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I hate to bring it to you, but most humans are idiots.

Its rare that you actually pass through the comet's tail. It would be easy to convince people that THIS TIME was different.

@@untruelie2640 At least a quarter of us.

@@Robert08010 I think that this is a rather optimistic estimate.

How could you forget about burning down another 5G tower so it won't give you a GMO cancer? Are you not progressive enough?

Perhaps it was her vision that had turned for the worse, or pollution which had clouded the sky, not the comet which had lost its vibrancy.

@@camerrill No. Her vision was still okay. The comet in 1986 just wasn't in as good a position in relation to the Earth, for people to see, as it was in 1910. We went to see it on a hilltop in the middle of nowhere, even further in the middle of nowhere, than where she lived, which was in the middle of nowhere! It's was a place, where the stars, planets, and Milky Way are very clear, and where air pollution or light pollution wouldn't be an issue. Anyway, Grandmother was glad to have seen it come and go in twice in her lifetime. She was a math and science teacher, so she had a pretty good appreciation for it.

Neat story.

Same. My grandpa's neighbour saw it twice also. In 1910 when he was 16 and in 1986 when he was 92 years old. Crazy.

I saw it with my telescope back then. It was kinda pathetic, like a candy corn seen from fifty feet away.

Forget gold and drinking water. We should all invest in toilet paper!

Might make it, I'll be 101!

I won't need it. I will be 98 and someone else will be wiping my butt. 💩

@@danielhammond3012 I be 96 in 2062.

Mike83ny. Don't worry, we'll all be dead because of climate change by 2030. I learned that at the debate last night.

Yes it was.

@MrPitjoey en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group)

The 1986 passage was particularly bad for those of us here on Earth. It was basically on the other side of Earth's orbit, and at it's closest approach to Earth was about 100 million miles further than it had been in 1910. And because of the tilt of the Earth's axis, it never got very high in the sky for people in the Northern Hemisphere. Hale-Bopp was a much dustier comet, which makes it brighter-bright enough it could be seen in daytime. It was also much better placed for Northern Hemisphere viewers. It was "circumpolar" (meaning it never set) for viewers from mid-northern latitudes for close to a week, which also meant that unlike almost all comets, you could view it from a fully dark sky.

It looks like Halley's orbit is within the planetary solar system , H-B I think went way out beyond the exto planets, and also had a different plane of trajectory, it was moving faster and more affected by the gravity of the sun as it shifted out of the sun as an epiltical node of flight.

@@highpath4776 Yes. Halley's aphelion is out by the orbit of Neptune, (about 35 AU from the Sun). Hale-Bopp's aphelion is about 6 times further out, but it's still within the Solar System.

No, the recent outbreak of stupidity you refer to began in 2016.

@@goodun2974 let’s hope it turns out to be benign.

If you're a THG regular, you'll know there's never been a shortage of stupid throughout human history..

@@Peasmouldia , stupidity, yes; and a surfeit of " luck", both good and bad.

Technology is the rope by which the human race will hang itself. And stupidity has been around forever.

@Dessy Duke Lecker don't you mean muzzle?

You are missing the point.

There's a 🔑 The Law of Attraction is absolute.

@Dessy Duke Lecker if you aren’t against the unscientific, never before implemented concept of societal lockdown then you can take your mask and shove it. That and your smug scientism, too.

K-pg extinction event....

totally agree!!! 🙏

The ticker tape parade after the end of the world!

Ah, there’s the rub.

As a an 8 yr old kid in Amsterdam in 1955, I was told by older boy that the world would end in 1958. That haunted me a lot until the end of 1958.

What advice would a 1910 version of President Trump have give his country about the imminent apocalypse?

Except Noah. He spent 120 years building a ship on the forecast knowledge it would be needed at the time of the world flood.

Then, in 1757, Louis XV was attacked by a knife-wielding Robert-François Damiens. I have no evidence, but I suspect the US Constitution's eighth amendment prohibition of "cruel and unusual punishments" was inspired by the public torture-execution of Damiens.

What a wonderful comment!! I did not know any of that, and I always feel like a fact and trivia enthusiast, so this is great! I am going to get into more information about him, thanks!

That's so cool!! I had no idea!

@@flagmichael Well, I can give you at least one reason that Article III, Section 3, of the US Constitution says " Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open court." In England, one of Henry VIII's political opponents, Lord Montague, was arrested on a charge of treason. He said, "I have committed no treason." The arresting officer replied, "Treason is what the King says it is." Montague was tortured to make him confess. He was tried in absentia and in camera, where the only evidence was his "confession". He was then executed. It was to prevent that sort of thing that this clause of the Constitution was written

The "M" in M83 Galaxy means "Messier 83". I did not know where that Messier thing came from, though. Thanks!

Seems that history repeats itself, even today!

Nothing ever does.

@1tiercel : Ah, those lingering aftereffects! You can blame anything on anything with the help of those.

And that nothing happened rather slowly.

That just doesn't add up. You say he lived 67 years. The comet comes once every 76 years. In 67 years, he could not have seen it twice.

@@Robert08010 I think he meant average lifespan.

Know what you mean... I never saw it either. What we thought was the comet, as seen in binoculars, turned out to be the Orion nebula. It was just our crappy luck that a very good apparition of Halley wound up being followed by one of the worst ever. I took up amateur astronomy about a year later and have seen a fair few comets -- the most recent one being Neowise this past summer -- but only 3 have been "walk out the door, look up and go WOW" objects. People I know who did find Halley in '86 say that, even as faint as it was, it was still better than the vast majority of comets... which doesn't make me feel any better.

Haven't changed much, have they.

They should be charged as terrorists for inciting false panic so damn much.

Paul Harvey had a Rest of the Story episode about four reporters who sat gloomily commiserating in a Colorado bar. Among them they had nothing - bupkis. One suggested that if they all filed reports about something it would be accepted as fact as long as it was too difficult to investigate independently. They settled on a story about some obscure but rich organization trying to buy the Great Wall of China. According to the Rest of The Story the story made its way to China and spurred the Boxer Rebellion. Believe it or Not (oops - wrong citation)!

@@flagmichael , Paul Harvey excelled at telling stories but I'd be wary of using him as a valid source. He was, by the way, highly conservative, and his stories definitely lean that way.

@@goodun2974 It wasn't so much his leanings. He wanted to tell a good story, and like many storytellers, he embellished some things, left others out, and sometimes filled in gaps with things he thought sounded good. There was usually at least a grain of truth to them, but you sometimes had to look hard to find them. He did, however, spread more than a few urban legends.

Did you know that most insurance policies to this day still contain a "Y2K exclusion" clause?

I did get a telescope in "86, for about $100. Took it comet-hunting it in the darkest place on the East Coast (NC Outer Banks), and saw what amounted to... nothing. I re-packed the scope carefully, stored it away, and sold it at a flea market a few years later for more than I paid.

@The Dog's Butler I agree he should do a Y2K video also a panic of the year change 1899-1900..although similarities between this video and Y2K panic would not be that different. people became crazy and stocking up on things and buying ridiculously stupid things (survival gear, guns because Y2K would cause society to collapse i guess) of course retailers also got into it.. The Y2K panic was crazy..for people that did not understand how computer systems worked they believed everything would cease working i guess.. At the time i worked for a company that flew us around the US to patch code on mainframe computers..the problem was a math issue not a failure of computers..doing a year math calculation against a 2 digit year when the year switched between 99 and 00 would cause math errors.....it mostly affected financial industry..your car or traffic lights, pretty much everything outside of mortgages and loans do not do math against 2 dates...PC's at the time would simple display the date as Jan 1, 00..a few older computers from the 1980s may display it as Jan 1,1900 due to the fact the the number 19 was hard coded..but they would work just fine.. The biggest fear from US financial industry was not Y2k it was the panic and people causing a "run on the bank" ..if too many people ran to a ATM or tried to take their money out the banks would fail..We were told that if anyone asked what i my job was was to tell them we were "fixing" the Y2K issue and everything was fine your bank account was safe...we also silently made a few changes to ATM through the computer code to either limit the amount of money that could be withdrawn from ATM's or have a rolling offline time on the machines.. By the way we will possibly have another Y2K like issue happen on January 19, 2038...this will be a time storage size issue... I was going to write a comment describing how computers calculate date time including local time but it would put most people to sleep.. EXTRA TRIVIA: Before most computers were connected to a network they used one of 2 ways to calculate the current date 1) number of seconds that have happened since January 1, 1970 (8 and 16 bit computers also called "Unix Time") ..2) number of 100-nanoseconds since January 1,1601 (32 bit and 64 bit computers) .. Of course since almost all computers are now connect to a network they can sync their time to a "time server"

@@MickeyMousePark I was in my 30s and working in the petrochemical industry in 1999. The big bosses at the company I worked for decided to replace all of the plant control systems computers and cameras. The old ones were stacked up on pallets and were supposed to be taken to the dump. Employees got to take home one or two of the most powerful workstations computers available. Even though the computer engineers told them everything will be fine they still spent over $100m just to be safe.

@@thedogsbutler7046 good point..Y2K was a great excuse for IT departments to upgrade their equipment...

lmao

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@@annebradley6086 Dumb. Most obviously dumb is mention of Columbus most likely being Potuguese instead of Spanish when it is well known that he was Italian but sailed for the Spanish. Hence the naming of his ships used in his first voyage as Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria - all Spanish names.

Too late! Dummy Dems are already telling people to vote early and not wait until November 3rd bc we’re to be hit with an asteroid or something stupid! They’re truly nuts at this point, just saying

@@dawnyockey1475 That's false. If you believe it, I have a bridge to sell you.

(rummages through some of the earliest compact discs for some REM)

Now that's about as "cool" as it gets !!!

My hometown is famous for burning witches.

@@u0aol1 lol, my birth city, Omaha, was at one point one of the biggest transportation hubs in America and is host of the college world series, where I grew up, Casper Wyoming, is known as the Center of the West, and Billings, current residence, is known for a Sacrifice and a couple of Skeletons on a part of the Rims

and somebody give this man a medal!!

@@boywhohasl1vedhascometodie469 Jerk

Tulsa, Oklahoma is known for its racial masscre in 1921.

We still have two months left and those months in US might be more entertaining than stuff Chinese did to get one fat guy sick.

Ok, I’ll bite. What stuff did China do to get one fat guy sick? Is this a corona reference? Only one fat guy? Who was he? Thank you in advance for a polite explanation.

In my 68 years I have seen worse. The Long Hot Summers of the 1960s, coupled with the Vietnam war come to mind. My father was in his teens during the Great Depression and was a radar tech in WW2; he had a Marine with a .45 assigned to him to safeguard America's secrets. At least once a month the Marine would command "Drop!" and my father would drop immediately to his knees, whatever he had been doing, and the Marine would put the .45 to the base of his skull. I can't believe we have become so small that we wring our hands over a troublesome virus and an ordinary election.

@@shmismith7196 It was a corona reference. The joke is that this virus is created to infect some Chinese enemy called Donald in Pennsylvania Avenue 1600. I am more concerned about the things that will be going in US for two months after election, if current president loses. We have local non-US clowns too to make watching any corona related news unbearable.

I really can't grasp what's so horrid about 2020. You have to stay home for months. I barely get to socialize already but the virus just limited me even more and I missed out on many great opportunities too, but I don't whine about it. What is it that's so horrible to you?

Double feature with Maximum Overdrive

@@HM2SGT Dammit... you beat me to it.

The Voodoo demon sperm doctor would have been laughed out the door even in 1835!

Never a more true statement

It's a continuing astonishment to me that in this day of instant facts at our fingertips and unlimited search engines and experts connected around the world, there are STILL so many people who are superstitious and insistently, proudly ignorant, insisting that anyone with new information is trying to "fool" them, for some nefarious reasons...

@@christineparis5607 Because they are. Modern technology makes it easier to do than ever.

@@christineparis5607 and it still amazes me how many sheep are in the world

As well as comet Kohoutek being a disappointment.

Yeah I don't even recall seeing it. There was a comet in the early 90s that was quite visible for about week that was quite interesting. I don't recall its name though.

Comet Hale-Bopp late March 1997 was awesome!

Yes indeed ... Hale-Bopp was amazing to watch ! It was so clear and well defined ... best comet I ever saw.

@@smelly_elvis I think that is the one I was recalling. Later in the 90s than I initially thought but yeah 97 is very possible.

I’m not so sure you have. Early on he makes a point of discussing the soft data on proper pronunciation... Hal-Lee, Hay-Lee...🤷‍♂️ in the end it’s no big deal, definitely not worth getting wrapped around the axle about. 😺 seems to me like no matter which, you’re not wrong.

And there are just a few of us left. 😉

👍🏼 Magritte! Splendid!😎

🤷‍♂️ We like the man, the channel, & the anticipation of another agreeable programme. In two years I have yet to be disappointed.

@@HM2SGT love dudes videos too, but it just seems like something a sheep would do

Even better to be without eyes at all. So you wouldn't have to see all the bullshit going on right here in the ground.

Oct. 8 1871 Chicago wasn't the only thing that burned that night, fires simultaneously also broke out across Wisconsin (see: Peshtigo) and Michigan, near Grand Rapids and also near Detroit (opposite sides of the state). Either Mrs. O'Leary's cow oughta be a place kicker in the NFL for the way she booted that lantern, or... Dare I say there may have been a cosmic source of these simultaneous fires that occured as Earth passed through the tail of comet Hyukatake? I do dare, but it doesn't mean I'm 100% able to prove it. I hope THG does an episode on that. Edit: I understand snake oil salesmen took advantage back in the day. But he seems to be ridiculing the idea that the tail of a comet (comprised of gases like acetylene and ethane) could be flammable. The idea that the environment outside of Earth's atmosphere is of little to no effect is out of date.

did the cat say look for the secret woid and win a hundwed dollahs? did the cat say go to your local desoto dealer and tell them groucho sent you ?

@@roadmaster720 You must have known them also?

@@constipatedinsincity4424 no but groucho marx pops up everytime i hear that name and his tv show of the '50's " you bet your life".

@@roadmaster720 I have thought he was saying “a hundred allahs” .

Well wait, the news is now reporting we have an asteroid that is going to hit the day before election day. But don't worry, it's only the size of a refrigerator.....sigh....

Yellow journalism probably has existed since day one.

The media are very good at scaremongering. Anyone remember the Millennium Bug? Planes would fall out of the sky, cars wouldnt start, computer systems everywhere would crash etc etc. What happened? Nothing. To be fair there was a genuine concern by computer experts that some operating systems might not cope with the changeover from 1999 to 2000, the systems in question were based on programmes written in the 1960s and used a 2 digit year instead of 4 digits. As I understand it they were only used on home computers anyway so the chance of a major problem was tiny.

@@sameyers2670 Sure nothing happened with Y2K, because there were concerted efforts to go in and change computer programs. It wasn't just bullshit from the start Funnily enough, some of the quick fixes to the solution meant that a few systems rolled over at the start of 2020 instead, to 1920. It took WWE 2K20 out of action for a few hours but turns out patching over the internet is a lot easier than getting a technician in to retype some code

@@HiringHamblin I'm not saying it was all BS just that the media blew it out of proportion as they always do

Reminds me of his episode on the vowel shift.

I as well was 10 in 86, actually 9&1/2 I remember hearing about it but don't remember actually seeing it. I'm sure I did but it didn't stick with me.

We got to try to see it while at school if I remember it right. I know we certainly talked about it a lot. Probably because it was only a month after the Challenger explosion that killed all the astronauts and Christy Mccolough, the teacher who was going to space. I definitely remember that announcement. Our teach said the space shuttle "burst" which left us all confused. Finally another faculty member said exploded and we started to get it.

We have had a flush of very close near collisions this year. Another is expected in November just before election day. Nothing to worry about, but any excuse for a party is fine. 🙄😏

@Elaine Wood 2020: hold my corona.

@@areyousureyouenteredyourna85 ... thumb down. Just because. ;)

People in 2020: we can act in fear too!!

And that a relatively mild and comparatively harmless example. Sadly, people have been led by the unscrupulous and the crazy in mass suicides in anticipation Armageddon & cataclysm. Heaven’s Gate & Jonestown come to mind.

Y2K ...that was a big fizzle

Even with the best science available, we're doing the hysteria thing again with CO2.

@@brett4264 no, the common mistake is ignoring science. Your logic is the same as dismissing the 1917 Spanish "Flu" as nothing. Follow the science.

@@HM2SGT The reason the calendar stopped was because they ran out of room on the stone. 😁😁

I got some nice shots of Neowise when it was a pre-dawn object. After it became visible in the evening, I had the neighborhood kids lined up (with proper social distancing, of course) to view it in my telescope. For them (and a surprising number of their parents) it was the first comet they'd ever seen.

I thought I saw a comet this summer.

@@scottyj6226 Neowise was visible in July. In the northeast before dawn in the early part of the month, and in the northwest in the evening in the middle of the month. I live in an area with pretty bad light pollution, and it was naked eye, but faint here. You could see it, but you had to know exactly where to look.

Hmmm Sometimes it is real and unique. The smart ones didn't go to church in 1348, but headed for the hills.

Yes fear does control people quite nicely

@@ColinPacker Oh sorry, passes the base of Nelson's Coloum, in the middle of the square. Which just to confue the issue, is the second coloumn named for Nelson. The first one is above Portsmouth harbour, alongside Fort Nelson, and is still used as a navaigation mark for vessels entering the harbour.

@@51WCDodge Do you mean when a virgin lass passes by and poots or as we say in America " rips one"?

Yup i saw some global warming propaganda and one source said i should be afraid because it was evaporating the water and lowering the Ocean level and another said I should be afraid because the melting ice caps where making the ocean levels rise. smh

sadly people are not seeking knowledge or truth, but rather validation of what they believe to be truth

The difference being that there were genuine concerns with the last two.

@@almostfm oh well yes of course THEY where completely validated. Of course totally new and different

@@jubileeYAVEL At the time, I was working for a software company that did custom software installations for city and county government. We had 200 agencies that were using our latest and greatest products, so we knew they were OK. About 150 were running an older version that could be patched, but since they were all custom builds that meant rewriting 150 installations. And 50 were running on systems that couldn't be upgraded because of hardware limitations, so that meant starting from scratch for each of them. I wasn't a programmer, but I was the corporate trainer. I had two years of being on the road three weeks out of each month training the agencies on the new software, and when I'd get back to the hotel each night, spend a couple of hours writing custom manuals. We busted our asses and the company basically made no money for those two years to make sure our clients didn't have a problem. As for the Corona virus, we're looking at almost 1.2 million dead worldwide, with no really good treatment in sight. That should scare you. The only people who are never scared that something bad might happen to them are morons

I agree that the Corona thing is crap...If you need to stick a lime in it,it obviously sucks.

I can't think of a reason why the ninth of September should've caused a problem. Anyone else heard of this one?

@@pibgorn9513 the number 9999 was apparently a stop command for some operating systems or something or other, although what connection that might have with the date wasnt clear at all

K-pg extinction event Not that we can do anything about it again.

@@yclepe I can't think of a connection, either. One is data and one is code; unless there was some *seriously* buggy software about... :)

OldWhiteGuy 2020 vs. BigAssMeteor 2020. Tough choice, imho.

If you believe your "choice" makes any difference, you have been misled. Even if red and blue weren't two sides of the same evil coin, the electoral college has proven with two out of our past three presidents that the popular vote is meaningless.

Not including natural erosion the sea lever has risen about 2 feet since the middle ages

@@jimvanderpoel4467 The sea level rose 400 feet from 16,000 BC to 6,000 BC. That certainly wasn't caused by human activity and humans adapted to the changes just fine.

@@Oxnate I'm in agreement climate change is BS.....

It wasn't smart people being stupid - it was a real problem with a simple cause. The reason that nothing much happened was that a lot of work was done beforehand to make sure that it didn't. We have a similar problem coming up in 2038 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem).

@@pibgorn9513 Exactly!

That was an actual thing. Lots of programmers helped to avoid that catastrophe.

Y2K was it Justified panic. It was averted through hard work by many programmers.

@@dlbstl Nope. The US Navy turned all clocks forward on there ships in California and after that were satisfied and did nothing more. Because nothing happen. It was a great time for exploiting fear.

@@dlbstl you should look up how Y2K was created

One of those is not like the others!