5 Failed Attempts to Bust Myths about Space

[JPMitchell]

Thinking space is awesome isn't a phase. It's being correct.

[Snwar]

not calling the earth a sphere blatantly shows that some people dont understand why approximations are useful.
its the same thing when jordan talks about cutting off numbers instead of embracing infinity or some crap like that...

[Etherwinter]

That video from Mind Warehouse kept popping up in my recommended videos. I didn't watch it fully, just gave it a glance. The comments were enough to tell me about it.

[atreides]

If you ask me, we should get Jordan from Spirit Science to test the long term affects of the vacuum of space on the human body.

[djhalling]

I watched that video the other day, too, and thought that they got a lot of things wrong for a myth-busting video. I didn't spot that they got Jupiter and Saturn the wrong way round because I wasn't paying that much attention to the visuals.

On a pedantic note, you said, "a third of a percent", to which my usual reply is, "What is 'a percent'?". The BBC's policy is to say, "a third of one percent", but that seems unnecessarily long to me. I think the phrase, "one third percent", is syntactically and semantically valid.

[Agent]

I learned this lesson a long time ago. It only takes a coule times to find something online, or otherwise, that you know is wrong to realize maybe the stuff you don't know about is wrong too.

[nauci]

Stop being busy and make us more content. We love you!

[TheXcizer]

As someone who is currently looking into majoring in astronomy it hurts to see that video.

[whybag]

"From a number of Hollywood movies, we know that if you take off your space suit helmet, your head will immediately swell and blow up..."

...which is why we're showing one example of a head swelling, and it takes over a minute, and this represents "a number" of examples.

[ciceronincheese]

Actually, Martymer, you might be surprised by the average person. Most people I meet besides my close friends believe Mercury's average temperature is greater than Venus'. They also do believe that one side of the moon is always dark.

[Fanghur]

In fairness, I’m pretty sure that if you picked a hundred random people off the street and asked them which planet in the solar system they think is the hottest, the majority of them would likely say Mercury.

[MateusAntonioBittencourt]

Thank you... I stubble upon that video yesterday and oh god. I must have made 100 comments on that video responding to people, why he was wrong... mostly about the shape of the earth. Now I can simply sent people here... hahahahah

[YKNW]

1:52 - Apparently not. And don't call me Shirley.

[strangedaze]

Thanks for addressing this video. It's perfect timing for me. I watched it just a few days ago and was laughing my head off.

[davidh.]

Re: #5. I'm reminded of the Larry Niven short story _The Coldest Place_ . For a time it was thought that Mercury was tidally locked with regards to the Sun, and that the far side of it, being a true "dark side", would actually be one of the coldest locations in the solar system. That idea was presented as the "gotcha" twist at the end of his story.

[vnen]

"No one thinks that". Well, people believe that the Earth is flat and that Jews come from space. I never doubt the power of human stupidity.

[Inigecko]

Thanks for making this video. Your videos are so much better than the ones made on channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

[Farnsworth]

One data point on the effects of (near) vacuum on the body is the failure of Joseph Kittinger's glove during Project Excelsior in 1960 when he jumped from 102, 000 feet.

His hand swelled up, reportedly to twice normal size. Very painful, but he recovered.

[Bogwedgle]

Error: 5800 kelvin is ~5500 C not 6100, you added 300 instead of subtracting it.

[YOSUP]

No Saturn only looks farther away because of, drum roll please...
perspective!