As an astronomy teacher I like to tell my students the paradox of space. Space is considered mostly empty but at the same time literally everything in the universe is in space. So simultaneously it is empty while also being full of absolutely everything that has ever existed. And congratulations on the 13123 Tyson rock!!!
@@espenstoroBy that point the asteroid would of already migrated to another spot in it's otherwise absurdly long orbit, doing not only the spacecraft a favor but rendering the preparations for a crash course fruitless.
Asteroids need common nomeclature distinction between big solid rock tumbling through space and all its other piles of gravel and expensive mineral distinctions. Where are all the space Geologists? Chuck is what Earthlings should name the rock that deflects another rock falling into earth orbit, sending it hurtling like a plasma tv with 3 kryptonians in it, into the sun. Just great timing? I dont think so. (:
@@RowdyGromwwwwwI just finished leaving a comment saying the same! I understand why they brought him on, and on paper I see why they would do that. But he’s not making these podcasts and videos enjoyable. He’s very, very annoying
EXACTLY! Their comic approaches allow us all to be a part of these scientific wonders no matter what we know or don't know. Every video is extremely entertaining and knowledgeable.
Imagine being an asteroid floating in space with your fellow asteroid companions, with your closest neighbors being 600 thousand miles away from you as you coexist alongside the other 100+ million tiny rocks lol
Neil absolutely deserves the honor of having an asteroid named after him. He is probably the second best science communicator of all time, after Carl Sagan, and the most watchable astrophysicist on social media.
Doctor Tyson, I'm not sure if you are reading the comments from time to time, but your show is absolutely awesome! I simply can't wait for you to make an appearance in Montreal! What blows my mind with this explainer is the fact that these don't, over time, gravitationaly attract themselves to form just a bigass asteroids (or a new planet)... or do they? Btw, Chuck's energy is contagious. Keep up the good work, you guys are the perfect Lawn Mowing partners! Excuse the grammar, english isn't my first language.
Chuck was in fine form on this one. I laughed out loud several times. I love Startalk in general, but this one was hilarious. Thanks for this one, guys!
I just finished reading Astrophysics for people in a hurry and it was incredible such an easy book to get into especially as someone who wasn’t big on reading anything outside of Comics, In fact it was so good I’ve already bought one of your other books Death by Black Hole because I knew I wouldn’t be able to get enough of your witty comments and expressions throughout each chapter while teaching me the wonderful wonders of the universe.
I don't know, Neil topped him by calling out his friend, who observed one on Christmas _day,_ just to name it Santa. 😂 This is quite impressive, if not wholly incredible.
You can find out by a simple formula... calculate the volume of the Oort Cloud first, there has to be a distance from the sun to the inner border of the Cloud and to the outer border; 4/3 * Pi * r^3 gives You each volume, substract the smaller from the bigger and that gives You the Oort Cloud Volume size. Divide it by the number of asteroids in the Cloud and You will have the Volume of free space around each asteroid. Divide it by 4/3 * Pi and the result is the cubic radius. Double the cubir root and that will be the distance between two asteroids. Note that the number can vary a lot because You will have to input THREE approximations: Inner Oort distance, Outer Distance and Number of Asteroids. You can do the same with satellites around the earth and the result will not be as usually depicted in the infographies....
Chuck at his absolute best! Without him, the whole episode could have been Neil saying, deadpan, "the average distance between asteroids id 600k miles". Interesting, no doubt, but with Lord Nice? Another level. Well done, guys!
This is one of my favorite Startalk videos. Mainly because of Chuck's hilarious dramatization of a realistic passage through the asteroid belt 😂 I keep coming back to it whenever I need a good laugh.
One of my favorite analogies to get a sense of the scale of space is if you think of the distance between Sun and Alpha Centauri as the length of a football field then the size of Neptune's orbit is about the size of a quarter. Another is to think of distances not in abstract units like miles/kilometers, but in terms of the size of objects themselves. How many suns can you fit between the Sun and Alpha Centauri? About 30 million. The AU already does this in a way. ~270,000 AU to Alpha Centauri.
Your mistaken. AU is not the size of the sun itself. It’s the average distance the Earth is from the sun. So the AU units are far bigger than you yourself thought 😂 It’s easier for people to understand in miles or kilometers.
The best one for me is called "How Far Are The Nearest Stars?" here on RUclips. The guy takes the actual trip with a car to show you infact how far it actually is! :D
I think the rule should be if you ever mention the size of space that you have to begin with, "Space, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." 😁 (Douglas Adams)
I love watching these videos while having breakfast, but today it took me longer to finish my meal because I kept laughing so hard at Chuck's jokes, especially about the space ship navigating through the Asteroid field. You guys are awesome!
This was a good one. BTW, how about discuss how to go through Saturn's disk? It's been sort of done already. There's actually an audio recording of when the satellite went through one of the layers. Turns out it was literally dust; but at that speed, the dust hitting the satellite sounds like static.
The scene from Attack of the Clones takes place in a ring (around Geonosis) not in an asteroid field...so I think the distance depicted is more realistic there. But no excuse for Empire! Lol Great video!!
Not really. If you can see one asteroid while standing on another, that means their orbits are close enough that they'll hit each other eventually. Now, imagine it's not two, but dozens of them. They all will hit each other. Given enough time, they either break into smaller pieces (I believe that's what dust rings are) or combine into one bigger object (it's theorized our Moon is exactly that). Rule of thumb is that in space to see or hit anything, anything at all, you have to know precisely where it is and try very-very hard to reach it. It is impossible to hit, find or even see anything by accident, including asteroids in asteroid field/ring/belt.
I remember when Voyager 1 crossed the asteroid belt and my 6 year old self wondering "And it didn't hit anything?" and have been fascinated with space ever since.
Love the show guys. Thank you. This episode brings in an interesting question. How dense are typical astroid belts in other systems? What is the average? Our solar system seems to have a few oddities that are not typical. Maybe a thin astroid belt is one of them.
Thanks for the great video. This brings to mind another aspect of space that SF almost always gets wrong: Nebulae. On the screen and in print, we see ships using nebulae to hide in during conflict so they can avoid--or even ambush--an enemy. In the opening credits of "Voyager", we see Voyager dip its figurative toe into a glowing nebula, leaving behind a glowing wake as it sails by. That's not how any of that works. A typical emission nebula (one that gives off light, like the one in the "Voyager" opening credits) is as bright as a 40-watt incandescent bulb spread out over fifty cubic miles. Though when seen from light years away over a long exposure time, that can be impressive and quite beautiful, the truth is that if you were right in the middle of an emission nebula, you would have a difficult time figuring that out. (Indeed, it took astronomers quite a while to determine that Earth is not inside an emission nebula.) A typical nebula is also a better vacuum than even the best vacuums we can achieve on Earth. They are almost not even there at all. They usually span several light years in size, and only from a very great distance and long exposure times do they look like the flowing rivulets of glowing gas as depicted in science fiction.
As an avid scifi fan for the last 50 years I share your frustration over scenes like the one in S.T. Voyager's opening scene. The wake aggravates me knowing that they did that just for the cinematic effect, or they are just that ignorant, either ways its ridiculous. My kids say I am a Trekkie but I deny it. Everything their shows do in space is just wrong but I can't help watching it. ☺ If you want to read a really good, and accurate scifi series check out "The Lost Fleet" by Jack Campbell. The first book is "Dauntless". The author sticks by physics pretty closely and the space battles are just amazing.
Perhaps this is why now most "asteroid dodging space dogfight" scenes in Star Wars movies and shows take place in planetary rings, where objects really ARE constantly smashing into each other.
Let us assume that the average distance of 600K miles between asteroids is the general case in any solar system. If a spaceship can achieve significant sub-light speed, say 75% C, that's about 140,000 miles/second. So the asteroids might come by pretty quick if you couldn't navigate a path that gave them all a wide berth.
Could you imagine the calculations it would take to navigate an asteroid field at that speed? Especially if those asteroids are moving at different speeds. You'd have to calculate where you would be, where the asteroids would be, where the asteroids would be in relation to each other... all while going too fast to visually see them. Just the calculations it would take to know where and when to look out the window would be insane.
@@AtariBornthe odds of hitting one are virtually zero However. A study was done about going a random direction at light speed across the entire universe and the odds of never hitting anything were 99.9%. Space is massive and mostly empty. Biggest threat in space travel is tiny grains of sand
Chuck thanks for making my day a little bit better.you made me laugh so hard.i wounder how boring a movie like star wars would be if they made with help of Neil and his colleauges and it was made exactly what they told the director.
I would think your speed has a lot to do with encountering an asteroid. If you go very slowly, chances of hitting anything will be low. Move very fast and the distance between asteroids diminishes greatly. So, chance collision will be higher. Also, other solar systems will be different from our solar system. Another solar system may be more densely packed. It just happens the asteroid field the Millenium Falcon is navigating through is one of these dense fields.
right, we didn't cover the "galaxy far, far away" - but, I'm not sure going faster makes the probability higher - but it definitely could make the potential damage in case of a collision catastrophic. With warping, however, wouldn't it technically be more like teleporting, so you don't even have to consider any objects "in between"?
Looking at it with another perspective, taking a leisurely stroll down a street, the wind you are facing is not strong. If you travel a hundred miles per hour, you'll definitely feel the air resistance.
You can't have an asteroid field like in the movies, only if a planet would be destroyed into a million pieces. And even then, they would look red hot and form another planet in a short time.
In the defense of the original trilogy that asteroid field Han Solo is navigating is a recently exploded planet. If anything what is wrong in that scene is that many of thise chunks should be piles of gooey lava that didnt have ebough time to cool down yet, but their proximity is expected and given how they were formed there is even a big possibility for them to coalesce again given a few million years and reforme Alderan.
People think space is jam packed. I try to emphasize that all the stuff out there is super far away from each other. Even if there was intelligent life somewhere it is so so so far away as to be irrelevant. They always show planets in proportion to each other but they can't ever show the relative distance since they are no where near each other.
I was so glad to see this explainer. I'm always amused when I see things like How the Universe Works showing the solkar system crowded with rocks and protoplanets and such things when they are really huge distances apart.
Not only are yall informative but also hilarious. I feel like Im watching the smartest guy in school next to the smart class comedian in back of the class 😂🤣
Did Neil just ruin your favorite Sci-Fi?
Never!
Nope. "Suspension of disbelief"
Nothing will ruin the unruinable!
He was only following Disney's example
No
As an astronomy teacher I like to tell my students the paradox of space. Space is considered mostly empty but at the same time literally everything in the universe is in space. So simultaneously it is empty while also being full of absolutely everything that has ever existed. And congratulations on the 13123 Tyson rock!!!
Interesting point.
@@joekenorer thank you. It’s true though ya know?
I like that ! Thanks for this information 💙💙
How can we make this happen?
"I am gonna take a nap captain" got me😂😂😂😂😂😂. Chuck 😂
I'm sure the Titanic crew felt the same way at first...
"in about a month, we might hit that asteroid" i laughed so hard lol
Take evasive action... in 3 weeks.
@@espenstoroBy that point the asteroid would of already migrated to another spot in it's otherwise absurdly long orbit, doing not only the spacecraft a favor but rendering the preparations for a crash course fruitless.
Chuck needs his own asteroid. So that people can say "hey that's a nice asteroid!".
Please continue Chuck
Yes, a NICE asteroid!
Asteroids need common nomeclature distinction between big solid rock tumbling through space and all its other piles of gravel and expensive mineral distinctions. Where are all the space Geologists? Chuck is what Earthlings should name the rock that deflects another rock falling into earth orbit, sending it hurtling like a plasma tv with 3 kryptonians in it, into the sun. Just great timing? I dont think so. (:
13169 Nice! 😂
Asteroid 13123 Tyson has an unnamed satellite. Maybe we can get that satellite named Nice in honour of Lord Nice.
This was so funny. Chuck was on fire on this one. I love these two guys. Intelligence and humor at their best.
Yeah. Good humor!
I find Chuck annoying and trying way,way too hard
I can't express how great Chuck is to this show :)
Annoying*
@@RowdyGromwwwwwnot more than you tho
RIGHT! 😂 LOVE SOME LORD N I C E !!!! SO FUUUUUNE
@@RowdyGromwwwwwI just finished leaving a comment saying the same! I understand why they brought him on, and on paper I see why they would do that. But he’s not making these podcasts and videos enjoyable. He’s very, very annoying
@@dvdcamp7187Hater
Neil’s approach at explaining his thoughts is always very graceful! 👍
EXACTLY! Their comic approaches allow us all to be a part of these scientific wonders no matter what we know or don't know. Every video is extremely entertaining and knowledgeable.
"I'm actually gonna take a nap, captain" got me, brilliant!
When you said '600....', I thought 'Wow! 600 mile gap', then you said '...thousand miles'. Mind blown right there!
Imagine being an asteroid floating in space with your fellow asteroid companions, with your closest neighbors being 600 thousand miles away from you as you coexist alongside the other 100+ million tiny rocks lol
Literally 2.5x further than the moon!
This was a fun video to watch! Thank you for your time explaining Neal, and chucks hilarious commentary.
Neil absolutely deserves the honor of having an asteroid named after him. He is probably the second best science communicator of all time, after Carl Sagan, and the most watchable astrophysicist on social media.
What would be interesting is if Neil (or his descendants) get to claim the mineral rights.
😂❤❤❤
Imagine future astronomers doing a study about the asteroid named Tyson haha
I love chuck especially when he has his super fire moments 🤣
This is by far one of the funniest star talks ever. Had to hold my belly to prevent it from going into orbit… 😂
This was one of the best explainers. No doubt.
The comedy these guys create is worth watching even if you don't learn anything. But I often lean things too, so double win!
Another great explainer. & Chuck's asteroid belt movie dialogue had me dying!
Doctor Tyson, I'm not sure if you are reading the comments from time to time, but your show is absolutely awesome! I simply can't wait for you to make an appearance in Montreal!
What blows my mind with this explainer is the fact that these don't, over time, gravitationaly attract themselves to form just a bigass asteroids (or a new planet)... or do they?
Btw, Chuck's energy is contagious. Keep up the good work, you guys are the perfect Lawn Mowing partners!
Excuse the grammar, english isn't my first language.
the asteroids would form a planet eventually if Jupiter didn't exist just to ruin their orbits
Likely they used to be a planet and broke apart
Don’t worry. Your English is better than that of many native speakers.
Chuck was in fine form on this one. I laughed out loud several times. I love Startalk in general, but this one was hilarious. Thanks for this one, guys!
We got to start a petition to demote Neil’s asteroid to a dwarf asteroid. We weren’t able to save Pluto, but we can avenge it!
😂😂😂
Asteroids don't really have a size limit, everthything down to a meter is an asteroid.
I just finished reading Astrophysics for people in a hurry and it was incredible such an easy book to get into especially as someone who wasn’t big on reading anything outside of Comics, In fact it was so good I’ve already bought one of your other books Death by Black Hole because I knew I wouldn’t be able to get enough of your witty comments and expressions throughout each chapter while teaching me the wonderful wonders of the universe.
Great edits!!! Chuck in space was pure comedy gold 😂
One question: what is the average distance between asteroids in the OORT cloud?
I don't know, Neil topped him by calling out his friend, who observed one on Christmas _day,_ just to name it Santa. 😂 This is quite impressive, if not wholly incredible.
I think it's 10 times bigger than the asteroid belt
You can find out by a simple formula... calculate the volume of the Oort Cloud first, there has to be a distance from the sun to the inner border of the Cloud and to the outer border; 4/3 * Pi * r^3 gives You each volume, substract the smaller from the bigger and that gives You the Oort Cloud Volume size. Divide it by the number of asteroids in the Cloud and You will have the Volume of free space around each asteroid. Divide it by 4/3 * Pi and the result is the cubic radius. Double the cubir root and that will be the distance between two asteroids. Note that the number can vary a lot because You will have to input THREE approximations: Inner Oort distance, Outer Distance and Number of Asteroids.
You can do the same with satellites around the earth and the result will not be as usually depicted in the infographies....
@@juanviera5974 the answer is 42.
The asteroid named "Fluffy" is probably a planet killer LOL
The nickname of Gabriel Iglesias that one is
@@TheSilverShadow17I saw Gabriel. He killed the audience. My sides are still sore.
I have money on an asteroid named "Aunt Flo" putting us out of our misery. ;)
lifehack: you don't need an astronomer friend, just name your kids AFTER Asteroids
Great episode as always.
Just to put it into perspective, 600,000 miles is 2.5x the distance between Earth and the Moon.
Wow, I simultaneously thought the moon was further, and that asteroids were closer 🤯
Another great video by my favorite astrophysicist and one of my favorite comedians. I love the way you guys inspire us to keep looking up.
This is the funniest episode I’ve seen in a long time 😂
And enlightening 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Good video keep up the good work
These 2 are just awesome!!!
Chuck at his absolute best! Without him, the whole episode could have been Neil saying, deadpan, "the average distance between asteroids id 600k miles". Interesting, no doubt, but with Lord Nice? Another level. Well done, guys!
This is one of my favorite Startalk videos. Mainly because of Chuck's hilarious dramatization of a realistic passage through the asteroid belt 😂 I keep coming back to it whenever I need a good laugh.
One of my favorite analogies to get a sense of the scale of space is if you think of the distance between Sun and Alpha Centauri as the length of a football field then the size of Neptune's orbit is about the size of a quarter.
Another is to think of distances not in abstract units like miles/kilometers, but in terms of the size of objects themselves. How many suns can you fit between the Sun and Alpha Centauri? About 30 million. The AU already does this in a way. ~270,000 AU to Alpha Centauri.
Your mistaken. AU is not the size of the sun itself. It’s the average distance the Earth is from the sun. So the AU units are far bigger than you yourself thought 😂
It’s easier for people to understand in miles or kilometers.
The best one for me is called "How Far Are The Nearest Stars?" here on RUclips.
The guy takes the actual trip with a car to show you infact how far it actually is! :D
@@-_Nuke_-yes! If the sun were scaled down to the size of the period at then end of this sentence, the Alpha Proximi would be 4 miles away ⭐️
C3-PO: “Sir, the probability of successfully navigating an Asteroid Field is approximately 99.9997!” 😅
I think the rule should be if you ever mention the size of space that you have to begin with, "Space, is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." 😁 (Douglas Adams)
🙂
Love what you guys do thanks!
I love watching these videos while having breakfast, but today it took me longer to finish my meal because I kept laughing so hard at Chuck's jokes, especially about the space ship navigating through the Asteroid field. You guys are awesome!
This video made my day. Thanks Chuck!
Love chuck and the star talk channel learn so much about science especially astronomy
This was a good one. BTW, how about discuss how to go through Saturn's disk? It's been sort of done already. There's actually an audio recording of when the satellite went through one of the layers. Turns out it was literally dust; but at that speed, the dust hitting the satellite sounds like static.
The scene from Attack of the Clones takes place in a ring (around Geonosis) not in an asteroid field...so I think the distance depicted is more realistic there. But no excuse for Empire! Lol Great video!!
Not really. If you can see one asteroid while standing on another, that means their orbits are close enough that they'll hit each other eventually. Now, imagine it's not two, but dozens of them. They all will hit each other. Given enough time, they either break into smaller pieces (I believe that's what dust rings are) or combine into one bigger object (it's theorized our Moon is exactly that).
Rule of thumb is that in space to see or hit anything, anything at all, you have to know precisely where it is and try very-very hard to reach it. It is impossible to hit, find or even see anything by accident, including asteroids in asteroid field/ring/belt.
I remember when Voyager 1 crossed the asteroid belt and my 6 year old self wondering "And it didn't hit anything?" and have been fascinated with space ever since.
You guys make learning, fun! 🌠
Asteriod Fluffy is what got me! i still can't get over it🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😆😆
Love the show guys. Thank you. This episode brings in an interesting question. How dense are typical astroid belts in other systems? What is the average? Our solar system seems to have a few oddities that are not typical. Maybe a thin astroid belt is one of them.
You are smarter than what i think about you.👍👏.. i was waiting for this kind of films and you can find so many real facts than you think..
Gosh, I do love watching you two! Laughed a lot with this one!
This is the Neil that I love. I love Astronomy and to have someone like Neil explain so much so clearly, its awesome.
If I ever discover a new asteroid, though the chances are low, I will name it Nice after you, Chuck. "Damn, that is a Nice asteroid!"
Excellent Stuff ❤
Thanks for the great video.
This brings to mind another aspect of space that SF almost always gets wrong: Nebulae.
On the screen and in print, we see ships using nebulae to hide in during conflict so they can avoid--or even ambush--an enemy. In the opening credits of "Voyager", we see Voyager dip its figurative toe into a glowing nebula, leaving behind a glowing wake as it sails by.
That's not how any of that works.
A typical emission nebula (one that gives off light, like the one in the "Voyager" opening credits) is as bright as a 40-watt incandescent bulb spread out over fifty cubic miles. Though when seen from light years away over a long exposure time, that can be impressive and quite beautiful, the truth is that if you were right in the middle of an emission nebula, you would have a difficult time figuring that out. (Indeed, it took astronomers quite a while to determine that Earth is not inside an emission nebula.)
A typical nebula is also a better vacuum than even the best vacuums we can achieve on Earth. They are almost not even there at all. They usually span several light years in size, and only from a very great distance and long exposure times do they look like the flowing rivulets of glowing gas as depicted in science fiction.
As an avid scifi fan for the last 50 years I share your frustration over scenes like the one in S.T. Voyager's opening scene. The wake aggravates me knowing that they did that just for the cinematic effect, or they are just that ignorant, either ways its ridiculous. My kids say I am a Trekkie but I deny it. Everything their shows do in space is just wrong but I can't help watching it. ☺
If you want to read a really good, and accurate scifi series check out "The Lost Fleet" by Jack Campbell. The first book is "Dauntless". The author sticks by physics pretty closely and the space battles are just amazing.
@@jimmyd486 Thanks for the recommendation. I'll be sure to check it out.
Pure love look up and please please please never stop ❤
love star talk, they just make it difficult not to enjoy
0:12 I’m getting that book!!!
Perhaps this is why now most "asteroid dodging space dogfight" scenes in Star Wars movies and shows take place in planetary rings, where objects really ARE constantly smashing into each other.
9:04 Chuck described the plot for Speed 3 😅
I always thought it was because of the “hyperspeed” and folding of space that they got so close
You guys are cracking me up on this one… much needed 😂
In Star Wars defense, that was in a galaxy far, far away where asteroids may be closer together. Maybe even six feet on average:)
If they were that close together, they would smash into each other and make a planet, amiright?!
Great video as always
How ironic would it be if one day Tyson's asteroid destroyed Pluto?
Starfield showed how *EMPTY* Space truly is!
Let us assume that the average distance of 600K miles between asteroids is the general case in any solar system. If a spaceship can achieve significant sub-light speed, say 75% C, that's about 140,000 miles/second. So the asteroids might come by pretty quick if you couldn't navigate a path that gave them all a wide berth.
Could you imagine the calculations it would take to navigate an asteroid field at that speed? Especially if those asteroids are moving at different speeds. You'd have to calculate where you would be, where the asteroids would be, where the asteroids would be in relation to each other... all while going too fast to visually see them. Just the calculations it would take to know where and when to look out the window would be insane.
@@AtariBornthe odds of hitting one are virtually zero However. A study was done about going a random direction at light speed across the entire universe and the odds of never hitting anything were 99.9%. Space is massive and mostly empty. Biggest threat in space travel is tiny grains of sand
@@SuperAloeFresh I'm sure the odds would change if you were deliberately traveling into an asteroid field, at the speed of light.
A book with a big chunk on empty space that will be a best seller, Chuck's masterful personification of empty space with a therapist: Masterful.
Chuck thanks for making my day a little bit better.you made me laugh so hard.i wounder how boring a movie like star wars would be if they made with help of Neil and his colleauges and it was made exactly what they told the director.
Neil is getting so much hate, but he makes science so much fun. Which is what i love about him. Thank you
Chuck is something else really!!!😂😂😂
Great video
I would think your speed has a lot to do with encountering an asteroid. If you go very slowly, chances of hitting anything will be low. Move very fast and the distance between asteroids diminishes greatly. So, chance collision will be higher. Also, other solar systems will be different from our solar system. Another solar system may be more densely packed. It just happens the asteroid field the Millenium Falcon is navigating through is one of these dense fields.
right, we didn't cover the "galaxy far, far away" - but, I'm not sure going faster makes the probability higher - but it definitely could make the potential damage in case of a collision catastrophic. With warping, however, wouldn't it technically be more like teleporting, so you don't even have to consider any objects "in between"?
Looking at it with another perspective, taking a leisurely stroll down a street, the wind you are facing is not strong. If you travel a hundred miles per hour, you'll definitely feel the air resistance.
You can't have an asteroid field like in the movies, only if a planet would be destroyed into a million pieces. And even then, they would look red hot and form another planet in a short time.
I am one of your many fans Neil, hoping you help open many minds!
I've always heard they don't "Dodge" asteroids, they "Chevy" asteroids
So, what happens when you, "Ford," asteroids?
@@michaelccopelandsr7120 if you can Ford em, buy em
@@michaelccopelandsr7120
That’s when the asteroid breaks down.
You can get a sense that space is empty because IT'S CALLED SPACE
In the defense of the original trilogy that asteroid field Han Solo is navigating is a recently exploded planet. If anything what is wrong in that scene is that many of thise chunks should be piles of gooey lava that didnt have ebough time to cool down yet, but their proximity is expected and given how they were formed there is even a big possibility for them to coalesce again given a few million years and reforme Alderan.
Between this and Pluto, childhood totally jaded. Thanks Neil 😂
People think space is jam packed. I try to emphasize that all the stuff out there is super far away from each other. Even if there was intelligent life somewhere it is so so so far away as to be irrelevant. They always show planets in proportion to each other but they can't ever show the relative distance since they are no where near each other.
OMG, this episode is super fun!😍
I learned something new, today.
Thank you.
Chuck was on fire today! Loved the little Star Trek sketch he just made HAHAHAHAHAhahaha
Starsplaining at its finest.
Gotta love NdT.
Gracias
Chuck’s lining is on point
I was so glad to see this explainer. I'm always amused when I see things like How the Universe Works showing the solkar system crowded with rocks and protoplanets and such things when they are really huge distances apart.
I enjoy how you both explain the vastness of space, but in a super funny way. 😃
Droppin' 3 Score and 10, we see you Chuck ;)
Chuck, when there’s an alert however improbable, I get hooked on a feeling.
I love these guys star talking,love their knowledge and they are funny.Big Hi from southeastern europe.❤
LOL, my wife hit the only lamp post in an empty parking lot when learning to drive... LOL... :D
So much energy in the universe! But why do i feel so tired?
So lucky to watch the launches of Pioneer 1 and 2, and Voyager 1 and 2 from Titusville, Florida.
Thanks again. You guys are great 😂😂😂!
They missed their opportunity to name it Neil deGrAsteroid Tyson.
Chuck is the coolest man 😎
I can listen to you two brilliant men talk for an hour.
Neil👨🏽🏫 and chuck👨🏽 is literally the definition of "The whole being greater than the sum of it's parts"😊
Voyager space probe was a lead actor in the first Star Trek movie
Not only are yall informative but also hilarious. I feel like Im watching the smartest guy in school next to the smart class comedian in back of the class 😂🤣
Great!
thank you Neil and Chuck for the laughs.
Watching and laughing all the time! You are the best!
You both are F* AMAZING! Thank you!