Is The Solar Eclipse Evidence That We're Living In A Simulation?

Is The Solar Eclipse Evidence That We're Living In A Simulation? | Answers With Joe

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Today's total solar eclipse is more than just an amazing sight - it's one of the most improbable events in the universe. Here's why.
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TRANSCRIPT:
The number of factors involved to make this happen is astronomical. Pun intended.
I propose the Scott equation for solar eclipses.
Because I want my name on sumpin dammit.
N = nr * fm * fp * na * L
nr is the number of rocky planets in the galaxy.
And I’m cutting out the gas giants for 2 reasons, one, in order for a shadow to fall on something you need a surface to fall on, and gas giants don’t really have a surface to speak of.
fm stands for the fraction of those rocky planets with a moon.
I’ve talked before about how rare and special our moon is, I mean just in our own solar system, only one other rocky planet has moons, and that’s Mars, which has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. But they’re really more like captured asteroids.
fp is the fraction of rocky planets with moons whose orbits cross the same plane as the planet and the star.
If the orbit of the moon never brings it between the planet and the star, no eclipse.
But the big one is na, or the number of moons that fit that angular alignment required to get a total solar eclipse.
In the case of Earth, the magic number is 400. The moon’s diameter is 400 times smaller than the sun and the sun is 400 times further away. How rare is this?
There is one other moon in our solar system that does this and that’s Jupiter’s moon Callisto due to its large size and vast distance from Jupiter.
Callisto is 179.3x smaller than the sun, and the sun is 179 times further from Jupiter.
The last variable, L is for length of time.
Drake included time as a variable because it’s logical to assume that the amount of time a species could be putting signals into space is finite.
I’m including it for the same reason.
Because the moon moves away from the Earth at a rate of 1.6 inches per year. Which means eventually, our moon won’t fully cover the sun anymore and it’ll be an annular eclipse.
And this slow progression away from the planet should be true of most moons due to orbital dynamics, so there is a finite length of time that a total solar eclipse would be visible.
How is it possible that one planet could experience not one but two utterly improbable but completely unrelated phenomena at the same time?
Maybe it’s more evidence for the rare-Earth hypothesis.
The idea that the conditions in place to create Earth and all life on it is so impossibly rare that we’re likely the only life in the universe.
Which slides into the anthropic principle which states that life on Earth is inevitable because the universe is compelled to create conscious life in order to observe itself.
This is the strong anthropic principle, the weak anthropic principal kinda goes the opposite direction, saying that we’re not that special but think we’re special thanks to selection bias.

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@MrSativacyborg 5 жыл бұрын

"You wanna line up the sun and the moon just to mess with them?" "...yep"

@paddor 4 жыл бұрын

It’s the sun, the moon, AND the earth...

@tonikotinurmi9012 4 жыл бұрын

@@paddor Nope, since we're the target of the simulation, hence our existence at this part is defined.

@antonystringfellow5152 4 жыл бұрын

In the era of the dinosaurs, the Moon was closer and would have blotted out the Sun's disk and its corona. In the future, it will be further away and won't cover the Sun's disk. It's just happened in time for us to be here to witness it.

@euclideanplane 4 жыл бұрын

We also have a bible, the most popular book on earth, written 2,000-6,000 years ago, and it states that 666 is the mark of the beast right? If all beasts are carbon based, and the isotope carbon 12 (99.97% of all carbon) is 6 protons, 6 neutrons, and 6 electrons. Was this a hint at the simulation yet again? "Let he who has wisdom calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of man, the mark of the beast" here's another, if you follow this rule of 1=A, 2=B, 3=C, 4=D, 5=E, so on and so on, and you consider this: GOD, G=7 O=15, D=4, 7 x 15 x 4 = 420, : ), weed has certainly taught me a lot I'll say that. what about the pyramid of giza's coordinates matching up with the speed of light? it's down to the 4th decimal i believe, that's astronomically rare too.

@yourrightimsooosorry884 4 жыл бұрын

@@euclideanplane 616 not 666

@Pining_for_the_fjords 5 жыл бұрын

Trying to make sense of the moon is just lunacy.

@MOSMASTERING 4 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r7yVrdR0l8e9qmQ.html Sample at the beginning

@obviouslymatt6452 4 жыл бұрын

David Renton nice

@DildoBaggins. 4 жыл бұрын

@rebeccaringler1265 4 жыл бұрын

The moon is not what it’s cracked up to be. If you have Facebook, watch this. facebook.com/100001612693261/posts/2868318066565255/?d=n

@adamrubinger2644 4 жыл бұрын

This is an EX-PARROT!

@Chalky. 2 жыл бұрын

If it's a simulation the person who coded me needs to be fired for incompetence.

@SJ-cl4wq 2 жыл бұрын

With this mentality,you will go even below what you are right now. Only thing that you need to do is marry someone that can change your life.🤣

@bodhisattva9762 2 жыл бұрын

@@SJ-cl4wq That's the stupidest advice anyone has ever given.

@SJ-cl4wq 2 жыл бұрын

@@bodhisattva9762 It depends.If you are surrounded by stupid people,there is no way you can understand my comment. Of course for you,my comment will feel stupid and all that's okay. I know many examples who have 180° change in life direction despite struggling before marriage.

@adb012 4 жыл бұрын

There is one little detail missing... It is NOT the case that the Sun is EXACTLY as much further away from the Earth than the Moon as it is bigger and hence their apparent sizes matching exactly. The Earth is in an elliptic orbit around the Sun so the Sun appears bigger and smaller in the sky at different times of the year. The Moon in turn is in an elliptic orbit around the Earth so its size also appears bigger and smaller throughout the lunar month. All in all, depending on the position of the Earth in its elliptic orbit around the Sun and of the Moon in its elliptic orbit around the Earth, the apparent diameter of the Moon can look from 13% smaller to 8% bigger than the Sun''s. That is a 20+ % range end to end. A lot. So the real question is what are the odds that the RANGE of relative sizes of the moon(s) and sun(s) for any given planet include a case where both look equal. The more elliptic the planet and moon(s) orbits, the more likely that the "equal apparent size" condition will be within the range of relative sizes.

@ungmd21 3 жыл бұрын

He answered that question as when the apparent sizes of the sun and moon don't exactly match as either an occultation or a transit. The ARE times in the elliptical orbit however when they exactly match

@Harry351ify 3 жыл бұрын

We really love to make a big deal out of random things, don't we.

@joe1hundred 2 жыл бұрын

great point

@M13x13M 2 жыл бұрын

The really weird part is the same side of the moon always face the earth. Explain the mechanics of that!

@adb012 2 жыл бұрын

@@M13x13M ... Are you serious or is it a joke? We (humans) absolutely understand the mechanics of why the time it takes the Moon to complete 1 rotation on its axis matches the time it takes the Moon to complete 1 revolution around the Earth. It is called "Tidal lock" and it is a common thing in the Universe. It is the same reason why Earth's rotation is also slowing down (yes, days are getting longer every year, a measurable amount but still too small to notice it except with precise instrumentation), and if the Sun lived long enough (it will not), eventually we would have the same face of the Earth facing the Sun all the time. It is called "TIDAL LOCK". Google it. Or wikipedia it.

@Ryukachoo 6 жыл бұрын

Reminder that if we make contact with alien races and eventually we get extraterrestrial tourism, the eclipse will be a HUUUUGE tourist trap

@anthonythomas1735 6 жыл бұрын

Ryukachoo, well if that does come to pass it would not hurt to clear out your spare room and turn it into a hotel room of sorts..... Just like with the last Olympics in Rio, thousands of people cleared out their spare rooms because kidnapping is the most common crime there and they wanted to make some easy money! Is that true? Yeah, yeah..... No.

@Stratocoaster08 6 жыл бұрын

...and I thought all the traffic just driving up to Oregon was bad...and we lucked out by having a friend live there! ...how far in advance are you supposed to book a room for interstellar travel?

@Batmanderp38 6 жыл бұрын

Ryukachoo what chance would it be if they had malicious intents.

@Tom-lr1wc 6 жыл бұрын

Yay now i have hopes of future employment

@mrpicky1868 6 жыл бұрын

you americans will sell any shit)

@a.s7252 6 жыл бұрын

Scientist that make our Simulatuons be like: "Oh no! They're becoming self aware!"

@you_gullible_fucc 6 жыл бұрын

Nana Nanana Hello scientists watching us I'm breaking the fourth wall!

@mrpicky1868 6 жыл бұрын

why oh no? more like oh yes look at thos dumb f88s

@siiioxide7807 6 жыл бұрын

we are watching you *_*

@user-tn7jr9bt5t 5 жыл бұрын

if they didnt like it they would have just resetted us they wanted us to believe we live in simulation they are enjoying our progress that's why we are still here so.. yeah

@pablogonzalez2009 5 жыл бұрын

We can't do shit even if we find out that the simulation theory were true

@BikerBytes 4 жыл бұрын

If it’s a simulation they forgot to update the anti virus software 💪

@growbydoing7290 4 жыл бұрын

Now with Huwan Corona Virus.

@matthewe3813 4 жыл бұрын

@@growbydoing7290 It's Wuhan

@growbydoing7290 4 жыл бұрын

Matthew e Yet when I’ve said the correct spelling my comments get deleted. Try adding virus to your spelling. Got two accounts shadow banned so far. Lol

@DarkDucky79 4 жыл бұрын

They use Microsoft what did you expect....lol 😂

@TheMysticMonkey09 4 жыл бұрын

What if the Anti Virus software was running already, and its destroying everything so it will never be like this again.

@jeffreymcgillivray5408 4 жыл бұрын

This man is good though, no joke, every video of his I watch I learn something new. I like that. I like when people teach me things I never knew before. My man Joe does a good job.

@MrThestevster 4 жыл бұрын

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@sunnyjim1355 3 жыл бұрын

I agree, completely. Although I learned absolutely nothing from reading your comment. But in consolation, you sure did learn something from reading mine; you're a boring moron.

@depressedbaddie5337 3 жыл бұрын

@@sunnyjim1355 and you sound like a useful idiot 🥰

@notgonnalie1846 3 жыл бұрын

kinda gay

@clevertaco328 3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Anton petrov is great as well as (if you have a really open mind) Robert Sepehr is interesting but he does color outside the lines so to speak.

@jockey12022011 5 жыл бұрын

I think you have missed a few factors. When the moon is at it's closest to earth and the sun is at it's furthest, the moon appears 12% larger than the sun (Moon having a size of 33 arc-minutes and 14 arc-seconds, the sun having 29 arc-minutes and 41 arc-seconds). When the opposite is true, i.e. moon is at it's further and the sun is at it's closest, the sun appears 4% larger than the moon. I believe you gave the impression to the audience that the moon fits perfectly in front of the sun, it doesn't. It is almost never exactly the same size. If I were a designer of the system I would have made it exactly the same size or at least a lot closer than what it actually is. Why make it about the right size if there was a grand designer? Secondly, a total solar eclipse is one that blocks out the sun such that all of or part of the corona is visible as an apparent annulus around the moon. Considering the corona is very large, the moon can be much larger than it's current size and still fulfill the requirements of a total solar eclipse. e.g. if we use the average distance of the moon and average distance of the sun, the moon could be twice as big as it is now and it would: a. Block out the sun and some of the corona b. Leave plenty of corona remaining to view as an apparent annulus around the moon. This also means the "magic number" or ratio is not a constant but a range of values. just like the Goldilocks zone is not a single distance but a range of distances away from the sun.

@jockey12022011 4 жыл бұрын

I'd like to point out the latest solar eclipse shows the moon can also be too small to block out the sun completely leaving a 'ring of fire'. See eclipse of 26 Dec 2019

@bobroso4500 4 жыл бұрын

@The Truth of the Matter Not sure if you're speaking to the author of the video or you have difficulty reading, the comment clearly mentions the corona. If you're trying to correct the word 'corona' to 'Corona' then you would be the ''dumbass'. The corona is part of the sun, a Corona is a brand of beer. *The more you know*

@jahhaahaha12 4 жыл бұрын

Boooom science

@HermeticWorlds 4 жыл бұрын

Joe states "The solar eclipse as we experience it..." - that's the crucial part I believe - it's not that the moon exactly covers the sun all the time (as you prove, it doesn't), it's how we experience the solar eclipse that's the important part - from our perspective, the moon does cover the sun exactly, which is highly improbable. A designer would only need to design the eclipse so the moon appears to cover the sun from our perspective, which is what happens.

@jockey12022011 4 жыл бұрын

@@HermeticWorlds The calculations presented in the comment are indeed from an earth perspective and hence as we experience it. The moon does not cover the sun exactly from our perspective.

@havek23 6 жыл бұрын

Our large moon creating the ocean tides is one reason we had life evolve to exist in and out of water, and then out of water altogether. So maybe the two coincidences of our existence and our eclipses are somewhat related. Liquid water, large moon causing tidal changes, forcing life to adapt at the shoreline, exploring the shoreline, venturing onto land...

@GenericInternetter 5 жыл бұрын

this is actually a very good point

@raizieldragon 5 жыл бұрын

The "habitable zone" maybe also play a part here. I don't know much about it, but if the idea of a habitable zone also overlaps the zone where perfect eclipses are more likely (due to ratios of planet sizes to orbits), that could also help explain why we exist in two highly improbable scenarios; because the conditions for both are very similar.

@0ooTheMAXXoo0 5 жыл бұрын

What? Are you saying the moon does not cause the tides? How is that likely? We know the moon causes the tides...

@0ooTheMAXXoo0 5 жыл бұрын

Life started in tidal pools and that may be the only place life can start. The planet has to have a magnetic field like that of the Earth to protect against radiation. We need Jupiter and other large planets to soak up most of the rocks flying through space... Lots of things probably has to be just a certain way for life to be possible on any planet.

@AJoseph0007 5 жыл бұрын

@@0ooTheMAXXoo0 life as we know it

@texasbuzzard4970 3 жыл бұрын

The death in the dream thing isn’t just coincidence IMO. My dad woke up at 3am out of a dead sleep and he knew his friend was dead. Tried to get ahold of him. No luck. Found out next morning his friend had died around 3am in a motorcycle accident.

@ReivecS Жыл бұрын

Way to prove the opposite point of what you were trying to do.

@llchase326 3 жыл бұрын

My son and I drove to Grand Island, Nebraska to be in the path of totality. The experience was something neither of us will ever forget! I was expecting to "See" it, but, the "Feel" of it was even better.

@i8amouse 6 жыл бұрын

I dreamed about my high school crush after not communicating with her for ~20 years. A couple of days later i found out that she passed away on the same day as my dream. I just think it is weird as hell. Thanks for the cool videos

@monsimix6839 4 жыл бұрын

Law of Attraction

@ivan-Croatian 4 жыл бұрын

Spooky action at the distance. Quantum entaglement.

@milosanchez6643 4 жыл бұрын

@@ivan-Croatian Quantum creepiness 🤣

@heliarc5186 4 жыл бұрын

Because "love entanglement" is a real phenomena. A very, very dull form of telepathy.

@heliarc5186 4 жыл бұрын

But sorry for your loss of the friend. That would make me wonder for years.

@Kelly_Jane 6 жыл бұрын

I've always understood the anthropic principle as the idea that an observer can only exist in a universe where its existence is possible. Hence why it's not surprising we find this universe has laws which allow our form of life to exist.

@McRingil 5 жыл бұрын

How is it not surprising that the universe has any laws governing it. The idea is odd in itself.

@smolder6366 5 жыл бұрын

@@McRingil like why would it have laws in the first place? Who wrote them?

@McRingil 5 жыл бұрын

@@smolder6366 why are they intelligible, non-contradictory. It`s obvious they`re written by humans but they reflect a real structure which existence is by no means necessary

@gayatri555 4 жыл бұрын

Omg

@gayatri555 4 жыл бұрын

Such smart comment made by you eclipsed by stupid asking who wrote the laws

@AppNasty 4 жыл бұрын

I think it's more likely that for life to spawn on a planet, a moon would need to orbit about as far as it is here. Allowing for stability. So that life then grows and notices the coincidence. Also could be that those two things aren't actually rare at all. We dont know of that many moons around other planets. So tidal locking, distancing and even life may be ample throughout our galaxy.

@FrancoisLopez68 4 жыл бұрын

The Moon was not always at this distance from Earth. Humans are observing this phenomena at the right time in the evolution of our planet in relation to the moon.

@ariansanders5140 4 жыл бұрын

That's exactly what the simulation wants you to believe.

@KingofCabal 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, but that''s kinda the point though. If live evolved slower or faster we might be observing it in a different way or not at all. But it evolved at exactly the right speed for us to observe and understand the significance of the event. That just makes it even more unlikely.

@rolanddeschain9587 4 жыл бұрын

@@ariansanders5140 time didn't really exist before life did to grant the waveform locality

@aste4949 3 жыл бұрын

@@KingofCabal Improbable things happen. I'm definitely enjoying the mental image though of friendly extraterrestrials wanting to visit and see our solar eclipses alongside us, and hear about all the different stories and mythologies our species has come up with around the phenomenon. Right now we've only confirmed about 200 moons in this entire universe, 0 of which are exomoons. We are currently still so limited to our own backyard.

@k.a.3247 3 жыл бұрын

@@patrickmulopo7957 All of that isn't really weird. If none of those things happened, we wouldn't be here to ask these questions, so those are essential for life to exist. An eclipse, however, is not essential to life, its just a cool optical effect, which makes that particular coincidence that much more interesting.

@DionysusAlS 6 жыл бұрын

A solar eclipse highlights 2 very necessary things for complex life: the earth being in the "goldilocks" zone, and the earth having a moon that's just the right size and position to stabilize the climate.

@0ooTheMAXXoo0 5 жыл бұрын

Life probably starts in tidal pools. So moon is probably needed for that reason. Earth's magnetic field is needed to protect against crazy amounts of radiation. Jupiter and other large planets soak up most of the rocks that could hit Earth because of their stronger gravity.

@liquidKi 5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I think that in a situation like this you should ask if these 2 very unlikely events are actually more likely to be found together, as one of them increases the chance that the other occurs.

@emagdali 6 жыл бұрын

Actually, not to be a nerd or anything (only because Greek is my native language), Έκλειψις means for something to be "missing", not "abandoned". ;-)

@joescott 6 жыл бұрын

You mean the internet lied to me!?!?!?

@emagdali 6 жыл бұрын

Yes! I have corrected Joe Scott! I can die peacefully now. I will patreonise you a bit more when I will be a patreon subscriber (see what I did there)

@triangleenjoyer 5 жыл бұрын

Did the meaning shift since ancient Greek?

@rickjones871 5 жыл бұрын

Cuz you know, Joe remembers the old tongue 🤪🙃

@triangleenjoyer 5 жыл бұрын

@@rickjones871 or he like, looked it up somewhere (the internet?)

@timdowns8077 4 жыл бұрын

My fist time here, I love the info, curiosity, enquiry, presentation and humour - great job all round. I have considered many of these fact myself, with less data, and it is great to have an in depth peek into the nerdy mind of probability. Also I love the Woo Woo button, people without Woo Woo in their lives are seriously missing out.

@joemannchen 2 жыл бұрын

Is the Scott equation missing a variable, specifically if there is an intelligence on the planet to observe this effect? I only bring it up cuz Joe said, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, did it really fall?” Side note: doesn’t the phrase actually end saying, “…did it make a sound?”

@xx3uddhaxx 2 жыл бұрын

Yes …”did it make a sound?” Is correct. Glad I wasn’t the only one who caught it.

@prescientbeing 4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you hit the "woo woo alarm", (although I can see you were hesitant) and... you will need to hit it again, because there are even more lunar coincidences. If you do some research on the size of the moon, (specifically it's diameter in miles (2160)), with regard to the size of the Earth (and it's diameter in miles(7920)), you will find there exists a geometric pattern which is incredibly precise - especially if you scale it down to feet and inches. (It is a 3 to 11 ratio that relates to squaring the circle) Also Mascons - huge lumps of concentrated mass just beneath the moons surface, strong enough to affect the orbits of satellites. They obviously affect the orbit of the moon and it's trajectory. How did they get there, and why is there no physical evidence of their impacts? Did they all arrive at once, or over thousands of years, randomly smashing into the moon until it's orbit lined up perfectly to create the eclipse you are talking about so eloquently? :-/ Here is an analysis of information from the GRAIL Lunar Gravity Mission, which sent satellites to study the Mascons in 2012: www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2012/12110923-grail-results.html Interestingly, at the end of the article the author comments how they can tell that after the moon had cooled, it later grew by a few km in size, its crust cracked, and then those cracks were filled in with extremely dense lava. Lastly, I happen to own a topographic moon globe, and have noticed that the moon is also positioned so that it's most perfectly round profile is facing the Earth. There is a large crater on the side not facing us, called the Aitken Basin. If the moon were rotated just 90 degrees, this basin would be in profile and produce a slight indented curve on it's silhouette, but... it isn't positioned that way at all, and is actually positioned just right to create a perfect circle for us watching from below. So many coincidences - thought provoking to say the least.

@danielfulbright8685 3 жыл бұрын

@@thevulture5750 that's not how 'coincidences' work in nature

@seawibs 3 жыл бұрын

@@thevulture5750 im pretty sure everyone knows "jesus is the son of god" i dont think you had to clarify man 😂

@ekko6209 Жыл бұрын

@@thevulture5750 I’m glad u believe that man just try not to force ur beliefs on other ppl

@monstadable 6 жыл бұрын

The moon is continuing to move further away over time. We just happen to be alive at the right time.

@apple54345 6 жыл бұрын

THIS. Fucksake. The comments surrounding this are retarded af.

@jimmyjohn8008 5 жыл бұрын

Let's just put it this way we are not too late to see an eclipse the moon has been doing this since its conception/formation of it. It's just now it does it just completely black out an entire area. I love the the slit experiment you can do in the partial solar eclipse to see the eclipse with out those glasses....

@jshepard152 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, during the course of my life, the moon is 5 feet farther away. Glad we can still see it!

@tommymeyer8281 5 жыл бұрын

Exactly. This isn’t a coincidence, it’s literally inevitable. Any planet that revolves around a star and has a moon will eventually experience the right conditions for a full eclipse. All you have to do is wait.

@timq6224 5 жыл бұрын

@@apple54345 -- oh but so much fun to pile onto...it's like swimming in a sea of ignorance. Just let your imagination run wild and play along -- then pull the old whack-a-mole on 'em!

@jenpinkerton773 4 жыл бұрын

Long time subscriber ♥️ really enjoy your videos. And this one was great too . Take care.

@MrPoots12 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. Just discovered your channel and it’s great.

@omegasrevenge 6 жыл бұрын

Seeing patterns where there are none, our brains are excellent at that.

@laela6289 6 жыл бұрын

Cognitive Dissonance when information contradicts our worldview, our brains are excellent at that too :D

@evershumor1302 6 жыл бұрын

Its basicly what science does all day, looking for patterns. And we are good at that.

@ravissary79 6 жыл бұрын

Evers Humor what are you guys replying to? The OP is just a bunch of letters.

@DeadMarine1980 5 жыл бұрын

Or do the patterns find our brains? Because you know......Jesus.

@Daniel-ob1qu 5 жыл бұрын

abschussrampe we see patterns were we think these may exist and then proceed to prove them, that's what we do lol

@emonvidaly 6 жыл бұрын

The odds of life and the solar eclipse is 100 percent. Because I just watched one.

@JohnJohnson-ol4ym 4 жыл бұрын

Newly found. Loving it! Awesome stuff.

@chadcarey5140 4 жыл бұрын

"What are the odds of a single planet having not one but two improbable events st the same time" Might be pretty good actually. If there are an infinite amount of improbable events then the odds that two occur within the same system increases to the point of absolute certainty. 1-(1-p)^inf = 1

@qrujo7783 4 жыл бұрын

@Zardav K His statement has more chances to be true than yours, since you are doing one more unproven assumption. Since the question has been formulated in such a vague way, it has mislead your thoughts. It contains 3 variables: a. Number of planets. At the time the question was asked, the definition of planet should roll out the dwarf planets but, even with this in mind, that number is huge, maybe infinite. Therefore, 1st assumption. b. Number of improbable events. There is not a fixed definition of improbable event at the time of the question. We are not talking about perfect eclipses or life happening in a given planet, but events as they are. The simplest assumption would be an even distribution of the probability. This is, events under 50% chances to happen are improbable. Given that, at a quantum level at least, events under a 50% chance are happening constantly, this number must be huge, if not infinite. 2nd assumption. c. Number of time units that events on planets span along the total time in which any event can occur on average, since we need a coincidence to count as a chance. Theoretically, when no events at all happen, the definition of time breaks down, as everything would be always in the same instant (the mere fact of you realising nothing has changed is an event). Strange as it sounds, events can last the smallest unit of time (alpha particles escaping atom nucleus) or all the time (not easy examples, but expansion of the universe seems to have been there for a while). Thus, the average of "quick" events potentially counteracts the large ones, resulting in 50% of the total time that there has been/is/will be. So this premise can be discarded. 3rd assumption. Easily, we can say that, following the Okham knife rule, the odds are equal to a times b, with a result very close to the certainty that 2 improbable events occur in a single planet at the same time. Your mistake is introducing the assumption that the improbable events have to be in an undefined category that, by the way, could also be in a huge number or infinite, giving the same result. English is not my language, hope it's understandable.

@Skylancer727 5 жыл бұрын

Technically the moon doesn't always cover the sun perfectly, as Thunderfoot said in his creationist series the moon varies in distance by a large margin making the moon sometimes larger than the sun by 10% to smaller than the sun by 20%. This is why they labeled the lunar eclipse this year as a super blue blood moon, a lunar eclipse occurred at the same time the moon was at it's closest possible position.

@generalharness8266 4 жыл бұрын

@Sam Williams Yea I hate thunderfoot vidoes. It drove me insane that youtube was recommending them. I just down voted everyone I saw to try to get him off my recommendations.

@feedme8991 6 жыл бұрын

I've experienced 2 full solar eclipses in my life. I am rather fortunate :)

@emilatorcliff4567 6 жыл бұрын

FeedMe fuck off

@pheresy1367 6 жыл бұрын

You say fortunate, I say "inevitable". :)

@xchronicxblaiz3x 4 жыл бұрын

I remember where I was and what I was doing 2.5 years ago. Was at a local textile plant taking care of the grounds there. We were in a bit of a bowl, so when the eclipse went full it felt like I was in a bubble. Another way to put that feeling is if you have ever fiddled around with UDK level creator, if you delete the ground and just look around, basically felt like that.

@paul2019. Жыл бұрын

There are hundreds of million years in total that the moon could cause an eclipse like this. If we developed like a hundred million years later, it would still happen. Also, if the sun and moon were the *exact* same apparent shape, a solar eclipse would be instant bc there’s an exact moment they would line up. The moon might have happened to be a decently large size because of how 2 rocky planets collided a very long time ago. So it’s not as crazy as you might want to think. After all, solar eclipses don’t happen much

@arastougharibi8593 6 жыл бұрын

This channel is amazing; funny and informative at the same time

@JohnBainbridge0 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for saying, "Pun intended." It really bugs me when people drop an obvious pun then say, "Pun not intended." Stop that, people! Own your puns!

@daerdevvyl4314 4 жыл бұрын

John Bainbridge Is your avatar a green smiling propane tank?

@JohnBainbridge0 4 жыл бұрын

@@daerdevvyl4314 It's a turquoise Lego head.

@daerdevvyl4314 4 жыл бұрын

John Bainbridge That’s your reality, but don’t deny my lived experience of seeing a green propane tank!

@JohnBainbridge0 4 жыл бұрын

@@daerdevvyl4314 Fair. What even is turquoise, amiright?

@anonymike8280 4 жыл бұрын

Remember, except when the Moon is in the Earth's shadow, the Moon is always eclipsing the Sun. You're just not standing in the right place.

@SuperOlivegrove 4 жыл бұрын

A brilliant video Joe. I’ve sent you a message of an incredible experience I had with no less than half a dozen coincidences. There were in fact, many more...

@iambiggus 4 жыл бұрын

I was humming a song to myself in the shower this morning, and when I turned on my music player later in the day, that song was the first one to play. I have a several thousand songs in my library. Like you said, with enough time and enough variables, those crazy kinds of stories are just odds and coincidences waiting to happen. Jmho.

@rolanddeschain9587 4 жыл бұрын

Funny thing is, the more faith you have the more often that stuff happens to you. The other day I was playing a song on piano at my brother's house, drove home to the next town and the birds were singing the same melody outside my window.

@dawa8746 4 жыл бұрын

I would love to see the calculation of the probability of the dream-death coincidence vs. the (estimate) of actual occurences.

@williamdankert2490 3 жыл бұрын

Well, today i came across some skid marks on a country highway, and they veered towards the woods along the road. I told my 12 year old son that maybe it was Batman going into the bat cave. About a half hour later, we passed a car in a small town with the license plate BATCVE. Coincidence?

@keithmccall5170 3 жыл бұрын

This was a very heartwarming video.

@MarvinMonroe Жыл бұрын

These odds are insane. I accept the argument that it's random chance but still the odds are crazy high

@MrMashyker 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, I didn't know Drake has made contribution to science aside from the hip-hop

@Gilgaemesh 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah Drake is super intelligent boy!

@AdamAlbilya1 4 жыл бұрын

I don't think it's the same one. As evidence for it see scsm definition.

@cleatusmcgurkin3740 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I guess he got bored with making snack cakes.

@samueldavis5895 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, indeed he surmised that the square root of 69 is actually “ate somethin” ... the Drake equation I believe.

@pitchforker3304 4 жыл бұрын

Lol Joe is talking about astronomer Frank Drake though

@turbobrain1342 6 жыл бұрын

You did a great job of presenting an argument that both God, Bible-believing Creationists and Big Bang evolutionist scientists can grasp. Well done, Joe. As a statistician, I find that when there is an infinitesimally small probability of something that has happened, then there must be an unknown factor involved.

@mglsnts 5 жыл бұрын

Are you using the term "infinitesimally" correctly?

@IncolasCopperfield 5 жыл бұрын

it looks French so must be correct (yes i'm French)

@spudhead169 5 жыл бұрын

I think he's using it in a relative way. An infinitesimal is essentially zero as far as we are concerned, when we have a number that is so small that we can't really resolve it from zero in any practical way, then although the use of "infinitesimal" to describe it is technically incorrect, it becomes a way to express it as being "so small it may as well be zero". For example. the chances of a single electron quantum tunnelling a light year away in a one second time frame is also ludicrously small, it's not infinitesimal, but it may as well be for our purposes. So yes, he's using the word wrong as per definition, but how many other words do we use out of definition all the time and nobody bats an eye about it?

@timq6224 5 жыл бұрын

"unknown factor" is called "god of the gaps" -- whenever simple people don't understand something it "must" be god. 3,500 hundred years ago, men actually believed that god lived on the mountain tops, then we climbed the mountains and discovered he wasn't there. Ironically his whole video disproves any notion of what the bible teaches, so your comment makes no sense at all.

@iain5615 5 жыл бұрын

Actually this makes people believe. It is one of the hundreds of exact fine-tuning aspects that show life to be so unlikely it shows someone has an interest in us. Why is it counted as intelligence? because it has allowed astronomy to make large advancements that would not have been incredibly difficult without this aspect.

@Wol747 4 жыл бұрын

The answer to the question “are we living in a simulation?” is the same as the one about a deity. Any entity that can create a simulation such as our reality logically was possibly itself created and is itself a simulation. Turtles all the way down.....

@bartbrown7137 4 жыл бұрын

Just wanted to give props, you do a great job. I have a short list of people i subscribe too. Always looking forward to you videos.

@MichaelSelhost 5 жыл бұрын

We're also in the middle of two dust clouds in the Milky Way, allowing us a perfect view of the universe. Add that to your overall Drake equation.

@doctordistracto8390 4 жыл бұрын

I heard a fun theory that the entire moon vibrates for extended periods every time we drop fuel tanks or rockets into it because it's hollow, and it's hollow because it's a spacecraft we used to get here from somewhere else, like a dying Mars maybe. We parked it in the right position and orbit for perfect solar eclipses so we'd notice how wrong it is and return to the ship later when we redeveloped the technology. I think it added the tidal lock to its version of your equation, so it would be even less likely and I think was used to claim that the entrance is on the dark side. Just gotta go back there with a flashlight and we'll have ourselves a free space station I guess.

@daerdevvyl4314 4 жыл бұрын

DoctorDistracto No.

@doctordistracto8390 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for clarifying, I obviously posted that because I thought it was true.

@daerdevvyl4314 4 жыл бұрын

DoctorDistracto You’re welcome. I’m like a KZfaq Lone Ranger, travelling from video to video righting wrongs.

@pinkdoll3578 2 жыл бұрын

That’s crazy Drake is good at rapping AND math. I love him more now.

@chrisdahler5557 3 жыл бұрын

"The forest heard the tree fall." -Chris Dahler. "Because I want my name on something, dammit." -Joe Scott

@ErebosDK 6 жыл бұрын

You forgot one factor in your equation, the distance between the planet and the sun in relation to the suns size. In the outer solar system, the sun is not an significant enough light source that its eclipse would at dominating a phenomenon.

@StevenRud 4 жыл бұрын

Cool, fun, interesting and hilarious way of conveying knowledge...🤣👍🏻😎

@EasilyAmused42 4 жыл бұрын

So, they set up this whole simulation and then Leap Year?

@dhotnessmcawesome9747 3 жыл бұрын

So... I'm high right now. That aside... We may very well all appear in each others dreams all the time and never know it. The end.

@dayalasingh5853 5 жыл бұрын

I drove from Canada down to Kentucky to see this.

@Curiousever 4 жыл бұрын

Living in Ky,I just sat out on my lawn. Hope you had a great experience.

@jlsabinas8578 4 жыл бұрын

This video? Wow, you guys must have crappy internet...

@tommyowen529 3 жыл бұрын

Damn good video. Thought provoking. Thx. 🤙🏻

@phroggin1528 3 жыл бұрын

Gotta admit, this guy makes you think and before you know it you actually learn something after the video. At least for me, these vids are honestly awesome lmaoo

@nerd31415926535 6 жыл бұрын

The Scott Equation is dimensionally inconsistent. There are two problems. (1) L has units of time and no other term has inverse time. By contrast, the Drake equation has a time factor L and an R* factor, the rate of formation of stars, as in stars per year. So the time in L cancels the "per unit time" in R*. You should probably leave L out and fatctor it into na. (2) na is the number of moons with the same angular subtense as its star. Change that to fa, the fraction of moons with matching angular subtense and you're there. You can actually calculate fa given the distribution of moon sizes and orbital radii, based on astronomical observations.

@andyboekelman9993 5 жыл бұрын

L solves for Na. It's simply a matter of time before a moon hits the correct distance for this "coincidence" to occur. However the main problem with probablities equations like this come down to one simple thing. How many suns exist in the universe? Odds are one is win what ever lottery it is that we're looking at. Also inprobable != impossible. It is entirerly plausible we are that lucky.

@Rubyred1216 4 жыл бұрын

Hmm, it’s almost like the earth and universe was created??🧐🤨

@MrThestevster 4 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n6x1dbJ4sdDZoWg.html

@Brick001 3 жыл бұрын

Hey man congratulations on the scottquation!👏🏻🎉

@janemarinelli2838 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for bringing up the improbable fact that the sun and the moon are the same size in the sky!! I mentioned it when the eclipse happened and I was rewarded with blank stares.

@jaimitoelpoderoso 6 жыл бұрын

...Did the tree really fall, I would say YES. Did it make a noise, that's debatable :)

@sternci 6 жыл бұрын

It made a noise, but did it make a sound? :-)

@mileskrodel5245 6 жыл бұрын

lol I caught that too

@jellyboy123 6 жыл бұрын

No because it takes up to much hard drive space.

@JesseJames83 6 жыл бұрын

The question isn't asked to be answered; it's asked to be pondered

@pokeforce9 6 жыл бұрын

Conservation of energy would suggest yeah, there probably were sound waves produced by the collision of the tree with the ground

@wernerboden239 6 жыл бұрын

We notice these coincidences, because they rarely happen. But there are a lot more coincidences, that do not happen. The propblem is: We cannot define those, because they did not happen ... Eeehm .. Am I making sense ?

@john-carlosynostroza 2 жыл бұрын

That goddamn chair spin opening gets me every time! I laugh out loud every single time. Amazing! I know it's coming and I still can't help but laugh.

@circulargates7949 Жыл бұрын

Really good! A keeper! ;)

@MrBendybruce 6 жыл бұрын

the annoying thing about liking a video with 1K likes on it is that it still just shows 1K, like why did I bother? :D

@louf7178 6 жыл бұрын

Bendy Bruce Because it counts.

@GenericInternetter 5 жыл бұрын

you might the lucky guy who pips it to 2K, then you feel amazing

@willyreeves319 5 жыл бұрын

mouse over the little bar under the likes before and after if that helps

@baruchben-david4196 5 жыл бұрын

'Cuz the thumb turns blue.

@liquidKi 5 жыл бұрын

@@baruchben-david4196 Blue thumbs are TIGHT!

@GregsGarage 6 жыл бұрын

I'm wearing my tinfoil beanie all day today. I'm pretty sure the government's mind control system recalibrates today using the reflectors on the moon while everyone is focused on them at the same time... Oh, and I'm going to make my own derivation of the Scott Equation some day. Genius use of N sub (fill in the blank). Be sure to look up today so the boys in control can make sure you are performing as they see fit.

@happyclam1266 4 жыл бұрын

you go you you do you

@TheSimonScowl 4 жыл бұрын

There's a *huge* difference between an 'inevitability' falling somewhere... and it falling on *you*.

@XxTheAwokenOnexX Жыл бұрын

The possibilities within our universe are so vast, that eventually repeating patterns of impossibilities will be found to be common place. I do believe in a simulation theory, but we, or our universe are not it. Thankyou for another great video Joe ❤️👍

@millennialmoneyinvesting7953 2 жыл бұрын

It’s almost like all of creation is perfectly and finely tuned. Hmmm

@mavrosyvannah 2 жыл бұрын

Haha haha haha, those nutbars eh.

@neilweber1749 2 жыл бұрын

@@mavrosyvannah cant keep them away.

@misternewoutlook5437 5 жыл бұрын

So, even with Joe, I trust with my own verification when it comes to youtube and other mutterings on the web. Is it really that unusual? From my own investigations... yup, it's rare. Ridiculously extraordinary - bordering on rolling double sixes dozens of consecutive times. Joe actually comes close to understating how rare our solar-lunar alignment is. Surprised me, because I never actually thought much about this topic.

@josephwilliams6993 4 жыл бұрын

So rare , maybe it's for a reason. Maybe we are special.

@shakenbabee 3 жыл бұрын

Note that he also understands that if you rolled two dice a bazillion times you probably would get your double sixes. Improbabilities over bazillions of instances results in improbable occurrences. Theoretically (statistically?) I suppose, as we don't really have the capacity to observe bazillions of instances of the things of which we speak..

@aste4949 3 жыл бұрын

We've confirmed roughly 200 moons in the entire universe. We've confirmed over 4,000 exoplanets. Of our 200-odd confirmed moons, 0 are exomoons. So we've rolled less than 300 moon dice so far out of bazillions, and our roll of the "intelligent life" dice is still completely unknowable right now. 100-200 years broadcasting and looking is the.blink of an eye, we have no idea at all yet of what the odds are for either factor. The solar eclipse thing and us evolving within the timespan to enjoy it are neat coincidences, but there's plenty of other neat coincidences that we could have had instead. Or in addition to. Again, such a small sample size. I'm still enjoying the idea of friendly extraterrestrials wanting to come witness our solar eclipses and hear about the stories and mythologies our species had made around the phenomenon. Might even become a space tourism economy option for us, though that of course comes with many potential problems.

@kitesurferwoohoo4676 4 жыл бұрын

Good stuff

@CFG-eb3my 3 жыл бұрын

well done, nailed it

@cade2561 5 жыл бұрын

How does something being rare or having slim chances become evidence for us being in a simulation?

@nathanmiller9918 4 жыл бұрын

It's also used as evidence of the multiverse and God. My guess is that it's only evidence of more s we dont fully understand.

@notionSlave 2 жыл бұрын

Perfect geometry alignment is always suspicious.

@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time 6 жыл бұрын

I think it would be more logical to think of the Universe as a process of symmetry forming and breaking! Such a process would form entropy or disorganization with a built in potential for ever greater symmetry formation. Life and solar eclipses would represent that greater symmetry.

@thstroyur 6 жыл бұрын

The Universe is made of stuff, the dynamics of that stuff has symmetries, continuous symmetries imply conservation laws, so there you have it

@noahheninger 6 жыл бұрын

Joe Brooks Are you joking? The universe is full of symmetry, including the planet Earth.

@iand80 6 жыл бұрын

I love this explanation of the universe, but I want to know more. Like what happened before the Big Bang, and how will our universe look in the distant future. If there was a for sure theory on both of these it might satisfy my curiosity.

@IgnacioAgramonte 6 жыл бұрын

YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!! JESUS CHRIST................ AND BACK TO SCHOOL............

@mortimersnerd8044 6 жыл бұрын

Emye DaOne... Actually, most people find explosions fascinating and beautiful even if they are destructive and dangerous. throwing a grenade onto the man's home would be a waste of a good explosion, throwing it into a pond of gasoline on the other hand would *create* some petty cool emotions. Also, check out the work of CAI Guo-Qiang, he also uses explosives to make art.

@jamesroberts5013 3 жыл бұрын

Noticed the box of Advil. Nice to know that I'm not the only one who sometimes gets a headache from thinking about cosmic, mind boggling concepts.

@victorgonzalez6200 4 жыл бұрын

3:12... Did he say "Does [the tree] really fall?"... lol... Pretty sure it falls regardless of who's watching or if it 'makes a sound'

@alyasgrey9370 6 жыл бұрын

I tried to explain just how incredibly special and rare a perfect total solar eclipse is in the entire universe... it may be unique in our galaxy among terrestrial planets. I mostly got blank stares and 'meh'. I suspect I may enjoy astronomy too much.

@louf7178 6 жыл бұрын

Alyas Grey No, you're right. We don't know why, what or how, but it is highly coincidental.

@thelemonddropskid5445 5 жыл бұрын

Humans are waaaaayyyyy much more incredibly special in the entire Universe. I suspect that this sort of eclipse is more common among trillions of stars and planets than a human being. 😋🐒🐒🐒

@Skylancer727 5 жыл бұрын

Well thanks to recent discoveries, I might be able to give you a better explanation. First off, the odds of a perfect solar eclipse in the universe is 100%, it's one of those "anything that can exist will exist given enough time" things. Also, Jupiter gets perfect solar eclipses just like on Earth with a smaller moons, yet the sun is also much smaller at its distance. We also recently solved why our moon is so big. We believe Jupiter formed near the sun (gas giants tend to as they leach from their star) and slowly pulled outwards causing chaos in the early solar system. It is believed that Earth was hit by a slightly smaller planet that then crumbled to bits and the debris flew into orbit till it congealed together. This means it would have been closer to Earth at first and is now falling away, which is exactly what we see today. The moon is losing about 2 inches every year as it takes kinetic energy from the Earth (which also slows the Earth) meaning in a few thousand years perfect eclipses will be impossible here. Kinda sad but that's the data on the topic.

@Islandswamp 5 жыл бұрын

The moon is slowly moving away from the earth. I assume this will affect eclipses at some point.

@OnPointFirearms 4 жыл бұрын

Damaged Provider Module he mentions that in the video.

@whimsy5623 4 жыл бұрын

600 million years or so and we will no longer have total solar eclipses

@coryleblanc 3 жыл бұрын

@@whimsy5623 lol

@notionSlave 2 жыл бұрын

Humanity will have ended by then sweety.

@stevenferrier8942 4 жыл бұрын

I've thought this many times ... Makes me wonder so indepthly

@melo91cy 4 жыл бұрын

Friendly correction from a native greek speaker! Ekleipsis(έκλειψης) = “to disappear” or “to cease to be visible”. Definitely not “abandon”

@JoeNovella 4 жыл бұрын

There are actually three fantastic coincidences, the total eclipse, life and a technological civilization.

@xxnotmuchxx 4 жыл бұрын

And your mom. (This comment is not intended to be taken seriously.)

@bobsmithy3103 6 жыл бұрын

You sure it's perfect? The Sun is pretty far away so there would be lots of room for the moon to be a bit closer or further away without us being able to see any noticeable differences. Right?

@flonomcflooneyloo7573 4 жыл бұрын

Add in the term that there is a sentient being there to observe it. Much smaller chance.

@philiplevett4424 4 жыл бұрын

This was brilliant. Thank you. Monty Python said it best in the Galaxy Song.

@TechNextLetsGo 4 жыл бұрын

I was there, and I got stuck in traffic for 10 hours. Still worth it.

@edeggermont 6 жыл бұрын

I believe in coincidences, so I can live with the fact that the moon is 400 times smaller than the sun and the sun is 400 times further from earth than the moon

@fricky11111 6 жыл бұрын

did he just make that up? 400 seems a little bit light to me

@edeggermont 6 жыл бұрын

There is only one true creator, our beloved Flying Spaghetti Monster

@theledgelord4282 6 жыл бұрын

fricky11111 I think it's 390%

@Luckyyshot 6 жыл бұрын

To use probability as an argument is actually an logical fallacy, and the reasoning for me disliking this video. I believe it's called "Appeal to probability". It doesn't matter what the probability is for anything, as you can find equally/more/less as probable things that haven't happened, and one of the things had to happen, and it just so happens to be the reality we're living in that did happen.

@edeggermont 6 жыл бұрын

Yup Luckyshot, everything that happens is just a coincidence. There is no reason, no deeper meaning, nothing to ponder about. Other things could have happened, but they didn't

@jacobfrance9151 3 жыл бұрын

I like what you said about liking the idea of afterlife but you also like the idea of being a part of a big machine we call life and everything that is. It can get you in a dark place of mind thinking about how small our existence could be though with that givin that line opens up thoughts on how no matter how insignificant compared to everything, we still have the opportunity to be a part of somthing so amazing

@tonikotinurmi9012 4 жыл бұрын

The part at 4:15 about Theia is almost 1 since the mars-sized planet hitting Earth would be in almost same kind of orbit, and after collision moon would orient itself amongst this lowest energy state i.e. between sun and earth. But ty Joe, always interesting content !

@TimTom 4 жыл бұрын

There are a potentially infinite number of improbable attributes that our planet could have, so if we didn't have the ability to have eclipses, we'd have something else. I don't think the fact that it coincides with life means anything in particular.

@draineddd 3 жыл бұрын

@Chris67 my thoughts exactly

@kaufmanat1 3 жыл бұрын

Thats bad logic. There's an infinite number of potential outcomes that could happen from rolling a die an infinite number of times. So when I roll the die and I get "6" 10,000 times in a row, you either conclude its a loaded die or I'm cheating you. No one concludes, "well there's an infinite number of possibilities, this one is as likely as any other."

@TheSCPStudio 3 жыл бұрын

Can you, you know, name any of those potential improbable attributes that are comparable? Or are you just doing the thing people do these days and just counter argue with no real backing?

@aste4949 3 жыл бұрын

@@kaufmanat1 How is that even remotely applicable to the odds of sapient life and perfect eclipses coinciding? We have confirmed maybe 200-ish known moons, give or take a couple dozen, in the entire universe. We've confirmed roughly 4,000 exoplanets, and confirmed 0 exomoons. We have nowhere near enough information yet to start assessing how likely large-relative-to-their-planet moons are yet. And that's before getting to how extremely limited and new we still are at searching for sapient extraterrestrial life. 100-200 years of emerging interstellar searching and signalling is still just the blink of an eye.

@kaufmanat1 3 жыл бұрын

@@aste4949 they're both statistical anomalies... How's that not obvious? What point are you getting at?

@acidchronic2211 5 жыл бұрын

Joe at the beginning of the video; "Look at all this cool information!" - Joe at the end of the video; "So in essence, you're not special." 😂

@AdvancedLiving 2 жыл бұрын

When I went to school I would dream of days when I wasn’t at school anymore, but home watching stuff like this.

@danieljohnston8056 4 жыл бұрын

The probability of any unlikely thing is by definition unlikely. However, the probability that 'some' unlikely thing will happen is almost 100% when you don't care what the thing is. If you factor in all the other things in all of science that aren't coincidental, the fact that this one unlikely thing happens isn't (statistically) very weird.

@allanwelsh3095 4 жыл бұрын

Dude I barely scraped through high school. This hurt my head

@lordodysseus 4 жыл бұрын

At you didn't look at the eclipse. Then that'd hurt your eyes.

@alexbowman7582 4 жыл бұрын

It’s either suspicious that the moon perfectly counterweights the earth and the impact that made the moon gave the earth a fast spin or we wouldn’t be here if the moon wasn’t here.

@eworksp 4 жыл бұрын

i just wonder how close to Earth the moon was if its moving away from us slowly.

@alexbowman7582 4 жыл бұрын

Grant Dwyer close enough to speed up evolution with massive tides pulling animals out the sea constantly.

@eworksp 4 жыл бұрын

@@alexbowman7582bahahahaha you just gave me a good laugh bro I envisioned dinosaurs and whatnot being magnetically pulled off the face of the earth and being burned up in the atmosphere

@billbailey1571 2 жыл бұрын

Even if there were one million other moons comparable to ours in the galaxy, all accompanying one million planets with organic life at some phase in their evolutionary development, I don't see how that makes it any less special. That's still pretty damn amazing/miraculous in my opinion.

@jp12x 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@DCimmerian 5 жыл бұрын

What if technological life is related somehow to advances made by being able to observe such eclipses?

@mechanicjobs 5 жыл бұрын

I am always amazed at how smart this guy is whatever the topic. 👍

@MOSMASTERING 4 жыл бұрын

He just describes what he has absorbed in a simple way. I read New Scientist, Reddit futurology and Science and know about all of these topics too. You just have to know where to look and what to read to stay up to date with science.

@olivermarijuanajones5041 4 жыл бұрын

People thought that Wolf Blitzer was bright, too...and then he went on 'JEPOARDY'

@olivermarijuanajones5041 4 жыл бұрын

No,no, I'm sure he's sharper than a cable news Talking Head

@Icewind007 4 жыл бұрын

That's what happens to anyone who takes the time to research! It takes a lot of time and effort to look smart. In other words, appreciate the time he took to make these instead of just calling him smart.

@mechanicjobs 4 жыл бұрын

Icewind007 I appreciate the use of his intelligence to make these videos.

@jbsoul4575 4 жыл бұрын

I drove 423 miles from Reno Nv. to Redmond Or. to see this s.o.b. Worth every mile.

@xMelissaP 4 жыл бұрын

the comparison with the dream of a death relative just blew my mind

@vejymonsta3006 6 жыл бұрын

What are the chances that there is a planet in the universe where life arises, its moon is the perfect size to cause a total eclipse, intelligent life evolves, they develop language, some of them have the name Bob, others have the name John Smith, the moon moves away from the planet at about 2 feet per year aaaaaand pizza is a delicious meal????!!! OMG God exists! It's impossible for this to happen! Seriously now, when you start stacking probabilities the only reason things start to get improbable is because you're just describing your surroundings. There are probably plenty of planets with life which have different natural phenomenon that we couldn't imagine. We have a solar eclipse. That's great, but our Cthulian neighbors might have something even more fantastic and improbable.

@rajatyadav43 6 жыл бұрын

VejyMonsta yes what if it doesn't and we are really living in simulation.

@BoldValiant 6 жыл бұрын

God : An all powerful being. Doesn't the creator of a simulation qualify ?

@ravissary79 6 жыл бұрын

VejyMonsta "there are probably plenty of players with life". How is that "probably". We have no way to know one way or the other. You're making an appeal to the unknown that it likely fits your assumptions... without evidence... just because. You're akso making the sane logical error that negative theologians make: we don't know x, x is therefore unimaginable, I imagine the unimaginable x is like y, now let's build whole ideas on that and mock people who don't agree. Your whole position is pure wishful thinking and Scifi fantasy. We'll know when we know, and until it's not something anyone can use to prove or disprove anything else like you are.

@whatisbestinlife8112 5 жыл бұрын

@@BoldValiant You can be an all-powerful being over a universe, but it does not make you an all-powerful being over the multiverse. I can manipulate, or outright shut off, the life simulation that is my current playthrough of Rimworld. I am essentially that playthrough's deity (though I am distinctly not supernatural). That means jack for my status in the universe I exist in, much less the likely-greater multiverse. Creator status is also an interesting question, as I didn't actually create the game. But I am running this copy. I make all the decisions in this particular playthrough. Who is the actual creator then? Am I just a steward, or an operator? Is the decision-maker (if there is one) of our universe just a steward running the simulation that some other being actually created? Is Allah/God/Yahweh just a steward "god", perhaps even just a gamer in that universe, running a simulation that someone else actually created for him to play around on? Would he admit it if he were? Or would he indulge in the roleplay... Any creator of our simulation, if we are one, is very likely not supernatural either. And just as bound by the laws of physics as I (though likely has significantly more control over them).