I thought you were just gonna throw the ball to the other side of the park... But no, you drove from England to Spain.

@mr.ramixhardbass3331

5 жыл бұрын

Lol me too

@hotsmine1573

5 жыл бұрын

that doesn't even make sense he just said pluto was further away in the park -_-

@jamesbergh5006

5 жыл бұрын

@@hotsmine1573 he said Neptune

@eNkkk.

5 жыл бұрын

Cx

@Aftertaste_

5 жыл бұрын

Damn, so he drove across the ocean?

Drove 700+ miles to make a 5 minute video. My hat goes off to you sir.

@gtownwr

5 жыл бұрын

700+ miles I could drive and still be in Texas. He went through 3 countries. Man.

@nickc6842

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe he was going there anyways and decided to make an educational video at the same time

@chnoxis

5 жыл бұрын

@@gtownwr That is Europe. There are places, you can visit four countries in less than a half day with a car. Or you can visit three countries by foot in some hours.

@frmrchristian8488

5 жыл бұрын

Hopefully he was already going to Spain on vacation and the video was an afterthought. If not and he indeed traveled that far just to make this video, that's freaking awesome, Man!

@rangersammy

5 жыл бұрын

Give him views to pay the tab for that trip.

The rule of KZread once again is applied here. No overly edited thumbnail; the video answers the title exactly and in a very interesting and intuitive way; it's short, given how far he had to travel. This is the video I hope people will find or get recommended when they're interested in the question.

@CelticOrlan

Ай бұрын

Bruh, I randomly watched a random space video two days ago and now half of my feed is random space videos. Obviously, I keep watching them because I'm here

@murppyisdurppy1816

Ай бұрын

@@CelticOrlanignore em

@kenmandu4499

Ай бұрын

KZread: Hmmm, he watched a space video. I'll give him another one. You: You watch it. KZread: Ah! He loves space videos! I'll inundate his feed with space videos!

This also made me understand why, when the milky way and the andromeda galaxy will collide in a few billion years, there won't actually be any stars crashing into each other.

@Erdbeerschorsch2011

Ай бұрын

Nope. But the sun could be pushed closer to the center of the galaxy by gravitational forces. This, in turn, could cause global warming.

@top-flex2225

Ай бұрын

​@@Erdbeerschorsch2011and higher food prices

@scubasteve6175

Ай бұрын

⁠@@Erdbeerschorsch2011personally i'd be more worried about the catastrophic effects of global warming by 2100 stopping us before we get to that point

@WhyneedanAlias

Ай бұрын

​​@@Erdbeerschorsch2011 And would be bad for the stock market

@noway95_59

Ай бұрын

@@Erdbeerschorsch2011 and this would totally impact the trout population

He went across the continent to hold a golf ball infront of a camera. Give this man an applause

@HR-yd5ib

7 ай бұрын

Given that he drove to Spain i would assume he combines the trip with his holiday vacation.

@dogsareawesome9197

7 ай бұрын

@@HR-yd5ib true

@CorkyMcButterpants

7 ай бұрын

@@HR-yd5ib A really shitty holiday cos he forgot his golf clubs.

@HR-yd5ib

7 ай бұрын

@@CorkyMcButterpants , how do you know?

@DT-zf3jo

7 ай бұрын

🤣@@CorkyMcButterpants

Wife: Where were you the past 4 days? Me: I was looking for the nearest star system.

@QuincyStallworth77

5 жыл бұрын

If star were a stripper

@PramodSubramanyam10

5 жыл бұрын

Ever heard of instant transmission??

@Vegas_small_timer

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@birdwatchingwithdrrajasaur4410

5 жыл бұрын

I'm the 999th like 😁

@billblount5955

5 жыл бұрын

@@QuincyStallworth77 I use to know one named star I wasted lots of money

This really gives me early KZread vibes I dunno why. Really 2008-2011 esque. Very informative video, and very simply made. Gotta love it

@blaster-zy7xx

Ай бұрын

This is a remake of an American who did it in the U.S. about 15 years ago.

@justinmadrid8712

Ай бұрын

@@blaster-zy7xxEvery generation every KZread video gets remade for the new generation.

@floopyy_

27 күн бұрын

It's 5 years ago, that's like 2015...oh

@sandro327

24 күн бұрын

@@floopyy_1995 was 57 years ago.

@danielcarlsen9228

13 күн бұрын

@@sandro327 29 years, I'm not that old.

What's kind of crazy to me is that even though there is a possibility of other life in the universe, this representation of distance makes me realise that we are alone in a sense. Our current understanding of space travel will never allow us to venture this far, let alone further ventures.

@anto_fire8534

22 күн бұрын

thats also my thoughts, even if we somehow got at the speed of light, the closest star is still years aways.

@eliteknight2137

22 күн бұрын

@@anto_fire8534 I think If we manage to move with the speed of light we for sure will also have a way to teleport

@anto_fire8534

22 күн бұрын

@@eliteknight2137 I guess

@vordman

20 күн бұрын

It's an exciting idea but we will never travel to the stars. Even if there are other civilisations out there the distances are just too vast. And they, like us, will be condemned to travel through space at a snail's pace. Let's just make sure we look after Planet Earth.

@user-fm9zo5le2v

20 күн бұрын

We'll find a way to freeze ourselves for 70.000 years on the way there.

I cant believe you went to Proxima Centauri with just your car.

@Danzo1212

6 ай бұрын

Yes and in a jet he can go to Andromeda

@user-jc6pr5el5g

5 ай бұрын

I can't believe he drove 745mi just for this YT video!

@frankdoss6313

5 ай бұрын

@@allancouceiro9255 That looked like the same golf ball to me.

@reachbinnie

5 ай бұрын

I don’t think that’s impossible for a guy who holds the Sun with bare hands.

@User-jr7vf

5 ай бұрын

@@user-jc6pr5el5g the money he made with his video more than makes for it

Not only a great visual representation of the sheer distances involved, but a genius way to write off a road trip.

@ksrinivas1729

7 ай бұрын

I do have same thought

@utubewillyman

7 ай бұрын

I was wondering if a University paid!

@s1mppeli

7 ай бұрын

Is it a great visualization though? I don't even have a good intuition about the difference between a golfball diameter and the distance to the next town over, let alone UK and Spain. I would have to do the math to have any idea how many golfballs away that is. If I can't intuit it within like an order of magnitude, i'd say it doesn't even meet the qualification to be a visualization. If the star was actually at he other side of the park, maybe this part would be useful. But we havent even touched on the comparison between the diameter of the sun and the golfball, so any intuition we could have gained from the analogy fails here again. How many golfballs is the sun? No clue, I'd have to pull out my calculator (and google). The only way this is in any way helpful is if you've never ever actually even seen the numbers on how far the next star is and in that case it'll just make you go "wow, that's really far (how far? no idea, just really far)". I'd say just saying the star is 4 * 10^13 km away gives at least as good of an idea, but I'd argue much better.

@plrrt

7 ай бұрын

@@s1mppeli what a comment... bet you can't measure how insufferable you are

@Anonymousgaming523

7 ай бұрын

@@s1mppeli 🤓

Before this video i lived with the fear of some star colliding with us. Now i can live my life without worries.

@craigseddon4884

Ай бұрын

Bad news, our galaxy and the andromeda galaxy are on a collision course and will eventually hit each other. The good news is it isn't due to start for another 3.5bn years. And unbelievably, space is that big and us so insignificantly tiny that scientists don't believe it will be an extinction event.

@RealSameerRaza

Ай бұрын

😂

@asmodean7239

Ай бұрын

@@craigseddon4884The star density far from galaxy center (and we are far) is so low, that the probability that another star would even come close enough for us to feel it in any way is negligible.

@craigseddon4884

Ай бұрын

@asmodean7239 exactly, I think compared to most people I have a reasonable grasp of how vast the universe is and how utterly tiny Earth or even our solar system is. But even so, two galaxies, each with 100 trillion stars and a plethora more of planets colliding and almost all coming out relatively unscathed seems an impossible thought.

@craigseddon4884

Ай бұрын

@@Regarded69 no, five billion years before they predict that will start

Another criminally underrated KZread channel 👍

This made me realize that the fact that we can see any light from stars besides our sun must mean they are unimaginably bright, considering how far away they are. The universe is astounding.

@TheComputec

7 ай бұрын

And don't forget the light we see is not the actual star itself, it is the light it emitted that has travelled many light years to get to us

@stevienguyen2047

7 ай бұрын

@@TheComputec a lot of the stars we “see” don’t even exist anymore. Their light takes so long to reach us that we essentially see thing millions of years in the past.

@scsi_joe

7 ай бұрын

​@@TheComputec Well, it *_is_* from the actual star itself, it's just old light.

@adriani9432

7 ай бұрын

​@@stevienguyen2047not exactly. A million light years is almost halfway to the Andromeda galaxy.

@cyborg266

7 ай бұрын

@@stevienguyen2047 And everything around you as well. People, cars, cities, the planet. It's all not really there, only a memory that you interact with.

1200 km drive for one video, now that deserves a like

@shakengandulf

5 жыл бұрын

Probably had another reason to drive there because i think most wouldnt do that for a few minutes video.

@RevGary

5 жыл бұрын

@@koona1992 you deserve a hard punch to the face. He's wasted all that time, fuel and money to make one pathetic video to show what "scientists" believe without justifiable evidence.

@jebise1126

5 жыл бұрын

i hope he didnt make all this trip just for video. still fun video

@ThomasJakobMusic

5 жыл бұрын

@@RevGary Obviously he went there on holiday.

@koona1992

5 жыл бұрын

@@RevGary I'm sorry but you must be talking to the wrong person because I was talking to the person who said 'Why?!' not the main comment. I thought that putting his name first then saying what I have to say, would help identify who I'm talking to but apparently you fail to see that.

any people that are struggling to wrap your head around this, picture you live in space and see the sun as a golf ball and earth as a gran of sand, you can travel to neptune in a 10 second walk. just imagine if you wanted to go visit your friend that lives around the nearest star, youd have to travel this long (1200 kilometres driving at 100kmh put next to a 10 second walk to neptune) as a space being. this is blowing my brain up.

@TwiceEvery14Days

27 күн бұрын

You're just describing what happens in the video. The only difference is you place an imaginary friend on the nearest star.

This actually puts a real feeling behind the supposed immense scale of the universe. To think that a golfball would need to roll all the way over to Spain just to meet its neartest neighbour is scary as can be. Talk about isolation

I wonder if he ever realized he could have used a grain of sand as the sun and just drove home.

@MrSeany05

5 жыл бұрын

Could have been worse what if he had used a football.

@smd2030

5 жыл бұрын

Seany Carolan he would circle the earth and come back to his garden again 😂

@Tom-mk7nd

5 жыл бұрын

it would not make such a good video

@skinnynoobs274

5 жыл бұрын

@@smd2030 wtf 😂😂😂

@MrAsched

5 жыл бұрын

😅😅😅

It was shockingly illustrative of the truly immense scale of just what 4 light year distance means!

@rchycola7744

7 ай бұрын

Now imagine 100 billion light years

@Stepanthecrab

7 ай бұрын

​@@rchycola7744 most of these stars are dead already.... ☠

@Sc0rch91

7 ай бұрын

@@rchycola7744the universe is 93 billion light years across (that we know of)

@ruledbysaturn

7 ай бұрын

Doesn't light lose intensity over distance? How bright do objects have to be for us to perceive them as being billions of miles away?

@mihirpingle5067

7 ай бұрын

@@ruledbysaturni think they redshift.

This guy is a star for the dedication he put in this video.

This gentleman's dedication level is off the continent. Salute to your efforts.

France border: sir what’s your purpose in France? Uhm I’m trying to get the nearest star. ....

@isaacbruner65

5 жыл бұрын

Jokes on you, France lets everyone in

@klarkmartinez1124

5 жыл бұрын

@@isaacbruner65 lol

@JRut99

5 жыл бұрын

There are no hard borders in the EU

@Ink_25

5 жыл бұрын

There are (in General) no border controls in the Schengen area :D

@coriscotupi

5 жыл бұрын

@@isaacbruner65 He didn't say the dude was not going to be allowed in, was just asked the purpose of the trip.

Imagine THAT conversation with Spain's port of entry authorities.... "What's the nature of your visit to Spain?" "I've come to show the internet where the next nearest star is"

@elchiqui10

5 жыл бұрын

You need to imagine first a port of entry between France and Spain

@slashholt23

5 жыл бұрын

He didn’t take the Ports of Spain. I believe you meant France.

@juandesalgado

5 жыл бұрын

They would point him toward Antonio Banderas

@johnmolina3365

5 жыл бұрын

Thought the same

@shoulders-of-giants

5 жыл бұрын

Brexit shits will have to state that in the future, yes.

What blows my mind is that the space between stars is so huge, 2 galaxies could pass through each other and the chances of 2 stars colliding from those galaxies is pretty much zero. Space is the perfect name for it.

My gosh, you have a lot of spare time to illustrate a point. Fun and illuminating.

It’s amazing how small stars are compared to how far apart they are and yet we can still see their light.

@Sentinel_ICBM

7 ай бұрын

This is all I thought about the whole drive. Is it a testament to how bright stars are? or how incredibly dark and empty the universe is? How far of a drive is a star in Andromeda? on a clear night we can see Andromeda. How is it possible that we can see light from that far away?

@AlexRojas-db6yd

6 ай бұрын

And that thier heat can still essentially cook us alive. I think about that stuff sometimes too

@kylewit924

6 ай бұрын

Pretty sure Andromeda is something like hundreds of million of light years. The lights we perceive now was emitted when humanoids were in very early development, only reaching us now

@emperorprimalaspid9738

6 ай бұрын

​@@Sentinel_ICBM​Andromeda is over 2.5 million light years away, as compared to the star exampled here, which is 4 light years away. He would have to drive 466,250,000 miles to reach the equivalent in this model, well past the orbit of Jupiter which is 365,000,000 miles away in real life. Since there is not much to alter light wave lengths in space, and since these objects are incredibly bright, the light can still reach us.

@TheComputec

6 ай бұрын

@@kylewit924 way before humans my friend. Creatures we would recognise as humans are in the range of 135,000 years and 2 Million years old depending on your definition of human

Son: Dad, how far is the Andromeda Galaxy? This man: Come, son. Let’s go for a drive

@Bushwocka

5 жыл бұрын

Actually laughed out loud. I'll be smirking to myself all day. Ta.

@vishaltmz3275

5 жыл бұрын

Proxima centauri is in the milky way, think u have to go to the moon for andromeda lol

@kuribayashi84

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, I'm pretty sure you need to drive to another Planet for that. :D

@longvo8800

5 жыл бұрын

If the sun is as small as the ball in the clip, then the dad would need to drive his son all the way pass Jupiter in order to reach Andromeda galaxy

@terminallove3531

5 жыл бұрын

@@kuribayashi84 i am thinking the other side of the planet

"Sir, why were you speeding?" "Oh sorry, I was just in a hurry to the nearest star."

Yet another valiant attempt to explain the scale of the universe that my mind fails to comprehend

Imagine driving to Spain and forgetting to click record...

@zebran4

5 жыл бұрын

Why would he record the journey back?

@kcg6016

5 жыл бұрын

oof

@Belisarius536

5 жыл бұрын

That would be cool, hes already got the journey there.

@user-sv1sw9ev3w

5 жыл бұрын

@@zebran4 he would remember that he didnt record the journey to spay

@buddydog1956

5 жыл бұрын

He couldn't have driven all the way to Spain to convey his point a/b 'space distance between our Sun and the nearest star'.....he's probably got a 'mama sita' there, waiting for him ~

just imagine he realised in spain that he forgot his golfball

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5 жыл бұрын

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@seanoconnell2463

5 жыл бұрын

I thought the same thing haha

@sanchitbhansali

5 жыл бұрын

@@ebriheemazeez4812 Did you have a stroke or something?

@4adrenge

5 жыл бұрын

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@VersusProductions

5 жыл бұрын

He can just buy another lol

Thanks for showing this distance so we can understand.

Wow!! What a great demonstration of the enormity of the space we live in!

For reference, at this scale, the speed of light would be approximately 0.03km/h.

@JohnMcCulloch75

5 жыл бұрын

Wow, fascinating perspective, thanks !

@GonzoTehGreat

5 жыл бұрын

= 30 m/h or 30 meters per hour which is 0.5 m per min, so about the speed of a garden snail. I converted the speed into units easier for us to understand. 0.030 km/h is difficult to imagine so it doesn't help you appreciate how slow light must be travelling in this analogy.

@JohnMcCulloch75

5 жыл бұрын

@@GonzoTehGreat So, if a common garden snail can drag itself to Spain from the UK in its lifetime and humans can somehow find a way to move at the speed of light, then there still is a chance???

@bumdum8798

5 жыл бұрын

@@JohnMcCulloch75 yes due to relativity there is a chance

@JohnMcCulloch75

5 жыл бұрын

@@pasarell2222 Hahahaha equating the energy output of a star to a 3 volt light torch is so funny.

Imagine a light source the size of a golf ball so bright you can see it 1200 km away. Absolutely mind blowing

@MandieKearns-Moore

6 ай бұрын

The farthest away ones that we still see with our naked I are hundreds of times farther

@alexpetrov8871

6 ай бұрын

The fact that they interact gravitationally (in form of galaxy) is much more mind blowing , given that gravity decreases in inverse proportion to the square of the distance.

@manofcultura

6 ай бұрын

To be fair there isn’t much in the way and no curvature

@Flaytt744

5 ай бұрын

it is a source, that will EVENTUALLY reach a recipient.. If you fart, it does not dissipate, it will reach the other side of planet.

@xemnas1997

5 ай бұрын

The only reason you wouldn't be able to see it would be light pollution from the much bigger light sources, the sun and other stars. If there was no other light in the universe I would bet you could see a lit light bulb from any distance, as long as the light from it has had enough time to reach you.

You're awesome, I absolutely love videos like this thank you for taking the time to do it. Hope you had a nice drive lol

Thank you for making the video. I keep watching it over and over for amazement.

Well, thank goodness he didn't use a basketball instead of a golf ball!

@matty7758

5 жыл бұрын

If it were a basketball he would have driven less...

@RastaPilot737

5 жыл бұрын

@@matty7758 Nopo, a lot more

@ronaldoleon48

5 жыл бұрын

@@matty7758 incorrect the smaller the scale the smaller the distance.

@bredt2750

5 жыл бұрын

@@matty7758 what? does that mean that proxima centauri and the sun are actually closer than england and spain?

@5upl1an

5 жыл бұрын

@@matty7758 i bet you feel pretty stupid now...

I admire the dedication it took for this video to happen

@jamesquinn3715

5 жыл бұрын

He must have a lot of time on his hands

@yak6896

5 жыл бұрын

I'm hoping the man took a vacation while he was there. If he drove right back to England then he's a real boss man bro.

@iammrbeat

5 жыл бұрын

He had to get groceries in Spain anyway.

@disappointingperson9162

5 жыл бұрын

As an American, it very strange to me how you can drive/ferry from England to Spain within a couple days. To get from east to west coast would take almost a week driving

@morradi10000

5 жыл бұрын

Dissapointing Person funny. That’s what fascinates me about the US: the sheer size of your country! The distances are unreal

Mind-blowing, I couldn't visualise the distance until you showed us. Thank you!

Thank you for your dedication to bring this up !

i don’t think anyone in the comment section understands just how truly horrifying the distance is and this is just the nearest star

@bhushankamble7174

Ай бұрын

Nope..the sun has only revolved around our galaxy for about 13 times. Though it took our sun around 230,000 years to complete 1 revolution around our milky way galaxy

@bhushankamble7174

Ай бұрын

*Sry its 230,000,000 years

@tonytaskforce3465

Ай бұрын

@@bhushankamble7174 It won't be home for Christmas then?

@d.b.1176

Ай бұрын

Hu?

@Will_Schrank

Ай бұрын

@@d.b.1176Hu’s on first.

Seems like KZread Recommendations has brought us all together again.

@johnnydel2327

5 жыл бұрын

Been a while

@iirovaltonen4258

5 жыл бұрын

Yes indeed

@rubberyfaceimbred

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly ,doubt anyone searched this question FFS.....yet we all still watch Catchya next time 👍

@pranavprabhakaran

5 жыл бұрын

Until next time ✌️

@Doppelbuckel

5 жыл бұрын

Video idea is stolen from Codys lab

even though i already know how big the universe is and how far apart everything is, i am still amazed every time i see someone like this guy put it into perspective

This is really, really impressive. It drives home (no pun) just how big the scale of the universe is.

@TheNoiseySpectator

6 күн бұрын

I will tell you something else to bend your brain into knots. There are places in our universe so far away that to travel the equivalent of them, he would actually have to travel off of the Earth, and into outer space for real. 😵

I honestly thought he was just going to drive to the end of the road of something. WTF! This scared me.

@54spatula

5 жыл бұрын

There's a lot of space out there!

@jamessmith84240

5 жыл бұрын

Yea, and just think this was the closest star. Now imagine how far away other galaxies are... To be so far away from them to see them as a little dot in a telescope but its a huge collection around 300 billion stars with this kind of distance between each one... Tell me there aint more life out there :)

@Elandil5

5 жыл бұрын

Well that puts colonization of Proxima Centauri b in the realm of science fiction. I'm honestly depressed now...

@Elandil5

5 жыл бұрын

@@John-ir4id Lets just hope someone puts humans on Mars before that point, so there is still a chance for mankind.

@Jacob-Faria

5 жыл бұрын

Elandil5 the alleged trick to long distance interstellar travel is to bend space time. Which is some what possible. Gravity does it. There is hope. Just keep in mind we know so little about what’s really going on. Nd that any day a discovery could be made that completely changes the very fundamentals of what we consider reality.

This man drove from England to Spain using a dentist tool just for this video

@camden2167

5 жыл бұрын

TheYoyoGamer comment of the day

@betiedu

5 жыл бұрын

Lmao I thought of a dentist drill too damn

@nonodlamini

5 жыл бұрын

Why you like this 🤣⚰️

@thetruthbetoldpodcast-hiph9311

5 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@fishfire_2999

5 жыл бұрын

Must have been a rough ride zzzzzzz,-chizle chizle .

I just love videos like these that depict the vastness of space. Superb!

No no no seen it like this is mind blowing.

Science fiction writers: We'll explore the universe, travel the stars, colonize worlds, meet other civilizations! Space: ....am I a joke to you?

@bobthebuilder2922

5 жыл бұрын

@Saul Goode earth is a donut

@blackscreennoiseforrelaxat1517

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@Linguist95

5 жыл бұрын

Saul Goode your eyes are flat. Fact.

@Elghast

5 жыл бұрын

Saul Goode The earth is fat! space is a flake* FACT!

@ericshepard6669

5 жыл бұрын

Spot on, sir, spot on.

Bruh when I saw him at the ferry terminal I knew we were in for some serious education...

@JohnathanRavan

5 жыл бұрын

What's your Moug score for this video?

@chancecoleman4418

5 жыл бұрын

You videos are hilarious man

@trash74able

5 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

As we see the galaxies as a thick flurry of stars, we easily think they are quite dense. In fact they are not, as this fine demonstration shows. Our sun is not exceptionally far away from other stars - I think its quite the contrary. So there is plenty of empty space inside the galaxies. Not to mention the complete emptiness of the space between them!

That's what you call dedication. Well done

Amazing how bright stars are - can you imagine being able to see a golf ball at a distance of 1200 km?

@kingoftennis94

7 ай бұрын

Imagine the golf ballin space and a telescope in your hand

@smokey6455

7 ай бұрын

​@@kingoftennis94you don't need a telescope to see the nearest stars.

@darylcroft4214

7 ай бұрын

@@kingoftennis94brother. All the stars in the sky that you can notice with naked eyes are far far more distant than the nearest star

@pedtrog6443

7 ай бұрын

Really! The AB Centauri pair are one of the brightest stars (ok, pair) visible in my part of the world and is only slightly further away than Proxima Centauri... relatively speaking

@pedtrog6443

7 ай бұрын

Maybe you could if it was suspended in space and burning as brightly as the Sun

How far away is the nearest star? I think I’ll need to get in my car for this. Gets in car.... Actually tries to drive into space...

@simingmu8092

5 жыл бұрын

to the nearest star

@sadisticpsychofox

5 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahahahahahaha!

@weme11

5 жыл бұрын

lol

That is absolutely mind blowing. You really helped out things in perspective. Thanks for doing this

That's incredible! Insanely vast distances between stars.

Son: Dad, how far is the nearest sun in our galaxy? Me: Its in Spain, son. Spain.

@mauriristola3282

5 жыл бұрын

Yesnog05 😂😂😂

@MrUrbnGamr

5 жыл бұрын

Audibly laughed at this one

@tuneboyz5634

5 жыл бұрын

Its not IN spain,a star is waaay too big to fit inside spain, the video just shows the distance of the nearest star IF the sun was the size of a golf ball, the actual distance is about 4 light years away

@mauriristola3282

5 жыл бұрын

Tune BoyZ I think you will find that he was having a laugh.

@donotiron8253

5 жыл бұрын

@@tuneboyz5634 eassy boi

I hope, for your sake, there was another reason for driving that far 🤣

@NationstateOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

Nope just the golf ball

@daveteves

5 жыл бұрын

Nope, just to teach us a lesson.

@vaniraye7073

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing 😂

@timicus2

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, to go to Spain! That’s the real reason!

@jeremiahbuckley9716

5 жыл бұрын

💀💀💀

Brilliant demonstration, the simplest and the most undisputable of all. And it's got humour. You just made my day.

I did not grasp the scale of the distance before this video. Well made and explained, thank you!!

I don't know about Proxima Centauri, to me the nearest star is you who drove all the way to Spain from England just for a video.

@ARBB1

5 жыл бұрын

Damn, that was smooth son.

@eissweiss

5 жыл бұрын

cheesy af

@AmbyJeans

5 жыл бұрын

Emin But accurate

@mycatalanhomestead

5 жыл бұрын

Probably not more likely he was going to Spain anyway and decided to make the video. 😉

@ms-nl5io

5 жыл бұрын

Oh how disarming 😝😝😝

I hope the Brexit isn't gonna make the yearly summer trips to Proxima Centauri more difficult.

@shinynoob4890

5 жыл бұрын

this comment truly deserves more likes

@TranslatorTuber

5 жыл бұрын

Well played!

@omit4727

5 жыл бұрын

I hope brexit doesnt happen because uk will become poor

@kevinpotts123

5 жыл бұрын

@@omit4727 the fact that people in England voted for Brexit would be the most shocking vote outcome in my life, had my country not elected the worst possible supreme narcissist douchebag in our last election.

@zorion9294

5 жыл бұрын

Kevin Potts UK, not England C: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are the UK, you know the people that voted

Best explanation of the size of the universe I've ever seen.

Thank You. I never understood how little I understood how far away - Away can be.

RichardB1983: *drives and drives* Me: "If he keeps on driving, he's going to get to France." RichardB1983: *gets on ferry* Me: "Oh. Ok, then."

3:11 The car driving in the time lapse sounds like one of those dentist tools 😂

@joltran3276

5 жыл бұрын

My teeth r clean now

@PenguinAugis

5 жыл бұрын

This comment gave me anxiety

@nbacop4493

5 жыл бұрын

Fr

@Hunter-im3tg

5 жыл бұрын

lol so true

@dailymemies

5 жыл бұрын

One of those drills that taste like tic tac

One of the best videos ever made !

The fact that we can see stars is already phenomenal

My hope is that he was going there anyway on holiday, with family maybe, and this was a perfect opportunity to show this

@lostindixie

5 жыл бұрын

Business tax deduction for his holiday vacation.

@canoodlecourses3028

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@Go-Getter

5 жыл бұрын

no, that's no fun

@canoodlecourses3028

5 жыл бұрын

@@Go-Getter sorry ! I'm Learning English and....

@stephenmiller9009

5 жыл бұрын

If his scales are correct then for the brains of others it is well worth the trip. I'm not sure myself but I doubt he's troll us or not be sure with his info.

this dude drove through 3 countries just to teach people how far the nearest star to out solar system would be. MAD RESPECT

@jstnsmutek

5 жыл бұрын

And to look at hot Spainish women

@mrdune5479

5 жыл бұрын

Aka drove across texas

@martiddy

5 жыл бұрын

Our nearest star is the Sun.

@miltonjordan

5 жыл бұрын

Thought the same FUKING LIKE AND FAKEN SUBSCRIBED!

@nunyabiznez6381

5 жыл бұрын

Yes but he could have saved himself a lot of trouble had he gone with a tiny grain of salt instead of a golf ball. Then he'd only have to drive 10 km

This does help with the concept of astronomical numbers or distance. I like that you brought the sun with you for scale.

Wasn't expecting this. Fair effort!

The only thought he had on his whole trip : "Please like this video, please like this video,..." No worries, I did.

@iNathanLite

5 жыл бұрын

1K dislikes though but why? I liked too.

@sirreo

5 жыл бұрын

@@iNathanLite dude I have no idea some people are nuts. Brain.exe not found

This might be one of the most amazing videos ever. I was dumbfounded when he went past 5 miles. But this guy really put his money where his mouth was and showed it. I’m awe struck.

@uwekonnigsstaddt524

7 ай бұрын

Using a map would have saved him $ on fuel

@liverpool0690

7 ай бұрын

@@uwekonnigsstaddt524he probably was already going on this trip

@mezo72271

7 ай бұрын

@@uwekonnigsstaddt524 it wouldn't have the same shock effect. I tought he is going to drive to the other side of the park

@KM-hk8tc

7 ай бұрын

I found myself saying “woh” every time it updated and then I just kept staring until he has stopped several hundred miles later All I heard then was a little boom from my blown mind.

@SoloPerICommenti

6 ай бұрын

I has around 200km in my mind, he went well over past that

This man had this brilliant idea of using his dashcam footage of his drive from England to Spain to get 2.8 million views on KZread. My dashcam videos hardly get 200 views 😅

What i get from this is ! I'm glad I live in Australia , to much traffic and people

@mortalclown3812

15 күн бұрын

A lot less guns, too.

*Fun fact* Using the same scale as this videos, the distance from Earth to Kepler-452b (the most habitable planet discovered thus far) would roughly be the distance from the Earth to the moon we r smol

@oharryc

5 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment.

@rtyuu999

5 жыл бұрын

Can you show us your calculations?

@nicostolle209

5 жыл бұрын

@@rtyuu999 He's right. Earth -> Proxima Centaur = 4,243 lightyears Earth -> Kepler 452b = 1402 lightyears He drove 1200km. Earth -> Moon are 380.000km 1402 ly / 4,243 ly = 330,4266 1200km * 330,4266 = 396,511km. Even a bit more than the moon. Unbelivable brainfuck isn't it?

@raymondrocco6251

5 жыл бұрын

What about Andromeda galaxy????

@TMthe33rd

5 жыл бұрын

Well poop... I guess it's time to stop fucking the planet

It’s amazing that we can even see light from even the nearest star.

@zarni000

6 ай бұрын

Why? There's nothing stopping that light

@MrSpuzzz

6 ай бұрын

I guess so. But relatively distant stars are typically dimmer than near stars. So distance must mean something. Im guessing there must be stars out there that we can’t detect because they’re too far away. This video just opened my eyes to the scale. I would have guessed the nearest star would have been a mile away from a golf ball sized sun. I was off by nearly a factor of 1000x

@blacbraun

6 ай бұрын

I've heard it described as similar to a blow torch in it's intensity (using a very small scale) so we're talking about extremely bright objects. Basically stars are continuous nuclear explosions and we know how bright they are.

@cdtape

6 ай бұрын

The nearest star visible to the naked eye is the southern-hemisphere binary Alpha Centauri (4.40 light years distant). What we can't always see is the fact that it is a member of a binary system. You need a telescope for that.

@albertholl4836

6 ай бұрын

@@cdtapeinteresting fact: proxima centauri is actually not visible with the naked eye because it is a red dwarf star that is too dim too see without a telescope. Alpha centauri is visible with the naked eye though

Now that puts it in perspective. Good job.

These stellar distances are hard to fathom. Thanks for helping to put these crazy scales in perspective.

@IWillKillllllllllllU

5 жыл бұрын

The fact that the earth is the size of a grain of sand in this scenario blew my mind.

@MrJamberee

5 жыл бұрын

The nearest star is over 100 miles away. This is not news.

@lukeparsons583

5 жыл бұрын

MrJamberee who said it was news? It’s putting it into perspective. Stay in school

@NoblelllB

5 жыл бұрын

@@jamesthomas1649 They teach you what you need to know if you get a decent job, if you didnt learn it then clearly you wont be getting a decent job

@td_kdname5197

5 жыл бұрын

@@MrJamberee Not a 100 miles but on the scale of shrinking the Sun to the size of a golfball the next star is over 1,200 km away. That gives a person a dose of reality about the size of the universe.

Image doing this with a basketball and having to drive across Russia

@nitsu2947

5 жыл бұрын

Arystotskans only

@victorsvidss

5 жыл бұрын

@@user-nd2hw6vb8i no

@peachesbeaches781

5 жыл бұрын

Thomast Tham Pluto is not a sun!

@luporion2909

5 жыл бұрын

@Thomast Tham I'm sorry but i dont understand your answer

@EaZyForMonkeys

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. About 25+ times and back of course and then youre there.

immaculate commitment to the bit

That's an incredible analogy. Thank you

It's all an excuse for him to go on a road trip to Spain lmao Awesome video

@memyself1176

5 жыл бұрын

😊🥜

I got increasingly depressed the more you traveled in the video.

@devalpanchal4710

5 жыл бұрын

I wasn't...until this comment showed up.

@youraveragejoe7644

5 жыл бұрын

I felt the same way. Humans will be stuck here for a long time.

@chiaza7735

5 жыл бұрын

Why do people play with the word depressed anyhow?

@hazelstratum

5 жыл бұрын

You are insignificant. We all are insignificant.

@zionchar11

5 жыл бұрын

mind you this is SCALED DOWN.... if its original scale... yeah I dont think it's feasible with out technology.

Wow! I knew it was a long way but this is a great way to show that scale.

Thank you so much for the relatable comparison...... il never sleep again

I think you were right when you said “I think I’ll need my car for this”

@thejbo777

5 жыл бұрын

attu he needed a plane!

@SpandauJerry

5 жыл бұрын

@James same

Now remember, standing in Spain, that golfball back in England would shine so bright, that you could easily spot it with the naked eye from that distance against a dark backdrop with nothing in the way. That's the craziest part about all of that

@LarsRyeJeppesen

7 ай бұрын

Not really, the Sun is not visible with the naked eye, seen from Centauri. It's too dim. You cannot see Centauri from Earth with your eyes either.

@memyshelfandeye318

7 ай бұрын

@@LarsRyeJeppesen Proxima Cent is a red dwarf of 0.15 solar radii, when observed in the wavelengths of visible light the eye is most sensitive to, it is only 0.0056% as luminous as the Sun (wikipedia). You can't see Proxima, but I'm pretty sure you would be able to see the sun.

@LarsRyeJeppesen

7 ай бұрын

@@memyshelfandeye318 Ah yes you are right

@roundysquares

7 ай бұрын

@@LarsRyeJeppesen Proxima Centauri would be indeed too dim to see, but the sun would have an apparent magnitude of around +0.4, which is very bright. To put it into perspective, this would make it the 9th brightest star in our own night sky, and one could easily spot it from even the most light polluted places.

@kirkhunter146

7 ай бұрын

No you couldn't because the curvature of the earth would preclude it, if the world was flat then yes you could see it as you say.

Serious effort, time and expense gone thru to prove how far away that is. WOW, thanks.

That definitely gives some perspective! Thank you!

Niqqa really drove from England to Spain. You are the real star.

@9MRSG

5 жыл бұрын

Epic

@chetananand4037

5 жыл бұрын

😂

@tpl608

5 жыл бұрын

30 second point stretched to over 5 minutes

@Johnny-jm4uf

5 жыл бұрын

vinny p Nigga*

@davidcopson5800

5 жыл бұрын

@@tpl608 After all the effort he went to you surely aren't going to quibble about that!

Genius way to write off a vacation to Spain by just grabbing a golf ball and making a short video! Well done Sir 😉

Wow that means all the stars ⭐ we see at night are even further than this one that is bloody insane, they are billions if not trillions of light years away and yet we can still see them shining at night, stars ⭐ are truly the most amazing and beautiful things in our universe

I felt liberated that my body is nothing but my conscious is observing this experience

"So why'd you drive to Spain, Richard?" Richard: *Science*

Recent headline: British citizen arrested at Spanish border for smuggling golf balls, one at a time.

@geminiXXX

5 жыл бұрын

With a silliest cover story they ever heard.... "...you're filming what?!"

@TheKonga88

5 жыл бұрын

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@arisig

5 жыл бұрын

LOL

Gawd... I was shocked when You drove over 20km. Thanx for great video that shows the perspective of vastness of space

A man of focus, commitment and shear f*cking will

The fact he did this to show the scale of it is truly remarkable.

@grodt88

5 ай бұрын

he went on vacation to spain

@kulaak-krii

4 ай бұрын

Yet here in Australia, that's just a short trip to get some milk.

@Seneditiz

Ай бұрын

This is totally fake, because if he could reach the next star with only his car, then why the NASA cant reach it with all the hypertech, cyberspace equipment?! Makes no sense!