SciShow - 2018-05-21
The mythical green flash at sunset isn't actually a myth! Stefan explains why it happens, and how you can see it. Hosted by: Stefan Chin Head to https://scishowfinds.com/ for hand selected artifacts of the universe! ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Jerry Perez, Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali. Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://aty.sdsu.edu/papers/Zenit/glance.html http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/redsun.html https://aty.sdsu.edu/index.html https://aty.sdsu.edu/papers/JOSA/GF-vis.html http://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/gf1.htm Media: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verne-Paprsek-fronti.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Big_green_flash.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Double_Green_Flash.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth%27s_atmosphere.svg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/light-refraction-gm468614557-34250250 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/rainbow-gm901545308-248717570 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/fata-morgana-gm177802588-24202206 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunset_mirage.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/a-fiery-red-sunrise-over-the-river-gm944028404-257896432 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iML72Jdhiuk
The Sun turns black if you stare at it long enough.
So does everything else you look at afterwards :P
Yes and not only the sun but everything will be black!
WOW IT WORKS!!
Cause if you stare it will burns your retina and make you blind
Once I looked into the Sun and now everything is black.
So when the Sun flashes green it's "awesome", when I flash Green hank takes out a restraining order on me
matthew stewart oh boy
😂🤣
yeah? but john's cool with it?
luciferangelica Yeah, johns a durty boy
matthew stewart
Actually a funny comment,
Not like all these Hanks and spam commenters
"Up is down... well that's just maddeningly unhelpful."
That's even more than less than helpful.
I was waiting for the PoC reference!
I’VE GOT A JAR OF DIRT
I saw a green flash from the coast of Oregon in the winter. I actually had a camera set up on a tripod in just case it happened. It was the most beautiful green I've ever seen. I immediately clicked the bulb. When I got my slides back from the developer, there was nothing but the sunset as it looked after the flash. So it lasted less than my reaction time.
The Green Flash sounds like The Flash’s newest super villain.
Or the lovechild of Hal Jordan and Barry Allen.
Better than Devoe
Yeah kinda. I think Cisco would be upset if he didn't get to pick the name though. 🙂 But now I kind of want the next villain to have that name.
Back when I was a kid doing bong hits, a green flash was what happened when you took too big a hit and your sinuses weren't clear.
I bet his supersuit is green and animated too.
- Ever gazed upon the green flash,
Master Gibbs?
- I reckon I seen my fair share.
Happens on rare occasion.
The last glimpse of sunset,
a green flash shoots up into the sky.
Some go their whole lives
without ever seeing it.
Some claim to have seen it who ain't.
And some say...
- IT SIGNALS WHEN A SOUL COMES BACK TO THIS WORLD, FROM THE DEEEAAADD
Sorry.
-Trust me, young Master Turner.
It's not getting to the land
of the dead that's the problem.
It's getting baaccckk.
Alistair Shaw And Down is Up.
Passes out the rum.
I'M TELLING THE STORY!!!
ThaTs tHE BeSt PiRATe IvE eVEr sEeN
Sunrise sets, flash of green.
Up is down
So Pirates of the Caribbean was right 😭
Wung Her du
Wung Her pirates of the carribean was right about a lot of things
Green Flash - The last lightbender.
1:36 took a moment, but I figured out why this is true after an incident of reflection
*claps*
Why this isn't top comment is a mystery to me.
The sun is secertly a part of the Green Lantern Force
Duwang Man The sun is Mogo's drinking buddy.
Lol
Yet another thing that can’t happen on a flat earth.
Stephen k. It would be cool if someone made a video listing all the stuff that wouldn’t be possible if Earth was flat. Just a bombardment of fact after fact after fact.
A sunset wouldn't be possible at all. Not in the world we know.
The Green Flash? sounds like a certain super fast hero just got a power ring of lanterns light :P
jak jak
Just an ordinary Flash, after he pledged to become carbon neutral by 2020.
dusk form lycanroc anyone? lol
Was looking for the pokemon reference. A+
That is literally the reason I looked up this video
2:30 second son heck more like nuclear blast on the horizon.
hahahahah
That's the work of an enemy stand
Eugene InLaw US bombing Japan
And here I was thinking my grandmother had messed up when she painted the sun like a mushroom cloud in her old painting.
I feel like now we need an episode about mirages...
"I reckon I seen my fair share. Happens on rare occasion. The last glimpse of sunset, a green flash shoots up into the sky. Some go their whole lives without ever seeing it. Some claim to have seen it who ain't. And some say—"
"It signals when a soul comes back to this world from the dead."
2:36 Looks like an atomic Bomb
I've never even heard of this phenomenon. Cool.
Well, this certainly sheds light on the topic
Abdel aziz habiba you can go now
Abdel aziz habiba I think that my favourite eggcorn is "to shade light on a matter".
Bah dum tsss!
Lol. Hank "Green". He is a flash of sunlight in Scishow.
Close enough
The phenomenon also appears in Pokémon: Sun and Moon as the catalyst of a rare evolution.
yes , did not realize it
refraction made rock ruff evolve into lycanroc
2:32 "Silly human!, now you must face my stand, green flashu!"
3:14 - 3:17 I really enjoy that you included real-time footage to provide an example for us all to see. Thanks for confirmation of scientific principles!
2:29 I can't believe it. Even here I still can't escape the Jojo's references.
I can hear Phil Jupitus now. "The sun", he weeps, "is not there."
2:34 It's look like a nuclear bomb explosion 💥
It signals when a soul comes back from the dead!
I've seen the sunrise version when going over a mountain range once thought it was just a figment of the imagination, I was tired and did not know it could happen at dawn.
Lycanroc.....
2:29 nah that’s just Russia testing its nukes again
2:30 Aaaaggh! It’s a nuke! Take cover!
Video: "Green Flash - Sixty Symbols" Brady Haran & Pete Lawrence filmed detailed stages of green flash in at the big observatory in Paranal, Chile.
Good video imho.
Saw the green flash when I was looking up at the sky one evening from my Jacuzzi when I was 12. Nobody ever believed me, I always thought it was aliens.
Happens in Hawaii nearly nightly
Been looking into the sun for years and I can't see anything :D
When I saw this I thought it was a nuclear bomb
"Mater Gibbs, ever gaze upon the green flash?"
Green lantern is secretly living there.
SciShow is one of my favorite things.
This is one of those videos that teaches you things you never knew you wanted to learn about.... but those are my favorite kind. Keep being awesome SciShow!
2:32
obligatory JoJoke
You were expecting a real joke; when it was me the Sun!
I’ve seen it with my own two eyes
Cool! I've never heard of this phenomenon before!
Yay I'm not crazy
Jules Verne had a book that involved this... One of his lesser works, I must say.
Well I think I know what I'll be doing this summer with my drones ;)
This makes me so happy
Thanks Captain Jack
Almost reminds me of the super saiyan forms.
SciShow - 2018-05-21
This episode was re-uploaded to fix an accidental mislabeling of the troposphere. Thank you for alerting us when we've made an error!
-Sarah Meismer (graphics)
Vantablack - 2018-05-22
like, i didnt even notice when i first watched it
Number237 - 2018-05-22
fix this one too:
"Violet" in electromagnetic wavelength sense is blue as in "roses are red violets are blue" not purple as shown here. There is no purple light. Purple is a mixture of red and blue light.
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Gyro Pollo - 2018-06-04
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It's reminds me of a pokemon that can be evolve from the sun's green ray
pete shea - 2020-02-28
you have the context completely wrong. once you change the context, it becomes more than obvious what is really happening. the visible horizon is not the real horizon. spherical earth thinking betrays truth.