Signup for your FREE trial to Wondrium here: http://ow.ly/rMRZ30sfmaN Get ready for the most epic party of your life. Because someone replaced our Moon with a disco ball. How could you turn the Moon into a classic disco ball? How much more light could this new Moon reflect? And would […]
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FOLLOW MICHAEL STEVENS: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce **Big thanks to Antonius from AVbyte for helping with audio! His channel is great: http://www.youtube.com/avbyte ** My video about space travel and the Fermi Paradox and Drake equation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD08CuUi_Ek What to do if you meet an alien: https://twitter.com/tweetsauce/status/355046441888120832 UN Office of Outer Space Affaris: http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/oosa/COPUOS/copuos.html Galileo […]
635 light-years from where you are sitting, way out in outer space, lies a planet. The first planet to be discovered inside the habitable zone of a Sun-like star. Its name is Kepler 22-b. When a planet is located within a star’s habitable zone, it means that there is a […]
Humanity’s nuclear arsenal is capable of destroying all life on Earth. Over. And over. And over. Maybe it’s time we dumped it far away. We might want to inhabit other planets in the future, so how about our closest star? How many nukes could we throw at the Sun? What […]
Get 20% off Grammarly Premium by signing up at https://grammarly.com/WHATIF The Sun isn’t the biggest thing in our Solar System. And it’s not Jupiter, either. But close. It’s Jupiter’s very own magnetic field. What would it be like if Earth’s magnetic field was as huge as Jupiter’s? How much stronger […]
Thanks to Established Titles for sponsoring this video! Get 10% off on any purchase with code WhatIf. Go to https://establishedtitles.com/WhatIf and help support the channel! Some of the planets in our Solar System are gigantic. But what if they got even bigger? Let’s go up the planetary size chart and […]
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Imagine Earth with an even 50/50 split between continents and oceans. Our planet covered half by land half by water. How would this change the planet as you know it? What new kinds of vacations could this make possible for you? And what does the color of your pee have […]
Step inside the Pitch Meeting that led to 65! Subscribe for more Pitch Meetings: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Kq-yEt1iYsbUzNOoIRK0g Adam Driver fighting dinosaurs with sci-fi weapons sounds like a surefire concept that’s guaranteed to be entertaining. But somehow, when 65 hit theatres, critics weren’t impressed and audiences weren’t present. 65 definitely raises some questions. […]
