It would feel noticeably heavy compared to normal rocks. It also would probably explode like a superheated jaw breaker.

@heatshield

2 жыл бұрын

well there's some math to chew on for breakfast.

@narfwhals7843

2 жыл бұрын

Well who said the earth was shrunk? Maybe our hand got enlarged!

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

I wasn't assuming the mass stayed the same. Yikes! 😱 It would be pure neutronium!

@heatshield

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScienceAsylum LOL loony. That would be the easy way. Here I am working out average density of Earth, translating to Orange size, comparing to various rocks in my area, working out what single element would weigh the same as earth. . (yeah I got lost having fun)

@sparecreeper1580

2 жыл бұрын

well it has to be about 1mm to be a black hole, so it’d be neutronium

I’ve wondered this more often than I care to admit!

@stevenutter3614

2 жыл бұрын

I think it would be smoother than a heart.

@svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038

2 жыл бұрын

Her: *I bet my Doctor is thinking about other patients* Doctor: *What would the earth feel like if I could hold it in my hand?*

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

🤓 Glad I could finally give you answer then, Rohin.

@Avicenna697

2 жыл бұрын

I read somewhere that the Earth is smoother and rounder than a billiard ball when shrunk to the same size. Always wondered if it was true.

@D3GamesOficial

2 жыл бұрын

Oh mam you here too?

I remember as a kid seeing a museum exhibit with a huge wall-sized map of Lake Michigan and it said at this scale the depth of the water is less than the thickness of the paint. That just blew my nine year old mind.

@miko7053

2 жыл бұрын

345 likes and no replies? Ill make the replies 1

@ashtonjones6593

2 жыл бұрын

352 likes and 1 reply? Ill make the replies 2

@Zakoberi

2 жыл бұрын

362 likes and 2 replies? Ill make the replies 3

@eggiosus

2 жыл бұрын

@@anotherrandominternetguy404 okay

@pro_gamer5440

2 жыл бұрын

390 likes and 4 replies? Ill make the replies 5

You went the extra 1.6km with this one, Nick! I was astonished at the "finger sensitivity" information, and it really added to the video as a whole. Amazing!

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

I was pretty mind blown when I learned it too.

@ARockRaider

2 жыл бұрын

A+ on the measurement joke!

@verlax8956

2 жыл бұрын

What is kilometer? Me American don’t know plz heelp is mile or fert how big and small?

@stare4539

2 жыл бұрын

Yo

@ARockRaider

2 жыл бұрын

@@verlax8956 1.6km is about one mile. so personally I got a chuckle out of the poster saying "the extra 1.6km" instead of "extra mile" though personally I will always prefer imperial for my measurements, I just find it's easier to keep scales straight.

I really love people's expressions when they learn just how sensitive human fingers are

@Broockle

2 жыл бұрын

u should have said "impressions" 🤣

@Doc_OLDGUY_Savage

2 жыл бұрын

PG-13 - Over several millennia, a 'close' couple in the dark could explain how sensitive human fingers are. No surprise about the study results.

@t.c.bramblett617

2 жыл бұрын

And the tongue is even more sensitive

@MadScientist267

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing thing considering everyone has... fingers

@alexpotts6520

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly I'm struggling to believe 13nm, we're talking about a handful of atoms at this point. The earth is roughly as smooth as a billiard ball, and billiard balls feel perfectly smooth to me.

The Science Asylum: "Wanna know what the Earth would feel like in your hand?" Me: "No. Wait, yes, yes I do."

@aaronmicalowe

2 жыл бұрын

It would feel like a molten hot jellyfish surrounded by a thin film that shielded your hand from the insane temperature inside, but the moment you broke that fragile film it would be like grabbing onto glowing steel in a steel mill. The nature of liquid would be different, sticking to your hand like glue and burning it like Napalm. A few seconds of excruciating pain followed by no hand.

@elainad6728

2 жыл бұрын

Wet Ball

@elainad6728

2 жыл бұрын

WET HARD SPIKY BALL

@thebiggunce

2 жыл бұрын

@@aaronmicalowe I’ll just put on an oven glove

@ANAW-2

2 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

I like to give my 7th grade students an assignment. They have to pick a random map from an atlas and then calculate the height of the atmosphere (100 km) on their selected map. Now they have to create some kind of model or just find an object with that thickness, lay it on the map, and take a picture. It give a sense of how thin a layer the atmosphere actually is on our planet.

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! 👌

8:44 All the clone jokes aside, that editing was seamless... how did you manage to pass the paper so naturally? :o

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

I'm really proud of this one. Thanks for noticing.

@tomkerruish2982

2 жыл бұрын

(SPOILER) I watched at ¼ speed. It looks like he had someone offscreen hand him the papers and then added Research Clone's profile to the image.

@RudivanderWalt

2 жыл бұрын

I too watched that part a few times, very well done Nick!

@ANAW-2

2 жыл бұрын

Its actually "super easy barely an inconvenience" he overplayed just his head and had someone else hand him the paper.

Finally at 400k subs, Nick! Huge congratz

@Broockle

2 жыл бұрын

the world ain't fare. As far as physics goes, this is my favorite channel. I wish it was over a million at least

@vincentochs637

2 жыл бұрын

He is the best science communicator on KZread hands down

@adamqazsedc

2 жыл бұрын

Omg yeah!

@deepyaa3392

2 жыл бұрын

Your comment reminded me of how criminally underrated Nick's channel is

@amylaneio

2 жыл бұрын

Still a criminally low count for such outstanding content.

Ah yes, love when channels answer what I never asked

@nenmaster5218

2 жыл бұрын

This Channel here warmly reminds me of Veritsaium. Or Hbomberguy. Or 'Its ok to be smart'... God, i love to recommend such stuff to random people!

@juliusnepos6013

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@nenmaster5218

2 жыл бұрын

@@juliusnepos6013 Yeah what?

I was always told our sense of touch is so sensitive, if the earth could fit in the palm of our hand we would be able to feel the trees and cars. Something tells me our hearing would be good enough to hear the sound of billions of people screaming for dear life too.

Neat! I've always heard that the Earth is smoother than all but the very finest billiards balls, but quantifying it against the limits of human tactile perception is really cool! Another one I've heard often, and it'd be cool to see you do some confirmation/analysis of is that if the real Earth was the size of a typical globe, you could sop up all the water in all the oceans with a single paper towel.

@possumverde

2 жыл бұрын

The one I've always heard is if you add the depth of the lowest ocean trench to the height of the tallest mountain and compare it to the size of the Earth, it's roughly the equivalent of the distance between the bottom of a valley and peak of a ridge of your fingerprint relative to the size of your finger tip.

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Technically, it depends on the billiard ball. Freshly-made billiard balls will always be smoother than Earth. Used beat-up balls might be rougher.

Everybody sing! He's got the whole world in his hands... lol

@Robert_McGarry_Poems

2 жыл бұрын

"...Oops!" _Atlas..._ What did you do? Awwwe, did you drop the earth?

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@Andrew90046zero

2 жыл бұрын

I totally forgot about that movie

@chriskennedy2846

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScienceAsylum Most people make mountains out of molehills. You did the opposite.

@csehszlovakze

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScienceAsylum Nick, I know this'll sound weird, but thank you for preserving the accents in Kármán, as a Hungarian it means a lot.

I wouldn't call feeling the guilt of destroying all those houses "smooth" 😅

@ForgivenMan-jl7bp

2 жыл бұрын

You would have guilt over that? What about the lives you ended instead of houses?

@jeroenw9853

2 жыл бұрын

@@ForgivenMan-jl7bp I didn't want it to become too dark

@The_Real_Frisbee

2 жыл бұрын

@@ForgivenMan-jl7bp If I was large enough to be able to hold the earth in my hands, I highly doubt I'd even know about houses, or people, nor would I care.

@nickthe509

2 жыл бұрын

as someone who lives on earth, being crushed by a supergalactic giant is way cooler than the telegraphed heat death we're waiting on

@CasualCube

2 жыл бұрын

@@nickthe509 ... Much cooler

All I knew before watching this is that the Earth would be smoother than a competition snooker ball at the same size. Cool video.

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

...and it turns out that snooker ball thing is a myth.

@Skank_and_Gutterboy

2 жыл бұрын

That sounds right. Just from my back-of-the-envelope-calculations, a mountain with a 5000-foot prominence is on the scale of micro-inches on an earth that is 4 inches in diameter. On a finished aircraft part with everything in-spec, you can very easily see and feel a 1/1000th inch ding or corrosion pit in the metal. But the mountain on the 4-inch diameter earth is comparative to feeling the difference between a 16 and 32 micro-inch surface finish. You can't, you need specialized equipment to measure that. I'd say the snooker ball is a very good analogy.

@SpiritmanProductions

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScienceAsylum I must beg to differ. I've done the sums: Snooker ball diameter 52.5mm, tolerance ±0.05mm. Factor 1/1050. Earth diameter 12,742km, Everest 8.849km, Mariana 11.034km. Factors 1/1440 and 1/1155. Looks like Earth is smoother than the roughest balls permitted in competition. 🙂

@vladimircurkoski1455

2 жыл бұрын

There is that new 1kg sphere which is the smoothest thing ever

Galactus: “And this next dish has the best texture out of everything I’ve eaten. It’s so crunchy and juicy at the same time in one bite.”

As a veteran geologist of 45 years, my favourite of many of your excellent presentations. I have tried to explain ‘the same’ many times but you do it in a much more entertaining and memorable way. An aside. It can often be misleading to use ‘representations’ and ‘analogies’ in the science. This video should be used for a 101science course. You explain well how reality can be distorted if we don’t look at actual empirical evidence.

@nenmaster5218

2 жыл бұрын

Nice!

@datboy038

2 жыл бұрын

You know he’s serious when he’s using his name and has no pfp

That was the best Earth-to-scale demonstration I've ever seen! When you were up the ladder - lightbulb! (And a little vertigo - perfect.) Thanks, and congratulations on your anniversary!

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 🤓

I love the pacing of your videos and how you add a few ideas then recap, a few more, then recap, and then a final recap of everything. I find it really effective for learning.

This has been a shower thought of mine for so long, thanks for making a video on it.

This makes me think about the weirdness on the smallest scale. Imagine the roughness/complexity emerging from apparently smooth things when scaled up to human size/earth size.

@naamadossantossilva4736

2 жыл бұрын

A billiards ball would have mountains and valleys that dwarf all we have on earth.For some objects we would see matter rearrange itself in colossal avalanches.

@SuperVstech

2 жыл бұрын

@@naamadossantossilva4736 this is a myth based on the allowable billiard ball roughness to play pro pool… it would be a REALLY rough ball… with a lot of damage you could easily feel… new billiard balls are a million times smoother than the earth would be.

@uninspired3583

2 жыл бұрын

@Oni isn't that what relativity describes?

@uninspired3583

2 жыл бұрын

@Oni no I meant general relativity. Newton's equations work for most things but break down in certain conditions, orbit of mercury for example. General relativity refines how we think gravity works, and expands on Newton's equations to explain more things (orbit of mercury solved). What you've described is basically the idea of things changing at different scales. Relativity too breaks down in certain conditions. Early universe, centre of black holes, for example. I'm just pointing out that your hypothesis of laws changing at different scales describes the current state of physics. You don't have to speculate your own ideas about how the universe works, we have a lot of data on this to draw from.

@kindlin

2 жыл бұрын

@@uninspired3583 And in the other direction... You'll first find discrete matter; and then, down into the realm of individual particles, the quantum nature of our universe emerges and reality really starts to look different. Quantum nature being scaled up has been covered many times in the science media (basically a right of passage for any new science communicator) but topics include quantum tunneling, teleportation, entanglement, and superposition (the infamous Schrodinger's cat...), and trying to come up with weird analogies to explain complex phenomena to your average person (does _laymen_ have the bad connotation I feel like it does?).

I love the timing of your posts. Its around 8 in the evening in India, the perfect time for us to watch after a day of school or college

@Ascientistsjourney

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah ikr! :)

@adityaruplaha

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

@KateeAngel

2 жыл бұрын

Great coincidence for you guys! Nice

@Jay-qb9gi

2 жыл бұрын

We Americans have it in the afternoon, great time to watch while eating some lunch.

@jayde4872

2 жыл бұрын

I was in the middle of class when he uploaded

Ah, the perspective. Such an underrated thing.

If the earth in your hand is 100mm across, then mountains would be around 0.05mm tall. Might look and feel like 180-220 grit sandpaper grains. That really is a lot smaller than I expected 🤔

@djano6519

2 жыл бұрын

if the earth is the size of a billiard ball it would be smoother

@apreviousseagle836

2 жыл бұрын

@@djano6519 This video just proved that's NOT the case. Did you watch it?

@apreviousseagle836

2 жыл бұрын

@@djano6519 Got this from another comment: The Science Asylum 4 months ago Technically, it depends on the billiard ball. Freshly-made billiard balls will always be smoother than Earth. Used beat-up balls might be rougher.

@Yotanido

Жыл бұрын

@@apreviousseagle836 Did YOU watch it? He literally said in the video, that you wouldn't feel a thing unless you were rubbing it. You can definitely feel 220 grit sandpaper's roughness without any movement. The earth is super smooth. The mountains are perceptible when rubbing, but that is still insanely smooth.

Okay, we need somebody to actually /make/ a scale accurate hand globe. *nods* I admit that the machining would be difficult. But it must be done!

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

I originally considered having one 3D printed for this video, but then I did the math 🤦‍♂️

@wulf2121

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScienceAsylum basically steal the new kg prototype, which is a nearly perfectly polished sphere of silicon, then cut nanometer precision surface features in it. Would be one of the most expensive and most useless objects in the world at the same time.

@SuperVstech

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScienceAsylum aww come on… a beach ball sized one 3D printed with fine filament acetone vapor bathed for smoothness, then laser cut to show the continents and the under sea ranges and crevasse…

@xenorac

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuperVstech I have to agree, that would be kinda epic!

@jwnavagus

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScienceAsylum I have been working on making a cue ball size earth since 1997. The math and machining have been mind numbing. NASA’s 3.6 billion point model to 100k creates a smooth headache.

2:47 I've never ever seen a couple look more like professors than you guys. _Not even the Curies_

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

😂

I study atmospheric phisics and I've always wondered why air seems to have such a hard time to flow around the globe. But now you made me realize how incredibly thin the troposphere is and it all makes sense! Thank you!

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help! 🤓

I love science and your editing and humor are right up my alley, I'm glad I found this channel.

If we start to see giant fingers fondling our cars and houses we know who to blame.

"Kind of a crazy topic" was my first thought when I read the title of this video. My second thought was, of course, "It's ok to be a little crazy." It was also interesting and enjoyable. Once again, a great video... and I love your sense of humour.

I don't understand why this channel doesn't have more subscribers... His explanations are on point. He doesn't simply dumbs things down - he actually takes time to explain. Yes, simplified versions, but gives more than enough background for anyone interested to research further.

I can't even express how grateful I am that there are people like you willing to put in so much work so that there is some very cool entertainment to be found.

I made a comment similar to the beginning comment premise in "I proved 1,300,000 Earths WON'T fit in the Sun" and it even got an answer from The Science Asylum four months ago. I didn't intend my comment to be facetious or anything, I was just very curious. This video has ticked EVERY box for me for things I am interested in and is fantastic. I almost feel like this video was made for me and I absolutely loved watching every minute of it. Thank you for doing what you do.

Hey Nick. Been following you for a while now and you're still my favorite channel. Bonus points for using the metric system haha. The depth of your analysis is so entertaining, and I really like how natural and open you are. And you two are such an amazing couple. Thanks for being this incredible. =)

It's good to see your channel grow man! Kudos to ya!

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I just came across this channel this week and I gotta say these are some crazy videos. I love it lol

That was pretty cool video. I was rooting for being able to feel surface roughness and it turned out right.

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 🤓

Man, congratulations to you and the wife for the fifth anniversary!!!!!!!!!

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 🎉

@Broockle

2 жыл бұрын

woo! 🎉🎈🎊🥳

Great video as usual. Congratulations on getting over 400k subscription. And thanks for teaching me something I didn’t know I wanted to learn (as usual lol)

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I like answering weird question.

You explained it very simply mad respect

Changing the perception of how you see a single concept really helped me a lot in my daily life thanks to this channel.

A lot of the concepts on your channels that I watch, I have some previous knowledge about but the way it's presented in a new light or a different style makes me really happy that people like you are making others understand complex ideas with ease. Great work.

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 🤓

Thanks for a wonderful explanation.

I just recently found your channel from the all mighty algorithm and I must say... Holy cow your content is great! You should have even more subscribers! Keep up the awesome work! Looking forward to your next video

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 🤓 I work hard on this stuff, so it's nice to know it's appreciated.

I just watched the VSauce video talking about this concept the other day and I was just thinking about it, When I saw the notification for this video, I couldn’t help but laugh at the coincidence.

@PATISLAV

2 жыл бұрын

Not always a coincidence, they all watch the same documenaries on the streaming services or read the science papers when they come out.

@kenshiromilesvt.7037

2 жыл бұрын

@@PATISLAV the VSauce video was posted 4 years ago

@SuperVstech

2 жыл бұрын

@@kenshiromilesvt.7037 I was thinking it odd that vsauce would put another version of that video out…

@LuisAldamiz

2 жыл бұрын

Every paranoid knows that coincidences do not exist.

@MarcelinoDeseo

2 жыл бұрын

KZread thinks you're interested with how a scaled down earth looks like

Excellent video on dying questions I had that was raised by other science channels. In one video you answer the annoying oblate spheroid, geoid, and the smoothness question perfectly.

Hey there, new subscriber here! I just wanted to say that I love your comedic approach to science with a fair amount of complexity to it. It makes it easy to learn and engage with curious individuals, regardless of their age. My 8 year old daughter has been binge watching your videos. Thank you and keep up the good work!

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and sharing with your daughter. I love to hear when parents share with their kids.

Just found you on my feed for the first time and you're awesome liked, shared and subbed. Looking forward to allot more solid content !

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 🤓

This actually answered one of my late night and shower thoughts. Thank you, Nick.

"Something being fun to watch doesn't necessarily mean it has educational value." 😂 So true these days

@bruceanderson7762

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe but Sci assylem is both fun and informative...thank you sir.

@chriskennedy2846

2 жыл бұрын

Was he taking a shot at Physics Girl???

@pratikdedhia

2 жыл бұрын

@@chriskennedy2846 I am not sure, it seemed like that. Or maybe he was talking about how other youtubers just put a video call conversation in between their videos without any reason just for collaboration sake. So he didn't put their conversation in this video.

Research Clone handing Nick a stack of papers is low key the best visual effect on this channel.

thank you for including metric. very helpful for me

You make a lot of interesting and unusual videos! *Keep it up!*

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@foresttvtm9491

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScienceAsylum Np, buddo!

@_John_P

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScienceAsylum As our minds have a physical existence in the universe, as soon as you imagine a number, it also has some kind of physical presence that propagates independently from the mind, even if just in encoded form.

Yay, another mind blowing science asylum video to watch before bed!!!

I first subscribed to your channel at 10K subs... Now you're at half a million You totally deserve it tho, your content is honestly great

great info and love the Galactus refence. SUBED for sure :)

I LOL when the US line showed up in your diagram. And then giggled when you didn’t bother again later. ❤️😁

This video blew my mind. I never realized how big the earth actually is. Dispite the size, a plane flies around this thing in 40 hours, which is awesome and gives me a new perspective on how amazing this technology is. The ISS does it in 90 minutes, but it feels like cheating, but the speed! Walking day and night takes almost a year. What a huge ball. And this all compared to the size of black holes. Just wow!

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Right?! It's mind blowing.

@IamGrimalkin

2 жыл бұрын

Why is the ISS cheating? It only got to that speed because the Space Shuttle accelerated it that fast...

@saschaxanch

2 жыл бұрын

@@IamGrimalkin I thought so because it's not beeing slowed down by atmosphere.

@IamGrimalkin

2 жыл бұрын

@@saschaxanch Well, the same is true with planes (to a lesser extent of course).

Thanks for the hard work. I understood your explanation.

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome 🤓

I appreciated how you described the scientific proof of how you knew the sensitivity of touch of the human hand. That was an excellent example of having a concept and expressing an observable and repeatable measurement. Id love to hear your same method for the other concepts that you do authoritatively state as fact. Particularly in reference to the oblateness of the sphere.

I love the recent addition of the in-sequence outtakes.

That was actually way better done than I thought it was going to be. I was so hoping for an attempt to find the limits of human perception when it came to touch and you did not disappoint! Still looking for a video that explains how atomic motion and molecular motion leads to infrared light being released rather than visible light!

@laykefindley6604

2 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/f55ms7Gpgc65lqw.html The algorithm answered me! Maybe this can be inspiration but I felt like there were a few things not mentioned, like the reason black body radiation has the curve it does for any given temperature.

The first time I saw you on KZread I remember binging through your (already huge) playlist, and then feeling ashamed an educator with your passion and talent could work that long and hard and still have under 20K subs. It’s awesome to see your channel finally getting the recognition it deserves!

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 🤓

i like how the thumbnail makes it so that i don't actually have to watch the video unless i want to hear all the details of why we can feel the details of a tiny earth with our hands

It was an awesome paper on human touch thanks for bringing it up. By the way, the particle size of a P2000 sandpaper is about 10 um. It is smooth but you can feel the abrasive surface. It is crazy how smooth the Earth is. Amazing video thanks!

"Its ok to be a little crazy!" - yeah, but to use imperial units is to crazy :P

Your presentation was adequate enough to take your word for how the earth would feel in my hand. Even if I could hold the earth in my hand, I wouldn’t want to out of fear of causing a mass extinction event for earths inhabitants.

A science museum should make a model earth to hold and feel like this! Maybe use jello for the ocean. But put the mountains roughly right as well as the obleitness. Maybe even add skyscraper cities. Doesnt have to have every peak and building right, but close enough so you can feel it. I bet that would be very educational for all! It would be realy interesting

As a skeptic of: "It would be completely smooth if reduced to the size of a cue ball", I enjoyed this presentation!

"for all the metric people out there" LITERALLY THE REST OF THE WORLD MY GUY

@altosack

2 жыл бұрын

However, his audience may be skewed just a wee bit to the non-metric world. I prefer using the term “non-metric”, even though I learned from Veritasium there is no longer any non-metric standard; it’s converted from metric standards.

Love your channel!

watta good watch, loved it! First video I saw of your channel, but all the clones totally had me hahaha!

I love this guy, he's awesome.. so fun to learn about science from him. I actually enjoy being called crazy 😹

I never asked for this. But I needed it.

nice to see your tackling the big questions

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Our the small questions, depending on how you look at it 😉

This one earn you my sub! I always imagined that the earth should be pretty smooth to hold by some cosmic size hands. But not sure how smooth. But now I know!

0:12 le my mind subconsciously playing that old music 😂😂

Scale-model earths with that kind of precision would be super cool. Yeah, they'd be expensive to make, but nowhere near impossible (maybe not every house needs to be there, but cities and natural formations would be cool). Yeah it'd be really expensive to make, but if I had the money I'd probably get one lol

@Skank_and_Gutterboy

2 жыл бұрын

If a guy had Bill Gates kind of money, that would be a fun project to have somebody do.

@jebidiahkerman4600

2 жыл бұрын

I think I feel a tad bit weird having a microscopic version of my house on somebody's globe

The first video I watched from your channel, already subscribed.

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome! 🤓

Never thought about this. Very interesting facts!!!

Denali actually has a very large base-to-peak height. much larger than Everest, which sits on a plateau.

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. I actually had a bit about this detail in the video, but it got cut at the last minute because it was distracting from the main point.

Even i have the “thing explainer” book you have in the background. That book awesome!

@sarchlalaith8836

2 жыл бұрын

Link to where we can get it? Pls?

The scalings on this are really well chosen 👍👍

Yes this was something I always wondered about

I want... NEED to see more of Research Clone in The Asylum! He could help me with a bit of my mad science!!!

This helps tremendeously to give a reference and to help understand the size of the earth, and everything on it. Humans are nutoriously bad at imagening huge numbers. So this video realy helps!

There's an imaginary level of smoothness to my rubbing the tiny Earth.. I'm lovin' it..

I like that smooth sphere, since the gold foil longitude and latitude lines are similar to what you've described - not noticeable touching the ball, but unmistakable if rubbing it.

it's the nature of gravity to try and make spheres after a certain mass threshold has been reached, but it's not always a *perfect* sphere, but clearly the deviations of earth are very negligible under most circumstances. It's like a 1x1 square versus a 1x1.001 rectangle, is it a square? not technically. Could equations that use squares instead of rectangles work with it? Eh, pretty much.

The fact that we would be able to feel cars and houses blows my mind

best video on a question i never wanted an answer for

Damn, that is lot of research references but still easily understood because of his explanation and his teams visuals editing

I can't believe that this type of precious quality content video is free on KZread LOVE FROM INDIA ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍♥️❤️🧡💛💚💙

I’m sad the clones have such narrow interests. I feel they should be free to enjoy full, well rounded lives.

Wow! This whole video was awesome, but it was actually taking that 1 million:1 scale map up onto the roof, and envisioning the dimensions of the full hemisphere of the earth centered on Colorado that really brought things into a new perspective for me! We've all used those million-to-one maps, putting them into perspective with the rest of the earth is so cool, and helps me get a better sense of the earth's size and size relationships far better than I ever have before! With the additional info about mountain sizes being truly amazing. I've always had trouble envisioning relatively small islands having whole mountain ranges on them (even though I've been to Hawaii and seen it first hand!), seeing things this way suddenly makes it make sense! For anyone who wants to mentally add the atmosphere to the roof picture, when he's up there on the roof you can imagine the entire atmosphere ending just 4 inches above the map.

Once again standout content you don’t see anywhere else! I watched this channel a lot a few years ago and kind of drifted away (I blame the algorithm) but I’ve recently started watching more and they’re better than ever.

Oh man, just when my decade-long push to get everyone to switch to Planck Units had started to gather momentum, you go all retro and start loving the metric system?!!! 😥

One of the "fun facts" I've seen since the 80s (or earlier?) is that the Earth is smoother than the required smoothness of a billiard ball. Which seems pretty accurate.

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe an older beaten up billiard ball. A new fresh professional one should be smoother than Earth. While Earth is incredibly smooth, humans are capable of making smoother objects.

@SuperVstech

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the key words are “Required smoothness” basically, the competition rules show the rejection stats of a damaged ball to remain in play, and anything smoother than that will not be replaced unless requested… the earth wouldn’t HAVE to be replaced…

@adarshmohapatra5058

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuperVstech So you can keep playing billiards with the Earth for some time?

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuperVstech The Earth would most definitely have to be replaced. That old saying "Earth is smoother than a billiard ball" is misinterprets the tolerance for roundness as a tolerance for smoothness. Regulation smoothness is way more strict.

The Werefrog was amazed at learning the Earth is smoother than a billiard's ball. This video gave a decent explanation of why that is.

OH MY GOD THANK YOU IVE BEEN WANTING TO KNOW THIS

@ScienceAsylum

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help 🤓