Bak 2 Skool 02: Space

On this episode Dan grapples with the vast uncaring void of space.

It is unbelievable to me that people like this actually exist that aren't diagnosed with something

Thinking about this kind of stuff too hard and what other kind of life is out there freaks me out.

This is the best show on this site right now.

I'll never tire of Rubber Band Hands Dan

Keep up the great work, guys! This show is a goldmine.

A lot of this new content is kicking ass. I've been thoroughly enjoying Guilty Treasures, Albummer, and The Very Online show, too. And especially GrubbSnax. Interested to see more from VoidBurger, too.

I hope we get a food science episode and Dan just reacting to cheese making or beer making etc.

Just a big congratulations to all involved in this show. So many laughs.

I'm with Dan. The emptiness of the universe makes me feel relieved.

Getting Dan back on GB is the smartest decision in a long time

Loving this series, loved the little MoO2 robot cameo in the Goldilocks Zone video, loved the editing. Keep it coming please!

Im doing my very best from writing out the answers to their questions, but gravity propagates in a vacuum at the speed of light. So does any electromagnetic radiation in a vacuum. Our radio waves have made it about 100 ly away

I think we all knew this series had huge potential, and turns out we were all right!!! This shit makes me cackle like nothing else, absolute gold duders!

Esp the endings with the super cut of Dan's mind being blown, really ties a bow on the whole thing.

@tdous: An intergalactic treasure

Does Jeff not know how to spell Uranus?

It would've been fun for Jeff to tell Dan that Saturn's ring isn't a solid thing. That it's a ton of rocks and debris that have formed that ring. Also, the asteroid belt isn't as dense as the way Star Wars portrays that sort of thing.

It would've been nice if Jeff looked up that Voyager probe that's outside of the solar system and that it was launched in the 70s. That's ancient tech sending us data. NASA has a fun site with a lot of new data from the two Voyager probes that have been out there for over 40 years (link).

We've also had a probe flying around Jupiter and crashed into it at the end, at least in terms of burning up into nothing in the descent. They did the same with Cassini crashing into Saturn, though it also burned up and disintegrated at the end.

Train's Drops of Jupiter is the theme song for this episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xf-Lesrkuc

Since we're all being educational around here, you pronounce "kurzgesagt" as "coorts geh zugt". the double O like in "rookie", the G like in "grand" and the U like in "suck".

I feel like Dan was on the verge of becoming a nihilist here. He should watch the Kurzgesagt video on optimistic nihilism...

The reason we don't feel the earth spinning isn't just because it's relative to everything on the planet moving at the same speed. It's also because it's consistent. If there was any variance in the speed, that would mean there would be acceleration and deceleration as rotational forces and cause everything to fling right off the planet in a tangential direction. That's about directly towards the horizon line from the perspective of anything on the planet.

I love this so much. Dan’s excitement is such pure joy. 😂

So when they were talking about "Galata-Duck" destroying the earth because it had advanced to far....basically that is the plot of the Mass Effect games

Galata-Duck's third part is just way better.

Hello, I enjoyed this episode a lot more than the first episode.

Thank you.

"If Saturn goes wobbly, we're all fucked." - Dan Ryckert

I'm very much with Dan in being comforted by the fact that when you look at how insignificant we are to everything in the universe it really puts things into perspective on how much most of the stressful bs in our lives does not fucking matter.

Love this series btw. So much fun! Kinda makes me sad that Dan isn't still a regular with GB but then again his twitch streams are the tits.

Man. Fun to watch Dan's mind be blown here, but Jeff not having the common sense answers to Dan's questions is also funny. I think neither of them really understand gravity here because it basically answers all the questions about why anything is going on in the whole solar system and the rest of the universe.

Why stars, why galaxies, why spinning, why these orbits, basically the large scale answer to all of these is gravity at some level. Its not a fundamental force for nothing.

Anyhow good show gents. Interested in what they do next to try to blow Dan's mind.

I'm with Dan, it's comforting to know that our troubles mean nothing on a cosmological scale. Great video :)

@janman That is some peak level editing great job

@danryckert, if the planet suddenly stopped spinning and you were attached to an object that could not move, it would be the equivalent of being in a plane crash slamming into the side of a mountain at 1100 miles per hour. If the world is moving at 1100 miles per hour and suddenly stops, it is the equivalent of you moving at 1100 miles per hour and slamming into a stationary object. In either case, your speed changes from 1100 miles per hour to nothing instantly (in a plane crash it is your plane's speed relative to the surface of the Earth, in the other, it is the speed of the surface of the Earth relative to the atmosphere). Your body would literally be torn apart into tiny pieces.

I like Dan’s mind blown reaction.

Also the 6 days joke. Me Being a Catholic

“Grab a Handful of Jupiter”, the debut album from Dan Ryckert. Featuring hit songs such as “Weiner Tiny Sun” and “Who Gives a Fuck About Us?”

This got me thinking. If the universe is indeed infinite, then literally ANYTHING we can think of would exist because there would be infinite possibilities for it to exist.

Dan had for sure had a Matthew McConaughey true detective moment here haha, fantastic stuff!

"Does this make you feel good?" I love how Dan thinks about this. We are just small earthlings in the grand scheme of things.

@bart008: In this instance, the “infinite” refers to the universe having no boundaries; there is seemingly no edge to the universe and you could pick a direction and keep going into the vast emptiness of space forever. However, the quantity of matter (stars, planets, gas clouds, etc.) in the universe is finite, so there isn’t quite room to keep on finding anything we can imagine. Still though, trillions of planets is a lot!

That's what I was hoping for the series. Maybe it's too video intensive?

This series is an absolute joy.

Just some passing notes as I listen to this:

An infinite universe is mindboggling, but so is a finite one. Because finite universes would loop like a videogame. Or it would have an edge, which may seem logical but is actually real hard to imagine in a physical sense.

The speed of light in a vacuum is also the speed of information.

Did Bakalar know what he was doing when he was yelling "It's all relative!" when talking about gravity?

At any rate, you don't notice speed, you notice acceleration. It's also what kills you.

They didn't realize how weird it is that the observable universe is 90b LY across, even though it's 13.8b Y old. Dark Energy is weird......

@cyrusraven: It would probably be slightly less desirable, like the guy in Robocop.

This was very good.

You can grab drops of Jupiter in her hair, though.

@mrspoon: Ah yes classic nightmare fuel very good.

Bak 2 Skool 03: Critical Race Theory

I prefer Monty Python for all my Astronomy lessons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk

solid

I love this series. Thanks, Dan and Jeff.

Existential dread, my old friend.