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What Is The Earth Worth?

Vsauce | March 25, 2025



SOURCES and LINKS TO LEARN MORE ARE BELOW!
my twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce
my instagram: http://www/instagram.com/electricpants

Music from:

http://youtube.com/JakeChudnow
and
http://www.audionetwork.com

Vsauce: “Who Owns the Moon?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbgz4yY-xX0

Vsauce: “How many Photos Have Been Taken?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e_kz79tjb8

Earth, Texas: http://goo.gl/qmozXa

Earth’s moons:

http://www.universetoday.com/15019/how-many-moons-does-earth-have/
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2006+RH120;orb=1

Solar System speed around Milky Way: http://www.universetoday.com/18028/sun-orbit/

Greg Laughlin equation:

http://oklo.org/2009/03/12/too-cheap-to-meter/
http://boingboing.net/2011/02/03/cosmic-commodities-h.html

History Channel Special:

http://shop.history.com/special-presentation-whats-the-earth-worth/detail.php?p=382452
http://www.bullseyetv.co.uk/productions/what-s-the-earth-worth
http://bpsfuelforthought.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/history-channels-whats-the-earth-worth/

Human elements shirt: http://www.sciencemuseumshop.co.uk/home/clothing_textiles/human_ingredients_t-shirt_blue.htm

Element values: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prices_of_elements_and_their_compounds

ShadyPotat0 calculation: http://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/252po1/how_much_is_the_inside_of_the_earth_worth/

Asteroids:

Great video showing 34 years of asteroid discovery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k2vkLEE4ko
http://star.arm.ac.uk/neos/anim.html
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/stats/

433 Eros: http://www.erosproject.com/erosfact.html?source=ErosProject

Kepler search for exoplanets: http://kepler.nasa.gov/multimedia/animations/?ImageID=219

planets in Milky Way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way

scanning the Milky Way: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/video-audio/1440-ssc2014-02v1-Panning-Through-the-Milky-Way

Nat Geo list of reasons Earth might be useful to other life forms: http://tvblogs.nationalgeographic.com/2011/05/19/10-reasons-why-aliens-would-attack-earth/

Beautiful things animals make: http://www.buzzfeed.com/babymantis/10-beautiful-things-created-by-animals-1opu

Animals and ownership:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080130092136.htm
http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/090522_trade.htm

Articles on Finders-Keepers, etc.

http://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/trove/
https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/services/233/hisfind.html

Monkey Seflies:

http://www.djsphotography.co.uk/
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/monkeys-selfie-cannot-be-copyrighted-us-regulators-say/

non-human animal created works on wikimedia: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AWhatLinksHere&target=Template%3APD-animal&namespace=6

Dog artist Tillamook Cheddar: http://www.tillamookcheddar.com

LEGO shell Hermit Crab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V47wx8qMSxA

Custom built see-through hermit crab shells: http://vimeo.com/71005763

sneeze movie by Edison: http://goo.gl/Vmmh6c

Google Earth global timelapse: https://earthengine.google.org/timelapse/timelapseplayer_v2.html?timelapseclient=http://earthengine.google.org/timelapse/data

Seflie from space: http://i.imgur.com/PnEMSM6.jpg

space launch seen from plane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IERISLXfd8Q

selling the Brooklyn Bridge (without actually owning it): http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/nyregion/thecity/27brid.html?_r=3&ex=1290747600&en=d5b19f580f176c64&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&

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