The Universe Size Comparison I didn't know I Wanted (Thoughts & Commentary)

The universe size comparison I didn’t know I needed, but I did, Global Data presents. Rambling about different things from average human height, to the Statue of Unity, to earth, to black holes and our galaxy... and objects in between.

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[gsbealer]

You really have a brilliant channel.
You don’t solicit subscribers or ask for “likes”. I admire that.
You don’t interrupt the damn video all the bloody time.
You encourage the use of multisyllabic words and terms.
And I find your common sense reactions simpatico.
You appreciate history, like I do. You encourage reading and learning. You have a wonderfully open mind, and I find pleasure in agreeing with just about everything you say.
A conversation with you, I believe would make this 72 year old happy.
👋

[sethdarby]

I've always heard Giraffes grew up to 19 feet but every one i have ever seen only had 4.

[atharvarajadhyaksha]

I love the theory that we can be inside an active black hole right now and not even know it. The thought both fascinates and terrifies me!

[raggmedia]

I swear your channel is like the ultimate ideal youtube channel. No unnecessary 10 mins of talk to stretch the vid, no weird AI voiceover, etc. It's just you, doing the actual thing (reacting) and many time's we're also reacting, alongside you. Long may it continue! (I know every time I've made a comment it amounts to the same thing, but damn, after wading through all of those bs vids on this platform...the utter relief and happiness when you post something new, I feel compelled to comment the same thing every time_) What was I meant to be doing again?

[ZerofeverOfficial]

"If it's Boeing, I ain't going."

[Frenchie]

2:50 "Where on earth can I find a Hyperion?" Hyperion is the name given to one specific tree! ;) It's the world's tallest (known) tree, a 115.92 m (380.3 ft) tall coast redwood sequoia in California. :)

[threestumps]

Hi NP, in my city of Melbourne, there is a scalable model of the solar system built along the bay. For anyone familiar with Melbourne it runs from Elwood through to Port Melbourne. Many international visitors like to hang out at St Kilda beach and they don't realise that when they visit there, they walk straight the middle of the model. The scale is 1:1 billion in terms of both distance between the planets and the size of the planet on the statue. One of the cutest things is the statue for Pluto lol.

[MagnaCali]

''93 til infinity'' is a great song!

[tomburns]

I am loving every video you choose to play along with your commentary. Thanks very much!

Since you were asking for music, here is a song/instrumental you may find hits the mark you were on about:

Hammock (band/duo) - Like a Valley with No Echo (Oblivion Hymns)

[kelvinmeneely]

There are two videos on YouTube, sermising alien life on planets in the galaxies or universe, part 1-2, they are so well made and thoughtful I'm going to look them up and rewatch them again right now. Thanks for sharing your time and curiosity, keep up the good work! It's called alien life beyond 1-2.

[KarmasAB]

"We have a universe size comparison!"

*Opens fullscreen*

[cpag]

Hope I’m not too late, but some music I would suggest is Brian Eno’s “Before and After the Science”. In particular the song “Kurt’s Rejoinder”. But this is a whole album of existential music. I’m sure you would enjoy it.

[slsfpsh]

In Hichikers Guide to the Galaxy the ultimate punishment was to shown the Universe and your place in it and you really really need to read this series of books by Douglas Adams

[ferchrissakes]

Can recommend “Universe Size Comparison | Cosmic Eye” (or similar zoom-out-and-back-in videos), in part because the zoom-back-in part tends to trip people up (well, me at least). It’s one thing to go through all the orders of magnitude from us to the universe in one direction, but you forget just how many orders of magnitude it is until you go back through it.

[jokuz]

what a great video. great commentary young lady

[two_motion]

Anyone: Oh, that's exactly 241 meters away.
Mericans: That's about 60 giraffes and 2 sunflowers away.

[troyshilanski]

You used the word fathom in a sentence. Seriously you rock.

[SuperScottCrawford]

So smart. Im curious to see where your talents ultimately end up.

[almostyummymummy]

And given the vast distances in space, when our galaxy and Andromeda collide, it is quite possible that no stars actually hit another.

Boggles the mind, moreso when you discover that the average distance between two asteroids in our system is around 960, 000 km.

[ftumschk]

The Horsehead Nebula is in the constellation Orion. It's a cloud of dust which blocks the light behind it, leaving a dark patch resembling a horse's head or chess knight. It was discovered, and first photographed, by Scottish astronomer Wilhelmina Fleming in the late 19th Century.

For a piece of music which imho embodies the vastness of space, you might try "Neptune, the Mystic" from Holst's Planets.