@@Pink.andahalf yep the first battle between two ironclad ships. The Confederates also built the first submarine to successfully sink a ship, named the Hunley.
No it's not the smartest person in the world worthy.. See my other comments down below that clarify even further. Just be near water and you'll see logs and trees floating down river or in lakes. Caveman "figured" this out. And by figure I mean they saw wood floating in water. Then we advance to the metal working era, same thing. "Why small sword sink, but big breastplate float?"
I think people make fun of him because he can quite easily come off as pretentious and arrogant and always cutting people off but from what I've seen he's been getting better about these things recently. Acting more like a regular person who is also a genius.
It’s because he never has anything of value to say. He just says it dramatically. Every idiot knows how a boat floats. But he tees it up like it’s the newest scientific discovery and he’s the one breaking the news to everyone.
Fun fact: torpedoes rarely ever hit ships. They don't even aim for the ships. They aim for the space just below the ship because the explosion disrupts the body of water directly below the weight of the ship and the ship just instantly collapses in on itself under the pressure of its own weight.
I knew about cavitation but never thought to apply it to warfare. It would make sense considering that submarines are inherently built to withstand outside pressure of water trying to crush it but the same designe being weak to the exact oposite. So the aim of the explosive is not to cause damage but to create a large cloud of bubbles. Without the water supporting it from beneath it gets damaged by its own weight as well as the weight of the water on top of it if it is another submarine. It would make sense then that underwater mines are designed to do the same thing as they could not reasonably be used as a focus directed explosion or shape charge. Cavitation is also what makes the mantis shrimp punch so devastating and what allows you to break the bottom of a glass bottle by hitting the top when you have water inside it.
@@fuzzyrant Oooh.. I touched a nerve I see. Did I hurt your feelings while sharing my opinion on your little "hero"? [Gasp!] Of course you had to interject and "defend" your idol, how else would you absolve such a horrible burden? Seriously though, the guy has a not so wonderful track record with respect to women and the boundaries between consensual relations and that really bad r word... and the laughing stock that is the mainstream "mockingbird" media gave the guy a free pass and still promoted him as some type of credible scientist. Go figure.
Yeah except he’s just talking out of his ass here. We’ve known about buoyancy for 2,000 years. The lack of metal ships isn’t because we didn’t think it would work, it’s because we only recently invented the necessary processes to produce metal on the necessary scale.
This isnt really a well documented historic event. Its not like oppenheimer where we have specifics and wittneses and documents, people didnt really document all that much back then
Tbh people probably had the idea loooooong before metal ships. It's just that until the industrial revolution a ship completely made of metal wasn't even feasible to manufacture parts for
The smart person that figured this out was Archimede and he stated that A body floats on water when the displaced weight of its immersed part is equal to its total weight, and this is the floatation law. The floatation law states that the weight of the floating body equals the weight of the liquid displaced by its immersed section while floating.
Archimedes formalized why it works, but much earlier people were already using floating metal bowls to keep time or keep food safe from insects. The issue was that for most of history there was no metal suitable for a ship. Bronze or copper would corrode and even most forms of iron would not last. Once we had steel that would work, the issue was having the wealth and resources to even be able to dedicate a huge amount of metal to a ship, when the same metal could arm and armor a whole army. And once we had the minerals to do that, the final challenge was being able to work and join pieces large enough for it to work, rather than overlaying metal on a wood structure. And this challenge was solved by the industrial revolution. It is a work of brilliance, but it's not the work of some singular ultra genius. It was the cumulative effect of much more common and mundane levels of intelligence applied over thousands of years that gradually brought us from little copper cups floating in a pan to the mighty steel titans we see today.
Exactly that. Ironclad Warships were build at the mid of the 19th century. At this point smart physician already already knew how to figure out Density. There were just two problems. First have a stable design and second a metal industry proficient enough. Also ships started even before then to have more metal on them. Frams and weaknesses in the structure were often reinforced by metal. This is a case were we already knew it in theory, but were not able to build it into reality.
@@MrDeflador Kinda like a lot of scientific theories and concepts today. Anything from spacefaring through augmentation to regeneration of tissue or exoskeletons. All the theories are commonly known or at your fingertips, but we just don't have the resources or advanced enough industry to make it
Lmao he said figuring out how or that you can build a boat. That came first genius. You do know wood exists? You don't need steel. That was just an example of something heavy used
It's very simple. If the weight of the vessel is less than the weight of the space of water it occupies, it will float. The formula is figured by volume of water per pound vs weight of material. The lighter of the two will be on top of the other.
I mean they figured that out a looong time ago. The real game changer was in the late-mid 19th century when they discovered metal fatigue. Before that they couldn't figure out why mysteriously their iron ships keep falling apart. Same reason why metal ships haven't been seriously attemped by older cultures because it was a common wisdom that metal ships just can't take the abuse of sea travel for long. Not to mention that before industrialization producing metal in large quantities was extremely expensive and as I said... for practically no gain. Metal plating was sometimes used on boats but for rotting and sealife protection. It was copper or brass. Technically more expensive but much easier to cast into shapes.
Wasn't till the 1860 that ships were wooden with iron cladding, hence the name. Ships didn't become made from metal until mass steel production became a thing . The key being mass production and steel
NDT never said anything about when they figured this out. All he said was that that person was really smart. Just maybe not smart enough to solve metal fatigue as well.
Every time i see Clip about Neil, i’m just nodding like a toddler because no wonder how much I don’t understand about physics, i just love his passion to tell people about it.
@@xo4205 I don’t care to memorize anything about that field, however subjects that interest me, I’m able to speak on absolutely, NDT has a great Memory to recite quotes and info that has been passed along to him, but he has no real value as he produces nothing. He can only recite.
Make it simple for everyone: The weight of the water displaced by a massive 500t ship is greater than that 500t, so it floats due the buoyant forces of the water pushing up on the hull of the ship This goes for balloons as well, but in air
Shipwrights have understood the concept of displacement for thousands of years. They might not have known the exact equations, but understood it well enough to build ships with the right amount of freeboard. The thing that held them back from making metal ships wasn't that they thought it was going to sink, it was mass production of wrought iron before the industrial revolution at a price that would be competitive with wooden ships. It was also not nessasary to be used in the size of ships produced at the time. But the limits of wooden shipbuilding were pushed with the British Mersey-class frigates which were getting to be too long for the wood at the time (which was becoming increasingly scarce thanks to shipbuilding) to withstand. Honestly, I think the notion that people at the time thought an iron ship would sink is largely chronological snobbery.
thank you for saying it so concisely. people didn't build ships out of wood because "wOoD fLoAtS". they built EVERYTHING out of wood because wood was the most abundant material
Damn l love this guy! Listen while he's still alive and willing to share!! You think you know this shit but you have no idea until he explains it!! His mind is always working!! 💯💪🏽
dude doesnt even know who achimedes is and you want people to revere him as some gifted mind when literally all he does is explain established scientific facts to people who get mad/confused when they pull a clearly labeled push door and it doesnt open. 💯💪
Sadly in this case he is wrong. The biggest issue is not figuring that , you can make a steel ship. Glass bottles are 1500 BCE and throw one into water and you will see it float. First Iron hulled ship is from 19th century. So someone over 3400 years probably did think of that. The problem is price and availability of steel.
In Chilean (south American country) there is a story about the battle of 2 ships in 1879. "The Pacific war " was about Chile vs Perú and Bolivia, and I'm talking about The Naval combat of Iquique. "La Esmeralda" (chile) was made of wood, and "Huascar" (Perú) was a metal monster, fast and strong went like a ram to the Chilean ship, crushing part of it like paper. The Chilean captain (Arturo Prat) tryed to do a last brave attack against the powerful Huascar. Died trying to board it with his men in a last Ditch effort. Huascar was defeated later by " La Covadonga" (another wood ship, smaller and faster than " La Esmeralda") by luring the monster to some low tide zone so it coudnt move anymore (it got stuck), and making it virtually a sitting duck. I'm not sure if the Huascar still is in Chile as a war trophy.
@@TrunxKraft3000 nothing wrong about that. And I didn't say there was anything wrong. It's just the way he presents his ideas and knowledge that makes me laugh. I have a friend like him too
That's true. But the more accurate description is, anything submerged in the water will displace some of it. If the weight of the displaced water is MORE THAN the weight of the submerged OBJECT, it will FLOAT, otherwise it will sink. Shape of a ship is such that, when submerged in the water correctly, it will displace more water ( by weight), as compared to its own weight. And it floats. But if, by any chance , it capsizes or develops a hole, it will admit water in it. Then it's own weight+ weight of the admitted water is MORE than the displaced water, then it sinks.
Seriously, thank you for explaining this better than sir wokealot. I spent years on ships, and your explanation is what people should be hearing, not his
@@jayraitt9023 thanks for your appreciation 😊🙏 Actually a Greek named Archimedes found it for the first time, when he entered a bathtub, filled with water , to the brim. Some water was displaced and spilled over , as the tub was full. He came to a conclusion that more water is displaced when a larger object was immersed in it. There must be some relation. He concluded that the amount of displaced water depends on the object's volume, rather than it's weight. So , an object with a large volume, and rather LESS weight, ( say a block of wood) will displace more water ( by weight) , than the actual weight of the block and it will float. Hence , this object is " lighter" than the water. A metal block , on the other hand, will have less volume and more weight. It will displace less water , by weight, than it's own weight, and it'll sink " heavier than water" This is the concept of "density" by the way. Density of water is considered to be 1. So anything with a density less than one , will float and with more than one, will sink. Archimedes was overjoyed by this discovery , and he's said to have run wildly in the streets shouting words "eureka " " eureka" ( found it, found it). Imagine , this Greek dude found it more than two thousand years ago. 😊👌👍
Honestly, we (as a species) were likely making low level rafts and/or getting on floaty logs before our ancestors were even modern Homosapiens. Anthropology is wild.
He's pretty brilliant at times but amazingly dense at other times. I'm pretty sure the actual reason boats were made from wood before steel, is because wood literally grows on trees.
@@kerryedavis Steel has existed since the 13th fucking century, this was far before the idea of a frigate in general. The only one who is dense here is you. You are confusing your ignorance for knowledge.
Wood was way cheaper and easier to come buy. Armor was always expensive and hand made. 1-2k years ago they could probably build 10 boats in the same time and for less cost than 1 metal boat@@SaltCane
It makes no sense to me, that it would take any time to figure this out to ancient people. Because a pottery bowl floats. And pottery is a very old technology, that was constantly used near water, be it to be filled with water or cleaned by water. And if you just put a pottery bowl on the water, most of them float. So you immediately see, that a non-floating material can float, when shaped like a bowl... So obviously, they knew about it, almost everyone would know about it. But since the only trully superior material to build a hull from is steel and it took a long time to develop proper steel AND to make so much of it to build a hull, and to make it watertight, or even to make it from one piece of steel... that is all super difficult / impossible with ancient and medieval tech. That was the real reason to stick with wood... not the brilliance of realizing "bowl shaped things float"... smh
Yeah, I get the feeling Neil was making it up, like when he took his misunderstanding of the physics of helicopter flight/gliding to twitter. The engineering and economics are much more likely to be the limiting factors than understanding buoyancy.
Yeah Neil is talking out of his ass here. Ships weren't made of steel because it's a harder material to use in the absence of industrial capacity, and it wasn't necessary until incendiary shells and magazine explosions became a threat.
@@Warmaka This was a really good point, difficult to find answers to, so its gonna have to be a long explanation: originally ships had wooden hulls that were in direct contact with the water. These rotted away because of barnacles and sea worms, so people came up with the idea to have replaceable wooden sheathing on the outside of the structural hull, with a waterproof layer of pitch and various other fillers in-between. Next the trouble was that the wooden sheathing needed to be replaced very frequently, which was expensive, and so they experimented using lead and copper instead. It turned out copper was extremely resistant to sea life, and so although it did corrode and needed to be replaced eventually, it lasted way longer than wood and lead. By 1800 plating a ships hull in copper or brass became standard for seafaring vessels. These developments are what made the transition to metal hulls possible. The idea of using metal to build boats was already there, and the wooden hull of the ship was already shielded from the seawater. The idea of replacing the wood with iron was successfully attempted in the 1820s for riverboats, but iron was too brittle for seafaring vessels. In the mid 1800s navies experimented with layered wood and iron armored hulls. Once industrial steel was invented in the late 1800s, they finally had a metal strong and cheap enough to replace wood entirely, so they did. No TLDR possible- this is as condensed as I can make it.
But no one did. Archimedes came up with the principle but he didn’t build steel boats. It’s incremental improvements that got us to where we are today.
If he was being tested I don't think he'd get it wrong. He's just being casual. I say "wrong" things about things I know by heart all the time, doesn't mean I don't know the subject.
@@bgdgdgdf4488you do realise he's a published author right? He's now an ambassador for science and making science interesting for people to work in science
Morale of the story: The smartest person in the world was Archimedes, an ancient Greek who lives in the ancient city of Syracuse, Sicily. Forget Aristotle, forget Newton, forget Leibniz. Archimedes is the hero you did not know you needed!
The guy almost always uses complex language to describe simple ideas just in an effort to seem like the biggest brain in the room. And good luck ever getting a word in that conversation. He talks over hosts all the time and gets so offended when someone has doubts about his conclusions. He's irritating.
@joelbreinholt9576 head on the nail right there..! Wish he would debate with a flat earther with facts and not argue but have a logical thought behind his explanation with examples..
Fun fact: in the 1500-1600’s, ships from Spain and Portugal were made of wood and couldn’t float UNLESS. Unless they put stone at the bottom to get to there destination, AND HERE IS THE 300 IQ MOVE THAT THEY PLAYED. Since at that time, silver was really popular in currency, and was big anywhere. They would take out the stone and replace them with the silver and get back to where they came.
Nope, a heavy cargo boat is more stable than an empty cargo boat because those are made for that purpose. They used rocks as ballast stones to stabilize them, those would be dropped if needed. A normal fishing vessel didnt need ballast stones unless they were to move tons of fish; nowadays fishing boats drop combustible so the boat doesn't sink due to excess weight.
@@MikhelBL Yah, but they were trade and voyager ships that brought silver from anywhere from the Americans and Afro-Eurasia(Africa, Asia and Europe), and also wouldn’t a small 2 school bus sized wooden ship be able to float more up top than a big 2000 tons 2 football field cargo ship.
That wasn't the point Neil was making so it doesn't matter. Focus on bigger point. The engineering design to make this happen with steel. Also Neil has done brilliantly well as PhD and physics teacher. You're no where close to his level.
Fun fact.... Vikings were the best ship builders of their time amd were also the ones to create the Keel of a ship! Thank you Norse people for showing us how to sail the open seas!
@@TheEnigma702 Don't need a physics degree. Steel horseshoe in water: sinks. Steel bowl in water: floats. This is basic experiential knowledge and the only reason we didn't have steel boats sooner was that wooden boats were better than what would have been possible with the iron manufacturing technology available at the time. A steel ship in the 1700s would cost a fortune, be too slow, and would rust away or crack within a couple years.
@@clipsdaily101 Ofc, but it was quite unfeasable on a larger scale before the industrial revolution. even metal reinforced ships in the late 1700s were still mostly made of wood.
i was tired last night when typing that and i must've read your comment wrong because i agree with you and my first comment kind of doesn't apply here lol @@Alexandros.Mograine
@@TheEnigma702 If his point is educational content, he should be more careful. He gave a terrible example. People did not not use steel for millenia because they did not understand displacement
Interviewer:"Neil, would you like to have some sugar to your tea?" Neil:"Did you know, that there are more rodents in Europe than all the rings and moons of Uranus combined?"
When I was seven years old, my teacher actually questioned me how a boat made of steel can float. Took me less than ten seconds to figure it out. Even knew what density was at that age.
Rumor has it, the interviewer only asked him, "how are you today, neil?"
And I like his random facts
Plus he has a good sense of humor.
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Hilarious
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"Neil, can you shut up. We're trying to watch Titanic."
😂 😂
Best one yet
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Hhhh good one 😂😂😂😂
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"How are you in water?"
"Hard as steel"
What??? Just no
@@theindependentmillennial5243ioo😊
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“Nah bro I said your total was $32.15”
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Imagine going to battle and seeing the first ever metal ship. It's over.
"witch's craft! We must clean the world from this evil!"
And now you can grasp how the confederates felt
The other team brought one too. Monitor vs Merrimack.
@@Pink.andahalf didnt the british than aftwerward combined them into the Dreadnought?
@@Pink.andahalf yep the first battle between two ironclad ships. The Confederates also built the first submarine to successfully sink a ship, named the Hunley.
Thats actually smart my dumbass couldve never thought about it... 10k likes
@PshycologyAnb same thing an idea or opinion produced by thinking, or occurring suddenly in the mind.
"Maggie had a sudden thought"
must suck to be a dumbass
You're not dumb just lazy
I believe that.
No it's not the smartest person in the world worthy..
See my other comments down below that clarify even further.
Just be near water and you'll see logs and trees floating down river or in lakes.
Caveman "figured" this out.
And by figure I mean they saw wood floating in water.
Then we advance to the metal working era, same thing. "Why small sword sink, but big breastplate float?"
Everybody can make fun of Neil but he is one of our most beloved and smartest national treasures! He makes me proud and I love him!
I think people make fun of him because he can quite easily come off as pretentious and arrogant and always cutting people off but from what I've seen he's been getting better about these things recently. Acting more like a regular person who is also a genius.
@@Kuillenprobably is the criticism that he's been receiving
I love him 😊 he is definitely a national treasure ❤
It’s because he never has anything of value to say. He just says it dramatically. Every idiot knows how a boat floats. But he tees it up like it’s the newest scientific discovery and he’s the one breaking the news to everyone.
@jaminjones4969 my guy, until I watched this video I had no idea how a boat floats
Bruce Lee: "Be like water."
Neil: "Be like steel!"
Me: "Bee like honey."
@@captainmeow2771bee make honey, bee like pollen.
"Ligmaballs"
Fun fact: torpedoes rarely ever hit ships. They don't even aim for the ships. They aim for the space just below the ship because the explosion disrupts the body of water directly below the weight of the ship and the ship just instantly collapses in on itself under the pressure of its own weight.
That's terrifying asf 🤣
I don't think so
I knew about cavitation but never thought to apply it to warfare. It would make sense considering that submarines are inherently built to withstand outside pressure of water trying to crush it but the same designe being weak to the exact oposite.
So the aim of the explosive is not to cause damage but to create a large cloud of bubbles. Without the water supporting it from beneath it gets damaged by its own weight as well as the weight of the water on top of it if it is another submarine.
It would make sense then that underwater mines are designed to do the same thing as they could not reasonably be used as a focus directed explosion or shape charge.
Cavitation is also what makes the mantis shrimp punch so devastating and what allows you to break the bottom of a glass bottle by hitting the top when you have water inside it.
Source?
@waroftheworlds2008 just look it up 💀
Displacement = whatever floats your boat.
Lol nice
Yohh in know that bc bro figured it out
Buoyancy is the better term
Bro, this joke was great😂😂
Like concrete. I was once on a concrete boat.
I actually got to meet Neil’s brother. He got a landscaping job at our school and everyone loved him. His name was Mo De’Grasse Tyson
He seems like he's cool
😂😂😂😂
Or Snoop Dogs cousin who’s related to Neil as well-
Mr. More “of” de’Grass” Tyson.
That was cheap 😂
@@NoMuShRoOmSmow the grass tyson is my favorite power ranger
I could listen to Tyson talk about any topic all day.. He makes everything so simple yet amazing
He's a master magician at either spewing BS or saying things a 3rd grader understands and making it seem like it's AMAZING! 😂
@@seantv1510You are such a cool guy.
@@fuzzyrant Oooh.. I touched a nerve I see. Did I hurt your feelings while sharing my opinion on your little "hero"? [Gasp!] Of course you had to interject and "defend" your idol, how else would you absolve such a horrible burden?
Seriously though, the guy has a not so wonderful track record with respect to women and the boundaries between consensual relations and that really bad r word... and the laughing stock that is the mainstream "mockingbird" media gave the guy a free pass and still promoted him as some type of credible scientist. Go figure.
Love the guy but he never shuts the hell up
Yeah except he’s just talking out of his ass here. We’ve known about buoyancy for 2,000 years. The lack of metal ships isn’t because we didn’t think it would work, it’s because we only recently invented the necessary processes to produce metal on the necessary scale.
When he said "Steel is heavier" all i heard was "But steel is heavier than feathers".
But steel is heavier than feathers
you played too much barotrauma o.O
@@danielwarren3138Yes, boot theirye bothe uh kilegrahamm roight so theirye theuh suame
*With an accent*
Samee
“But steel is heavier than feathers”
-A legend
-But there's more feathers.
-Yeh but it's the same weight.
-That's cheating...
that is Ann issue but warfare isnt
LOOOL
For context: Neil was asked if he ever vacationed on a cruise before
For context: people have no concern over spreading misinformation.
@@mark-ishfor context: I love spreading misinformation online
Coming from what? A loser? Lol
@@LandoIV Yes - the same losers that recycle the same worn out old "joke" on all of Neil's videos
This comment is underrated and needs more likes for Neil's videos.
"How was your cruise Neil ?"
Neil :
I actually want a film on this right now
There is one already. It's called 'Titanic'.
This isnt really a well documented historic event. Its not like oppenheimer where we have specifics and wittneses and documents, people didnt really document all that much back then
Tbh people probably had the idea loooooong before metal ships. It's just that until the industrial revolution a ship completely made of metal wasn't even feasible to manufacture parts for
@@jinayvora6240nah he means the first ship to be made of steel
@@eli3998true, but it can be fiction rather than non fiction, nut grounded in reality.
thats pretty smart
wouldve been a whole lot smarter if he mentioned archimedes' principle.
density is total volume upon total mass?
@@mr-lacker density = mass / volume
It's easy grade 8 science
@@4me853 he said total volume divided by total mass
The smart person that figured this out was Archimede and he stated that A body floats on water when the displaced weight of its immersed part is equal to its total weight, and this is the floatation law. The floatation law states that the weight of the floating body equals the weight of the liquid displaced by its immersed section while floating.
Archimedes formalized why it works, but much earlier people were already using floating metal bowls to keep time or keep food safe from insects.
The issue was that for most of history there was no metal suitable for a ship. Bronze or copper would corrode and even most forms of iron would not last.
Once we had steel that would work, the issue was having the wealth and resources to even be able to dedicate a huge amount of metal to a ship, when the same metal could arm and armor a whole army.
And once we had the minerals to do that, the final challenge was being able to work and join pieces large enough for it to work, rather than overlaying metal on a wood structure. And this challenge was solved by the industrial revolution.
It is a work of brilliance, but it's not the work of some singular ultra genius. It was the cumulative effect of much more common and mundane levels of intelligence applied over thousands of years that gradually brought us from little copper cups floating in a pan to the mighty steel titans we see today.
@@Hevachkeep time safe from insects?
Your mum displaces ALL the water 💦
You are wrong. The weight decreases by the amount of water displaced by your volume
He described it, there were ships before his time.
“Good morning Neil”
Neil:
It wasn't figuring out it could float. It was getting enough quality steel to build a ship.
And the industrial technology be able to make the steel into ships.
Exactly that. Ironclad Warships were build at the mid of the 19th century. At this point smart physician already already knew how to figure out Density.
There were just two problems. First have a stable design and second a metal industry proficient enough.
Also ships started even before then to have more metal on them. Frams and weaknesses in the structure were often reinforced by metal. This is a case were we already knew it in theory, but were not able to build it into reality.
@@MrDeflador Kinda like a lot of scientific theories and concepts today. Anything from spacefaring through augmentation to regeneration of tissue or exoskeletons. All the theories are commonly known or at your fingertips, but we just don't have the resources or advanced enough industry to make it
Lmao he said figuring out how or that you can build a boat. That came first genius. You do know wood exists? You don't need steel. That was just an example of something heavy used
@@cfranko1860none of you are capable of following a simple 60 second short 😂
"What else floats in water?" "Very small rocks."
a duck
We do.
Wood. So if neils head floats it is also made of wood and... A moron! He's a moron!
Apples!
Churches! CHURCHES!
"Hey Neil, want to go water skiing?"
Neil:
If Neil was smart, he'd figure out the name of Archimedes
@@milktobo7418being a memory card is not smart
@@GM-xk1nw Yeah.. cause smart people dont spend 2 seconds researching the things they talk about. You have no idea what intelligence is.
@@milktobo7418he 100% knows who Archimedes is 😂 what's with the hate?
@@milktobo7418what a stupid thing to say, you don’t even know who you’re criticizing, what’s wrong with you?
It's very simple. If the weight of the vessel is less than the weight of the space of water it occupies, it will float. The formula is figured by volume of water per pound vs weight of material. The lighter of the two will be on top of the other.
"I just wanted to know if you want fries with your order?"
Ehh overused joke
@@marimo5039lol
It's getting old now
I use this as a litmus test anytime.
I see him in this joke. I know the person IQ is room temperature.
@@chasegreaser1166I guarantee you are an incel
Archimedes principal, if it is lighter than the water it displaces it will float
The REAL smartest person.
Archimedes> Newton Einstein Tesla
@@tacobender1643Nope, its inconceivable not to put Copernicus first.
@@tacobender1643telsa is not human
@@abhayvishaladityar.s3168Nikola Tesla not the company dumdum
@@tacobender1643put Gödel in first place.
I built a ship with spaghetti. It worked for 6 to 8 minutes.
So the 7 minute mark was when it was becoming Al Dente?😂
🤌🤌As long as you didn't break your pasta in half!! Italian approved 🤌🤌😏
A genius in my books
Bet It Was Ya Moms Spaghetti
And here was I thinking you could only get spaghettified near the event horizon of s black hole....😂
The first person to figure something out was by going outside and he built a house to keep his ass inside 😂
"It's the total volume divided by the total mass"
Density is actually the opposite, being the total mass divided by the total volume.
Hahaha yes that bugged me too
That got me tripping, I actually googled it.
That’s what I was thinking too. Lol
Thank you. I was like 🤔🤔🧐🤯
Another quibble, but a physicist ought to be more precise.. it's weight that matters, in this case, not mass.
I mean they figured that out a looong time ago. The real game changer was in the late-mid 19th century when they discovered metal fatigue. Before that they couldn't figure out why mysteriously their iron ships keep falling apart. Same reason why metal ships haven't been seriously attemped by older cultures because it was a common wisdom that metal ships just can't take the abuse of sea travel for long. Not to mention that before industrialization producing metal in large quantities was extremely expensive and as I said... for practically no gain. Metal plating was sometimes used on boats but for rotting and sealife protection. It was copper or brass. Technically more expensive but much easier to cast into shapes.
Exactly. Neil is actually a dumbarse
Wasn't till the 1860 that ships were wooden with iron cladding, hence the name. Ships didn't become made from metal until mass steel production became a thing . The key being mass production and steel
yes we’ll either way it’s all apart of the same gradual process
Copper because it is toxic to life, thus preventing the build up of barnacles that otherwise plague wooden hulls
NDT never said anything about when they figured this out. All he said was that that person was really smart. Just maybe not smart enough to solve metal fatigue as well.
I think about how smart people had to be for us to get to where we are today. It's crazy.
imagine what the first multicellular organism did for u. mf changed the fucking game
The most beautiful part about science is that small concepts can go a vary long way
Density is total mass divided by total volume and not the opposite. Happy to say that I didn't die before correcting M. Tyson
Every time i see Clip about Neil, i’m just nodding like a toddler because no wonder how much I don’t understand about physics, i just love his passion to tell people about it.
How much were you paid to say that? Or are you a Bot?
@@ABCdefGZER you speak like you better than Neil in physic..don't show hate too much
@@ABCdefGZERPeople can enjoy someones content without being a bot. Please keep your mean ass unnecessary comments to your self.
@@xo4205 I don’t care to memorize anything about that field, however subjects that interest me, I’m able to speak on absolutely, NDT has a great Memory to recite quotes and info that has been passed along to him, but he has no real value as he produces nothing. He can only recite.
@@ABCdefGZER you get paid for commenting like this? Where do i sign up?
Average density is total volume divided by total mass 🫡🫡
Salute to this genius guy.
well done for your edited reply 2hrs after others have repeated the same comment. 🫡🫡
@@mark-ish I haven't seen a single comment pointing out his mistake.
Btw I wrote that comment just after seeing this video twice.
@@mark-ish I just added "genius" before "guy". That's the only edit dumbf*** kid 😃
Low bar for genius
"I'm your density!" - a brilliant man
Make it simple for everyone:
The weight of the water displaced by a massive 500t ship is greater than that 500t, so it floats due the buoyant forces of the water pushing up on the hull of the ship
This goes for balloons as well, but in air
500t and massive? that is like maybe a medium torpedoboat at the most.
@@hannesromhild8532 thank you for your contibution
@@hannesromhild8532don’t encourage the wildlife.
@@hannesromhild8532ACHTIURALLY
"make it simple for everyone"
Neil explained it simple enough my man.
My dumbass cant accept the fact that he said the wrong formula for density.
Ikr
🤣
Oh yeah, he flipped it.
I was looking for that comment
D=M/v
Shipwrights have understood the concept of displacement for thousands of years.
They might not have known the exact equations, but understood it well enough to build ships with the right amount of freeboard.
The thing that held them back from making metal ships wasn't that they thought it was going to sink, it was mass production of wrought iron before the industrial revolution at a price that would be competitive with wooden ships.
It was also not nessasary to be used in the size of ships produced at the time. But the limits of wooden shipbuilding were pushed with the British Mersey-class frigates which were getting to be too long for the wood at the time (which was becoming increasingly scarce thanks to shipbuilding) to withstand.
Honestly, I think the notion that people at the time thought an iron ship would sink is largely chronological snobbery.
@@ImAmirusno one ever used cast iron to plate ships.
thank you for saying it so concisely.
people didn't build ships out of wood because "wOoD fLoAtS". they built EVERYTHING out of wood because wood was the most abundant material
You're also going by sail and rowing for the majority of human history, so weight of what it's constructed out of does matter before engines.
@@CanadianEhHole tell that to the captain of Vasa
@@jackster2568 Ironclades were wooden ships cladded/plated in iron/steel. We just added metal onto wood and eventually took away the wood.
Praise to the Chola dynasty and their engineering marvel. They had the biggest Naval force in the world and ruled S/E Asia, 1000 years ago!
Damn l love this guy! Listen while he's still alive and willing to share!! You think you know this shit but you have no idea until he explains it!! His mind is always working!! 💯💪🏽
dude doesnt even know who achimedes is and you want people to revere him as some gifted mind when literally all he does is explain established scientific facts to people who get mad/confused when they pull a clearly labeled push door and it doesnt open. 💯💪
@@ReelBigCOk
I do love the enthusiasm he has when explaining random shit.
Sadly in this case he is wrong. The biggest issue is not figuring that , you can make a steel ship. Glass bottles are 1500 BCE and throw one into water and you will see it float. First Iron hulled ship is from 19th century. So someone over 3400 years probably did think of that. The problem is price and availability of steel.
Cocaine hell.of drug
In Chilean (south American country) there is a story about the battle of 2 ships in 1879.
"The Pacific war " was about Chile vs Perú and Bolivia, and I'm talking about The Naval combat of Iquique.
"La Esmeralda" (chile) was made of wood, and "Huascar" (Perú) was a metal monster, fast and strong went like a ram to the Chilean ship, crushing part of it like paper.
The Chilean captain (Arturo Prat) tryed to do a last brave attack against the powerful Huascar. Died trying to board it with his men in a last Ditch effort.
Huascar was defeated later by " La Covadonga" (another wood ship, smaller and faster than " La Esmeralda") by luring the monster to some low tide zone so it coudnt move anymore (it got stuck), and making it virtually a sitting duck.
I'm not sure if the Huascar still is in Chile as a war trophy.
crazy wars
That last equation he said gave me chills
I figured when he asked who the smartest person in the world was, he was going to interrupt himself and say “ME!!!”😂😅
Neil is smart enough and not ignorant to make such a blasphemous remark 😂😂😂
He is so dramatic.... he could lecture 1+1=2 and make you cry
Look at the comments above you , he has a reason to. Some people are actually surprised by this
You should have looked up what dramatic means before posting this ignorant comment
What’s wrong with being excited and passionate about what he does for a living?
@@TrunxKraft3000 nothing wrong about that. And I didn't say there was anything wrong. It's just the way he presents his ideas and knowledge that makes me laugh. I have a friend like him too
@caperider1160 Too be fair the proof that 1+1=2 is hundreds of pages long and proves much more than one would initially think it would.
That's true.
But the more accurate description is, anything submerged in the water will displace some of it.
If the weight of the displaced water is MORE THAN the weight of the submerged OBJECT, it will FLOAT, otherwise it will sink.
Shape of a ship is such that, when submerged in the water correctly, it will displace more water ( by weight), as compared to its own weight. And it floats.
But if, by any chance , it capsizes or develops a hole, it will admit water in it.
Then it's own weight+ weight of the admitted water is MORE than the displaced water, then it sinks.
Balloon in a body water
You explained it better than neil degrasse tyson thanks
Seriously, thank you for explaining this better than sir wokealot. I spent years on ships, and your explanation is what people should be hearing, not his
@@Cardioligist thanks for your appreciation 😅🙏
@@jayraitt9023 thanks for your appreciation 😊🙏
Actually a Greek named Archimedes found it for the first time, when he entered a bathtub, filled with water , to the brim.
Some water was displaced and spilled over , as the tub was full.
He came to a conclusion that more water is displaced when a larger object was immersed in it.
There must be some relation.
He concluded that the amount of displaced water depends on the object's volume, rather than it's weight.
So , an object with a large volume, and rather LESS weight, ( say a block of wood) will displace more water ( by weight) , than the actual weight of the block and it will float.
Hence , this object is " lighter" than the water.
A metal block , on the other hand, will have less volume and more weight.
It will displace less water , by weight, than it's own weight, and it'll sink
" heavier than water"
This is the concept of "density" by the way.
Density of water is considered to be 1.
So anything with a density less than one , will float and with more than one, will sink.
Archimedes was overjoyed by this discovery , and he's said to have run wildly in the streets shouting words "eureka " " eureka" ( found it, found it).
Imagine , this Greek dude found it more than two thousand years ago. 😊👌👍
Honestly, we (as a species) were likely making low level rafts and/or getting on floaty logs before our ancestors were even modern Homosapiens. Anthropology is wild.
Bro managed to fuck up the formula of density😂😂😂
I mean he mixed up the order its easily done.
thats probably what metal ship inventor did also LOL...
@@mhavockshit we got steal ships now so I’m guessing he wasn’t all that wrong to begin with🤷🏾
He's pretty brilliant at times but amazingly dense at other times. I'm pretty sure the actual reason boats were made from wood before steel, is because wood literally grows on trees.
People were literally willing to wear a full suit of steel as long as it was effective in war.
It was not about a matter of resources.
@@SaltCane except that steel didn't exist as long as wood has.
@@kerryedavis Steel has existed since the 13th fucking century, this was far before the idea of a frigate in general.
The only one who is dense here is you. You are confusing your ignorance for knowledge.
Wood was way cheaper and easier to come buy. Armor was always expensive and hand made. 1-2k years ago they could probably build 10 boats in the same time and for less cost than 1 metal boat@@SaltCane
Exactly. He just say things but most of the time they are either blatantly obvious or blatantly retarded
It makes no sense to me, that it would take any time to figure this out to ancient people. Because a pottery bowl floats. And pottery is a very old technology, that was constantly used near water, be it to be filled with water or cleaned by water. And if you just put a pottery bowl on the water, most of them float. So you immediately see, that a non-floating material can float, when shaped like a bowl... So obviously, they knew about it, almost everyone would know about it. But since the only trully superior material to build a hull from is steel and it took a long time to develop proper steel AND to make so much of it to build a hull, and to make it watertight, or even to make it from one piece of steel... that is all super difficult / impossible with ancient and medieval tech. That was the real reason to stick with wood... not the brilliance of realizing "bowl shaped things float"... smh
Yeah, I get the feeling Neil was making it up, like when he took his misunderstanding of the physics of helicopter flight/gliding to twitter.
The engineering and economics are much more likely to be the limiting factors than understanding buoyancy.
@@clokworkpigAgreed. The reason they didn’t make boats out of giant pieces of steel is because it’s hard to make giant pieces of steel.
Yeah Neil is talking out of his ass here. Ships weren't made of steel because it's a harder material to use in the absence of industrial capacity, and it wasn't necessary until incendiary shells and magazine explosions became a threat.
Making it rust proof was also a challenge I imagine.
@@Warmaka This was a really good point, difficult to find answers to, so its gonna have to be a long explanation:
originally ships had wooden hulls that were in direct contact with the water. These rotted away because of barnacles and sea worms, so people came up with the idea to have replaceable wooden sheathing on the outside of the structural hull, with a waterproof layer of pitch and various other fillers in-between.
Next the trouble was that the wooden sheathing needed to be replaced very frequently, which was expensive, and so they experimented using lead and copper instead. It turned out copper was extremely resistant to sea life, and so although it did corrode and needed to be replaced eventually, it lasted way longer than wood and lead. By 1800 plating a ships hull in copper or brass became standard for seafaring vessels. These developments are what made the transition to metal hulls possible. The idea of using metal to build boats was already there, and the wooden hull of the ship was already shielded from the seawater. The idea of replacing the wood with iron was successfully attempted in the 1820s for riverboats, but iron was too brittle for seafaring vessels. In the mid 1800s navies experimented with layered wood and iron armored hulls. Once industrial steel was invented in the late 1800s, they finally had a metal strong and cheap enough to replace wood entirely, so they did.
No TLDR possible- this is as condensed as I can make it.
And if you're curious as to how anchors hold ships, they don't. The anchor holds the chain, chain holds the ship
But no one did. Archimedes came up with the principle but he didn’t build steel boats. It’s incremental improvements that got us to where we are today.
Pythagoras as well...
Interviewer: You know I just bought myself a boat
Neil:
At the end, he says the density is the total volume divided by the total mass. Should be the other way around (mass / volume).
If he was being tested I don't think he'd get it wrong. He's just being casual. I say "wrong" things about things I know by heart all the time, doesn't mean I don't know the subject.
Jokes aside, I love how passionate he is :)
Dude would make a great 4th grade science teacher
Most Americans couldn’t pass a 4th grade science test
and a great5h, 6th, 7th, maybe even 12th grade or college teacher, which is what he is, a college professor.
... you're right, _but he inverted the equation!!!_
It's (total MASS) / (total VOLUME) = Average density
@@ILikeFreedomYo Just cause your 2 IQ can't understand him doesn't mean he's a terrible teacher lol
@@ILikeFreedomYo 😅
They asked him if he wants a glass of water:
Wow this must be the 10,000th time I've seen some form of this lame "joke" over the years - people are so intimidated by NDT's intelligence ..
@@reallymysterious4520what intelligence lol 😂😂😂 if he was really intelligent he'd be doing research work like real intelligent people do
@@bgdgdgdf4488you do realise he's a published author right? He's now an ambassador for science and making science interesting for people to work in science
@@prabhavsidhaye5518 exactly, he quit research after he realized he's too dumb to do it
May be "lame" to you Captain Betterthantherestofus, but I've never heard it before, and I am LMAO! @@reallymysterious4520
Anyone: "Neil, would you like a glass of water?"
Neil:
he is excited in proofing how smart he is.
he is smart.
But his excitement is towards himself
Never asking Neil about his fishing trip again.
Shoutout to my boy Noah.
I think whoever built the first boat was like “I’m just tryna keep the water out”
“It’s the total volume over the total mass” bro got his education from McDonald’s
Haha.
I was scrolling for someone noticing that.😅
Morale of the story: The smartest person in the world was Archimedes, an ancient Greek who lives in the ancient city of Syracuse, Sicily. Forget Aristotle, forget Newton, forget Leibniz. Archimedes is the hero you did not know you needed!
Context: Joe asked Neil if he enjoyed his summer cruise.
@@reallymysterious4520 nah g, it's still fkn gold🙃
@@reallymysterious4520you kidding? I love this joke lmao
@@boomhauer7556npc
@@reallymysterious4520 It doesn't make him go away though, unfortunately.
@@reallymysterious4520nah they be funny as hell 😂😂
Neil got the density formula wrong 😂 he said density = volume/ mass but in fact is mass/volume
@@ILikeFreedomYoexactly. People are so gullible.
@@ILikeFreedomYowait what you are completely wrong he is a astrophysicist he is not a show tune fake like you and your comments
The guy almost always uses complex language to describe simple ideas just in an effort to seem like the biggest brain in the room. And good luck ever getting a word in that conversation. He talks over hosts all the time and gets so offended when someone has doubts about his conclusions. He's irritating.
@@ILikeFreedomYoso true
@joelbreinholt9576 head on the nail right there..! Wish he would debate with a flat earther with facts and not argue but have a logical thought behind his explanation with examples..
“You know who the smartest person in the world was? … Me.” - Neil Degrasse Tyson
Gravity only works when buoyancy and density is resting
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Scientist™
Amen brother 😂😂
He's an actor playing at scientist
Pseudoscientist
Fun fact: in the 1500-1600’s, ships from Spain and Portugal were made of wood and couldn’t float UNLESS. Unless they put stone at the bottom to get to there destination, AND HERE IS THE 300 IQ MOVE THAT THEY PLAYED. Since at that time, silver was really popular in currency, and was big anywhere. They would take out the stone and replace them with the silver and get back to where they came.
Nope, a heavy cargo boat is more stable than an empty cargo boat because those are made for that purpose. They used rocks as ballast stones to stabilize them, those would be dropped if needed. A normal fishing vessel didnt need ballast stones unless they were to move tons of fish; nowadays fishing boats drop combustible so the boat doesn't sink due to excess weight.
@@MikhelBL Yah, but they were trade and voyager ships that brought silver from anywhere from the Americans and Afro-Eurasia(Africa, Asia and Europe), and also wouldn’t a small 2 school bus sized wooden ship be able to float more up top than a big 2000 tons 2 football field cargo ship.
The first person to discover fire and utilize it was the smartest
It was found, not discovered. Wheel was
When you watching Titanic.
And this guy sitting next to you
Context: Neil was asked his thoughts on rubber ducks
“Sir, This is Wendy’s”
Density is total mass divided by total volume not vice versa😂😂
Tell me you've never made a mistake before.
That wasn't the point Neil was making so it doesn't matter. Focus on bigger point. The engineering design to make this happen with steel. Also Neil has done brilliantly well as PhD and physics teacher. You're no where close to his level.
Archimedes : YOU’RE WELCOME
The discovery of boyanct was a literal eureka moment
"No, neil, you are supposed to stick it in deeper"
“Have you ever gone fishing?”
Neil:
Fun fact.... Vikings were the best ship builders of their time amd were also the ones to create the Keel of a ship!
Thank you Norse people for showing us how to sail the open seas!
His Afro Physicist Degree told him so😮
Any person in physics has the understanding of mass and volume to make these conclusions.
@@TheEnigma702 Don't need a physics degree. Steel horseshoe in water: sinks. Steel bowl in water: floats. This is basic experiential knowledge and the only reason we didn't have steel boats sooner was that wooden boats were better than what would have been possible with the iron manufacturing technology available at the time. A steel ship in the 1700s would cost a fortune, be too slow, and would rust away or crack within a couple years.
Astrophysics?
Weird my reply was deleted
@@WakandaleezaRazzAfro physics
In context he was asked what his favorite pirate's of the Caribbean movie is
Wow this must be the 10,000th time I've seen some form of this lame "joke" over the years - people are so intimidated by NDT's intelligence ...
"Do you know who was the smartest person to ever exist?"
"Me."
The sight of an American steal ship revolutionized the entire Japan.
What came first. Boats or trap air in your swimming pants? That fact came before the equation lol
The main reason we used wood was obviously because it was easy to work with.
And avaliable, I don't think any kingdom would just have 10 tons on iron and tin laying around
Also, it floats, despite what he said.
yet they were obviously trying to find ways to strengthen the ship to defend from attacks.
@@clipsdaily101 Ofc, but it was quite unfeasable on a larger scale before the industrial revolution. even metal reinforced ships in the late 1700s were still mostly made of wood.
i was tired last night when typing that and i must've read your comment wrong because i agree with you and my first comment kind of doesn't apply here lol @@Alexandros.Mograine
"So are you coming to the party or?"
"do you think Leonardo Di caprio deserved an oscar for titanic?"
Wow Neil figured out displacement
The point is to educate others not himself. Please, have the intelligence to recognize the point of educational content.
@@TheEnigma702 If his point is educational content, he should be more careful. He gave a terrible example. People did not not use steel for millenia because they did not understand displacement
Loving how Neil pronounces "wudder" 😂❤
This has always impressed me!
Andrew Tate: BREATHE AIR!!!
Dude figured it out when he dropped a beer can in a lake.
Interviewer:"Neil, would you like to have some sugar to your tea?"
Neil:"Did you know, that there are more rodents in Europe than all the rings and moons of Uranus combined?"
If someone told Floky they build ships from steel he might die instantly laughing
We have to give credit smartest person, who invented Wheel
"Because steel is heavier than feathers"
That award goes to the French Navy with the ship Redoutable in 1873.
When I was seven years old, my teacher actually questioned me how a boat made of steel can float. Took me less than ten seconds to figure it out. Even knew what density was at that age.
"....ok but i just asked if you've ever been on a cruise Neil."