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@RHCole

Жыл бұрын

A *massive* bonus pack you say? 🤔 ["Oh shit, I'm sorry... mmm" meme]

@onbedoeldekut1515

Жыл бұрын

I'd rather not, ta.

@Not_a_Lizard_

Жыл бұрын

@@sirmiles1820 Good game with an absolute shitshow of an economy. It's the only game I've ever played that actively punishes you for trying to win.

@XtreeM_FaiL

Жыл бұрын

@@Not_a_Lizard_ It is the Russian way.

@williambowling8211

Жыл бұрын

Pluto and Charon are not drunk dancers! They are sober contra dancers executing a balance and swing.

By the time the Persephone mission gets to Pluto and Charon, Simon *might* have decided he has enough KZread channels 🤣

@BirdOfHermes8381

Жыл бұрын

Never!

@twonumber22

Жыл бұрын

About once a month for the last few years I've found a new Simon channel. How many more are out there? or maybe I shouldn't ask how the sausage is made

@thisguy7227

Жыл бұрын

@@twonumber22 there's a lot. I got caught in an algorithm trap a few weeks back where all my video suggestions were all his channels.

@nyetloki

Жыл бұрын

Why do they keep sending the gods wives to check up on them?

@ADobbin1

Жыл бұрын

At this point I think he's merely being paid by people else to host them. He has an ability to speak to the camera and keep you engrossed most people don't have.

"A plan to give Uranus a Hard probing" Simon emphasised the word Hard, he knew what he was doing 😉

@jacobprice2579

Жыл бұрын

I plan to give Uranus a hard probing tonight. Cocktails and telescopes are a fun mix.

@TheIamyourmother

Жыл бұрын

The Uranus jokes on these videos are relentless.

@jacobprice2579

Жыл бұрын

@@TheIamyourmother Uranus is never-ending.

@usonumabeach300

Жыл бұрын

Don't threaten me with a good time

@Goldenwhitewings

Жыл бұрын

Who’s Simon

I refuse to believe that Charon isnt hiding a Mass Relay.

@Brandon_McHuge

Жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment. Thank you

@Journey_Awaits

Жыл бұрын

I got a bad feeling about it

@Suralin0

Жыл бұрын

*Angry Reaper noises intensify*

@bamylicious

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@TheAmbex

Жыл бұрын

Cerberus here, it will be ok.

Pluto wasn't demoted. It was reclassified.

I love how Simon works a probing Uranus joke in most of these astrographics videos. My inner child is entertained.

@cjpolett2055

Жыл бұрын

We need to evolve past these jokes and properly rename it to Urectum

@BirdOfHermes8381

Жыл бұрын

@@cjpolett2055 badumpa! 🥁

@iainballas

Жыл бұрын

​@@cjpolett2055 Let's just cut to the chase, and name it "Space Butt". Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Space Butt, Neptune.

@wiseoldfool

Жыл бұрын

@@cjpolett2055 Urectum? You damn near killed 'im!

@guyvanarsdall7686

Жыл бұрын

My inner child perused the comments JUST to see who else remarked on the Uranus joke!

Love Pluto and Charon. Sadly Pluto got demoted on my birthday, but though it might have been a loss for planets it was a huge win for dwarf planets, which people never thought much about before. Love the videos!

@RevinSOR13

Жыл бұрын

Ohana means Family. And Family means Nobody is left behind.

@jondunmore4268

Жыл бұрын

People have to stop using the word "demoted" - even Simon. Pluto got RE-CLASSIFIED.

@BirdOfHermes8381

Жыл бұрын

Little people planets.

@InvestmentJoy

Жыл бұрын

Wasn't a real demotion, just a re categorization. Our understanding of 'planet' has changed a bunch since 1930. If pluto is a major planet, then we have 26 and more to come, if it's a dwarf planet, then we have 8 major and 22 dwarfs with more to come. There currently is a very, very likely change on the horizon to change pluto to a 'binary planet' as Simon mentioned in the video.

@colleenforrest7936

Жыл бұрын

@@InvestmentJoy There was no sudden change in our "understanding". It was just a reclassification. And no one yet has justified with a scientific argument why the number of planets in our solar system is an issue. The major argument is that it's too much for school children to memorize. The same school children who have no problem memorizing all the state's and their capitals, all the Countries and the multiplication tables? That's the age when you are supposed to memorize lots of things

These subsurface oceans (though still technically speculative) are endlessly fascinating. Would love to see missions to here, Enceladus, Titan and several other moons. I think it's rapidly getting easier and cheaper.

@alanwright7498

Жыл бұрын

As much as I'd love to see a mission to Enceladus, I think it is probably a sterile place(and it really pains me to say this).

@MrEnjoivolcom1

Жыл бұрын

@@alanwright7498 I dunno about _sterile_ but I will say that more attention and hopes for possible life, all backed by the science and factual data (as we understand it) currently available to us, is given to Europa, Titan, Mars, Venus. Enceladus may be more viable for life than all our possibilities, but you're correct in implying a lot of scientists merely push it to the wayside, _especially_ after Europa. This particular Jovian satellite simply takes the cake when it comes to talks of life out there within our very own [solar] system.

@rolandthethompsongunner64

Жыл бұрын

Sure. If you can wait ten years or more. 😂

@raidkoast

Жыл бұрын

It probably won't happen in any of our lifetimes but I'd like to see a future with drovers on every terrestrial moon. The scale of such a mission would be insane though.

@michaelworkman4057

Жыл бұрын

@@raidkoast might just happen in our lifetime, space agencies, both public and private, are growing quickly in quantity and quality

Charon in Greek mythology was the ferryman for the dead, ferrying them across the river Styx into the Underworld.

@DebTheDevastator

Жыл бұрын

Nyx is the Goddess of the night and Charons mother. Kerberos or Cerberus the three headed dog and guard of the Underworld. And last but not least Hydra lived in the lake of Lerna which was an entrance to the Underworld. Love that scientists named them in the order you would see them if you went to the Underworld.

@urikorsikov843

8 ай бұрын

Don't pay the ferryman. Don't even fix a price. Don't pay the ferryman Until he gets you to the other side.

@mr.pavone9719

Ай бұрын

​@@urikorsikov843 The Ferryman: You're not getting in my boat till I get my 2 pennies.

Astronomer who discovered Pluto’s moon wanted to name it after wife. Naming council said, “No. That’s crass.” Astronomer: “Ok Ok. I’ll name it Charon from Greek mythology. In theme with Pluto, he carries the souls of those who have been given funeral rites across the rivers Acheron and Styx, which separate the worlds of the living and the dead.” Council: “Whew. Thanks, that’s better. By the way, what is your wife’s name anyway?” Astronomer: “It’s Sharon.” Maybe true story. I heard this from my 8th grade science teacher.

@truecrimelover2022

Жыл бұрын

🤣😂

@autarchex

Жыл бұрын

According to infallible Wikipedia her name was Charlene but she went by "Char" and 'Charon' was his attempt to render her name in a science-y fashion; to his later delight discovered the mythological aspect to the name which he thought he had made up.

@merky6004

Жыл бұрын

@@autarchex You are The Wind Beneath My Wings. I was afraid to look it up and find l was full of it.

@vladt7150

Жыл бұрын

Always had my doubts on that story tbh, given that the ancient greek pronounication of the mythological "Charon" would apparently be closer sounding to "KAR-ron" or "HAR-ron", which to my ear doesn't really rhyme well with Sharon IMO... 🤔

@toddkurzbard

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, he was less successful in getting the 2nd moon named, "Osbourne".

Pluto and Charon aren't facing each other. They're back to back because they've been together too long.

@higuysitsmepluto4445

3 ай бұрын

I think it happened sometime between their engagement and their marriage

Remember to mark down your calendars for 2149 when humanity discovers that Charon is in fact a frozen Mass Relay that will allow the Systems Alliance and humanity as a whole to join galactic society and find a place on the Citadel.

Man, the outer solar system is peak awesome. These distant worlds speak to the imagination in ways that few other things can. The Kuiper belt being so distant is a curse however, it takes a decade to get there. I have high hopes for the Persephone mission. New Horizons was something that I spend a good chunk of my developing years anxiously waiting for. I bored so many people to tears gushing about how cool that mission was. Let's hope that we make some good progress at getting things to the outer solar system faster, way faster. I'd like to see these worlds get studied before I end up back in diapers.

Every time Simon said Charon, all I heard was Ozzy yelling "Sharron!!".

Charon is actually a frozen mass relay

His wife thought he was being sweet. His thoughts tho, 'oh I big ball of ice and methane? Sounds like my wife!' 🤣

1:15 - Chapter 1 - Two of a kind 5:20 - Mid roll ads 6:35 - Chapter 2 - Born in fire 10:25 - Chapter 3 - The ferryman 13:55 - Chapter 4 - Land of eternal night 18:05 - Chapter 5 - Rebirth

@higueraft571

Жыл бұрын

Literally reads as Ultrakill level names... Amazing

@Emira_75

Жыл бұрын

​@@higueraft571 "middle of the roll advertisements"

I love this pair, possibly my favorite two objects in our star system. They seem like such an odd couple, we can only imagine how cool they would be up close.

@feiryfella

Жыл бұрын

They're a planetary system in minature!

@higuysitsmepluto4445

3 ай бұрын

It's a lot like Joker and Harley Quinn

“Moonlets” To damn cure

First journey into the Whistlerverse today! Epic. Cheers from Tennessee

To be fair, Pluto is pretty eerie, as well.

Sharon? We say CHaron with a ch as in lochness, As in the boatsman, "Who pays the ferryman?".

@matthewdavies2057

Жыл бұрын

The moon is named after the discovers wife, Charlene so both of yours are wrong.

I was binge watching all of the planet videos and suddenly realised that this is very recent, nice

I'm 100% sure there is a mass relay in the center of Charon for humanity to use for instance space travel.

Big reason the new mission will take so long isn't that it MUST go slower by definition but that its budget has been seriously underfunded to where it can't be launched on a rocket large enough to carry the fuel and engines needed to go faster. Economics, not fundamental physics, determine the speed at which it will fly. It's like your employer saying you'll get funding to lease an e-bike for your 50km commute because they won't give you the budget for a car.

With the way things are going I'm not holding put much hope that civilization will still be around to enjoy these discoveries.

The Charon mass relay…

Love anything about our old 9th planet. Note: Comparing the Bible to space exploration is not an Apples to Apples thing.

@RHCole

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, the Pluto-Charon system is one of the most intriguing places we've ever discovered.

@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55

Жыл бұрын

Its still the 9th planet to me, damn it! Lol

@baahcusegamer4530

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55 It should have been marked #10/11. Ceres should still be # 5. It got demoted for no good reason. My rule, if it's round and orbiting the sun (as opposed to orbiting another body orbiting the sun), it's a planet. Pluto-Charon are a double planet by most any metric.Their barycenter is outside Pluto by a wide margin. On that note, the Earth and Moon could be argued to be a double, but for now their barycenter is still inside Earth.

@cariyaputta

Жыл бұрын

@@baahcusegamer4530 by for now you mean in the future their barycenter might fall outside of Earth?

@baahcusegamer4530

Жыл бұрын

@@cariyaputta I read that it's possible that the barycenter could eventually fall outside of Earth in the distant future. Expect to see the definition(s) of planets to continue to change as astronomers continue discovering strange new worlds beyond our solar system that challenge our preconceptions. My personal take is we'd do well to accept the inevitable: that we have a hellavua lot of planets in our own system with multiple ways of classifying them: inner/outer/kuiper, rocky/gas/icy, etc. If we want to keep it simple: if it's round and its barycenter with an satellites falls within its solid surface (or point where atmospheric is equal to earth at sea level) just call it a planet and be done with it.

Modern humans: Have to be "a bit baked" to notice a heart shaped object.

Everybody knows that Charon is not a celestial body but a Mass Relay...

Look, however the relationship between Pluto and Charon stands, I just hope it's Plutonic.

I can just imagine Pluto shouting at Charon like it was ozzy osborne... :P

Let's get Charon to be the second most viewed astronomy Geographics video. It is only right that it is next to Pluto in views.

9:44 Percival Lowell was not only the founder of the observatory but more to the point the man who wanted a powerful telescope to prove definitely he existence of Schiaparelli's Martian "canali" (erroneously translated to "canals" when in Italian it just means "channels", hence without any artificial construction implication and alien civilization subtext).

There's a bit of art that depicts a sci-fi bridge between Pluto and Charon. That's all. I just wanted to mention that it existed.

I see no reason to delay or remove the Pluto/Cheron mission. The Mars mission is only valuable if we explore. Same with the Pluto system. We are missing a vital opportunity. Perhaps another Space Assosiation will take up the mantle and spread its wings out there and on to the Kyper belt.

@CallanElliott

Жыл бұрын

It's difficult enough getting as far as Mars or Venus, Pluto is even moreso. Let's just take our time in getting there.

@higuysitsmepluto4445

3 ай бұрын

Yes. Do it now so we don't have to wait. Send it speedy with a brake.

You say, "...like hooch-filled hobos..." like it's a bad thing

Hooch filled hobos: that’s a perfect turn of phrase.

I couldn't help thinking of Ozzy Osbourne when you kept saying Cheron. Cheron ! where's my bleeping remote !.

🤣Uranus ... hard probing. That one almost got by me. On a serious note. I LOVE your videos!

Queue "Sails of Charon" a certified rocker and banger

@thejudgmentalcat

Жыл бұрын

Scorpions rule!!!

I think that charon might still have an underwater ocean due to the close tidal locked orbit it has with pluto pulling on each other,

@usamong1129

23 күн бұрын

I don't think so, tidal heating is caused by the planet pulling the moon in different parts; the tides on Earth move around the world as the Earth gets pulled by the moon at different points. Since Pluto and Charon are tidallt locked, they don't really pull around each other anymore. Think like a match and a sandpaper, if you hold them against each other, nothing happens. It is only when you scrape the match against it that the match begind to burn.

Everyone always forgets about Charon what a rough deal.

@cleverusername9369

Жыл бұрын

I don't think Charon particularly cares. If there was intelligent life there, it would know less about us than we know about Charon.

Charon is a gigantic frozen beer? Screw colonizing Mars!

I want to start a campaign to change the name of "Pluto" to "Ozzy".

I dig these videos. I dig all you-all's productions. Please keep them us. Enjoy the holidays all

Sitting here nodding sagely as he says "...just 100 million years ago" like I can actually imagine that span of time.

Great video! So much we DON'T know about this moon and yet it's still astounding just what we DO know! Any chance, while you and the team are delving about in the dark corners of the solar system, that we might hear about some of the other "weird moons" out there, such as Mimas or Miranda?

I think Pluto is the most beautiful planet (I guess dwarf planet). It's so amazing that we have these pictures of it.

Honestly the craziest thing I learned is Texas is big enough to be considered a dwarf planet

Have it on good authority that Charon is a mass effect relay encased in ice.

Pluto wasn't demoted, it's status as a dwarf planet was recognized : )

@higuysitsmepluto4445

3 ай бұрын

He's just a little moon like Triton that had to go off on his own!

I wonder why Pluto's heart shaped area was not named: The Valentine? Due to tidal locking and even with current technology materials, a "tower" can be built connecting Pluto and Charon. Wheels of various diameters can then be built along the length of the tower, with different rotation speeds and so different gravities.

@sydhenderson6753

Жыл бұрын

The dark region below it is named Chthulu.

He named a planet after his wife… now if that isn’t real love. Then I don’t know what is.

@oilersridersbluejays

3 ай бұрын

A moon.

Pluto's creepy twin? Do they walk around a haunted hotel asking Danny to come play with them?

Star Trek (TOS) “Let that be your last battlefield.” Trekkers will know what I’m talking about.

3:21 get yourself a men who looks at you the way Charon looks at Pluto lol

I love how every video has the same comment saying " start a astrographics channel " and to see you quote that here is just *chef's kiss*

If they are both tidally locked, you could build a space elevator between the two...

@Emdee5632

Жыл бұрын

I guess they could, there is one problem: the distance between the two varies somewhat, but the diffence is less than 10 km I believe. Maybe they should build a very strong connection hub at the barycentre, two short flexible tubes on both sides of the hub, and the rest of the tubes of ''normal'' strength material.

@sneeringimperialist6667

Жыл бұрын

@@Emdee5632 the cable should have some stretch in it. It wouldn't need to be all that tight , either. 10 km is a lot of slack , but it could work. I don't know why you would need to go between them. I was just speculating. Maybe for tourists... Spacesuit skiing could be fun...

Thank you , Simon for your kind words regarding 'much-loved' Pluto. The other problem that I heard regarding the next probe is that Pluto is approaching its longer part of its eliptical orbit which will put it even further afield. I shall not be around to see those pictures, unfortunately. Perhaps in the next life.

There's one reason the Kuiper object known as Pluto is so popular: American chauvinism. It was the only solar system planet discovered by an American until it was declared "not a planet".

Sad ending. If the new project had been on this decade's priority list, it would be getting to the Pluto/Charon binary dwarf planet system in 2058. It was not on that list. Maybe it'll happen a decade later, or maybe not. Either way, I don't expect to see the results. You got my hopes up, Simon, only to crush them.

@stevenl9443

Жыл бұрын

My expectations are low, I know I'll be deader than a door nail by then. Heck I'll be lucky to reach retirement in 2059 without something happening to me beforehand.

Pluto: "Dwarf" planet is offensive and hurts my feelz! ... I'm a "Dimensionally Challenged" planet! 😜

The irony of the "shot joke" alcohol is an organic molecule LOL

AstroGraphics my favourite sub group on this channel!

@RHCole

Жыл бұрын

Astrographics is so much better then Spaceographics 😆 which was my attempt at it. Love it 👍🏻

@ianr

Жыл бұрын

Me too! AstroGraphics, good name! 👍

@archstanton6102

Жыл бұрын

I think AstroGraphics is the unofficial name space fans have given this series.

Once you play the snail. You can’t ever escape the snail

Charon? Don't you mean Kharon? After all, you know what they say... "Charon IS Kharon"

I'm your moon. You're my moon. We go round and round. From out here, it's the rest of the world that looks so small. Promise me you will always remember who you are. Who you were, long before they said you were no more.

The Greek mythology guy , the Boat Man , that brings you across the River Styx to the Underworld , bring change

Pluto looks like a Jaw breaker 😂

Technically, all 1-moon planets circle together around a single point. Multi-moon planets also circle around a kind of set of points mumble mumble three-body-problem. (if you don't know what the 3-body problem refers to, it's the difficulty of solving multiple-body problems regarding gravity.)

@higuysitsmepluto4445

3 ай бұрын

Even the sun does this dance with Jupiter.

I keep visualizing Ozzy Osbourne calling for "Charon!"

The barycenter is Outside Pluto. So Yeah, Charon is Definitely Not a Moon of Pluto. 😊

We need to get further out in the Kuiper belt because they're actually rocky planets again after that so could be interesting

Pluto named after Goofy’s dog.

Legend has it, Simon sleeps only once per plutonian year. His KZread presence is obviously proof

It's cool that Christy was able to see what Charon looked like.

Top 10 Retirement Holmes’s 😂😂 love it Simon

I declare that in my household, Pluto remains the 9th Planet.

A freezing bottle of beer doesn't splinter the bottle the cap pops off due to it being the weakest link expansion always takes the path of least resistance

Earth hell we’ve got the Grand Canyon Charon hold my beer

Charon would like to speak to the manager

That Satellite ratio looks pretty closely matched by Orcus and Vanth from the graphic at about 20 minutes... -Shawn

Weird that people can be obsessed with something you can only see with the largest telescopes. I had no problem with Pluto's reclassification in 2006.

The best part is when they discover that Charon is actually a dormant mass relay that serves as a gateway to allow humanity to begin exploring beyond our solar system.

@zimriel

Жыл бұрын

yeah, there was talk in the 1960s when Pluto's size kept being revised downward, that this world might be denser than even Mercury. Back then they still thought it was nudging Neptune's orbit. An alien structure would get the job done.

@davidlundquist1979

Жыл бұрын

I figured someone had to have made this comment. Surprised I've only seen the one, honestly.

Can't imagine how Pluto can exist for billions of years with a karen orbiting around it.

@higuysitsmepluto4445

3 ай бұрын

That's why he immediately gave her the cold shoulder.

Calling a celestial body a dwarf planet just means to me that it is still a planet. The planet is just a smaller one

Haha~ the Persephone mission will be more important than the Bible. Funny.

Seeing the price tags mentioned here, I can only imagine how much we could get done if humans didn't squander resources on dumb shit like wars or buying Twitter for a 420 meme price of $54.20 per share.

"CHARON!!" "Yes, Ozzy?"

Neptune doesn’t get enough love, it’s my favorite planet.

@oilersridersbluejays

3 ай бұрын

Pff Neptune… Actually I like Neptune. I’m just not a fan of the gas giants.

space travel always trips me out… this isn’t the same as going to the edge of our solar system by any means, but reminds me of the scenario where a ship full of people in cryo sleep is sent to a vastly distant planet only to find a human colony already set up upon arrival. This being because after a few hundred years technology had advanced far enough to get a ship there exponentially quicker than the one sent generations prior. 😂

"...give Uranus a hard probing..." Thank you, good sir, for leaning into the phonetic accident that most astronomy presenters go out of their way to avoid (ex.: Urinus). Normally I feel like I'm laughing AT someone for flinching. About damn time that I feel like I'm laughing WITH someone about it.

"Texas is not on a planetary scale" wtf are you talking about, Texas is the biggest planet in the solar verse

@douglasstrother6584

Жыл бұрын

There's nothing like a drive across Texas or the length of California!

You're welcome Simon. I've watched the Pluto episode like 10 times already.

People that name things , I think they’re GOTH , they walk on the Dark Side

Uranus: "PROBE ME.... Wait... I can't say senpai." 😩

2058? I'll be 86. Maybe I'll be here, maybe I won't. And, thank you for the Uranus "hard probing" joke. It brought tears to my giggling, childish eyes.

Dammit, Fact Boy, now Im depressed! I just got my appetite up for more knowledge about Pluto and Charon, and then u end up telling me, I'll probably have to live to be 100 for that to happen 😢

I walk back into the room just in time to hear, "...give Uranus a hard probing" bravo Simon.