laughing each time i watch this!!
I really want Stephen Fries tie/shirt combo
@TheStarwarssuperfan I assume you know by now, but Ross Noble had earlier asked which moon in the solar system would be best for Ewoks to live and Prof. Cox explained why Titan would be best.
The name of the gas giant it orbited was named Endor. The forest moon was known as Sanctuary Moon which the Battle of Endor took place.
News release from 22nd century: First man on Titan throws model ewok into methane lake.
@dazzajim Theeeeeeeey say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is, they say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is! :P
which apparently involves going somewhere exotic!
Definitely QI.
You have to watch the entire episode. Brian Cox said that Titan is the "most likely planet" that Ewoks would live on.
* "moon of saturn", but yes you're right that Cox said they'd probably live on Titan
when you throw the ewok in the lake would boil from it's body heat as it froze, so if you had oxygen as well you could light that.
I love how Brian is the most immature brining up 'tossing' in a dirty way. I thought he was all clever and stuff. ;)
you have to watch the whole thing to get it, earlier in the show, Brian Hecox stated that Titan was the place in our solar system where it was most likely to find ewoks.
QI should have Neil Degrasse Tyson as a guest.
Or have a pile of sawdust instead,it would be a lot more entertaining.
@@chrisplunkett2814 yeah i can't see how anyone finds a man so obsessed with his own understanding of a subject he studied for years that he would constantly talk over his own peers entertaining.
cox could probably take over QI, make it a bit more scientific but still good and funny
Brian Cox the fox! this is where I first saw him!
I have no idea why you'd think Endor is a moon of Alderaan. Alderaan was destroyed and turned into a poorly-ordered asteroid field. Endor is a moon of a gas giant called Endor in a system also called Endor.
I think that's everyone's dream.
Ewoks actually live on the moon of Endor, don't they?
Old comment but he knocked his mic
Never mind the Ewoks, or the lake of fart. I want to partner up with Ross Noble on his pedalo made of smoke! Has there ever been a more surreal but funny image?
@TheStarwarssuperfan No, we learned they're from Saturn's moon, Titan. o.o
One breath wouldn't release that much oxygen, plus you'd still need a spark. And titan is a moon
I wonder if tossing Ewoks into a lake of fart is mentioned in Titan's Trip Advisor entry?
so short? why all are too SHORT ... just 3 minutes
Ewoks are from the forrest moon of Endor.
Having the clips is better than nothing, I suppose, but I really hate that the whole episodes aren't available in my country. If I had BBC America, I sure as hell wouldn't be on RUclips! Boo@BBC!!!!!
What country is that?If you're in the US they're available.search QI there are multiple channels.
TINCANsquid i've tried it's not
go to hulu people it's there and free you just have to watch commercials
I've seen series l-k on hulu. Hope that helps. (I'm in USA btw.)
If you have Netflix then it is available there
In that case let the wookie win
Brian cox looks like he's 12, when he's 43.
@TheStarwarssuperfan No they're from Titan.
Titan is paradise. Shattering Ewoks by throwing them into lakes of farts all day and all night..
professor brian cox like to do the science
All joking aside, methane is a component of farts but it's odourless, so it's not one of the gases we actually smell. One of the components which is not odourless is Hydrogen sulphide. Farts contain a variety of gases depending on your diet. Methane is produced whenever anything biodegrades and is the major component of what's called Natural gas. It's used for cooking, space heating, generating electricity, as rocket fuel and it's also one of the simplest carbon molecules with a high abundance in our Universe as a whole; so it's a bit silly to associate methane with farts specifically.
You've just spoiled the joke! Methinks you're taking it a bit too seriously!
@@CathyKitson I didn't spoil the joke, the joke was flawed to begin with and I just pointed it out. It's no different to, for example, someone making a joke associating Sumo wrestling with Chinese culture. Those who know that Sumo wrestling is Japanese will rightly point it out.
Farts are hydrogen sulphide, not methane. Associating methane with farts is like associating water with urine. Water and methane are among the most abundant molecules in the Universe, so it's very silly to talk about them as if they're mainly found in urine and farts.
@@MrAlRats OK, whatever. Obviously you're scientific, so it didn't work for you. For us more ignorant folks it was hilarious.
@@CathyKitson That's cool. However, QI is not just an entertainment show; it's also supposed to be slightly educational (especially when one of the guests is a science communicator). I just wanted to set the record straight for those who may find such details Quite Interesting. I never said it's not funny.
@@MrAlRats Oh, OK. But I wonder why Brian didn't mention it?
Now THAT is a Zen Koan, If an Ewok falls into a lake of fart, does it make a sound?
@whoiscraig He was referring to a previous question.
LMAO
What about if you mixed liquid oxygen into the lake of liquid methane...would it become flammable then?
Three Ewoks were offended by this.
A rose in liquid nitrogen smashing against something solid. Hmmm....
Dear Slow Mo Guys...
@TheStarwarssuperfan Its from earlier in the episode....
By the time George Lucas has stopped fiddling with Star Wars, Ewoks probably will be from Titan.
Oh ray is going to be mad!
Oh, that's so horrible but so funny!
Great idea for the new Star Wars. Just sayin'...
@droobey YES!
@TheStarwarssuperfan Damnit, beat me to it :P
@bniblet theres no liquid oxygen water has oxygen and hydrogen as making it h2o
From science to bizarre is not that far a step.
@Blobby1011 I'm not familiar with that one, I'm not familiar with that one! lol
explain
Home dude creeps me out.
@BitChronic I hate to be that guy who shoehorns unfunny references to his favorite shows into things but... Time Lord DNA?
Hell
meethane
Thus Titan would not smell, and is not a planet of farts people lol
How the hell is Brian Cox 43?
So basically, Titan is just a giant fart.
I like the way you think
So... is Titan a gassy planet?
Titan isn't a planet.
it doesn't work like that, lol.
tut tut tut ross ewok's are from endor not titan
Why does he keep saying that ewoks are from titan?
Earlier in the show, Russell had asked Brian where ewoks were most likely to live. Brian said Titan because the atmosphere's thicker so you'd need fur.
Thanks
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humiliatedgrapes who's Russell?
@skarrambo1 I wish he would.
Just came back to check on my original comment, ~7 years on, only to find it doesn't seem to be here anymore? It originally read, 'When Brian Cox stops smiling, the end is nigh', and it had 1.3k likes when I last checked ~5 years ago