There’s a data driven way to read the news: go to ground.news/veritasium to get 30% off the Vantage plan and see through sensationalized reporting.

@MrUssy101

3 ай бұрын

God created earth for us and rest are bunch of lifeless planets. People should care more about the judgment day than universe.

@iBridgee

3 ай бұрын

ppl are dumb

@shridharjadhav3465

3 ай бұрын

Chipi chipi

@iBridgee

3 ай бұрын

@@MrUssy101no

@zottekott

3 ай бұрын

Chapa chapa​@@shridharjadhav3465

I'm a highschool dropout and have spent most of my life working in construction, but I feel like Einstein after listening to these people.

@igetsnipedalot7784

Ай бұрын

Same minus the construction part

@demonicdragongod3334

Ай бұрын

​@@igetsnipedalot7784nah cuz when the girl said "stars are the smallest" I actually lost some Faith in humanity like I'm not smart in fact I'm dumb but bro come on

@Catherine.Dorian.

Ай бұрын

It’s terrifying that these are college students

@jellyman2k214

Ай бұрын

Literally same except I'm a mechanic

@AbdullahHashi-kw3qj

Ай бұрын

Too busy studying sociology and critical race theory

I don't expect the general public to know specific details but college students not understanding the difference between a planet and a star is very worrisome

@RicoHelms

3 ай бұрын

Bro thinks the sun is smaller than the earth. That isn’t even schools fault.

@Imadethistocomment13

3 ай бұрын

@@RicoHelms Yes, I thought some stuff was just common knowledge from a young age but apparently I was wrong

@Alblaka

3 ай бұрын

@@RicoHelms I would argue, yes, it is. Like, imagine there was no schools, no education. Of course you would think the sun is smaller than the virtually infinite planet you're standing on. Same way a remarkable amount of antique civilizations considered the sun some kind of (large) object carried/drawn by some deity, usually with the implication that the deity would fit onto the planet in a human-observeable size scale, thus implying the sun had to be smaller than the planet. It's exactly only education (or generally available educative information), thus usually school, that teaches people things beyond the stuff we can observe on first glance. I would never expect somebody to know the precise distance to, or the size of, the sun, because that's not exactly information pertaining to your everyday life, thus nobody should be expected to just look it up for no reason. Hence the only thing a random non-astronomer would know is exactly that a class or two might have shown him (often wildly mis-proportioned) depictions of the solar system. So if people somehow forget about that, or never understood it, the educative system meant to teach them has failed.

@raskbell

3 ай бұрын

This is pretty typical of these productions to cherry pick the biggest ingnoramus' out of the crowd. For everyone of the people that made it into the video, there could have been hundreds who had no problems. Without showing honest statistics of how many people got it right vs didn't all this video does is show that a few very poor students were still able to get through the vetting process of UNLV.

@larryrzv6173

3 ай бұрын

The only person who can be forgiven for this mistake is a child or a peasant from the 15th century, because everyone should at least know that the moon is smaller than the sun.

A few years ago, I asked 24 friends and acquaintances here in Canada, most with post-secondary education, and aged between 25 and 50, how long it takes the Earth to make one orbit around the Sun. I made it crystal clear, often with a sketch. Out of 24, 16 got it wrong.

@TopicYo

2 күн бұрын

........... What the

@jtech9672

2 күн бұрын

☠️

@brussailpook8213

Күн бұрын

I mean, if they heard the question wrong, they prolly said 24 hours, but their second guest is surely 365 days

@Bcananzey

2 сағат бұрын

So hard to like this post. It's depressing. These people get to vote!? That's terrifying

it's incredible someone made a video like this without being an annoying jerk. it was nice how respectful and educational you were. most of these vids the host comes off as so unpleasant.

I couldn’t even imagine that basic knowledge about our universe is so limited by so many people

@mLyonJE

3 ай бұрын

ikr? This isn't complicated or subtle. This is about knowing some basic language. "What is a galaxy?" Collection of solar systems. So galaxy bigger than star or moon, right? Wow. [EDIT - Some people have misconstrued my point. I'm not being superior or precise or grandiose. I'm trying to convey that a basic, approximate sense of how it vaguely works (solar systems go in galaxies, for example) is fine for most people. We don't all need to be experts in everything. General Knowledge is just that. General.]

@TheGenericAssasin

3 ай бұрын

Right! It just seems so odd. I guess I assumed everyone knows the basics at least.

@cosmic_love_5

3 ай бұрын

My mind was blown when I found out my stepmom had no idea of the basics of our existence/reality. I thought she was the dumbest person on earth, but I guess there are people even dumber out there. I also had to teach her when i was 7 that there's different types of metal. She thought metal was metal and it's own thing and that copper wasn't metal but it's own thing, and that steel wasn't metal but it's own thing, that brass wasn't metal but it's own thing, and so on. I literally asked her if she was the other word for special at the dinner table and got yelled at for asking her that. I'm pretty sure I made her cry that night because I made her feel so stupid.

@dobbi6083

3 ай бұрын

@@mLyonJE there are those people, but i'm pretty sure he asked a lot of strangers and just picked the once that struggled more, cause there's nothing to learn if someone just comes up and knows everything

@daltonmiller5590

3 ай бұрын

Yeah this is really surprising to me. I thought everyone got taught about basic astronomy in elementary school. Moons orbit planets, planets orbit stars, stars have solar systems, solar systems make up galaxies, galaxies make up the universe. This takes like 1 day to teach, and it's generally mind-blowing for kids, so it's usually a fun lesson that they'll remember for the rest of their lives.

jesus, the amount of times astrology was used instead of Astronomy, hurt me both physically and mentally.

@callangb7652

Ай бұрын

Ow! My neurons! But at least astrology does have something to do with space

@itsthequenchiest5072

Ай бұрын

@@callangb7652🤨

@ratfromsewer6683

Ай бұрын

everyone in this comment section getting on these ppl for saying astrology when really its the long co-opted etymologically correct term for science/study of the stars, its what we know as astronomy today SHOULD be called, but we got stuck with their etymological definition instead (-nomy referring to rule/law). for an astronomer, the psychic damage exists at a base level at all times for having to call themselves astronomers because some schmucks who think the movement of the planets affects your fortune and personal compatibility with other people decided to take the word that means science (no actual offense meant towards astrologers but can we please switch words)

@harikishore2514

Ай бұрын

because they used share same ancestor name before both terms separated

@johns9652

Ай бұрын

Came to the comments for this. I cringed so hard. I'm just an electrician with a love of sci-fi since I was a kid, and knew the answers to all the questions he asked since before I was in high school,, except for the galaxies question, which I thought was infinite, not 100 billion - 2 trillion.

It's so nice to watch Derek interact with others; he is incredibly kind and never makes anyone feel dumb, always encouraging them instead. You are by far the best science knowledge channel out there, and your charisma is through the roof.

@mrkunga9404

Күн бұрын

Well, he probably knows they're gonna get pelted by the internet anyways

"is the sun bigger than the moon?" i just gasped

The fact that Derek can not laugh every time they say “astrology”… That’s talent

@Jose.AFT.Saddul

3 ай бұрын

It’s an honest mistake. I’ve done it a few times aswell.

@andyjohnson4907

3 ай бұрын

​@@Jose.AFT.SaddulMy mnemonic is to think of a big "log" of poo.

@vedritmathias9193

3 ай бұрын

​@@andyjohnson4907I'm sure psychologists would have something to say about that

@stare4539

3 ай бұрын

Lmao

@Jose.AFT.Saddul

3 ай бұрын

@@vedritmathias9193 A scatologist would agree

“We are not astrology majors.” Education officially failed them.

@cahdoge

3 ай бұрын

@@metaknecht *Australian

@eidalon_the_revenant

3 ай бұрын

💀

@BUSeixas11

3 ай бұрын

Or they failed education.

@ilikebreathingtoo

3 ай бұрын

ASTROLOGY 😂😂😂

@BartSliggers

3 ай бұрын

No do this is Europe.

Honestly, I think it is great that someone like him are out to educate people. He doesn't criticise them for being stupid or ignorant. In fact, this method could probably get them interested to learn more.

The format of this is super interesting! Because so many of them did not understand the scale of the initial celesital bodies you asked them to rank, they were well and truly mindblown as you put into perspective the actual size of a galaxy and the amount of collective galaxies in the universe. You could truly see that spark of comprehension in their eyes as you told them how many galaxies there were, especially once they understood how large just one galaxy is.

I like the way Derek doesn't mock people for ignorance and instead encourages learning.

@forbidden-cyrillic-handle

3 ай бұрын

Only bards can cast vicious mockery. He's a wizard.

@tgc517

3 ай бұрын

He just went in with a different goal If I was going to do it I would only want the information He wants to know more after the interaction so he is nice. Or he’s just nicer than us in general, or me any ways… that’s probably more likely

@acetechnical6574

3 ай бұрын

I dislike the way people dont mock him for holding a lav mic like that. aka the "Clueless Logan"

@molrat

3 ай бұрын

@@tgc517i think he's nice but he's also lot gonna post a video just mocking ppl for a channel like his he's gonna have to stay professional

@tonyhawk123

3 ай бұрын

I notice all the religious answers were cut from the video, so we can't know if he laughed at those. No flat earthers either?

as someone who was obsessed with astronomy as a kid, them repeatedly calling it astrology really hurt. but i also appreciate how he was able to go about it without mocking them

@the_untextured

3 ай бұрын

I just laughed when I heard that. Watching university students get stuff wrong which 5 year old me could have nailed is quite painful to watch.

@wyatt8770

3 ай бұрын

yeah I'm curious how much people's confusion with that has led to pseudoscientific thinking in the general public.

@pssurvivor

3 ай бұрын

I am not American but most of us learned these basic things in primary/elementary school. We went to the local planetarium and science museum for field trips, and heard scientists talk. I'm curious how it's done in the US.

@the_untextured

3 ай бұрын

@@pssurvivor From what I know, American education is not the best. I am Italian and here, education is pretty good. People here tend to be auite cultured, but there are exceptions obviously. Here as well, most people know that a star is huge. You can expect a pre school teacher saying to a child that "stars are veeeeeryyy big!"

@LukeSS

3 ай бұрын

I aspire to this level of patience

Best comment "it makes me less stressed... (we're) just a blip in the system... nothing is that deep" :-)

Everyone is so interactive and talkative i love ittt

@realjohanngoethe

25 күн бұрын

gay

@Korrdix

25 күн бұрын

@@realjohanngoethe …ok 😭???

As a lawyer, who’s definitely not an astronomy major…I was absolutely baffled at how people were even considering putting the moon above planets and stars 💀. Also when that one person said stars are the smallest I was dead 😂.

@StitchSprites

3 ай бұрын

fun fact, in terms of size moons can be larger than planets, however never larger than the planet it orbits. Ganymede, one of many of Jupiter's moons, is larger than Mercury for example. Similarly, some red dwarf stars are smaller than the largest planets. Centauri (AB) b being the largest known planet 10x the size of Jupiter, and EBLM J0555-57Ab which is the smallest red dwarf star at 118.000km smaller than Saturn at 120.536km in diameter

@PeteR-rr5of

3 ай бұрын

On the positive side college kids can now name every one of the 57 genders and have invented many new and useful pronouns

@shauryapratapsinhbarhat2545

3 ай бұрын

@@StitchSprites I mean I'm sure there are moons/planets bigger than stars(small stars like red dwarfs) but we're talking about the average ones and it's a logical thing to think that a moon will not be bigger than a planet since it needs to orbit it.

@RobMedellin

3 ай бұрын

You'll be surprised but the moon is larger than most known plants 😂 (it's my lame attempt to make fun of a typo that was funny to me, sorry)

@StitchSprites

3 ай бұрын

@@shauryapratapsinhbarhat2545 I mean yea, It was just a fun fact.

At first I was thinking “well no one can really comprehend the size of the universe, since our minds aren’t built that way.” But then I realized it was way worse than that.

@LuffyTwoYears

3 ай бұрын

For me it’s not even the size, but the sheer amount of nothingness. think of how everything is built out of atoms and those things are basically 99.99% (probably even more) nothingness. The earth with everything on it, for which Carl Sagan had this long ass quote, is still mostly empty space.

@MagicMason1000

3 ай бұрын

@@LuffyTwoYears The quote is actually an excerpt from the book "Pale Blue Dot" he wrote, which would explain why it's such a long one 😅

@TheCabIe

3 ай бұрын

​@LuffyTwoYears I know that's the fact that is repeated a lot and on surface it sounds right to us intuitively because the size of nucleus of atom is incredibly small and the next atom is so far away (while electron is also small and "orbits" the nucleus), this "99.999%" figure SEEMS right. But I think the more modern version is that this emptiness is actually filled with an electron cloud. And yes, it's really hard to process what an electron cloud actually is because when we measure electrons they appear to be a point-like. But I'm not sure it's correct to imagine that space as "empty" exactly.

@viis374

3 ай бұрын

I still can’t grasp the concept of sooo many other galaxies existing beside our own one

@arandomanvil5989

3 ай бұрын

I always think about the vastness of the universe. It's amazing and simultaneously utterly depressing. This is why I'm not allowed idle time.

He is keeping such a straight face through all those interviews, I would not be able to keep my composure. It is baffling to me that people could confuse the size of a star and the moon.

@AMV_KINGDOM_mv

Күн бұрын

We have multiples moons and stars which is the problem

@philipbassett4386

Күн бұрын

Earth has one moon. The problem is people can’t or don’t try to grasp the concept of perspective. Nor do they remember one second of the solar system model they learned in elementary school

You are a good person ❤ thank you for sharing your heart and thoughtfulness with us 💞

As a space nerd, I find it very weird watching people struggle on the easiest question.

@Slevaizum

3 ай бұрын

I'm not a "space nerd", I'm just a guy who went to a Russian school and received a Russian education. You know, we often say that education in America is disgusting, and no one seems to argue with this But not as much! I don’t presume to say that we are such geniuses, but the question “which is bigger, the Moon or the Sun” causes not only hysterical, but rather panicky laughter

@Tina-mt9cl

3 ай бұрын

@@Slevaizum You-have-an-education-system-designed-to-educate...You-cannot-even-compare-that-to-what-we-have-here-in-America-because-the-purpose-of-our-system-is-the-complete-opposite...Hopefully-this-changes-in-the-future-though-now-that-so-many-people-here-in-America-are-taking-notice-for-the-first-time.

@yagamilight589

3 ай бұрын

@@Slevaizum Don't say "Russian" as it's something good. 35% of Russians believe that Sun goes around Earth - data from the Russian state agency for public researches in 2022.

@Slevaizum

3 ай бұрын

@@Tina-mt9cl In fact, although our education system provides much more knowledge, it is also terrible. Yes, for us, what is shown in the video is the most basic knowledge, but it is not limited to this. Children in post-Soviet countries are obliged not to “study”, but to “know”. It's a big difference. This is a real mockery of children, because we are forced to cram something that will not be useful in life in principle. Of course, this develops neural connections, and this would be the case if we were instilled with the DESIRE to learn, and not just forced to do it.

@Slevaizum

3 ай бұрын

@@Tina-mt9cl Sorry for GTranslate, but this is the fastest way for me to formulate a thought while concentrating only on what I want to say

Being a science student I just assumed this was common knowledge. We need more work like this, nobody should die without knowing the scale of the universe.

@hdmat101

3 ай бұрын

I learnt about this from kids tv shows when I was younger

@Robbyrool

3 ай бұрын

Absolutely. There should be a law that before anyone m*rders anyone they must first teach them the scale of astronomical bodies.

@runnergo1398

3 ай бұрын

This is why I can't vote Republican ever again. The fact that so many of them think the Earth is only around 6000 years old while we have proof how old stuff in the Universe is, is just mind blowing. And even if you try to teach them, they just plug their ears.

@chattw6885

3 ай бұрын

It is commin knowledge before education got hijacked and now they only learn unnecessary stupid stuff

@xbob9502

3 ай бұрын

It should be.

that picture has been my device's background since i stumbled upon it a couple of years back. it puts everything in perspective. :3

I’ve always been a curious person and it genuinely baffles me watching these kinds of vids cuz how do people live their whole lives being perfectly okay with not knowing anything about life or where they live or how things work??????????

The relative sizes of bodies is literally kindergarten level science. The fact that anyone can not know this is concerning.

@dbznappa

Ай бұрын

Much of American education rests on the belief that the universe revolves around the USA.

@Shijaru64

Ай бұрын

Americans do have a strong stereotype of not being smart. These youngsters don't do the country any favors.

@Malhaloc

Ай бұрын

​@dbznappa Not so much anymore. Now it rests on the individual as the center of the universe. "YOU are special. YOU are unique. YOU are whatever you say YOU are, and if anyone tells you different, that is violence against YOU...And that concludes math class. Thank you, everyone! See you tomorrow! And remember, after our pledge to the pride flag, we will have a pop quiz on pronouns! All 5,892,634,051 of them!"

@dbznappa

Ай бұрын

​@@Malhaloc Oh look, another poor conservative that permanently thinks they are a victim. You poor, poor, sensitive snowflake, it must be so hard being so upset all the time. Imagine if you ACTUALLY had something worth caring about.

@andrewgreenberg1862

Ай бұрын

​@@MalhalocI thought everyone agreed that individuals are important. The U.S. was founded on personal rights. I think there are issues with this, socially, but you are just making sht up. Pronouns have always been taught, but not the 'modern ones.' They are needed in language, and totally made up. If anything, more popular pronouns besides the main ones should be taught, so students know about them. You know, education.

My favourite part of this video is that he actually educates the people interviewed. And doesn't just put them down.

@bequerhernandez8487

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, he doesn’t leave them in ignorance. I love that.

@sporovid5856

2 ай бұрын

I would have such a hard time not putting people down. The dude in the video has willpower.

@robinolsson7003

2 ай бұрын

I mean for the most part it can't be their fault that they don't know this stuff. Has to be their education system or just society that's to blame.

@tsarrite

2 ай бұрын

You know deep inside he's thinking wtf?

@comfypanda5050

2 ай бұрын

Well the comment section here alone is doing a good job of putting them down

To anyone interested about the topic of Pluto loosing it's status of planet, I can highly recommend the (audio) book *How I killed Pluto and why it had it coming* by Michael E. Brown. It's written by the astrophysicist who discovered a whole number of other potential "planets" and how he advocated to demoting Pluto and his discoveries to dwarf planets. It's written amazingly and great to listen to, too.

For me, knowing the scale of the universe was probably the most important thing I learned as it kind of brought some peace to me as it made me realise that we are truly not alone in this universe. If there hundreds of billions of stars in a galaxy and hundreds of billions of galaxies within the observable universe then there has got to be life somewhere out there, if it can happens once here then it must of occured again on some of those solar systems. Somewhere out there there is likely someone going through life with their own hardships and who knows, maybe they're also learning about the universe from their viewpoint

The tree question hit me the hardest. I was thinking... the amount of surface area on the Earth that contains trees is ASTRONOMICALLY smaller than the space in the galaxy that could contain stars. If it was a multiple choice question I'd have gotten it wrong. I still can't believe there are that many trees on Earth.

@John-wc6lk

3 ай бұрын

The exact same for me, I guessed there were tens of billions, but trillions is incomprehensible

@fakecubed

3 ай бұрын

Most question of that nature, comparing numbers of big things up there to small things down here, there's more small things down here. The things up there are very low density. The things down here are very high density.

@seigeengine

3 ай бұрын

I wasn't sure either. I was like "there's about 150M km^2 of land on Earth... so that's about 1000 trees per km^2 for there to be about as many as stars in the galaxy... that's a tree for every 1000 m^2... that's about a tree in every 30mx30m area... that's a lot less dense than a forest, but how much of the Earth is forest? Large stretches of it don't even have trees. Hmm.... I decided on trees, but yeah, they're only about an order of magnitude apart (which btw, means there's about 1 tree for every 100 m^2 of Earth, or every 10m x 10m area)

@cinnamoncat8950

3 ай бұрын

i actually got it pretty easily, but not because i actually managed to grasp the scale, just simple math. if on average a galaxy has 100 bil stars and there are about 8 bil humans, and i think there are probably at least a hundred trees to one human then it easily surpasses the average amount of stars in a galaxy

@mossy_brickens

3 ай бұрын

I felt it from my sense of Earth's nature scale, but I didn't trust myself and picked stars

A nice showcase for why science literacy is important.

@dangerfly

3 ай бұрын

Marvel is to blame. Earth deals with a UNIVERSAL crisis every movie which is extremely narcissistic. WRITERS think the universe is the size of a solar system. Edit: The multiverse contains multiple solar systems. Thinking we're the only one is also narcissistic. :)

@staceygram5555

3 ай бұрын

They're too busy learning about how women and bIack people are oppressed and how white men invented bigotry and slavery....

@TheRealWilliamWhite

3 ай бұрын

To answer random questions from a stranger in a sandwich board? I don't see how that's important.

@michaelnewman2343

3 ай бұрын

how does this showcase it? none of these people knew the answers and they seem like theyre doing fine.

@jellygoo

3 ай бұрын

@@dangerfly Hm... "a" solar system? Surely you meant "the" because solar refers to our star sol hence there is only one solar system. Others are called star systems (simplified).

When you put the numbers into context, I always find it so fascinating because it really makes you think about the Fermi Paradox, and I cannot possibly imagine a scenario where in the vastness of the universe, we are the only intelligent life. We're not even the only interlligent life on this planet :')

I normally feel super dumb when I watch veritasium's videos. His topics are generally WAY past my understanding. But this, I felt like a smart cookie!! (And still learned a lot!)

As an astrphysics major, a part of me died within the first 5 minutes of this video but the rest of it revived me and filled me with a sense of hope because there's people like Derek who'll keep educating the general public about things the education system failed to.

@pugofwarbr

3 ай бұрын

i got very triggered at that part

@anainesgonzalez8868

3 ай бұрын

As someone who had a pretty good basic education, same 😂 I do not know a lot, I though I knew nothing until this video to be honest… but yeah, last half of the video is really nice. I admire people that keep pushing for people to learn.

@TransgirlsEnjoyer

3 ай бұрын

Fun fact college educated people support democrats

@tobberino

3 ай бұрын

Good job on getting that Astrophysics major! That’s amazing!

@varunbhadauria7816

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, in that part I was like "a 14 year old can answer that"

While I commend the students' eagerness to learn, the fact this isn't already largely known is kinda mind blowing to me considering basic astronomy is part of my compulsory curriculum

@Khal-E1

3 ай бұрын

In elementary school?

@mariacamilaserranomelo6307

3 ай бұрын

I know, I asked my 5yo and he got it right, he only messed up when I asked him to compare the sun and the stars

@hishaam5429

3 ай бұрын

@@mariacamilaserranomelo6307 comparing the sun and the stars doesnt really make sense icl

@user-kh6nn4vj8m

3 ай бұрын

​@@Khal-E1 Why not? I just checked a textbook for 4th grade (9-10 years old), and it has a few chapters about astronomy.

@floydmaseda

3 ай бұрын

It was part of theirs too; they've just forgotten (or more likely never actually learned) it since them.

The guy that pointed out that you can be small but still significant had the right attitude.

Damn, i didn't know that much people didn't know this. It's more like a documentary of society than science video. But hope it'll get more attention of people and increase the average knowledge of community. I'm so proud of what you're doing doc, keep the world spinning, and thank you for making it a better place

Good on him for trying to educate people, but it’s shocking to me that so many people struggle with these topics that should be common knowledge.

@tilmerkan3882

3 ай бұрын

Now imagine most rich people are far below intelligence of the average people. You didn't know THAT, right?

@sleeplessdev7204

3 ай бұрын

@@tilmerkan3882 Where are you getting that stat from? In my anecdotal experience, most of the rich people I've met are at least smarter than average. But it's certainly true you don't need to be a genius to be rich. In fact, it may even hamper wealth creation through traditional means because smart people tend to overthink things.

@gemtun2

3 ай бұрын

​i would probably snap and call them idiots

@DraconianEmpath

3 ай бұрын

Maybe not so shocking? what happens among the stars currently has very little bearing on what happens down here on earth. you could live your whole life never knowing what our own star is, let alone anything beyond, with few if any negative consequences. for most people... knowing about space doesn't matter. it's a novelty. I happen to think space is really cool. I like learning about stuff up there, but it's ok if someone else doesn't. people like different things, and it's not like we're any better or worse off for it.

@MatBaconMC

3 ай бұрын

It's the U.S. It's expected.

As a casual fan of astronomy, this was hard to watch at first but I appreciated it! Great video

@prymexxxx

3 ай бұрын

Real, why cant I be on these videos. Would have had 100% right

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

3 ай бұрын

I expected it to be hard to watch, but instead it was kind of nice. Like a completely smooth road to the point where I realize I don't know how many stars are in the galaxy, and then I'm right there with the people in the video.

@neonblack211

3 ай бұрын

yeah I'm struggling to watch right now

@raphaelefranco1123

3 ай бұрын

you mean astrology, right? xD

@Fenhum

3 ай бұрын

@@raphaelefranco1123 If this is a joke It's way too unclear

9:48 im glad he said "that we know of" because we dont see them all

I do have an idea for one of your next videos. 'Echoes of Stardust: Past, present, and Future from Earth to Universe' Explores how our perception of the universe is fundamentally delayed. We observe stars and celestial events as they appeared millions of years ago, not as they are present. This time lag means that major cosmic events or distant civilizations might exist unbeknownst to us until far into the future, challenging our understanding of reality and time. - Even the sunset is 8 minutes delayed. - If Univers had collapsed today, we would not know until millions of years from now. - If another civilization lived, lives or will live, even the coincidence in time existence would make us almost impossible to find it out. Even, maybe they live in a different time reference.

I’m a big fan of how you interacted with the students. Anytime they degraded themselves for not knowing, you encouraged them. Neat to see these interactions.

@vinnibod2500

3 ай бұрын

That is one of my favorite things about this channel. Derek has always been the type of person to encourage growth. His journeys have always been entertaining and educational.

@whymusti99

3 ай бұрын

That’s literally how the channel started!

@GetawayFilms

3 ай бұрын

The original format of Veritasium didn't work very well. Student: "I think that the stars are the smallest because they're just little white dots" Derek: "Really? Hahahahahahahahahahahaaha...."

@cloroxbleach9222

3 ай бұрын

Yep, as much as I like watching "dumb American geography" or "flat earth debunking" videos for the shock value, ultimately this way of encouragement is one we should all aim for, then we wouldn't even need to create those shock value videos

@KermitsBadFurDay

3 ай бұрын

I'm sorry but.. you maybe should feel a tiny bit bad about not knowing the answer to this question.

I am really shocked at the lack of understanding. Great for being so kind to these folks to keep them open to learning.

@winterfall4910

3 ай бұрын

It's incredible how lacking it was

@wilfdarr

3 ай бұрын

Really? When those same people are lecturing you about the 32 different genders, you're shocked they are ignorant of the real world? Really? 🙄

@fluxxNZ

3 ай бұрын

i feel like my 6yr old would do better than some of these people. It would also be interesting to see these questions asked of different age groups, cities and even countries and we might have an idea why things like 'flat earth' come back when we just know better :-)

@railx2005

3 ай бұрын

I really thought these knowledge are common after the age of like 10, guess I'm wrong..

@81KWolfe

3 ай бұрын

I suspect Derek only included the truly clueless people he interviewed to make this video. I cannot - nay - choose not to believe that this is representative.

What this video has taught me is that it doesnt matter how much you know, or if what you know is right or wrong. The universe simply dont get a flying F and keeps going and expanding.

Our world is fascinating, we are incredibly intelligents at our scale on our Earth but at the same time we are so small and know almost nothing about the rest around us... It's so deep

This was very eye opening. Never knew it’s possible to go through the education system and still not know the difference in size of the moon and sun.

@Izomak12

3 ай бұрын

Seeing this was super dissapointing.

@maxpelletier2237

3 ай бұрын

It's as if they were thinking from eye perspective looking at the sky. The sun and the moon are roughly the same size (like during an eclipse) But since the universe is included in the responses, it shows they aren't capable of thinking from an outer perspective.

@abcdefghijk123456100

3 ай бұрын

i'm astounded. i never went to college and i know more than a lot of the people i see in these kinds of videos. it's insane that they even graduated highschool.

@sarfarazgaming121

3 ай бұрын

When there's no need for it u forget

@Mshagy02

3 ай бұрын

I once met a guy in school that thought the planets in our solar system where stacked vertically on top of each other and that they didn’t take that long to get to. It was fun explaining to him how long to took it get to each planet. The look on his face was priceless

That last one summed it up perfectly -- "people are worried about making mistakes, but you can't learn without making mistakes." Good on her and the rest of the students for being willing to learn something no matter how trivial it may seem to others. Future's looking bright for them.

@PerciusLive

3 ай бұрын

Making mistakes is one thing, not learning from them is another. Theres a trend in the recent years of the latter.

@moon-pw1bi

3 ай бұрын

thats true but how do they think stars are planets

@Mark-wx8ne

3 ай бұрын

@@moon-pw1bi Because theyre Americans

@DRcorban

3 ай бұрын

But you can.

@oglordbrandon

3 ай бұрын

You can absolutely learn without making mistakes.

I love your content but i couldn’t get through a minute of this and the point that someone said the Sun goes around well that was it for me It makes me sad that people haven’t got such a basic grasp on this I remember doing a project on the moon in year 2 (7yo) at primary school in the UK, i understood better then

This topic typically leads to feelings of existential crisis, but the way you're explaining it turns the video into something very wholesome. Love it.

@chalkkit777

3 ай бұрын

hai, bang. big fan!

@sciencephere

3 ай бұрын

ga kaget liat kokbisa juga nontonin veritasium, keep up the great work you guys!!

@cqstle-

3 ай бұрын

Depending on perspective, but when I think of the vastness of our universe and how small we are to scale, I realize how insignificant we are. Which oddly increases the feeling of significance. It definitely forces an out-of-body thought for a second. It makes big problems in our life seem trivial, and yet, makes small acts of kindness mean that much more. Sounds cheesy I guess, but damn if it doesn't make me think.

@teruterubonjour

3 ай бұрын

Kobi!!!

@earlysda

3 ай бұрын

@@MA-ts3xsMA, My forever home is in heaven with Jesus.

Honestly this confuses me so much to know that somewhere out there people think the moon is bigger than the sun Edit: hold up, how are there 55 comments, i thought there was just one, none of my comments have ever been so popular and in such a short amount of time how is this possible. Edit 2: 1.6k likes?!!?!? I have never even gotten past 100 thank you all so much

@hovnocuc4551

3 ай бұрын

I beg to differ, everything now makes more sense.

@haesken2123

3 ай бұрын

People are literally brain dead?@@hovnocuc4551

@jerichojaramillo449

3 ай бұрын

the idea of perspective is known as a child, how do these people not know

@ytmadpoo

3 ай бұрын

And that's probably the genesis of flat Earth theories...

@bojangles5232

3 ай бұрын

Looks bigger to me. You’re overthinking it.

13:00 Everyone talks about how terrible it is that people don't know these basics, but I think this is a much more important takeaway from the video. People came away from this, having learned something, and that's awesome!

It always surprises me how much everyone lives in it's own bubble. If you asked me or basically anyone I know this question, no one would have a problem answering this correctly. But drawing the conclusion that this would be easy for everyone to answer is just wrong. We surround ourselves with like-minded people, but other people - from totally different fields of interest, age, or life situation - think very differently. They also have topics they think are just common knowledge about, which I might not have a clue about.

the universe is shockingly giant but i thought people would at least know the sun is bigger that the moon

@donothesitate1198

3 ай бұрын

I mean you can literally see both of them from earth and one is clearly bigger

@uzairahmed8260

3 ай бұрын

I thought he would also ask them about which galaxy is bigger, but it was just basic stuff. Still the video was good.

@dreammaker9642

3 ай бұрын

@@donothesitate1198you should also know one is tremendously closer to us so put one and one together to realise the sun behind dwarfs the moon. You’re comparing a pebble to Everest.

@uretaanid4405

3 ай бұрын

@@donothesitate1198 They actually look about the same size from earth, because the moon is about 400 times closer than the sun, but its diameter is 400 times smaller than the suns.

@Creamworks

3 ай бұрын

​@@donothesitate1198that's just plain wrong. neither of them is clearly bigger when seen from earth. they actually look about the exact same size as evidenced by solar eclipses where the sun is perfectly hidden behind the moon.

"We are not astrology majors" had me cracking up. Kudos to you for not losing it, Derek.

@littlefurrow2437

3 ай бұрын

Such a Gemini comment

@scotte4765

3 ай бұрын

I don't believe in astrology. I'm a sagittarius and we're skeptical.

@sleep-paralys1s

3 ай бұрын

I came here to say the same thing. Crazy sentence

@Walleyedwosaik

3 ай бұрын

Stop being an Aquarius

@teejay10238

3 ай бұрын

If there's an astrology major in there, I'm really afraid to ask what else people can major in

I still feel significant even though i know the mind boggling size if the universe. As Carl Sagan said, “This is the only home ever known.” This gives me hope, that i am the smallest speck of dust and the biggest breakthrough simultaneously

And yet despite how far out into space we’ve looked we’ve yet to find any evidence of intelligent life. That’s how special we are. We are truly one in a krillion

I think I take my general understanding for granted. A lot of this to me seems like general information that everyone would know...and I'm just a music major. It just goes to show that we can't take our skills, knowledge, or gifts for granted. There's someone out there who would love to be where you are.

@walter7825

3 ай бұрын

wow, that put things into perspective. i have a weird urge to teach someone something

@Dvrvs

3 ай бұрын

Dude they just don’t apply themselves or have a low IQ, whatever.

@Sinthasized

3 ай бұрын

Apparently billions of them.........SMH

@ItsDesm

3 ай бұрын

Is it a failure in curiosity?. I feel the same way you do and I know teaching people and they always enjoy and are fascinated by it. It just seems there are many more, easily accessible thing that consume their curiosity (social media, etc)

@xXxPoppixXx

3 ай бұрын

This is just wild. Im a welder myself and i had the correct answer in like 3 seconds. Also all the questions in my mind to spesify what planets or moons are we talking about. It just shows what a great basic education can do to people.

I appreciate that he's not doing this to judge, but to educate.

@personaljm463

3 ай бұрын

Oh but they should be judged 😭 this is not even funny it's concerning

@joshuawillingham6363

3 ай бұрын

Some of them should be blamed for not paying attention, but the truth is the public school system is garbage in a great many places.

@pxprimary3790

3 ай бұрын

​@@joshuawillingham6363the basic knowledge asked at the start of this video should be known to everyone regardless of how good their elementary school budgets were. There are no excuses for being this ignorant. I expect all of them know the names of top TikTok influencers...

@joshuawillingham6363

3 ай бұрын

@@pxprimary3790 When would you encounter this information outside of a formal education setting? Unless they have a particular interest in space there's no reason to look it up, and public school does a great job of beating any joy to be found in learning out of people.

@pxprimary3790

3 ай бұрын

@@joshuawillingham6363 scifi movies. Documentaries. Comic books. TV shows. Novels and general literature. There is almost no way you can go through life and not understand the basic size differences between planets, moons, stars, solar systems, galaxies, etc. You don't have to know exactly how big they are.... But you should know relatively speaking.

At first I thought "come on, that's just silly" looking at the initial task of sorting stuff by size. Bacause I find it ridiculously hard to believe that anyone who is older then 12 y/o and not brain dead (in the most literal sense) would be capable of making a mistake putting those in the right order... other then on purpose. That's just common knowledge levels of "2x2", I said to myself. But then I thought: "hey, that's actually a somewhat tricky question since some planets (and perhaps even moons?) are actually way bigger then our solar system, and some dwarf stars can probably be relatively small..." And then you went for the actual numbers and THAT was some fine guesswork. Well done!

This video raised my self confidence by 200%

One significant thing to always appreciate about Derek is that although some of these concepts may be simple or so, he does not dare bash any of those that he interviews for not knowing answers to his questions. He guides them through this journey of gaining a new perspective on misconceptions or something that most do not think about on the daily. He really lives up to his channel name!

@HerbertHeyduck

3 ай бұрын

On the other hand, he publishes this ignorance to the public here on KZread. And that comes across as a denunciation.

@BunchOfGreyGrapes

3 ай бұрын

Times New Roman

@V3RTIGO222

3 ай бұрын

He's stronger than I am, for sure

@tab5e53

3 ай бұрын

​@@HerbertHeyducklol, I'm sure he gets them to sign a legal disclaimer. so they know. some ppl don't care and still want to be seen

@gguioa

3 ай бұрын

@@HerbertHeyduck But who is being denounced? IMO, it's the system that was supposed to be teaching people all this stuff. Can you be faulted for dealing with your life and not learning something you'll likely never use in your daily matters?

On one hand, I'm terrified how "simple knowledge" (at least in my frame of reference) isn't that known. On the other hand, I do enjoy the fact that these same people are curious and that they feel safe enough to learn like that.

@arandomanvil5989

3 ай бұрын

Schools are failing these kids. It's sad.

@jondoe8350

3 ай бұрын

@@arandomanvil5989and the proof is how they were willing to stay and learn, instead of just leaving when they got it wrong

@_agent47_

3 ай бұрын

it hurts so bad to watch this

@moonasha

3 ай бұрын

@@arandomanvil5989 I doubt it. They were probably taught this stuff in school, I know I was. But the fact is most people simply don't care about this sort of thing and their brain forgets it. It's nothing beyond a fun fact and has zero effect on everyday life. I remember when I was 6 or 7 years old reading all sorts of books about the planets and space, I couldn't get enough of it. But sad truth is 99% of people don't care about it at all and don't look up. 80% of people in the US live in an urban area and have never even seen stars or galaxies.

@ALEX_MALEX289

3 ай бұрын

Dont we learn this in schools? So two do most of them not know?

Good job giving them existential dread 💀 this thought gave me nightmares when I was a teen, shits really make u crazy when its your first time to think of this

It should be a science project, in every community, to build a scale model of the solar system. Do the math to determine how large your solar system can be and still fit within your community. Then do the math to scale the planets and sun accordingly. Could be done with signs or actual spheres. These models provide a reference for the incredible scale of the solar system and beyond.

As soon as I heard "I'd say a star is the smallest" I wasn't sure if I could watch this video

@jorghelfrich8884

Ай бұрын

I stopped and started looking at the comments instead. Because the things these students said just hurt. From a certain standpoint I can understand what's happening, since they seem to simply judge things off of how they look to us - the further away they are, the smaller they are. But even from that point of view, it is weird when people say the moon is bigger than a planet. So yeah, I think I'll pass on watching this.

@TheCerealArsonist

5 күн бұрын

@@jorghelfrich8884But they aren’t astrology majors

@xxProjectJxx

4 күн бұрын

I mean, the moon is big enough to walk on, but you can't walk on a star. Draw your own conclusions.

@Hovis_Enjoyer

4 күн бұрын

@@TheCerealArsonist there is no excuse for thinking a star is smaller than a moon.

@KaramelLife

3 күн бұрын

There are dwarf stars smaller than earth. Question incomplete and too vaguely worded

The number of people who did not know that a star is very large and only looks small because it is far away was shocking to me, among other things! I am glad they were all able and willing to learn. Lovely video.

@ChatterBoxBran

2 ай бұрын

90% sure he just didn’t include the ones who knew and only included the ones who didn’t

@Alpatrixx

2 ай бұрын

obviously but its still outstanding the amount who didnt know. or they are just people told to act like that.@@ChatterBoxBran

@MisterKazoo

2 ай бұрын

@@ChatterBoxBran yeah, at a college campus in a 1st world, well developed country every single student should know the answer

@soph7230

2 ай бұрын

@@MisterKazooAmerica is different from most developed countries. For-profit medicine, debilitating medical debt, mass shootings almost daily (usually several on weekend days), and a sad number of people who don’t know basic knowledge.

@Lenevor

2 ай бұрын

@@soph7230 name one first world country that is perfect please :) and mass shootings are not weekly tf you mean 😭

Some of it might be due to their previous education but i feel like this is something everyone should learn whether it’s inside school or not.

I thought I was ignorant for considering the idea that mathematics alone isn’t enough as a abstract/concrete conceptualization and philosophy to comprehend the universe (or multiverse if you find that theory convincing, and assuming that mathematics is considered the golden law that encapsulates said universe/multiverse, as well as the possible scale of “small” we can truly observe/measure.) but I’m glad at the very least I recognize that stars are larger than moons.

“Idk where they come from, can you tell me?” Amazing response! More people need to be like her

@coryman125

3 ай бұрын

It's so easy to laugh at people for not knowing things, but yeah, let's give some credit to people saying "let's take this opportunity to learn" instead!

@contra7631

2 ай бұрын

​@coryman125 I hate this videos sometimes because of the comment section,they will act like they know everything specially boomers.But if this guys ask the same question to them I am sure they wont able to answer.

@joaohenriqueneuhaus2023

2 ай бұрын

eh...It's the bare minimum. I find it hard to forgive someone who puts stars as being smaller than planets.

@SF-fb6lv

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, for me that's a huge marker of potential - those that (when they don't know) ask a question.

@dliguori25

2 ай бұрын

@@contra7631 boomers would know this stuff, because they went to school at a time when they were expected to actually learn, and education wasn’t considered lame. Today school is just daycare for teenagers. That how you can have a substantial number of high school graduates that can’t point to the usa on a map without labels, or point to South America when asked where Africa is. A majority don’t know the three branches of government or what year the Declaration of Independence was signed.

At first I was sad to see such basic questions being failed, but what got me was how everyone seemed eager to learn and understand and seemed genuinely happy to learn something new. They're not stupid, they've just never really thought about it much before. Maybe there's hope yet.

@maxxcarver5502

2 ай бұрын

The school system failed them and never bothered to teach them. That's truly sad.

@mitchhudson3972

2 ай бұрын

​@@maxxcarver5502 no, they just forgot. Like i bet you did with 90% of what you learned in school too

@dantalien6591

2 ай бұрын

@@mitchhudson3972 Those are like basics of the world and things around us, how can you forget that.

@foodaah

2 ай бұрын

​@@mitchhudson3972complex math is one thing,now basic knowledge stuff is something else

@lokithehero2309

2 ай бұрын

​@@dantalien6591Don't forget they are also being asked to recall their knowledge on the spot. Hindsight is 20/20, I'm sure if they were relaxed behind a screen that they'd be able to remember better.

Love space. Peace on earth and lets work together to find ways to explore our universe

didn't expect a new pale-blue-dot montage. well done!

I think it’s always crazy seeing these types of video, and seeing just how many people wander around who have never been curious about things like “hmm how big is the sun?” Or “what is our moon?” Insane

@guy9360

3 ай бұрын

It's unacceptable.

@dominat0r3600

3 ай бұрын

Honestly it's absolutely wild that we live in a time where people aren't curious anymore and are often punished by society for being curious

@PkPvre

3 ай бұрын

Why? It has no effect in your life to have this information ​@@guy9360

@jellyman140

3 ай бұрын

I honestly think a massive amount of this has to do with the fact these interviews are done in LA, or he only shows the clips in which people don't know much. I refuse to believe the average American doesn't have high school level physics. But I'm not american so I have no idea

@kamikeserpentail3778

3 ай бұрын

What are they thinking with their time? What are they doing so as to avoid this information when it is everywhere? You could literally spend all of your time laughing at memes on the internet and STILL come across this information.

This was painful at the start but I'm glad I stuck with it. This is an amazing example of good science communication: Not laughing at people for their ignorance but using it as a starting point for getting people excited about the universe.

@timp6834

3 ай бұрын

These people aren't excited about it as it doesn't affect their lives (which is how our specialized society operates). He also obviously didn't include the interviews where the interviewee knew everything because that would be boring to watch. For example, I'd have gotten all these instantly except for the trillions of trees on earth because I could care less about the number of trees on earth, but my specialization is in a related STEM field to astronomy.

@jfan3049

3 ай бұрын

@@timp6834live "i could care less" reaction. WRONG. INCORRECT. CLEARLY you meant that you "couldn't care less" because, right now, you're displaying an AWFUL high potential of caring less about the amount of trees on earth, which indicates that you care an AWFUL lot about the amount of trees on earth. Checkmate "timp6834".

@orangejjay

3 ай бұрын

​@@jfan3049Do you feel better now? 😂

@xxwookey

3 ай бұрын

@@jfan3049 This is a weird American English thing. They say 'could care less' where British English says 'couldn't care less'. The British version makes rather more sense if you stop to think about it for a mo. But the US version, whilst perverse, isn't really 'wrong' - that is the accepted usage there SFAIK (it may be regional?). Sadly language is very much as we find it, even when it's annoyingly nonsensical.

@whatguy05

3 ай бұрын

I almost stopped watching before the 2 minute mark. I'm right there with you.

The trees vs stars question reminded me of the question "are there more wheels or doors?"

if you were to have shown me this video when i was a little kid i would have cried "i'd say star is the smallest" WHAT 😭😭😭😭😭

"The thing is that people are worried about making mistakes, but you can't learn without making mistakes a lot of times." -The woman at the end. This is such an important piece of wisdom that everyone would benefit from by taking to heart. It's okay to make mistakes, and we should be gracious with those who make mistakes as well.

@sheesh9050

3 ай бұрын

crazy its so old too

@PotionsMaster666

3 ай бұрын

Yeah ... And You're taught this as a child*

@kyjo72682

3 ай бұрын

What about those "not astrology majors" ladies though? They didn't seem too worried about making mistakes.. Imagine people like these making important policy decisions in the government. So maybe making mistakes is ok but if adults are still making mistakes like kids from elementary school maybe they should go back to school.

@jayjya

3 ай бұрын

As trite as it comes

@speedy01247

3 ай бұрын

​​@@kyjo72682I mean to be fair how often does needing to know what's larger in terms of planets and moons matter in politics, not often.(I want to change that)

As Einstein once said: “I believe there are two infinities, the universe, and human stupidity. And I’m not sure about the universe.”

@KikujiroChan

3 ай бұрын

wow that makes you now as smart as einstein.

@voltmatrix1250

3 ай бұрын

My favourite quote

@Nell_Hell

3 ай бұрын

It does, bow before me ​@@KikujiroChan

@vanquish421

3 ай бұрын

Depends on how you define stupidity. The people in this video were just uneducated on the topic, possibly even lacking a previous curiosity on the topic, and therefore willfully uneducated. Be it the basics, or specifics. Yet, they all appeared humble in their lack of knowledge, and grateful to learn. That, to me, indicates anything BUT stupidity.

@thehellyousay

3 ай бұрын

it's unlikely he actually said that.

A problem with social media is that everybody wants to pretend like the know and they all give ass answer’s. This is perfectly demonstrated here.

Hey Veritasium, thanks for making this video. I haven't left that hard in a long long time.

I've always hated the trend of going up to strangers and asking them trivia just to prove how "stupid" people are but this is so nice. Same basic premise but approached with care and a willingness to educate. Enriching instead of degrading, love it.

@Zorro9129

3 ай бұрын

Stupidity is sadly not something that can be cured.

@GonFr14

3 ай бұрын

​@@Zorro9129it can be cured by open-mindedness and the will to learn.

@zikli9249

3 ай бұрын

​@@Zorro9129 Why would you consider people not knowing trivia stupidity? There could be loads of reasons why these people do not know this information. They could have not gone to a school that taught this information. They could have lost this knowledge in favor of spending time learning other facts which are more pertinent to their every day lives. They could have known the information and their mind just blanked on the subject while they were being put on the spot.

@vinnibod2500

3 ай бұрын

@@zikli9249 Brilliant mindset here. Not "knowing" some throwaway facts doesn't make one stupid. The information presented, in my opinion, shows a gap in education related to astronomical objects. But, for most people on Earth, astronomical objects are as insignificant as quantum objects. Quantum objects and astronomical objects have almost 0 relevance to everyday life.

@vinnibod2500

3 ай бұрын

@isakleo4706 Agreed. Trivia is fun, but entirely non-indicative of actual human knowledge. Derek manages to walk that line between "trivia to prove people are stupid" and "genuinely caring about people's knowledge" in a way that seems to me to be someone who truly cares about people.

Beginning of the video blew my mind, I didn't know people didn't know these things.

@SharmV

3 ай бұрын

American education system is showing

@ishaan863

3 ай бұрын

Exactly it's not even funny watching people think this stuff through, it's more concerning than anything else. I dont wanna know your other opinions on the world if you dont know if the moon is bigger than the SUN

@mufasafalldown8401

3 ай бұрын

The tiktok generation.

@person8064

3 ай бұрын

79% of Americans believe that the Earth orbits the sun, so ehhhhh

@PupoT570

3 ай бұрын

​@@SharmV haha America is bad

Watching stuff like this always leaves me flabbergasted. How do people get through school and go about their lives without picking up even the most elementary knowledge about things? "The moon is bigger than stars" - I wonder if their brains melt when they realize that a tiny, tiny car they see far away in the distance isn't actually tiny?

Great satisfaction watching people struggling with general knowledge 😢

The truly scary thing is not the size of the universe, but the fact that Derek was likely on (or near) a college campus, speaking to people who made it into that college. The average person on the streets probably knows even less.

@kryo2k

3 ай бұрын

Came here to say exactly this.

@dustyoldhat

3 ай бұрын

Well let's be judicial here. It's not UCLA or Harvard, It's UNLV (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) with an 80%+ acceptance rate and 44% graduation rate, so do with that what you will.

@Obscurai

3 ай бұрын

UNLV sounds more like a community college / vocational school than a university.

@nbboxhead3866

3 ай бұрын

Sheesh. I'm a bit nerdy and probably overestimate the knowledge of the people around me, but I'm fairly sure here in Australia most people are at least educated enough to correctly place the ordering of what's bigger than what.

@aikiie

3 ай бұрын

​@@dustyoldhat... Wow.

Man I love your patience. You never mock or poke, you just let people learn. Keep it up.

@MatthewTheWanderer

3 ай бұрын

So, instead he posts this video online so the whole world can see how embarrassingly ignorant these people are. If he was really being good, he wouldn't have done that in the first place.

@mattramen3696

3 ай бұрын

I think it’s important to show that people don’t know things and it’s OK to not know things! These people seem kind and open hearted and willing to listen. It might be embarrassing to not know but it’s more embarrassing to not learn. The whole point of this channel is learning. I was cringing at people not knowing things at the beginning but when it came to the size and scale of things I was also ignorant. And it’s ok! We laugh at our ignorance, we learn, and we move on.

@timtrex9414

3 ай бұрын

I quite like the like ratio between you and the other commenter.@@MatthewTheWanderer

@adamm8136

3 ай бұрын

This is beyond sad. These are answers a 13 year old should know. Straight up. That's not an over exaggeration

@falconranger3116

3 ай бұрын

He should have asked them about Kardashians

It surprised me on how many people don't know that much about astrology this hurt my astrology side so much😭

We are also really big when you begin looking down the size scale into the microscopic and beyond c:

Honestly, huge props for being so patient and approachable. It says a lot to be able to teach something that one might think should be common knowledge in a way that doesn't come off as condescending or disparaging. Good education should encourage people to learn more rather than making them feel bad for not knowing. Content like this is so important for keeping people in touch with reality and for seeing the bigger picture rather than getting overly hung up on comparatively petty arguments. Well done! 👏

@ethanstong1564

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! So many people in the comments are talking down to these people. We can't know their background or what kind of education they got. Being wrong should be exciting cause you get to learn, it shouldn't be a negative thing

@DIEKALSTER8

3 ай бұрын

Very well said. I don't have that patience. Oh, I will explain away at the slightest invitation, but I get discouraged quickly when people struggle to get stuff.

@mithrae4525

3 ай бұрын

It helps that on this subject in particular it's just impossible to have the right answer intuitively - unless you're an astronomer you literally cannot know without being told.

@firmak2

3 ай бұрын

@@ethanstong1564 "Being wrong should be exciting cause you get to learn, it shouldn't be a negative thing" completely agree, but that starts falling off when full adults dont know kinder garden level stuff.

@Dont_Read_My_Picture

3 ай бұрын

Don't read my name.

This is an old school Veritasium video, back to the roots. Love to see you PhD put to use! Educating without judging, inciting curiosity. Love it.

@oqulus6880

3 ай бұрын

without *openly judging. some of them are 20+ and never ever watched a single clip about the universe and thats a bit sad

@gyula.gubacsi

3 ай бұрын

@@oqulus6880 Or remember some basics about the solar system from primary schools.

@24GoldenCarrots

3 ай бұрын

U don't need a PhD for this

@orshabaal8990

3 ай бұрын

@@oqulus6880 or people just find interest in different things. I'm sure these people know things you don't that to them are quite elementary.

@mikeholt2852

3 ай бұрын

@@orshabaal8990exactly, the comment section is brutal. Its a given that a veritasium viewer would know all these "basic" stuff. Im sure these people know things we dont know

Watching these videos always leads me to have some profound thoughts lol, Maybe a little to much haha.

I really like that this video doesn't make fun of the folks who don't know.

I was amazed at how little some of them knew. I always think of Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy when I think of the vastness of space: "Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly 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."

@candylemonn

Ай бұрын

I just started reading that series and I love it so much! Funny to see i’m not the only one who thought about it while watching this 😂

@dannileigh6426

29 күн бұрын

I was looking for this comment🤣

@mitchell8273

22 күн бұрын

I always think of the Total Perspective Vortex, and on a microscopic dot within a microscopic dot are the words, "You are here."

@k1llsh0t_87

19 күн бұрын

Space is massive and also empty, you could hop in a spaceship and blindly fly around for a century and you'd likely not hit anything

@user-pb3pw2jv3v

17 күн бұрын

@@k1llsh0t_87you actually would probably hit the asteroid belt before you got too far and that would probably kill you. If you got past it though I think it is vast and empty until you reach another solar system, I’m not sure.

As someone with a degree in Astronomy, this was painful... We need to get better at spreading this info around! Great vid!

@undefinedvariable8085

3 ай бұрын

Most of this stuff is honestly elementary level knowledge. The size differences, the difference between moon and planet, the names of the major planets (for god's sake, we're at a point where we're giving kudos for being able to name all of them). The only thing I wouldn't expect the average layman to know are the sheer quantities of things at the upper scope and scale.

@tarakivu8861

3 ай бұрын

Its probably a combination of Pressure because you are filmed in such a situation (without much experience for such situations) Many people simply not cwring about things outside their life in general. Many dont care about the bigger picture (even if it would help e.g. in a job).

@leaguemastergg3647

3 ай бұрын

As someone with a brain, this made me regret having one

@gorak9000

3 ай бұрын

Heh, in the US, you only need to ask people questions about a state 2 or 3 states away to flabbergast them and come up with blank stares

@runrickyrun157

3 ай бұрын

Astrology* Which is consequently one of the many tools of the devil.

Thank you for giving me the confidence boost I needed, I used to think I was dumb, but after watching this video, I feel like Albert Einstein.

@MrUnknown38766

Ай бұрын

America 😂

As a physics major them saying astrology and meaning astronomy is as @bakedmomo5693 already saying, very painful "both physically and mentally"

As someone who knows all of this stuff and assumed it was pretty common knowledge, it's kind of hard to imagine "most" people not knowing it. I guess that happens though. When you know a lot about a topic, you underestimate your own knowledge on the topic by overestimating the knowledge of others (assuming that the gap between what you know and what everybody else knows is not so big).

@imnotnotgameiacmaniac5327

3 ай бұрын

Unfortunately it doesn't seem like veritasium is cherry picking results either. 25% of americans think the sun orbits around the earth for example

@ShizuruNakatsu

3 ай бұрын

@imnotnotgameiacmaniac5327 Really? That's actually insane to think about. That would be one person in every immediate family, on average. Possibly two or three in a larger family. That means possibly some of my friends would even think that way, though I like to think my friends are intelligent people. I have had to explain to people, including my own parents, that the sun is a star, and that every star you see in the sky is also a sun, some billions of times bigger than ours. But my parents grew up poor, and with less education, they were never willfully ignorant.

@imnotnotgameiacmaniac5327

3 ай бұрын

@@ShizuruNakatsuI think when it comes to topics that people lack interest in and where only taught as a child people can look dumber and less educated then they actually are especially sense a lot of people are just kinda doing their own thing and lack curiosity. But still, this kind of stuff is ridiculous and shouldn't be happening in the 21th century though with the same survey finding things like half of Americans not knowing antibiotics don't work on viruses i think human stupidity still plays a large part.

@ShizuruNakatsu

3 ай бұрын

@imnotnotgameiacmaniac5327 Yeah, that's one of the things that makes me very different. I've always had a natural curiosity, loved to learn, and wanted to know as much I could. I pretty much always retain information, whether it's from school, my own research, or even watching quiz shows for entertainment. I don't just let the knowledge flow out of my brain like that, because I want to know and remember things. I know a majority of humans are just caught up in their own little bubble, and don't really care about anything that happens outside of it, but I'll never really understand that mindset.

@imnotnotgameiacmaniac5327

3 ай бұрын

@@ShizuruNakatsu i envy you lol i also like to do research but i forget information all the time. im often left with the correct conclusion but i can't remember how i got there even with irl stuff i stuggle to remember things clearly that where more than a month ago

I've always thought the "Pale Blue Dot" picture is one of the two most important artistic images we have ever taken. The other being the Hubble "Deep Field" image, showing how unbelievably vast our universe is. One aimed inwards, one outwards.

@shelby6

3 ай бұрын

Same, this video was shocking

@peterparker9286

3 ай бұрын

Bob Ross

@BunchOfGreyGrapes

3 ай бұрын

Wdym artistic

@Daniel_Rodrigues_89

3 ай бұрын

Not only Pale Blue Dot is the most important picture ever taken in history of humankind, I consider Sagan's speech the best idea human intellect ever produced. Its beauty surpasses every piece of art ever made, every picture or poetry or music ever done, every verbose text ever written by intellectuals or anything some stupid politician has ever said. And it's beauty produced entirely by the intellect, supported by facts and observation basically. It's just so REAL that nothing else in human nature or experience comes even close.

@wonder_platypus8337

3 ай бұрын

And now we have the JWST images that contain more galaxies than even Hubbles.

@3:15 Didn't know there was a dwarf planet in the Solar System called Xena with a satellite named Gabrielle. Love it lol.

This is my guess before the video starts 0:13 and with out reading comments Moon Planet Star ( a star is the majority mass like 90 ish % of the galaxy if I am remembering correctly) Galaxy Universe.