“I like powdered custard,” is about the most British answer to the question “What’s the largest ocean in the solar system?” Edit: I definitely didn’t mean to write “powered custard,” but that really does sound awesome!
@pseudonayme77174 жыл бұрын
*Powdered. Damn auto correct eh 😄 Although I think powered custard does sound more exciting 😁
@taco85124 жыл бұрын
Jet powered custard
@marycanary864 жыл бұрын
alan is slowly turning into QI grandad xD "i been on a rollercoaster once. i never pissed myself!"
@JarthenGreenmeadow4 жыл бұрын
nuclear power custard its controversial but its almost an unlimited source
@wavydavy98163 жыл бұрын
@@JarthenGreenmeadow Mmmmmm! Unlimited sauce! 😋
@Sabrowsky4 жыл бұрын
"You could get some serious bling from Jupiter" -Stephen Fry
@fouzanium7 ай бұрын
Just a matter of how
@jdk96734 жыл бұрын
Not mentioned here is Ross Noble’s wish to “stand on a planet and throw an Ewok into a lake of farts.”
@artlessdodger4 жыл бұрын
That was a moon not a planet! You've gotta way for the BEST OF MOONS compilation video for that one. 😆
@Seinfeldsarm4 жыл бұрын
it was tossing* an ewok, which was what made it so great
@nickthomas40924 жыл бұрын
But dont we all wish that?
@bremCZ4 жыл бұрын
@@artlessdodger The moon is a planet.
@adrianflo64814 жыл бұрын
oh thank god im not alone
@thebluedragon073 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: my mother had Clyde Tombaugh as a college professor at New Mexico State University, and he was one of the most fun professors she ever had, sadly she never kept the notes.
@JaneDoe-ci3gj3 жыл бұрын
Cool!😎👍
@beenaplumber83792 жыл бұрын
I still have every note I ever took for all of my college classes. All handouts, syllabi, and textbooks too, and I have referred to them from time to time in my life, though by now they're all outdated by decades.
@justvin72144 жыл бұрын
The last time I was this early the Earth still had 2 moons.
@kidneystone534 жыл бұрын
Cruithne and The Moon...."Fly me to Cruithne and let me play amongst the stars"
@SaintPhoenixx4 жыл бұрын
Ah the good old days. Now we don't have any. Ooh, breaking news, we've actually got infinite moons.
@thalesvondasos4 жыл бұрын
@@kidneystone53 Cruithne isn't a moon, it just happens to be in roughly the same orbit as the Earth and also has an orbital period of roughly an Earth year.
@Wonderguard14 жыл бұрын
Alan Davies: "The earth has one moon which is made of cheese" 😂😂🧀
@logandarklighter4 жыл бұрын
Just Vin Well played, sir! 🤣
@saoirsedeltufo74364 жыл бұрын
It’s so sweet how much Alan makes Stephen laugh, especially in the C town part
@doesyomamaknowtho14683 жыл бұрын
"it's a tiny ball of ice!" Alan: *stare intensifies*
@nielslauridsen23234 жыл бұрын
“Is there a reststop between you and the end of this statement?”
@blindsightedkill4 жыл бұрын
Milliways!
@Hazztech4 жыл бұрын
We are one. Would you like to copulate?
@Ranger18124 жыл бұрын
Viktor Birkeland Yeah, you're not evidence for that.
@davidmann3074 жыл бұрын
@Viktor Birkeland All you've given there is your opinion of who's funny, and a terrible analogy! It's in no way persuasive, and it just paints you as a bit of a humorless dolt! Of course, that just my opinion too. But I'd say I'm closer to the truth than you.
@davidmann3074 жыл бұрын
@Viktor Birkeland @Viktor Birkeland @Viktor Birkeland @Viktor Birkeland Yes, opinion. It's okay to have one. But I don't think it's as broad as you seem to think. I don't think everything you say is your opinion. If you leapt to your feet, mid meal and cried, "help me I'm choking!" I doubt you'd find any comfort, if I were to reply; "well, don't worry that's just your opinion.!" Also, I was puzzled by your ironic wobbliness around absolutes. - "I don't speak the truth, in no way." - Is that statement then untrue? Or if it is true, that you do not speak any truths, is that itself then not a truth? You see the bind! What tickles you one day, may not another. But to say that Rich Hall is not funny to you, because he's not funny at all is just nonsense. And evidenced to by all the laughter surrounding his humor on the show. He is particularly funny on QI, though I wouldn't be drawn to his stand-up... as a whole! Someone is not funny because you laugh at them. You laugh at them because you think they're funny. It's all transactional. - And I've seen the interview from which you quote, and it is a good observation of cultural differences. But that's more an overarching trend, and less the individual. There is no doubt that things are humoress. But of course, you may wrestle with personal doubts, as to where you find that humor. Try not to kill things off with absolutes. Let them off! At least then, there's a change they may come back and surprise you. -- Anyway, forgive the wordy response. I considered ending with a compliment, towards something about you I observed in you writing. But I doubt you could agree with me, given your aversion to truth! o.O
@studiograham4 жыл бұрын
I’m going to graffiti “Cairns, sister city to a crater” on the welcome to cairns sign.
@Fitz19934 жыл бұрын
Nah it is the crater.
@Horus-Lupercal4 жыл бұрын
Godspeed.
@TheMoonRover4 жыл бұрын
That's almost a good tongue-twister.
@todaywefly43704 жыл бұрын
Studio|Graham You can hang it on the big fish at Earlville.
@mongoonlyprawningameoflife12184 жыл бұрын
Have you done it yet?
@GuanoLad4 жыл бұрын
RIP Jeremy Hardy who we only get a brief glimpse of.
@fearlessfred674 жыл бұрын
Indeed. We miss his wonderful singing voice ;( I was lucky enough to go to the special I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue show in Oxford at the beginning of this year that had been planned to be a fund-raiser for him, but turned into a celebration of his work after he passed away. They had a bucket collection that was specifically designed so that all the funds would go to charities that would piss-off the Daily Mail. "It's what he would've wanted" was Jack Dee's announcement!
@DestroyerWill4 жыл бұрын
Oh wow I live in regional Australia and never heard anything about his passing - bloody shame, seemed like a great bloke RIP JH
@zetetick3953 жыл бұрын
Jeremy was always a solid, enjoyable guest on this show. R.I.P.
@theconfusedllama3 жыл бұрын
Hearing my city pop up in a video about planets by an overseas television show is unsettling enough without having Fry and Davies make attempts to pronounce it
@lowrytv67363 жыл бұрын
Alan being mocked about humans living on Mars is brilliant
@zetetick3953 жыл бұрын
When I'm suuuper old, I wouldn't mind being stuck in an old folks home with Alan...
@seanhilton7654 жыл бұрын
“We’re sending Porridge to Mars!” Kills me everyone time
@intergalactic922 жыл бұрын
Alan's face when he is told that Pluto is not a planet 🤣
@JarthenGreenmeadow4 жыл бұрын
"So how long would a fortnight be" lmao
@gavla-823 жыл бұрын
About 2 weeks or 14 days 🤣
@MerkhVision3 жыл бұрын
@@gavla-82 on Earth sure, but during the same span of time Jupiter would experience about 19 days, if I did my calculations correctly.
@JoeBleasdaleReal4 жыл бұрын
Cadeeeeeeth. He’s not wrong 😂😂
@sirandrelefaedelinoge4 жыл бұрын
Minus five...
@bbgun0614 жыл бұрын
Sandi is good but I do miss Stephen. He should come back as a guest.
@DestroyerWill4 жыл бұрын
Benjamin Brooks Sandi is awful
@spenser99084 жыл бұрын
Róisín Grant A man, perhaps?
@pullybungieharder4 жыл бұрын
@Róisín Grant John Cleese.
@F1fan4eva4 жыл бұрын
Benjamin Brooks I find Stephan's range of comedy and knowledge to be unbeatable. Far often than not, Sandi tends to get annoyed too easily or goes down into vulgarity (either subtle or blatant)
@JarthenGreenmeadow4 жыл бұрын
@@F1fan4eva Definitely trying to herd cats instead of dressing them up in nice clothes and throwing them a tea party.
@harryturner87014 жыл бұрын
5:30 the main difference between Sandi and Stephen I love how exasperated she gets
@ajburdett8824 жыл бұрын
Calling Corby a town is a bit of a stretch, should use "shithole" the technical term
@notquitedovahkiin62434 жыл бұрын
Well that's why they named a crater after it.
@ajburdett8824 жыл бұрын
I'm sure the crater is a significantly nicer place to be
@Horus-Lupercal4 жыл бұрын
*Porridgehole.
@sirandrelefaedelinoge4 жыл бұрын
Nice headstock...
@jamief65074 жыл бұрын
Come over to Kettering then mate, see what a shithole really is.
@coenisgreat4 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised that it was never mentioned that Pluto's 'moon' Charon is also the same size as Pluto itself.
@Grimlock19794 жыл бұрын
A little over half the size of Pluto actually. But they are more like a "pair of rocks" than a planet with a moon.
@coenisgreat4 жыл бұрын
@@Grimlock1979 True... also if I recall correctly, Charon more or less rotates around Pluto at about the same speed as Pluto spins. Personally I do like to consider Pluto a planet, even though it's no longer classified as one.
@BobSmith-rs7tn4 жыл бұрын
@@coenisgreat They orbit eachother, technically.. Earth and the moon orbit eachother technically, also...
@TheDavidlyster3 жыл бұрын
@@BobSmith-rs7tn Well technically they both orbit a point somewhere in between the two objects
@Lord_Skeptic4 жыл бұрын
0:27 they can determine whether it is in the goldilocks zone
@zetetick3954 жыл бұрын
WAHHEY!!
@hondo1904 жыл бұрын
4:20 After the Brexit Great Britain will no longer be part of the Eucalyptus Union.
@CharlieQuartz4 жыл бұрын
The Aussies don’t hate us THAT much, do they? Not as much as, say, the Scots?
@telectronix13684 жыл бұрын
@@CharlieQuartz -the Scots- the SNP
@zetetick3954 жыл бұрын
And they'll have no right to complain when there's nothing to clear up their chest cold.
@kisbie3 жыл бұрын
I wouldn’t be surprised if some people voted Leave so we could put Pluto back on the list of planets.
@ViperRulerlm4 жыл бұрын
Watching the clip of Alan getting mocked for thinking that humams will be able to leave Earth is so surreal now, considering that there are now legitimate endeavors to colonize the moon and Mars.
@BumMcFluff4 жыл бұрын
Still hasn't happened yet, so mock away.
@simonextra96894 жыл бұрын
Robin Brennan i think if they filmed that same episode today; people wouldn’t laugh as much, if not laugh at all because colonizing Mars is an ever growing possibility
@BumMcFluff4 жыл бұрын
@@simonextra9689 While I believe that it may be possible one very distant day, I do not believe that it is something we will see in our lifetime. I would like to be wrong on this.
@dehavillandvampire4 жыл бұрын
I feel that they weren't laughing so much at the idea of colonising Mars, and more at the way Alan worded it, to sound as though everyone present in that room would be living on Mars.
@klaxoncow4 жыл бұрын
Alan expressed it poorly. What Channel 5 was attempting to get through to him was that when the Sun finally runs out of fuel for nuclear fusion (estimated time of arrival: 5 billion years from now), then it'll expand, as it becomes a Red Giant. It's not quite known how far the Sun will expand into the Solar System exactly - too many variables involved to be that precise - but Mercury will definitely be consumed by the expanding Sun, and Venus almost certainly. It might make it out as far as the Earth and eat our planet too. But, you know, even if the expansion doesn't quite reach out to Earth's orbit, then the planet will be right next to a newly-expanded Red Giant and will be absolutely inhospitable to life. The seas and the atmosphere would boil off, leaving Earth somewhat like Mercury is - a barren rock that's some 400C in the day and approaching Absolute Zero by night. Indeed, the only thing that could handle such a wide range of temperatures is a barren rock. So the notion is that if humans haven't left this planet in 5 billion years' time, then we'll be forced to leave by the expanding Sun. To be honest, Mars is probably still too close to this larger Sun as well, but at least you're moving outwards to a safe distance. And beyond that is the asteroid belt and then Jupiter and then Saturn - gas giants that the video covers as being impossible to live upon - so places to live quickly run out after Mars. Though, this "thought experiment" is a bit moot, upon closer inspection. I mean, we're talking about 5 billion years from now. And it's been 5 billion years-ish from the beginnings of the Solar System to today. About as much time left, as has already passed. This is a ridiculously long time and the idea that humanity would still be humanity in 5 billion years' time is frankly impossible. If we haven't long since gone "trans-human" with advanced technologies by our own steam, then evolution by natural selection will have warped what used to be us into something completely unrecognisable by then, anyway. Again, we're talking about a stretch of time - "deep future" - that's as deep as the "deep history" that got the Solar System to this point in the first place. The whole story of evolution up this point repeated again, but starting at this point in the vast journey, not at the very beginnings of life itself. And if you consider technological advance over the last century - and the fact that it naturally picks up pace over time too - then it's already completely unimaginable to contemplate what advanced technologies humanity would have a 100 years from now. So imagine technology 5 billion years into the future? Probably not just "indistinguishable from magic" but likely closer to "indistinguishable from omnipotence". So "stellar engineers" could, by that point, probably just pop over to the Sun and "fix" it, so that it doesn't expand in the first place. Or, you know, everyone (who aren't "humanity" anymore) lives on the inside of a Dyson Sphere that's been placed at exactly the right distance from the expanded Red Giant (and the stellar engineers just keep it like that forever more). If you don't know what a Dyson Sphere is, then look it up to realise how ridiculous a "tall order" that is - but, hey, 5 billion years' worth of technological progress? Child's play to the trans-human race. Or, you know, we possibly vote for an Orange Man who launches a nuclear war, just because he's exactly that stupid, that wipes out all life on the planet next week, because folks still believe in religious fairy tales and can't get over the fact that some human beings look a bit different to them, and they want a tax cut to be able to afford the extortionate healthcare that wouldn't be so extortionate, if they weren't so obsessed with tax cuts in the first place. One or the other. Chaos is, unfortunately, intrinsically unpredictable. So you never can tell.
@panicatthegasstation4 жыл бұрын
Alan defending Pluto is all of us, really.
@CloudsGirl74 жыл бұрын
Not me. I don't argue the facts.
@panicatthegasstation4 жыл бұрын
@@CloudsGirl7 my apologies.
@kommi76584 жыл бұрын
@@CloudsGirl7 don't pick on Pluto because he's small
@DanDownunda88882 жыл бұрын
Defending the underdog???
@zetetick3954 жыл бұрын
a day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus!
@michaelkennedy85733 жыл бұрын
"The great advantage of earth. Is that you can survive on it"
@CloudsGirl74 жыл бұрын
The biggest ocean in the Solar System? Almost straight away I screamed "EUROPA! THE MOON YOU SHALL NOT TOUCH!"
@vivianfox51154 жыл бұрын
All of the worlds are yours, except Europa, attempt no landings there.
@sirandrelefaedelinoge4 жыл бұрын
@@vivianfox5115 Where does that come from...? I've heard it before but can't remember where...
@vivianfox51154 жыл бұрын
André Linoge - it’s from 2010: the year we make contact
@sirandrelefaedelinoge4 жыл бұрын
@@vivianfox5115 Thank you. 🤗
@owensims74914 жыл бұрын
@@sirandrelefaedelinoge Wasn't it '3001, the Final Odyssey' by Arthur C Clark?
@foreverofthestars47184 жыл бұрын
Actually pluto passes every single qualification for being a planet except for 1. It hasn't cleared its orbit of debris And no, most asteroids would not qualify as planets, even minor ones, because they dont have enough mass to pull themselves into spheres under their own gravity.
@almostfm4 жыл бұрын
Actually, two of the three criteria that the IAU came up with are crap. One says that a planet has to orbit the Sun. Not just a star, but our star. That means that by definition, none of the exoplanets is a planet. The other is the "cleared its neighborhood". How cleared is "cleared"? The IAU doesn't say. How big is a planet's "neighborhood"? Again, the IAU doesn't say.
@Emperorhirohito192722 жыл бұрын
Doesn’t that disqualify every planet with moon(s) as a planet then
@PyroOfZen2 жыл бұрын
@@almostfm The IAU refers specifically to the sun, because the criteria you're referring to are specifically for what qualifies a celestial body as a planet *of the solar system*. Exoplanets, by definition, are not planets of the solar system. Now, how big is a planet's neighbourhood? Their neighbourhood is their orbital path. More accurately, an area around their orbital path which, if anything else was within that area, it would succumb quite heavily to gravitational forces from the celestial body in question, or vise versa. "Cleared its neighbourhood" is not hard to understand. It's simple. "Is the celestial body the dominant gravitational influence within its orbital path?" It not only asks if its the most massive object within its neighbourhood, but also if the combined mass of everything in its neighbourhood doesn't outweigh it. This doesn't take natural satellites into account, so Charon being quite large isn't the reason Pluto is a dwarf planet. A significant portion of Pluto's orbital path, however, is within the Kuiper belt. Its neighbourhood is shared by millions and millions of asteroids, as well as other dwarf planets of similar size and mass. If a planet of comparable mass to Earth were to replace Pluto, the Kuiper belt would eventually disappear, or at least the inner edges of it would be cut back quite a ways. Much of it would be ejected. A ton of it would collide with the planet. Some of it might even become moons of the planet. It might take a few dozen orbits, which would take thousands of years, and it would still be classed a dwarf planet until its neighbourhood was clear, but the point is, it could clear its neighbourhood. Pluto is not massive enough to ever clear its neighbourhood. At least, not within any reasonable amount of time. It's been around for 4-ish billion years, and the Kuiper belt is not showing any sign of damage. Meanwhile, the 8 planets aren't being shrouded by the asteroid belt, because they had no trouble cutting it down to size.
@beenaplumber83792 жыл бұрын
@@PyroOfZen How many times, since the planets formed, has Pluto circled the sun? Earth has swept its orbit some 4.5 billion times compared to Pluto's 18 million or so, less than .5% the opportunity Earth has had to sweep its neighborhood, which is also a hell of a lot smaller than Pluto's. For a group of scientists, the IAU have allowed their criteria to be extremely biased against any smaller planet in a more distant orbit. Put a naval officer in charge of a dinghy and the boat will sail well. Put a toddler in charge of a battleship and it won't. Give the kid a chance to grow up and learn the ropes, and don't congratulate the inner planets whose orbits were mostly cleared by Jupiter.
@shawnreynolds27052 жыл бұрын
Pluto hasn't cleared its neighborhood because there is nothing to clear. We should send a few asteroids Pluto's way so it will have a chance.
@TRiRGAMiN4 жыл бұрын
Love how Phil Jupitus went from NMTB to QI in a big old hoody to wearing gentleman suits 😂
@benjaminbrewer25694 жыл бұрын
At 7:00 Jupiter is entirely gas, shortly after there is neon rain and Diamonds the size of hotels.
@matthewsawczyn65924 жыл бұрын
That American accent, Stephen - 👌
@waynemarvin56613 жыл бұрын
Stephen's 'American' accent sounds like a Missourian trying to sound like a Californian.
@SuicidalLemonade4 жыл бұрын
Not like a priest to suggest a holiday enjoying uranus.
@michaellejeune77154 жыл бұрын
Well the big bang theory (not the show) was proposed by a priest. Uranus fits well in a big bang.
My man Alan saw the future, we are going to live on mars😂
@rojh93514 жыл бұрын
He’s probably right - over the next billion years, an increase in solar activity will make the surface of the earth uninhabitable, but Mars will warm up, giving it at least the potential for human habitation (if we can overcome issues like not having a Van Allen belt).
@MerkhVision3 жыл бұрын
@@rojh9351 We’ll be on Mars a lot sooner than a billion years lol. In a billion years we’ll probably either have discovered faster than light travel, or gone extinct. Getting swallowed by the sun is not something we’ll have to worry about.
@rojh93513 жыл бұрын
@@MerkhVision I don’t think anything I wrote a year ago precludes us from going to Mars before then, I just meant that it’s a likely place for humanity’s descendants to still be able to live within the solar system after the Earth is no longer habitable.
@justandy3332 жыл бұрын
A question for any Astronomers or Physicists. The red spot on Jupiter is, from what I've been taught and read about, A raging storm thats been going for as long as we've been able to observe it. My question is, Does anyone have any idea when this storm will blow itself out? Or are the conditions on Jupiter just so, it will just keep on raging?
@lanapowell2 жыл бұрын
The Great Red Spot has been observed since 5 September 1831. By 1879 over 60 observations were recorded. After it came into prominence in 1879, it has been under continuous observation. The reason the storm has continued to exist for centuries is that there is no planetary surface (only a liquid core of hydrogen) to provide friction; circulating gas eddies persist for a very long time in the atmosphere because there is nothing to oppose their angular momentum. In the 21st century, the Great Red Spot was seen to be shrinking in size. At the start of 2004, it had approximately half the longitudinal extent it had had a century ago, when it reached a size of 40,000 km (25,000 mi), about three times the diameter of Earth. At the present rate of reduction, it would become circular by 2040. It is not known how long the spot will last, or whether the change is a result of normal fluctuations. In 2019, the Great Red Spot began "flaking" at its edge, with fragments of the storm breaking off and dissipating. The shrinking and "flaking" fueled concern from some astronomers that the Great Red Spot could dissipate within 20 years. However, other astronomers believe that the apparent size of the Great Red Spot reflects its cloud coverage and not the size of the actual, underlying vortex, and they also believe that the flaking events can be explained by interactions with other cyclones or anticyclones, including incomplete absorptions of smaller systems; if this is the case, this would mean that the Great Red Spot is not in danger of dissipating.
@justandy3332 жыл бұрын
@@lanapowell - Wow! Thankyou for your reply. Its a breath of fresh air to get such an informed response from someone on KZfaq! 😂
@artistjoh4 жыл бұрын
I do enjoy being a nitpicker sometimes. Stephen said that there are four rocky planets and four gas giants. How delightfully old school he is. In recent decades astronomers have come to understand that there are only two gas giants - Jupiter and Saturn, and are quite different to Uranus and Neptune which are now classed as ice giants.
@jonathanthorpe30374 жыл бұрын
According to the current writings from Nasa the ice giants are a form of gas giant. The report I read was dated Feb 2019, so I guess things may have changed, although the NASA website has them as Gas Giants but this is a much more simplistic (made for public consumption) source than the research paper I read.
@artistjoh4 жыл бұрын
Jonathan Thorpe Because they were classed as gas giants for a century, and the understanding that they are not is less than 20 years old, we are in a transition period. Also they do have thick enough atmosphere’s for some people to feel justified in continuing to use classifications that they learned as kids. However, it should be noted that their atmosphere’s do not extend more than 10 to 20 percent of their diameter. Like the Earth, and unlike Jupiter and Saturn, the largest part of the planet’s interior is an extensive mantle, although, unlike the Earth’s fluid rock, in the case of Neptune and Uranus, their mantle consists of fluid ices. Pluto’s demotion as a planet is similar in that while it is not classified as a planet, it is still easy to find references that still call it a planet. Likewise Ceres was reclassified as a dwarf planet, but people still refer to it as an asteroid, and because it resides within the asteroid belt, there is some justification in that. In the case of Uranus and Neptune, there is less reason to cling to tradition, as the study of exoplanets has revealed that these mid-sized planets are possibly the most common class of planet and exist within a certain restricted size range that suggests their origin and growth during the formative stages of a solar system is quite different to that experienced by gas giants. If so, then a classification system that clearly isolates them from gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter is more than just a simple matter of their interior composition. It seems that there are 5 distinct classes of planets - rocky terrestrials, super-Earths (of which there are zero known in our solar system), gas giants, Neptunes (which we have 2 of in our solar system both of which are largely slushy ices with ice/rock cores. Unfortunately we do not know the composition of exoplanet Neptune sized objects so we don’t know if the ice giant model is typical). The fifth class is dwarf planets which our solar system seems to have large numbers, but none have been discovered yet around other stars. As we cannot resolve objects that small yet, the absence of discovery is presumed to say nothing about their abundance (or possible lack of it) elsewhere.
@jonathanthorpe30374 жыл бұрын
@@artistjoh I'm not reading that. I'll stick to getting my info from NASA as opposed to 'Person on internet'.
@artistjoh4 жыл бұрын
Jonathan Thorpe I get my information from the same sources as NASA does, research papers. My main sources of information are reported in journals such as Nature, and science news such as Phys.Org and in current encyclopedias. As Wikipedia states, “Neptune, like Uranus, is an ice giant, a subclass of giant planet, because they are smaller and have higher concentrations of volatiles than Jupiter and Saturn.” Don’t be such a smart a**. Note that is says “subset of giant planet” not “subset of gas giant.” Perhaps you should do more research rather than being a smart a**.
@jonathanthorpe30374 жыл бұрын
@@artistjoh why the anger? If you use NASA sources why can't I? I'm not here for an argument, I know I'm correct so there's no point. Bye.
@jamesdeerwood1464 жыл бұрын
If astronauts found porridge and three bears on mars then they would be in the goldilocks zone.
@ronikamerl4 жыл бұрын
I don't care what anybody else thinks.... you just won the entire internet. Beautiful. Just... beautiful
@jamesdeerwood1464 жыл бұрын
Ronika Merl Thank you 😀
@almostfm4 жыл бұрын
Definitely 5 points for that.
@DeeK4yL4 жыл бұрын
I always watch these compilations to the very end, so i can hear Sandy complain
@NxDoyle4 жыл бұрын
There are three criteria for determining a planet in our lovely Solar System: 1) It orbits the Sun 🌞. 2) Its mass is such that it has formed into a round-ish shape. 3) It has cleared its neighbourhood/local area of other objects. Pluto was reclassified because it hasn't cleared its neighbourhood of other objects.
@jesperohlrich4 жыл бұрын
Nx Doyle but it was reclassified as a dwarf planet, so still a planet. Just not a very large one. In fact that will be my argument from now on, cause in this day an age people are constantly afraid of saying something that might be offensive. So if people argue that being a dwarf means that it’s not a planet... does that apply to other dwarfs too? I’ll just toss that one out there for you to think about ;)
@LEO_M14 жыл бұрын
Jesper Ohlrich Yes, it does. ;)
@ThatDamnPandaKai4 жыл бұрын
Earth hasn't cleared it's orbital neighborhood. Earth is not a planet. D:
@Captainllama4 жыл бұрын
@@ThatDamnPandaKai Yes it has, yes it is.
@andracatheduckking2574 жыл бұрын
as an american baseball fan it makes me weirdly excited to see a british guy wearing a shirt that says fenway park
@DanDownunda88882 жыл бұрын
One of my neighbours has a bumper sticker "Save Fenway Park". I'm in Melbourne Australia.
@Sabrowsky4 жыл бұрын
After a few years I'm starting to believe Alan is very stoned during some of these
@DanDownunda88882 жыл бұрын
And Stephen, during a couple of the earlier episodes. :)
@TheGreatCalsby2 жыл бұрын
5:23 "How has this happened to me?" Is perfect
@xoxtoddxox2 жыл бұрын
Nice reference to F Scott Fitzgerald’s “Diamond as Big as the Ritz” Konstantin Batygin and Michael E. Brown argue the existence of a ninth planet beyond the dwarf planet called Pluto.
@danadnauseam4 жыл бұрын
Imaine trying to bring a Jovian diamond through customs
@eddominates4 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad Rich is our American Ambassador over there. I identify with him so much
@termeownator4 жыл бұрын
I'm an American and I just don't find him that funny, I've given him a fair chance I think, and it may be because he's surrounded by such comedy greats that his style can't really flourish, but I just can't get into him
@jeroen924 жыл бұрын
@@termeownator hes just worse at playing a fool than Alan is and his jokes arent jokes he just says random shit to get the occasional shock laugh..
@termeownator4 жыл бұрын
@@jeroen92 yeah I guess that mite be it. I'm not really a fan of any Americans on QI, though I stopped watching after Stephen left. The only other American that comes to mind is that black fella (I'm assuming he's American). He's just not funny in the least
@NewMessage4 жыл бұрын
Go home, Pluto. This isn't for you.
@wmradar4 жыл бұрын
Dammit, Ceres! Now's not the time!
@shellsbignumber24 жыл бұрын
Despite its name Uranus is an Ice giant and not as the name might suggest a gas giant.
@marycanary864 жыл бұрын
"hahahahahaaahhhhahhhhhhhhhhh... minus 5"
@frankcurtis61794 жыл бұрын
At the time Alan Davies said that Pluto was a planet he was in fact correct. Although many astronomers were saying that it was only a minor planet at most it was still officially classified as a planet so Alan should not have been penalised for his answer. It wasn't until a few years later that it was officially reclassified as a minor planet.
@fingersTitan Жыл бұрын
There are still 9. It would of been 10 if they allowed Pluto. There are 2 or 3 agencies looking for our 9th planet. They say that things happen in our solar system that can only happen if there is a 9th planet on a huge orbit that is currently outside our observation but strong evidence say that it exists.
@duskpede51463 жыл бұрын
that first clip feels like a QI episode that you watch in your dreams
@zetetick3954 жыл бұрын
QI is my favourite TV Ceres!
@vslyz16583 жыл бұрын
The Cairns, Canberra aussie accent he did was on point🤣
@tomaddison35972 жыл бұрын
First time hearing someone that isn’t aussie pronounce it properly instead of Can-BERRA
@michaelstamper58752 жыл бұрын
Alan's role in QI seems to be akin to Pooh Bear. Not "book smart", but with an innate sense that initially seems comical but has an almost Taoist wisdom when considered more deeply.
@City-Swimmer Жыл бұрын
"I like powdered custard" - Lao Tzu
@zetetick3953 жыл бұрын
QI: A day lasts longer than a year on Venus! '🤯'
@JorgeStolfi4 жыл бұрын
Pluto is the Rhode Island of the planets. Or the Monaco of the planets, for you Eurocentric folks.
@Brasswatchman7 ай бұрын
3:24 Wait, Alan actually has a desk?! Do they ALL have school desks?!
@katymcdonald54813 жыл бұрын
It’s possible that it will become nine planets again because later in the series we learned that our moon might be considered a planet in a binary system with the Earth.
@alexiskiri96934 жыл бұрын
Saturn. Nothing beats a sunset or sunrise on Saturn. All those rings act like prisms. Astonishingly beautiful.
@grahamefreestone53094 жыл бұрын
Don't tell the Americans about those diamonds on Jupiter. You know what they're like! ;-)
@defectivepikachu45823 жыл бұрын
nah theyd think that the black stuff is oil and theyd get distracted
@DanDownunda88882 жыл бұрын
Mariah Carey already has already booked a ticket. :)
@falconpowerful23624 жыл бұрын
I can’t recall a single time that Phil Jupitus has ever made me crack a smile, let alone laugh. In fact it’s quite the opposite... he stops me from laughing.
@cobzy694 жыл бұрын
At least I'm not the only one. He has ruined so many good episodes of different shows for me.
@nuddymick4 жыл бұрын
Add Carr too...
@SkaterMisterAxe2 жыл бұрын
5:23 I giggled
@MagikGimp4 жыл бұрын
Best of David Mitchell more like! One day we will holiday in the Solar System. And things just won't be valued quite the same any more.
@ashleighg.33664 жыл бұрын
The term that Stephen Fry is looking for is called a planetoid.
@boooster1014 жыл бұрын
it's actually a plutoid.
@tahutoa2 жыл бұрын
~7:29 once they figure out how to keep Jupiter from crushing any probe that dares to brave its atmosphere, they need to fit it with one of those 360 degree video cameras
@cruz1ale4 жыл бұрын
Stephen's American accent is so obviously British it hurts
@gwishart4 жыл бұрын
It's no worse than the awful 'British' accents that Americans attempt.
@murphystravels3 жыл бұрын
If it’s custard get me a sticky toffee pudding to match it
@wilsonm.d69233 жыл бұрын
Canberra has a population greater than 100,000. Even when the crater was named in 1979...
@Saandy_3 жыл бұрын
You know when you hear a sound and focus in on it, every time you hear that sound again it is so distictly clear. I didn't think this show used a laugh track.
@handshoesandhorsegrenades18484 жыл бұрын
Charleston was fucking slaughtered as far as Pronunciation goes
@smallpseudonym28444 жыл бұрын
The way Alan pronounced Charleston is a remarkable facsimile to how it would sound if it were said by a 'Cajun of the bayou. Not quite the right State, but pretty close.
@steveh1113 жыл бұрын
After New Horizon's visit to Pluto, some of Stephen's diatribe against Pluto needs revision...
@bacul1654 жыл бұрын
Wow, David looks quite hot in his purple shirt...
@theradgegadgie63524 жыл бұрын
9:15 "By no criterion on which planets are judged, could Pluto be said to be a planet." *makes the klaxon noise* Actually, Pluto fits two of the three criteria to be a planet. So up yer Khyber, Stephen.
@rvllctt8714 жыл бұрын
Is a dwarf human still a human ... because Pluto is a dwarf planet?
@AdmiralBonetoPick4 жыл бұрын
@@rvllctt871 Nope, dwarves are classed as "nonhumans". Like elves.
@thomthom62684 жыл бұрын
Pluto's orbit is out of synch with the eight planets. It's just one of the largest and closest of the Ort Cloud.
@efari4 жыл бұрын
The 2 dislikes are from Pluto and Eucalyptus
@semc19864 жыл бұрын
Allen's potatohead looks like frankfurter
@sirandrelefaedelinoge4 жыл бұрын
"In just seven days, I can make you a maaaaaaan..."
@mickeyfilmer55513 жыл бұрын
@ 5:13 ... it's obviously Telly Tubby Custard.. c'mon you are the BBC allegedly....
@wilmotown4 жыл бұрын
God, David is so much skinnier now! Good for him.
@reevethomas10834 жыл бұрын
Alan gets punished for trying to help 🤔😂😂
@NerfHerdsman4 жыл бұрын
And we're still searching for that ninth planet
@evilparkin3 жыл бұрын
8:04 Lead, not aluminium. Aluminium melts at 660 C and would therefore be a solid on Venus at 460 C.
@JarthenGreenmeadow4 жыл бұрын
Pluto and Charon is more accurate than just Pluto.
@jesusluigi37874 жыл бұрын
i too like powdered custard
@jimmyusee2 жыл бұрын
Diamonds the size of hotels??? ... They wouldn't make the most practical necklaces. 👍 😁
@apparition91464 жыл бұрын
Allen is actually right about Mars. When the sun eventually expands into a red giant Earth will be consumed, but Mars will be in the new goldilocks zone... until the sun then explodes into a planetary nova a few million years latter. Then we best be gone from the Sol system proper.
@ShizuruNakatsu4 жыл бұрын
I don't think humans will have to worry about that. Much sooner than most humans expect, they will already be an intergalactic race. They need to change a bit first, but it certainly won't be billions of years away.
@ClarinoI4 жыл бұрын
Bold of you to assume humanity is going to be around when the sun expands.
@CaptHayfever4 жыл бұрын
@@ShizuruNakatsu: ...What do you mean, "they"?
@danawrigleywalkingstickand56774 жыл бұрын
@@CaptHayfever Reptilian overlord disguised as a human called "Diana Cavendish." Retract your comment before she sees it and has to eradicate the witnesses.
@CloudsGirl74 жыл бұрын
I'm not so sure about that. Even so, it won't bring back Mars's magnetic field, and without that, there can be no atmosphere. So humans (or whatever we evolve into, or whatever takes over from us) would still be pretty screwed.
@Sakkura14 жыл бұрын
8:00 the surface of Venus is not hot enough to melt aluminium. It's about 460 degrees C at the surface, and doesn't vary much due to the thick atmosphere. Aluminium melts at about 660 degrees C. However, lead would melt on Venus, its melting point being about 327 degrees C, as would zinc with its melting point of about 419 degrees C.
@froggy1878884 жыл бұрын
Pressure.
@Sakkura14 жыл бұрын
@@froggy187888 You need pretty extreme pressures to appreciably change the melting point of metals. In any case, higher pressure would simply raise the melting point even more. Aluminium definitely will not melt in the ambient conditions on the surface of Venus.
@ttthttpd4 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile in America: "What the hell is a fortnight? Do they mean that game kids like to play?"
@michaeldukes41084 жыл бұрын
You really think the average Essex chav or Glaswegian football hooligan knows what the hell a fortnight is?
@spookylemon49474 жыл бұрын
MICHAEL DUKES Yes
@onemercilessming13424 жыл бұрын
3:20--Alan may not be far wrong. As the sun evolves from a yellow star to a red giant, earth's water will boil away, the planet will become uninhabitable and, as the "red giant" expands outward, the innermost planets will be obliterated, (which will happen, eventually, to Mars and probably outward past the asteroid belt toward Jupiteras well. Carl Sagan, the exo-biologist who produced the gold anodized disc on the Voyagers of the 1970s, and who wrote Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain, the Cosmos series, the novel Contact and whose protégé has upgraded the Cosmos series to incorporate newer findings and information, expounded upon this possibility.
@thomasnolastname8734 Жыл бұрын
There's a Little Chef on Mars
@NxDoyle4 жыл бұрын
There are three errors In the first clip, which is easily the most I've ever picked up from an episode of QI. Stephen, uncharacteristically, says June 1969 in reference to the Apollo 11 mission, which took place entirely in July. He goes on to pronounce Houston as he did in his 50 States series, namely as "HOO-stuhn" as opposed to "HYOO-stuhn". But that's no biggie, because Houstonians themselves pronounce it "YOOZ-tuhn". Then again they also pronounce oil as awl and some say dishwarsher. As for Martian crater nomenclature, it may be that certain-sized craters have to be named after towns with sub-100,000 populations, but not overall. For example, the Opportunity rover spent quite a bit of time at Endeavour crater, named after the bark used by James Cook on his first voyage to map the transit of Venus across the Sun. On the way back, Cook charted the east coast of Australia. All the points around the edge of the Endeavour crater are named after the places named by Cook during his exploration and mapping.
@mvl714 жыл бұрын
Yes, well, I don't think the French pronounce the name of their capital city as _pérris_ so Houston can be pronounced Throat Warbler Mangrove by Stephen for all I care.
@charlespeterwatson90513 жыл бұрын
0:38 It was July, not June.
@WilliametcCook4 жыл бұрын
Eris is a dwarf planet that is 97% as big as Pluto and has a higher mass
@BigyetiTechnologies3 жыл бұрын
Fry there, trying to bluff his way through a conversation about Pluto.
@BassCossack1Ай бұрын
Yes, pluto is booted out... but if they are considering the moon and earth as a binary system, it would still be 9
@HI-qw8hf9 сағат бұрын
What about the moons of other PLANETS (which our moon isn't)? And who exactly is considering the moon and earth as a binary system unless that conveniently suits your statement? I'm not an astronomer so I leave it to the experts and with due respect I bet you aren't a professional astronomer either...
@BassCossack17 сағат бұрын
@@HI-qw8hf just another snippet from qi that THEY, which i assume are astronomers, have a theory about the history or the origin of earth. one of them was sonewhere along the lines of: the earth has collided with another planet and merged making it a "binary" system. ...remembering it now, i guess it wasn't the moon.
@rooty Жыл бұрын
Is that the same documentary karl pilkington watched about the sun exploding
@Cypher7914 жыл бұрын
There’s planet Hollywood ☝️😏
@trooperandcooperale30574 жыл бұрын
Juneish 1969 by which you mean the 20th of July 1969 is the day man landed on the moon QI really.
@gwishart4 жыл бұрын
It's only 20 days away from being June, and therefore easily meets the definition of "Juneish".
@trooperandcooperale30574 жыл бұрын
@@gwishart indeed
@ScreaminMadMurphy4 жыл бұрын
damnit sandy, you mustnt interrupt stephen mid rant.
@warrenrudkin52775 ай бұрын
JULY 20, 1969
@19dizzy763 жыл бұрын
So are we back to 9 yet.
@raybeeze55224 жыл бұрын
venus is not hot enough for liquid aluminum. the usual element referenced is lead. one point USA.