I find it wild that griffin knows the area of the Pacific ocean off by heart, like travis drops the target size and immediately Griffin says"thats fucking fair, its only 63 million sqaure miles" I thought he was goofin', but I looked it up and sure enough its 63.8 million sq. Miles. It makes it even funnier to me, like griffin took it as a personal affront that taco bell would disrespect the Pacific ocean
lmao that's just what it's like when the mcelroys talk about anything ur an expert at. gotta say tho, im about as ignorant about this stuff as they are, so i gotta ask: exactly what did they get so wrong?
@@BaskervilleLacie The things that really stood out to me were that Mir was a Russian station so NASA wasn't too involved, it was going to mostly burn up on reentry and couldn't level any cities or anything, and that it was intentionally deorbited. There was nobody on board at the time and it was known to a pretty good degree of accuracy where the core would splash down, too. Taco Bell hedged their bets and put their platform way out of the way.
@@cyberbrunk so in a way they were right, at least about Taco Bell being an unscrupulous corporation. The McElroy Brothers: super wrong about science stuff, really good at knowing how shitty fast food chains are. The one thing I still don't get though, it if burnt up on re-entry, how did it land anywhere? Did some of it not burn up? Like, you say it couldn't level a city, but let's say your boat way in the exact wrong place. Could it take a person?
@@ckillgore Those boys know them a fast food marketing scheme And good question! There was actually a solid metal core from the station framework that survived reentry, but it wouldn't have been any larger than a few meters across. For sure enough to ruin your day if it hit your house, but not as bad as the huge basketball court sized hunk of metal Mir started out as
@@cyberbrunk a few meters?! I'm hoping there was some kind of international procedure for keeping the potential area of impact clear of people. Like hopefully air-traffic and boats were told ahead of time not to go anywhere close to the expected splash point until after the impact had been confirmed. Does an impact like that create any kind of waves that would be noticable on the shores of Chile?
This posted and threw a notification at me legitimately the EXACT same time that this EXACT segment started while I was listening to this episode on the podcast app like some higher fantastical being of pure power needed to make SURE I listened to Taco Bell space math
Right? I was listening back to this one and when it kicked into high gear at the end there (Juice dropping that it landed near Chile) it was gut-busting. Genuinely fantastic bit.
I know this is hardly the most important part of the bit, but I must ask, WHY did Griffin know the *exact* area of the pacific ocean off the top of his head?
This whole concept is so wild to me, I love everything about it. The fact that they missed by half the planet?? *Chefs kiss* Perfection.
I find it wild that griffin knows the area of the Pacific ocean off by heart, like travis drops the target size and immediately Griffin says"thats fucking fair, its only 63 million sqaure miles" I thought he was goofin', but I looked it up and sure enough its 63.8 million sq. Miles. It makes it even funnier to me, like griffin took it as a personal affront that taco bell would disrespect the Pacific ocean
As an aerospace engineer I finally understand what all the horse people are talking about with these boys being so funny but so wrong
lmao that's just what it's like when the mcelroys talk about anything ur an expert at. gotta say tho, im about as ignorant about this stuff as they are, so i gotta ask: exactly what did they get so wrong?
@@BaskervilleLacie The things that really stood out to me were that Mir was a Russian station so NASA wasn't too involved, it was going to mostly burn up on reentry and couldn't level any cities or anything, and that it was intentionally deorbited. There was nobody on board at the time and it was known to a pretty good degree of accuracy where the core would splash down, too. Taco Bell hedged their bets and put their platform way out of the way.
@@cyberbrunk so in a way they were right, at least about Taco Bell being an unscrupulous corporation. The McElroy Brothers: super wrong about science stuff, really good at knowing how shitty fast food chains are.
The one thing I still don't get though, it if burnt up on re-entry, how did it land anywhere? Did some of it not burn up? Like, you say it couldn't level a city, but let's say your boat way in the exact wrong place. Could it take a person?
@@ckillgore Those boys know them a fast food marketing scheme
And good question! There was actually a solid metal core from the station framework that survived reentry, but it wouldn't have been any larger than a few meters across. For sure enough to ruin your day if it hit your house, but not as bad as the huge basketball court sized hunk of metal Mir started out as
@@cyberbrunk a few meters?! I'm hoping there was some kind of international procedure for keeping the potential area of impact clear of people. Like hopefully air-traffic and boats were told ahead of time not to go anywhere close to the expected splash point until after the impact had been confirmed.
Does an impact like that create any kind of waves that would be noticable on the shores of Chile?
thank you for including the picture it makes this bit so much better lol
This posted and threw a notification at me legitimately the EXACT same time that this EXACT segment started while I was listening to this episode on the podcast app like some higher fantastical being of pure power needed to make SURE I listened to Taco Bell space math
I hadn't seen the picture...That makes it so much better.
This might be my favourite mbmbam bit ever. It’s one of the smaller collection that make me genuinely laugh out loud _every_ time I listen to it.
Right? I was listening back to this one and when it kicked into high gear at the end there (Juice dropping that it landed near Chile) it was gut-busting. Genuinely fantastic bit.
What would have happened if aliens showed up to our planet like "we saw your ocean ad for free tacos what's up?"
I know this is hardly the most important part of the bit, but I must ask, WHY did Griffin know the *exact* area of the pacific ocean off the top of his head?
Well, he does pretty actively google stuff related to their topics throughout the show, so that’d be my guess
Thanks so much for making these clips! They’re great!
Chile for the win weono!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This was the only time during 2001 when people were EXCITED about something crashing out of the sky