minutephysics - 2013-11-25
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After seeing this, it's almost a wonder that the GPS works so well.
tacka sverige, världens bästa land för geniet håkan lans.
@otto hammar Why? As far as I can tell he didn't play any part in the development of GPS. His STDMA patent was filed a couple of decades after GPS was developed in 1973.
Those dislikes are people who believe the earth is flat
My house is 396ft above sea level
Just when i thought it was simple 😁😂
@Smeetheens are you dumb, its clearly a green magician's deck of cards, not a teapot orbiting between Earth and Mars.
@Lester Cabillan no, they dont
@natt tomes no
Sea level is y=64
And the earth is a cylinder
nah mate its y=63.
i cant believe people still play minecraft, it seems like ages ago when i stopped. even longer since i started.
@carlo wagner add 0 to 42 you're high
When I played, it was 62.
Then again I last played 5 years ago lol
I though it was sicsors 69
Just when you thought it was simple ...
So this is why Mount Everest is only 8848 instead of 8872 meters high?
Iwer Sonsch 8848 above sea level i guess
He lost me half way through
(-.-) seriously
Lol 😁 😁
You heard that,guys. Earth is not flat.
What does 'flat' mean in fact?
I'm a surveyor I will guarantee you no surveyor ever accounts for curvature. No pilot ever accounts for curvature or spin.
@Marchiz Productions No, ITS A......
pOtAtO.
Dah
I'm from Sri Lanka and I started floating when you said Sri Lanka has a weaker gravity. :)
Lol 😂😂
im hi, how are you
Honestly though flat earthers
Tharindu Gayan lamao 😂 Give my love to Sangakara 🔥❤♨️
Its lies
Wow! I'm more confused about this now than I was before I watched.
What about 3b1b physics videos??
@cptstubing Haha...Sadly that is the way of most folks in the world...and that is exactly why you don't see a bunch of geodesists running around.
Same
@Ty Bushnell i think you are a science student. But what about others who juat want to know this fact randomly as they might have seen those boards mentioning this much meters above sea level
Same here, he just said a whole lot of nothing I understood lol
“The earth isn’t flat”
*several people are typing*
You have no idea how true this is
Does that mean if Mount Everest was made of styrofoam, it be more above sea level because the sea would be lower around it?
We should just hollow out Mount Everest so it gets taller.
all 531 of them from around the globe
this was meant for the comment below
Wow yeah!
Turn everything into styrofoam: best way to stop floods
Clicked on this thinking the answer was obvious.
Mind blown!
Real Ocean Shave Curves? What does that even mean?
😂😂😂😂 like “real women have curves”
@Chanchi its real oceans have curves
Who would have thought water sitting on a rock could be so gosh darn complicated lol...
We are a little bit more then a rock lol, but totally get what you're saying
on a rock thats like kinda round but not really because its spinning, but it wouldnt even be round if it weren't spinning, and which has a fluctuating sea level and an unconstant gravity direction...
p cool huh
So... what is sea level?
Average height of the sea? Or did I miss something...
@Michael Jackson also known as reality.
@JoL
Average high from where?
I did not realize that it was so complicated, i never thought it would take a bunch if brilliant people to figure it out
@AwkwardHandshaking Why did you have to take me so seriously?
Because you tried and failed at insulting me
@AwkwardHandshaking I wasn't trying to insult you...It was a joke.
You say brilliant I say Wicked
Only believe what you see and what you feel. You are a fool if you don't
It's nice to know people a lot smarter than me are doing extremely complicated things to make my life more convenient, even if it's just the sea level.
I did physics in high school. My grades were below sea level.
@Tridecalogism My grades were below dead sea level
I'm dead.
This was a lot more complicated then I thought it would be 0.o
O_o Woah.
I like this one...
Wow never realized we needed yet another area of science just to get a nice reading from our phone gps... neat
1:35 "On top of that there are the pesky things called continents..." PUN INTENDED?
He said so
Everytime I watch these videos, I end up with more questions than answers. Which is exactly why I love these videos!!
how you bold a word? and same here
Add asterisks. It G+ now, same rules apply. underscore for italics and hypen for strikethrough
thanks man.
testing ehehhe
As someone who studied in this field in university for 5 years, I was very happy he made a video about it and that as I type this comment the video is very near [less than 4,000] 1 million views. :D
He did quite a fine job explaining this within a 2m50s time frame. I think I know how others must have felt when he uploaded videos specific to their fields of work. I wanted him to keep talking! Haha.
I've always wondered about the whole concept of sea level as the base line for measuring geographic height. This was very informative. Thank you :)
MY HEAD!!! IT HURTSS
Cuz it's ballshit
@Tornado tornado
It's ballshit, it goes round and round, and it doesn't say a fucking thing..
@César Omar Raudales
No one knows shit I believe ... we are in 2018 soon in 2019 and people fighting on earth If its flat or glob . And oil and if we went to the moon and if Obama was a clone of Ben laden ... just smoke weed bro because no one knows shit
42 kilometers farther...
Isn't it a bit strange?
OMG THE ANSWER TO LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING!!
Now this is the MinutePhysics I prefer. Although this was more like MinuteEarth. No matter what channel this video would have been uploaded to I enjoyed it.
I still don't get it.
stargirl me either 😩😩
Me too
I.. I had no idea...
Audible: Providing Audiobooks and damn near every popular science show on YouTube.
Or at least the ones I watch.
Wow, I'm so glad I watched this. I had no idea it was this complicated
Wow...That's exactly the right word...
@Nahodakk
By that thinking, scientists need to be virgins so we can actually become more advanced.
02:06 When you discover an odd job you never would have imagined... and then you're like "oh.. so this job is useful"
3:10
It's extremely unlikely that this list of 100 ones and zeroes is random.
For any given random list of binary states with n elements, there is very likely going to be a run of the same state consecutively, of size log[base 2](n) or greater (round down). For example, in a random list of 32 ones and zeroes, there's likely to be a spot where you see 5 ones or 5 zeros. In a list of 100, you'd expect a run of 6, but the longest run is 4.
Of course, it's still possible that it was randomly generated. That's the thing about randomness; you can never really know.
+Manabender It's unlikely, but extremely unlikely is perhaps a bit of an overstatement. To make a very broad estimation, by my calculation the chance of having not a single run of 5 ones or 5 zeroes should be a lot smaller than (30/32)^20 and a lot larger than (30/32)^96, or in other words, it's somewhere between 1 in 3.6 and 1 in 491 but not really close to either.
That's a very wide margin, but my point is the chance is definitely significantly larger than 0.2%, which I would not call extreme.
My mind hurts. But it's a good hurt.
Wow! I never would have thought how much work has gone into this seemingly intuitively simple concept - sea level!
Scientists of all kinds - the uncelebrated heroes of our civilization, just doing their work.
Same here xD
"Uncelebrated"?
@MangoTec
Like a unsung hero.
@Jar Head AN* unsung hero.
Wow thanks guys, this is awesome. I honestly thought sea level was a fixed scale, but this is really mindblowing, great job!
Called creatively Earth Gravitational Model' got me 😂
I watched this ten times and I'm more confused than ever
Hahahaha... SRI LANKA!!!! Beaches with lowest gravity.... :')
haha :P, maybey people get a little bit less tired because of that :PPP
@Seyone Gunasingham me too :D
What a mess!
Yet we Sri Lankans are short..
+Big Boss Nah we arent
Yes. Our average male height is 164-165 cm. World height average is 185cm.
+Jathu We definitely are, mate.
http://www.averageheight.co/average-male-height-by-country/
You can sort by height and see.
API BATTO
O yes Dilhara Fernando used to play from Germany.
Flattard: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
0:25
Flat earthers:- *triggered *
This is really interesting...
...
also... once again, it's one of those things that now I know, but still can't use in my life, not even in a random discussion (unless I will start it) XD
.BETMARK
0:59 Chimborazo Volcano, arrecho mi Ecuador!!
"geodetic science"
awww yeaaaaa....i was hoping to learn a new word.
This was an awesome video. I had previously thought that sea level was a simple concept but this opened me up to a new world. Thanks,
uh...I think I'm both less and more confused from when I first clicked on this video lol
well... am I the only one who was like.. i got 1/3 watched of the video, but after that i stopped thinking and my brain turned off :D
hahahaha
me to
Flat Earthers dislike knowledge
And don't vaccinate their children
years later and a question forms.
what happens when we measure when the mountain is entirely gone? not just the land, but the gravity as well?
Phoenixspin - 2015-10-25
I thought sea level was the level of the sea. Silly me.
Shcade YT - 2019-07-13
Sea lvl 1000
Dee Ess - 2019-07-14
Lvl 99
Oscar Ton - 2019-11-03
the sea's level is -1
it has a lot of pollution in it
TheFlatEarthChannel.com - 2019-12-10
Phoenixspin it’s fucking level. Down doesn’t change directions. Water fills the container not the exterior. All bullshit
Vasu Sharma - 2020-01-14
@Saina what the hell are you talking about 😌😌