Spot when the Sun sets - QI Series 8 Ep 15 Hypnosis, Hallucinations & Hysteria Preview - BBC One
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Stephen Fry asks his guests to spot when the Sun sets.
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The best part of this episode was at the end. Stephen was thanking the guests for appearing, when, under the sound of applause, Phil pointed to himself and forlornly mouthed the words: "I'm not here".
'i dare say that the drivers of New Zealand as they see the sun setting, are reassured to know... that it's not ther :) '
"I HATE this show... Cause this sun is THERE and you're like "NO". You - it's the SUN -! 'Not there! Miraaaaaaaaaage!'" XD
MsStarsea One of Phil’s gems
MsStarsea i grew up in Scotland and they are there
*Change that to “I hate Phil”. Much more accurate
0:40 the look on Phil’s face looks like he’s saying “This better be good, Melchett”
I love Phil's impressions of Stephen
I love this clip. Every time I watch, Phill has me belly-laughing!
I would watch a program with just Phill and Fry.
never cringed so hard from a comment
@@ttvdizturb3d I'm sure he cares really
@@ttvdizturb3d what a strange little comment you made
In Sweden we have the Sun very low in the sky in wintertime, blinding us especially if there is snow. But I always comfort myself with knowing that it is NOT THERE.
Left out the funniest bit with the question about the staircase shape "it's not there"
There was never that bit it was a mirrage
Love the way he says "miraaage"
2:51 had me in stitches
Phil was fantastic in this. love his Fry impression...
I think Stephen finally broke Phil...I want to give him a hug.
‘Speeded up, obviously’
Lol why is this so funny
i have watched this clip so many times and it still makes me laugh everytime lol
hehe...Ronnie was finally funny with her Scottish mirage line.
NOOO....NOT THEEERE....MIRAAAGEEE
0:36 Just look at this short moment when Phil does this tiny smile. This is the moment when a comedy pro has an idea and knows he will dig comedy gold.
So if you were driving in New Zealand, and some loon drives into you and gives the reason "the sun shone in my eyes" you could say "actually, the sun wasn't there, so you're wrong", you could win the case as you'd be right!
I just cry with laughter at this show.
Stephen's tie is amazing!
The sarcasm and logical quip of the sun is not there.
And I dare say the drivers of New Zealand when they see the sun setting, are reassured to know.. that it’s not there.
Classic 😂
Stephen's tie=all kinds of awesome.
anyone else notice when alan is talking about new zealand he speaks in a aussie accent
Phill Jupitus is my spirit animal.
best show on tv!
Yay! I would have gotten this one right!
They missed the bit after where Stephen asks 'What is strange about this stair case' and phil jupitus says 'I know, its not there!'
I pressed my buzzer at 0:16.
So when I drive in NZ, get caught by sunstrike and crash, at least I can think to myself "It's not there..."
so happy he's talking about new zealand
"that it's not there" XD
They're all looking at him like he's purely mad.
MAD I SAY!!
Interesting
@opryhunter Probably the reverse. When you first see it peek above the horizon it is already fully above it.
@MrBuch169169 I knew I couldn't be the only one!
Exactly those two moments as well, kudos :)
Alan Davies's comment about New Zealand's being so far south as to cause problems with sun reflections off roads is fascinating. Complete nonsense, of course, since all of Great Britain is further north of the equator than any of New Zealand is south of the equator. (Slope Point, NZ is 46°40' S latitude; Lizard Point is 49.96° N latitude.)
The real issue is that the sun sometimes shines in New Zealand and never* does in Great Britain, not the angle of the sunlight relative to the surface.
* For sufficiently approximate values of "never". 8-)
Also a lot more of England is more densely forested and populated by cities and skyscrapers than… New Zealand
There are certain times of the year when I’ve had to pull over in the car because I can’t see the road ahead of me due to the sun. I live in the Southern most point of NZ
Phil (standing in front of a mirror): "OMG, there is someone standing right in front of me, who looks EXACTLY like me and copies everything I do PERFECTLY".
Stephen: "No, it's just your reflection. The mirror reflects the light".
Phil: "But I can see him with my own eyes and you are telling me that he is NOT there".
The sun's light takes about 8 minutes to reach the Earth, so the moment of Sun setting is eight minutes before moment Stephen pointed out.
@opryhunter yep! It's the complete opposite effect so the sun appears before it's actually geometrically risen.
Miraaaage!
not there when we do. same geometry of passing through the atmosphere at a low angle raising the sun.
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ok, so how does this affect vampires?
They're not there
@@RGBeanie Mirage
This is one of those QI facts that I'm going to refute for the sake of my mental health. It's up there with that 'two moons' madness.
@midnightdigg because I think, that it hasn't been shown on the BBC yet so therefore it can't be on the iPlayer. Don't worry it'll be there in a few days.
@Canadianabanana im guessing that it is the sun and not a mirage, look at the sun when it hits the horizon (0:16) and you see a tip of a "mirror image" at the bottom so i'd guess that is where it actually is still 'the sun' and not the mirage. so as it gets closer to the horizon the light starts to bend more (because the angle becomes more shallow) and thats when see the mirage. But thats just how i figure it.
@Mx41204 I'm two weeks late on this, but he's actually pretty damn smart. He plays the naive simpleton role for QI, but I dare say he's usually the smartest one around the table other than Fry.
This is the absolute best qi moment in my opinion
+Milena Z,
Perhaps on par with the giant tortoise...
Blue whale?
Jack Dee's comment about female comedians is the greatest one-liner.
LOVE THIS ONE TOO
That is a crazy fact for sure... my jaw dropped actually.. will remember this to teach my grandchildren =) So they too, can hate this show and the sun...
Funny, every time I hear someone from Britain attempting a New Zealand accent, it sounds Australian to me (I'm a NZer by the way).
That's cos we don't know the difference. I've also noticed that Americans mix up British and Aussie accents, probably cos we both call other people "mate" (well in Britain, it's mainly working class men in SE England who use that word).
I wonder if they are taking into consideration that light takes a bit longer than 8 minutes to reach the earth.. So we're also seeing the sun in the position in was in 8 minutes ago.
Except the Sun isn't moving; the Earth is.
Well it is, just not relative to us.
Not even Flight of Conchords, I'm afraid.
I think the clip is the end of THX-1138. I haven't seen it in awhile. Looks fimiliar though.
@SlappaDeBassMon Perhaps we don't get enough exposure to NZ accents in the UK. Similar to how some Americans think that there are only two English accents - RP and cockney, since most exported TV and film contains those accents.
@navierstalks GB is latitudes 50-60, NZ is 34-47, that's like the difference between Great Britain and Spain. Do Spanish drivers suffer sunstrike? NZ has higher sunshine and higher rainfall than GB. In the same day you can have an early afternoon rain shower, and then drive home into the setting sun reflecting off the rain slicked roads. Forgetting your sunglasses in conditions like that is deadly.
@CommandLineCowboy You're right. When I said they were the same distance from the equator, I was being generous to the guy in the video. In fact, GB is further from the equator than NZ, which makes him even more of an idiot. Higher rain and higher sunshine is a good point, if true, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the video. He was talking about the angle of the rays. The angle is closer to the perpendicular in NZ than in GB, making him flat out wrong.
@Mx41204 btw, MST3K Mantra is "Relax, it's just a show." Although (most of) the info they give is right, it's a comedy show through and through.
@navierstalks Yes, but the earth doesn't sit upright in relation to the sun, it's tilted on its axis.
@UncleGweilo
I never said if the sun sets or not, I was merely speaking of optics and the effects of light in accordance with one's vision. Also I'm well aware of the mechanics of heliocentrism and have no need for an explanation.
@suckfuldodger Welll... it was Alan who said it.
I've genuinely only ever heard one New Zealander (Jarred Christmas) talk but I've heard countless Australians. I guess that's why we do it!
Watch Flight of the Concords - a great Kiwi show.
0:35 is all of us. "Wut?"
Aww, poor Phil...
hmmmm... it's this sunset spot thing the same all over the world? or this happens just in the equator? Too bad this isn't aired in my country I love this show
So in other countries the road doesn’t get super bright when the sun is on it?
@durbst3r Am I missing something here? The bloke in the video doesn't say anything about the blinding phenomenon being seasonal. The angle of the sun's rays in the UK in June should be roughly the same as those in NZ in December, and likewise for the rest of the year.
There's also that the sun's 8 light minutes away from earth, so that would delay it too.
Well yes, you could say that you are seeing the sun as it was 8 minutes ago.
@TheBakers7 It's not there.
Mirage.
@navierstalks First of all, MST3K mantra.
He talked about it for 20 seconds. He's not an expert, definitely doesn't know all the details, but I'm sure it exists. He says it happens in New Zealand, not 'only' there, and it probably is seasonal, because around December and January, New Zealand is one of the closest countries to the Sun, so it can't happen then with the conditions he described.
Also, it's Alan freaking Davies. There's a reason he's in every show and it's not because he's smart =))
What shape is this staircase?
does that mean that at any time of the day, wherever the sun appears to be its actually a few cm(to our eyes not the real distance) beside what we see.
But what a mood dampener, 'don't you just love the sun set Oliver'
'Yes dear, but it has actually set... what you see is a mirage...'
@MrSlingdad Ronni Ancona
Horizon is above the skyline. I would've got points for that.
I'm not a sciencey-physicsy dude so.... If I were at a location in which the sun passed directly overhead, assuming the earth rotates at a constant speed, would it not appear that the sun had sped up or slowed down at some point when moving closer to the horizon?
@HojoOSanagi Actually the sun does not set. We rotate around so you can't see the sun for around 12 hours.
@WeShallNeverStop Wrong episode, go to the "Quickfire Hypotheticals" episode.
When does the sun start becoming a mirage though? Like, @0:13 for instance. Is that the sun? Or a mirage?
wait so sun strike doesnt happen in other places ?
stroke
Not even flight of the Conchords?
lol!
@Gdansk8121 I thumbs uped this without thinking too much but now I think you're wrong. It is irrelevant that the sun's light takes 8 minutes to reach us, because the sun sets due to the spinning of the earth, not any motion of the sun, so it is like a fixed point relative to the earth, the time the light takes to reach us makes no difference.
@damnbestbal won't let you watch it??!! that's sacrilige!!! well, welcome to the world of the people who are generally ignorant. you will learn, laugh, share, and love this programme.
What about the sunrise? Are we seeing the sun before it's actually up?, if so, the immediate light from it is light from a mirage? There must be a few minutes of mirage light before the actual sunlight. :)
Is zero an odd number or an even number??? ;D
Patryk Wieczorek Even. It meets all the criteria for it to be so.
I think we all heard it thumbtopfraggers...
M I R A A A G E . . . :D
@SnowManxzz Lol why would it be Top Gear?
Janey Carr, Jimmy Carr's less well known sister.
@dailysendage Yeah, but then poor Alan wound be gone on the first game ;'C
Is there anything Dubledore does NOT know?
What about the fact that it takes 8 mins for the sun's light to hit our eyes? Then it sets when it's touching the horizon minus 8 minutes
Too late!
@CodenameJD The problem is, our visual systems regularly lie to us about the outside world. The plethora of Optical illusions available to us proves this.
It's true and yet NZ could be a mirage and always under the horizon lol
check it out, steve's got hair.... long hair!
ITS NOT THERE
It takes 8 minutes for the light to reach earth from the sun, so say it turns blue one day, we would see that happen 8 minites after it did. Also, quite an interesting fact, half of the stars you see in the sky could have died 200 years ago and aren't actually there, because theyre so far away it takes ages for light to get to us.
Actually the sun set much earlier. The Sun is half a degree wide and in order to circle 360 degrees in 24 hours it much go 30 Sun-widths in an hour, or its own width every 2 minutes. In addition the Sun is about 8 light-minutes away from the Earth. So when the Sun has in reality set we see it 4 solar widths above the horizon.
All of Britain is further North than New Zealand is South...
+Tim Stanton The Earth's axis of rotation is tilted, not vertical.
Tim Is right. I live in Dunedin, towards the south of South Island, it has nearly the same(but southerly) latitude as Bordeaux, but not as warm, we get a cold ocean current. The sun does seem more fierce here, that might be the hole in the ozone layer, or maybe just less shit in the air.
it was a mirage from the beginning actually you can see the distortion and the red color. then u are seeing a mirage of a mirage once the image breaks up and distorts more. Light is bending yes but within a concave earth and it bends along the magnetic field. understand that it only appears to set and if u increase the altitude the sun hasn’t actually set and there is more horizon beyond the capabilities of your mortal eyes perceive. if u go up and get a 360 view you will see horizon at eye level creating a bowl the horizon never drops below eye level in any circumstance so no it ain’t flat and it ain’t a ball and yes this mythic atmosphere that bends light prove it. magnetism is proven to bend light.