What Happens When a Meteorite Strikes Earth? -- Extreme Science #1

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Really hope you liked this episode! There will be two more coming out so stay tuned! Special thanks to PopSci for giving me permission to put these on my channel.

***CREDITS***

Written, directed, hosted and edited by Jake Roper

Cinematography and VFX by Eric Langlay

Produced by Tim Willison

Sound Design by Jay Pellizzi

Special thanks to Cliff Ransom, PopSci and Toyota.

*I was not paid to put these on Vsauce3. I just was proud of them and wanted to share*

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[blokfluitknaap]

Every death chance is measured in shark attack chances...

[Vsauce]

I added annotations with the metric conversions. I'll include them baked into the video next time!

[austinmesnard]

Why do meteors always land in craters?

[Vsauce]

Hope you like this! It was really fun trying a bit of a different style. Thanks for watching!

[minecraftmarioboy]

1:57 I like how he used the atomic bomb test to explain the impact.made things a lot easier to understand.

[Hansaloverable]

0:50 about the length of a blue whale. "Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet. And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more."

[arandomhandsomeman]

Great job jake the team.
specially with the editing.

and as always thank you!

[kungfukenny]

"You're more likely to die from an asteroid impact than from a shark attack"
Dude, you're more likely to die from anything than from a shark attack
Hell, you're more likely to die from eating a taco than from a shark attack.
Sharks need to step up their game.

[CGKey]

The overall quality and production of Vsauce3 is just too impressive, how many people work on Vsauce3??

[Manabender]

0:55 Someone screwed up their units.

Jake says 28, 600 MPH. Text says 46, 027.2 km/s. That's just...what? Those are so far apart it's crazy.

ACTUAL conversion: 28, 600 MPH would be about equal to 12, 800 m/s or 46, 000 km/h, both rounded to 3 sig-figs. Although, without rounding, you get 46, 027.2 km/h...so there's your error.

Just to play around with it some more, 46, 027.2 km/s would convert to 1.66e8 km/h or 1.02e8 MPH. Also, it would be 15.35% the speed of light. A meteor that big going that fast would make the earth stop existing in a single piece and start existing in several thousand pieces.

The moral of the story is: GET YOUR UNITS RIGHT! (You kids in school wonder why you get docked for omitting units in your answer? There's why.)

[wacka.]

100% of all shark attacks happen in or near water






#PointlessStats

[NebulaCrisis]

It's scary but still amazing how powerless we are to the will of space.

[darkgenie]

If theres a crater after a meteor where does the meteor go

[Smokey]

This new "extreme science" is intriguing.

[tuddthetotodile]

Ceres is my favorite celestial body in our solar system, I’m so glad he mentioned it!

[ainoaguy]

SOMEBODY BUY ME JAKE'S GALAXY TSHIRT THANKS

[ttrain]

Love the video... Is this the set for the time travel paradox video?

[diegoasales]

I need that t-shirt!!!! Where can I buy one?

[AsitorCorporation]

What would happen if the moon at a few miles an hour crashed into Earth? Would it maintain it's shape or would it crumble, and how so would it react? I'm almost certain everything would be killed from their two gravities pulling everything together.

Say that it was just placed touching the earth somewhere in a desert, would we be able to jump in the air and stay up for longer if we were near it from it's pull?

I don't know who is interrested in this?

[Addisonmoreno]

"This episode is going to be a little bit different." Jake all your videos are different and unique, which is why I love them :D