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What Does Earth Look Like?

Vsauce | April 11, 2025

Follow Michael Stevens: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce EXTRA INFO & LINKS BELOW! Dr. Julian Bayliss’ rainforest story: http://youtu.be/mni8mSS4KDU Cool video from CGPGrey: “How Many Countries Are There?” http://youtu.be/4AivEQmfPpk upside-down map: http://paulmencke.nl.dualdev.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Upside-down-World-Map.jpg INTERACTIVE projection site: http://www.jasondavies.com/maps/transition/ Chromoscope: http://www.chromoscope.net/ Mercator Puzzle: https://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/poly/puzzledrag.html xkcd on maps: http://xkcd.com/977/ Earth “live”: http://aa.usno.navy.mil/imagery/earth/live interactive gnomonic: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3795048 West Wing MAPS […]

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What If Earth Was a Pulsar Planet?

What If | April 11, 2025

Download the Speakly app at https://speakly.app.link/Speakly and get a 60% discount if you join the annual subscription. Something is very wrong with our Sun. It’s turned into a spinning lighthouse of death. What would make the Sun so much more deadly than usual? Would there be any way life on […]

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What If Jupiter Collided With Earth?

What If | April 9, 2025

Get a free What If Top 10 book when you sign up for our newsletter: https://underknown.com/newsletter/ The biggest planet in the Solar System has gone rogue. And now it’s heading straight toward Earth. You have 30 days till this gas giant wipes us all out. What speeds would Jupiter be […]

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What If Earth Reached Boiling Point for 5 Seconds?

What If | April 6, 2025

Get a free What If Top 10 book when you sign up for our newsletter: https://underknown.com/newsletter/ Get ready for some serious burns and the instantaneous death of organisms. Let’s turn up the heat and bring the entire planet to a boil for five whole seconds. How would this apocalyptic heat […]

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What If Earth Was As Small as Pluto?

What If | April 5, 2025

It’s a small world after all, because today, we’re shrinking Earth to the size of Pluto. But if our planet was this tiny, how would it alter the atmosphere? Why would the Earth get hotter? And how would gravity affect our water supply? Would we be tidally locked to the […]

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Do compasses work in space? | Michelle Thaller | Big Think

92.9 The Torch | April 5, 2025

Do compasses work in space? | Michelle Thaller | Big Think Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg Up next ►► Michio Kaku forecasts the future of space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT8JM7o4WtM If you’re out in space, you would be able to navigate the galaxy with one simple navigational tool we’ve been […]

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DISTORTIONS

Vsauce | April 4, 2025

YouTube FanFest with HP in Mumbai: http://www.youtubefanfest.com/india/ Follow Michael Stevens: https://twitter.com/tweetsauce SOURCES BELOW Guy (editor/production): https://twitter.com/guylar music from: http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow and http://www.audionetwork.com Celestia 3D space software: http://sourceforge.net/projects/celestia/ Another great visualization of star locations in 3D space: http://moebio.com/exomap/viewsofthesky/2/ minutephysics video about why it’s dark at night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxJ4M7tyLRE my video on moving illusions: […]

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The Big Bang explained in under 4 minutes | Michelle Thaller | Big Think

92.9 The Torch | April 4, 2025

The Big Bang explained in under 4 minutes with Michelle Thaller Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvQECJukTDE2i6aCoMnS-Vg Up next ►► Michio Kaku: What Put the Bang in the Big Bang? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCnvuKb0T7E One of the biggest misconceptions in science is that the Big Bang came out of nothing – […]

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What Do Alien Civilizations Look Like? The Kardashev Scale

92.9 The Torch | April 2, 2025

You can find our beautiful education posters, useful notebooks and cozy sweaters in our shop now: https://kgs.link/shop-126 Sources & further reading: https://sites.google.com/view/sourceskardashevscale/ The observable universe is a big place that has been around for more than 13 billion years. Up to two trillion galaxies made up of something like 20,000 […]

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