I find it ironic that someone commented about this…and thinking immediately about how a couple of years ago I was high for the first time in ages, and was just sitting on the bed and had this sudden compulsion…and simply searched in RUclips “how does the sun work”…and spent the next week on a binge of space/astronomy documentaries
FOUND IT!!! “The sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do.”
Mann I have a forever Crush on Neil Like I have On Michael Jackson..Once you hear him You just can't get enough.. Classic Make you feel inspired to want to learn have better understanding & an appreciation for LIFE🥳💐
Related to the sun and moon light , 1 day a year at about 4:45 am crossing the Mackinaw bridge you can see the crest of the moon set and the rise of the sun at equal levels on both horizons, most amazing visual ever
Thank you Neil and Chuck for bringing light and laughter to a somewhat dry factual subject. I wish there could be more teams of educators who would bring laughter into education. I think a lot more kids would stay in school.
1:58 I hope they really do animate that fish speaking the words Chuck said. I doubt they will, but I hope they do. They also spoke of a short film I would like to see of the 8 minutes during which the sun has already vanished.
I LOVEEEEEEEEE these star talks sooo much. I wondered if it takes 8mins for the earth facing the sun to know that the sun was plucked out, what about the people on the other side of the planet?? What would they experience? And if something suddenly happened to the sun, would the folks on the ISS or satellites that are around the other planets know what’s happening sooner?
Other side of the planet would experience the effects fractions of a second later (0.04 seconds later if my math is correct) than the side facing the sun. Astronauts on the ISS would experience it 0.001 seconds before people on earth assuming the ISS is on the sun facing side of the earth.
@@dahleno2014 I think your name perfectly encapsulates you don't have really an arbiters perspective of what is funny. Do you think your name is funny, it sure makes me cringe and marvel at the lack of your education.
Doing the Billy Mays thing today... Billy's mom passed about 2pm today, and I check out Startalk and, but wait, there's more. Great explanation of the flares.
One of my own personal favorite little things about the Sun is prominences. I don't know if they're basically just flares that don't escape, but i like that they keep two ends on the Sun, and are lije a cosmic arch, or hurdle, that is big enough you could probably thread the Earth through it 😊
we need to know how and what Neil has done to ammas such a knowledgeable brain. What books did he read growing up does he recommend any books for aspiring astrophysicists any tips?
Neil and Chuck, can you guys please go over the next big coronal mass ejection and how it would affect our current electric grid and what to do to protect our grid, satellites, and modern technology & the consequences if we don’t? Pretty please!!!!
When the universe stretches, we in our galaxy do not stretch because of the gravity here keeping everything in place having more of a hold on us than the universe expanding. That pull of the universe expanding will eventually be so much it will pulls everything apart and keeps pulling and pulling. Eventually the smallest thing in the universe gets stretched to the point where it cant stretch anymore. Thats when you get the universe ripping for lack of a better word. It pulls itself apart. At that point we dont know what will happen but I think thats what caused the big bang and starts the cycle all over Thoughts?
In the video, at 3:18 Neil says "the planets will fling into Interstellar space" but my question is "will there be any influence of Jupiter's gravity and the gravity influence of their own and also will the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy still hold the planets in a orbit (obviously with the slightest of changes). I'M JUST SAYIN !!!
If the sun was taken by a giant and the planets skipped off into space, in a general direction, would the planets eventually be made part of another solar system? Would their gravities push or pull them apart and change their trajectories? How long would everyone on Earth still stay alive? Amazing subject Neil 👏👌 love the thoughts that follow.
So we wouldn't know for 8mins if the sun disappeared based on the light rays, but what about gravity. Is that constrained by the speed of light or would that take effect immediately?
I know, I saw a video on other physics channels and is scary in terms of our electronic based economy. Didn’t we dogged a big one on 2010 or 2012 that could have been bad?
@@Drahko12 I kind of remember hearing about one a little more recent then that that might have been an issue. But the thing is, ones that can cause real problems are pretty rare. Our sun doesn't put out many that big at all, and then even less of them pointed in our direction. It's for sure an issue we really should prepare for. But also one we won't likely experience in our lives. Which makes it sad that means we won't do anything. Just like with astroids and climate change.
The Great Global Warming Swindel (A documentary by BBC i want to say) talks about how much more the sun flare has an effect on global warming than carbon emission ever could, say nothing of events like super volcano's the earth survived high carbon emissions in the past (mass extincions of animals happened to be sure) but the Earth was fine.
@@dahleno2014 That "funny person" brings interest in a positive way to a somewhat dry subject. Take time to laugh it makes learning so much more interesting. I wish that there would have been many more teams of educators that present the facts with humor. I think a lot more kids would stay in school.
I could watch this man talk about any topic all day. So cool and informative! Maybe I'll start learning something useful on RUclips now that I've stumbled upon StarTalk!
Carl's Sagan's flatland being a 2D Circle and being taken to a 3D land and put back in and trying to explain a direction that doesn't exist in that realm.
Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote Flatland, the story about the circle/sphere amongst other parts, in 1884. Just for the record, not to diminish Sagan's retelling and further contributions to the "flatland" concept.
The Sun is a colossal entity, with a diameter about 109 times that of Earth and accounting for 99.86% of the solar system's mass. Its sheer size and gravitational pull are what keep our planetary system in motion. If the Sun were suddenly removed from its position, we wouldn't notice the change for about 8 minutes, which is the time it takes for sunlight to reach Earth. During "solar max," the peak of the Sun's 11-year cycle, solar activity increases, leading to more sunspots and solar flares. Sunspots are cooler regions on the Sun's surface caused by magnetic field disturbances, while solar flares are intense bursts of radiation that can disrupt satellites and communication systems on Earth. The Sun's interior is constantly in motion, and its poles flip every 11 years due to complex magnetic processes. Interestingly, deep-sea fish remain largely unaffected by solar changes, living in the perpetual darkness of the ocean depths. Given the Sun's profound impact on our planet and technology, how can we enhance our ability to predict and mitigate the effects of solar activity?
The light travel time to Earth is 8:20 average, because our distance changes with the seasons. It is 8:20 to Earth in the spring and then 8:30 in the summer. (Farther away - Yes farther) then 8:20 again in the Fall followed by only 8:10 in the winter. If you add the 4 times together and then divide by 4 you get 8:20. (Average) It is true that we are closer to the Sun in the winter but the tilt of Earth away from the sun (In the Northern Hemisphere) is what makes colder. Less direct light. In the summer the reverse is true so its hotter here in North America. Thank's Neil for telling people 8:20 and not 8:00 minutes. Light travels 186, 281.7 miles per second so those extra 20 seconds are significant. To round it off for miles per hour it is approximately 670 Million Miles per Hour. WOW ! (Just some added facts for your viewers.) 🙂
Why would it be 8 minutes and 20 seconds for gravity? I did not know that gravity travel at the speed of light I thought it was instantaneous? Are we talkin about the time it takes light to travel or the time it takes gravity?
Both, since the speed of light is also the maximum speed of "information". So any change that would cause a difference in gravity would only have consequences later the further the object is.
The tangent in the beginning about the fish being plucked out of the water, seeing the sun, and then getting tossed back in and told he's crazy when he describes the sun to all of the other fish is basically Plato's Allegory of the Cave. I'm kind of disappointed that wasn't called attention to.
Animators, please, PLEASE, bless us with that joke in an animated format.
Ricky Gervaise has one of his stories animated. "The Swimming Elephant"
{Dang! I can't find the version I liked!}
ruclips.net/video/dp3vVLEyH_Q/видео.html
@@AIChameleonMusic Thank you Vivi from FF9.
@@AIChameleonMusic Dude, that was great!
@@AIChameleonMusic The champ!
High Chuck is even better than sober Chuck. "I'm not crazy" and that skin blemishes joke just prove it.
Haha, just a little bit.
He is sometimes sober?
I find it ironic that someone commented about this…and thinking immediately about how a couple of years ago I was high for the first time in ages, and was just sitting on the bed and had this sudden compulsion…and simply searched in RUclips “how does the sun work”…and spent the next week on a binge of space/astronomy documentaries
@@trayolphia5756 See? You could be Chuck!
Or maybe you are Chuck??
Or maybe we all are Chuck... 😯
FOUND IT!!!
“The sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do.”
Mann I have a forever Crush on Neil Like I have On Michael Jackson..Once you hear him You just can't get enough.. Classic Make you feel inspired to want to learn have better understanding & an appreciation for LIFE🥳💐
Yassssss!
Related to the sun and moon light , 1 day a year at about 4:45 am crossing the Mackinaw bridge you can see the crest of the moon set and the rise of the sun at equal levels on both horizons, most amazing visual ever
Only wish my science professor would be like this. The class would be less boring and students would learn much more.
Once again what a brilliant lecture and fun facts on the workings of the Sun.
Thank you Neil and Chuck for bringing light and laughter to a somewhat dry factual subject. I wish there could be more teams of educators who would bring laughter into education. I think a lot more kids would stay in school.
Chuck T shirt with Neil quotes wow!!🤩
1:58 I hope they really do animate that fish speaking the words Chuck said. I doubt they will, but I hope they do. They also spoke of a short film I would like to see of the 8 minutes during which the sun has already vanished.
I LOVEEEEEEEEE these star talks sooo much. I wondered if it takes 8mins for the earth facing the sun to know that the sun was plucked out, what about the people on the other side of the planet?? What would they experience? And if something suddenly happened to the sun, would the folks on the ISS or satellites that are around the other planets know what’s happening sooner?
Other side of the planet would experience the effects fractions of a second later (0.04 seconds later if my math is correct) than the side facing the sun. Astronauts on the ISS would experience it 0.001 seconds before people on earth assuming the ISS is on the sun facing side of the earth.
I was hoping Neil give us some curiosities about CME, nonetheless great episode. Chuck was nice as always, I love his humor.
His humor is the primary reason I rarely watch these. He is so cringe.
@@dahleno2014 I think your name perfectly encapsulates you don't have really an arbiters perspective of what is funny. Do you think your name is funny, it sure makes me cringe and marvel at the lack of your education.
I’d like to see Neil debunk the Bermuda Triangle and other similar anomalies. I suspect it’s about conflicting magnetic fields. 🤔
Chuck you are the best 👌
The fish trying to explain to his fish friends what happened part 😂😂😂
Neil and Chuck have the funniest connection. The whole joke at the start about the fish experience of land had me cracking up
Doing the Billy Mays thing today... Billy's mom passed about 2pm today, and I check out Startalk and, but wait, there's more.
Great explanation of the flares.
What an enlightening video.
One of my own personal favorite little things about the Sun is prominences. I don't know if they're basically just flares that don't escape, but i like that they keep two ends on the Sun, and are lije a cosmic arch, or hurdle, that is big enough you could probably thread the Earth through it 😊
What an awesome "Sun Squeeze" video.
I knew so many things about Sun and still, Neil amazed me with so many new things! Cheers with that wine ripen by Sun!
Every time Chuck says Nice, he becomes Chuck Nice, just saying
we need to know how and what Neil has done to ammas such a knowledgeable brain. What books did he read growing up does he recommend any books for aspiring astrophysicists any tips?
Please do animate the "Fish Nice" sketch🙏👀
Love Chuck's tshirt
Iam here , I love this show so much
There was a DC comic mini series that explored what would happen if the Sun died. Worth a read.
Repeat upload 🤔I'd luv to have Dr Tyson as my Astronomy teacher back in the day👍🏿😎
Awesome stuff!!!!
Great job!
Love you guys!!! Thanks for the lessons!!! 🤓😎
That fish-out-of-water idiom is great. Maybe I should be less judgmental about hearing people's hard-to-believe experiences.
Love your books Neil keep it up I would love to meet you one day
Neil and Chuck, can you guys please go over the next big coronal mass ejection and how it would affect our current electric grid and what to do to protect our grid, satellites, and modern technology & the consequences if we don’t? Pretty please!!!!
Amazing indeed!
😂 Chuck’s right! And yes, animate that segment.
Please someone make this cartoon of the fish saying that lol it would be great !!
I want to know where Chuck got that shirt he's wearing. I want one.
It's StarTalk merchandise that you can buy on Fanjoy
@@carriecrockett2078 Thank you
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Chuck killed me with the fish!
That would be an amazing film.
Amazing
When the universe stretches, we in our galaxy do not stretch because of the gravity here keeping everything in place having more of a hold on us than the universe expanding. That pull of the universe expanding will eventually be so much it will pulls everything apart and keeps pulling and pulling. Eventually the smallest thing in the universe gets stretched to the point where it cant stretch anymore. Thats when you get the universe ripping for lack of a better word. It pulls itself apart. At that point we dont know what will happen but I think thats what caused the big bang and starts the cycle all over
Thoughts?
Bright subject, i love the sun and all the dynamics of its plasma amd megnetic field. thanks Neil...Hi Chuck ;..;/
you should check the x ray thing again, its a main feature of our sun a variable star.
In the video, at 3:18 Neil says "the planets will fling into Interstellar space" but my question is "will there be any influence of Jupiter's gravity and the gravity influence of their own and also will the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy still hold the planets in a orbit (obviously with the slightest of changes). I'M JUST SAYIN !!!
At which stage of the atmospheric thickness are we right now??? Just curious...
The intro about the fish coming out of water jeff Foxworthy had that in his routine
But wait there’s more 😱😍 Love you guys!
If the sun was taken by a giant and the planets skipped off into space, in a general direction, would the planets eventually be made part of another solar system? Would their gravities push or pull them apart and change their trajectories? How long would everyone on Earth still stay alive?
Amazing subject Neil 👏👌 love the thoughts that follow.
Very Nice Guys Very Nice
The intro could be a finding nemo sequal🤣
Yall rock!
So we wouldn't know for 8mins if the sun disappeared based on the light rays, but what about gravity. Is that constrained by the speed of light or would that take effect immediately?
Please make that animation!
Here comes the Fun.....
Genius and hilarious at the same time!!!!
Yo the title lured me here 🤣
5:38 you mean sun and the moon :P
While looking at the night stars with my 4 yr old, I asked him what his favorite star is. He said the sun. I've never been so proud.
You should be. 👍😉
"I´m serious man!!" - love you chuck
😂
Dude I'm not crazy lol
100%
Sry to bring it here, but my heart weeps when a WM tells a BM he loves them. Now I love you, bro.
This just made my day♥️🌹❤️🌟💕💞♥️💙🌷
@@feretard6817 ruclips.net/video/NZ_fiAQxAHI/видео.html
Oh my goodness- the urge I feel to animate the fish. I have stuff planned, but I just might.
do it
@@lautabott_uy That settles it- I'm speedrunning finishing my current project, and animating the fish.
Yes, notify us here once you're done
DO IT DO IT
Yes please! I need this.
As much as I love guests on this show, best editions are with Neil and chuck. Period
Yep
Chuck can be annoying and interruptive....lol
Challenge accepted . I will animate chuck’s voice on a star fish telling all the nemos in the ocean that
I hope you do it! And send it to Chuck so it gets an airing on StarTalk. You may even get him to voice it.
9:26 i feel like Neil avoided saying the actual catastrophe those solar flares can cause to not send his audience into mass panic 🤣😶🤫
I know, I saw a video on other physics channels and is scary in terms of our electronic based economy. Didn’t we dogged a big one on 2010 or 2012 that could have been bad?
@@Drahko12 I kind of remember hearing about one a little more recent then that that might have been an issue. But the thing is, ones that can cause real problems are pretty rare. Our sun doesn't put out many that big at all, and then even less of them pointed in our direction. It's for sure an issue we really should prepare for. But also one we won't likely experience in our lives. Which makes it sad that means we won't do anything. Just like with astroids and climate change.
The Great Global Warming Swindel (A documentary by BBC i want to say) talks about how much more the sun flare has an effect on global warming than carbon emission ever could, say nothing of events like super volcano's the earth survived high carbon emissions in the past (mass extincions of animals happened to be sure) but the Earth was fine.
The only channel on youtube I wish the videos were longer.
The only channel on RUclips I wish that the “funny” person wasn’t a part of
@@dahleno2014 That "funny person" brings interest in a positive way to a somewhat dry subject. Take time to laugh it makes learning so much more interesting. I wish that there would have been many more teams of educators that present the facts with humor. I think a lot more kids would stay in school.
Always being schooled by this channel. Seriously, some one animate chucks fish story🤣
Fish…school… school of fish.
I see what you did there😉
“That's amazing!” So is Neil. The volume of information he holds in his head and the beautiful way he expresses it to the rest of us.
These explainers should be globally mandatory!
I know I'm repeating myself, but what can I say... it's a cycle.
I could watch this man talk about any topic all day. So cool and informative! Maybe I'll start learning something useful on RUclips now that I've stumbled upon StarTalk!
ruclips.net/video/NZ_fiAQxAHI/видео.html
I like Chuck's humor and I love his shirt. "Science is true whether or not you like it" something like that.
Chuck was going to say, ‘as moody as my wife?’…..🤣🤣🤣🤣
Carl's Sagan's flatland being a 2D Circle and being taken to a 3D land and put back in and trying to explain a direction that doesn't exist in that realm.
Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote Flatland, the story about the circle/sphere amongst other parts, in 1884. Just for the record, not to diminish Sagan's retelling and further contributions to the "flatland" concept.
I love how animated Neil's explanations are💜 I can imagine crazy concepts thanks to that.
Please go over the suns whole life cycle, from beginning to end
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson is officially the king of RUclips thumbnails!🔥👑🔥
Just wanted to say Neil . You and Chuck have brought my joy for science and curiosity of nature back with all your episodes . Ohh and Michio Kaku
I love when Neil just goes on...
I learnt something new today thanks to Neil.
Chuck is always entertaining, great double act.
For every video of Startalk I watch, I gain +1 IQ. I need 79 more to become the world's smartest person.
That’d been funny if after 8 minutes and 20 seconds the podcast just went black…. Lol
Watching Chuck's eyes light up, and face remorse as he realized he had a "that time of the month" joke, but wasn't allowed to make it, is priceless.
I was SO waiting for that joke to drop, but I guess he caught himself...
Neil: "were gonna get someone who will animate a fish with those exact words"
You got it man
shark tales 2
fish are often abducted by aliens and returned, (we're the aliens)
Those 'where the Sun don't shine' still need the Sun for survival!
Love me some explainer videos, wishing them to last an hour long! Thank you!
The Sun is a colossal entity, with a diameter about 109 times that of Earth and accounting for 99.86% of the solar system's mass. Its sheer size and gravitational pull are what keep our planetary system in motion. If the Sun were suddenly removed from its position, we wouldn't notice the change for about 8 minutes, which is the time it takes for sunlight to reach Earth. During "solar max," the peak of the Sun's 11-year cycle, solar activity increases, leading to more sunspots and solar flares. Sunspots are cooler regions on the Sun's surface caused by magnetic field disturbances, while solar flares are intense bursts of radiation that can disrupt satellites and communication systems on Earth. The Sun's interior is constantly in motion, and its poles flip every 11 years due to complex magnetic processes. Interestingly, deep-sea fish remain largely unaffected by solar changes, living in the perpetual darkness of the ocean depths. Given the Sun's profound impact on our planet and technology, how can we enhance our ability to predict and mitigate the effects of solar activity?
The light travel time to Earth is 8:20 average, because our distance changes with the seasons. It is 8:20 to Earth in the spring and then 8:30 in the summer. (Farther away - Yes farther) then 8:20 again in the Fall followed by only 8:10 in the winter. If you add the 4 times together and then divide by 4 you get 8:20. (Average) It is true that we are closer to the Sun in the winter but the tilt of Earth away from the sun (In the Northern Hemisphere) is what makes colder. Less direct light. In the summer the reverse is true so its hotter here in North America. Thank's Neil for telling people 8:20 and not 8:00 minutes. Light travels 186, 281.7 miles per second so those extra 20 seconds are significant. To round it off for miles per hour it is approximately 670 Million Miles per Hour. WOW ! (Just some added facts for your viewers.) 🙂
We are still waiting for you to debate Eric Dubay.... Any moment now Neil.... You are blowing my mind with your deception.....
Somebody please animate that...
Like, immediately!
There actually is a Georgian short film titled "8 Minutes". It's about dying sun and the last 8 minutes on the earth.
I think you guys should play a video game together because it would be really funny and educational.
The fish out of water rant was one of Chucks best!
So gravity also travels at speed of light? Wow didn't know that.
Yeah me neither, but I guess if gravitational waves exist it would make sense they'd travel at the speed of light.
I’d like the see that animation. I’d recommend JohnnyEthco.
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Please keep making these! you learn something and Chuck can sketch situations that are hilarious its perfect
That story exists. Check out Howard Fast, Zen Stories.
great thumbnail "hot nerd summer" lol
(hot girl summer for those who dont know the phrase)
Why would it be 8 minutes and 20 seconds for gravity? I did not know that gravity travel at the speed of light I thought it was instantaneous? Are we talkin about the time it takes light to travel or the time it takes gravity?
Gravity moves at the speed of light.
Max Speed limit of universe is c, even gravitational force is limited by that...
Both, since the speed of light is also the maximum speed of "information". So any change that would cause a difference in gravity would only have consequences later the further the object is.
I hate that the show is this short! I could listen to Neil for hours at a time!
The tangent in the beginning about the fish being plucked out of the water, seeing the sun, and then getting tossed back in and told he's crazy when he describes the sun to all of the other fish is basically Plato's Allegory of the Cave. I'm kind of disappointed that wasn't called attention to.
Basically, Chuck Nice, comic, is a genius.