CGP Grey - 2019-10-30
Main video: https://youtu.be/SumDHcnCRuU Mercury is the closest planet to all seven other planets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDgbVIqGADQ https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.3.20190312a/full/ Is Pluto a Planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_2gbGXzFbs Discuss on the reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/CGPGrey/comments/dp5tx6/which_planet_is_closest/
if anyone is interested: Grey is in Natural history museum in London
@Wol not any more - apparently it made too many people dizy and quesy
@David Watson that's not surprising! I hated it! 😂
Science museum not history
No, he’s in the science museum I am in their adverts 😂
I thought that lol ive been there its a great place
"which planet is closest"
thumbnail shows moon
me: confused noises
@Anonymous Fellow hell no 😂
There are two main proposed definitions for a moon vs binary planet system. First, some people recommend a comparing the ratio of mass between the two bodies, and if it meets some set threshold, it's a binary system or planet-moon system. The second definition is to use the barycenter of the system. If it lies inside one of the bodies, it a plant-moon. If it lies outside of both bodies, it's a binary system. The moon currently fails both definitions. However, the moon is very slowly drifting away from earth, which means eventually, at some point in the future, the barycenter will move out of the earth, making the earth-moon system a binary by at least the second definition.
@Michael Hodgden It's with reference to the stars as a background - the stars travel in fixed paths on human timescales, while the planets do not.
@DrSwib Definitely not. Earth is almost axially still, while the Moon does a complete orbit around Earth. It's a rather large satellite, but it's a satellite nonetheless. This is certainly not a Charon-Pluto relationship since the center of gravity of the Moon-Earth orbit is literally inside Earth.
well one can argue that the Earth and Moon are a Binary Pair of planets
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change” -Jay Atman
@Sean Monahan
Actually it was Max Planck (1918 Nobel prize in physics recipient) who originally said it.
When you spin a wheel the wheel starts to spin
@Void Gaming And yet the proverb you invented is not false. "As how can you love if you don't love yourself?" it's what you are saying. Which is something not a lot of people do (loving one self, yet a crutial part to be happy).
Logically speaking, the saying is kinda if (A->B) then (B->A). And this is logical nonsense and you can find better examples.
Like, if you put water in your bucket, you should put bucket in your water.
If you put fish in your pan, then you must put a pan in your fish.
logical nonsense
Remember, Perception Is Reality.
*Looks at change intensively
You missed "Which planet is closest, at this exact moment?"
@Seal Pup jeez so aggressive, calm down
@Åland Mapping Nah, This is aggressive, my previous statement was quite friendly, YOU calm down.
@Seal Pup I interpreted it as satirical insulting, which can be objectively considered aggressive. If that was not your intent then I apologize for misinterpreting your previous statement.
@Åland Mapping erebody gangsta til a baby seal and a land mapin get in an almost fight
@That One Guy lmao
2:51 imagine being at the national history museum and you just see a guy facing the wrong way on an escalator recording his shoulder while talking about philosophical shit to himself
I'm wondering if he just recorded himself walking and then recorded the talking later and overlapped the new sound with the old video.
@Joshua Rellick That's definitely what is sounds like, as I'd expect more background noise were the audio recorded on location.
@Thermal Ions well if he had a mic on him, then the background noise would be minimal
I have discovered my aesthetic, and it's a glowing, house-sized, detailed model of the moon suspended a meter above my head.
Q: Which planet is closest?
A: Earth, it's right there under my feet.
(Sorry.)
The sports guy when I’m in your mom I’m probably the closest person to her except a few weeks ago that was pretty wild.
@Swamp Donkey Isn't it past your bedtime?
@warmschnee even if you do not jump, you're not touching earth at the molecular level due to electron electron repulsion
The closest planet is the imaginary planet used to say something such as "They're in their own planet" because I am infinitely close to that planet, it being a portion of my brain, which is than the distance between the two closest atoms to each other in myself and the earth
Genius
Somehow CGP's addendum videos are more interesting than most channels main content
Kind of reminds me of Tom's talk
And that knowledge leads me to an interesting question: Why, despite ringing the bell, was I not notified of this video's existence?
Yes. It is great
Do you mean that an average video on CGP's addendum is more interesting than an average most channels' main content video? Or that the most interesting video on CGP's addendum is more interesting that the most interesting main video?
Ikr
"which planet's orbit is closest to earth's?" is probably what people mean
Yeah, it all depends on how one define “the closest”. Mine was always the average distance between the orbits. IMO this is just a common sense that mercury spends the most of its time being closer to earth compared to Venus because of its much shorter orbital period.
That question has a helluva lot more parts if you take even a second to dig into what the hell it even means geometrically.
The answer is Earth, which can get as close as 0 km and as far as 0 km, with an average distance of 0 km.
@Kofi Mills' Videos it has the same answer as question 1 (Venus) which Grey acknowledges is what most people are probably asking. But then you’re asking about the distances between planets, you’re asking about the distance between paths traced by planets
@Chris Z clown
Grey hand writing Lorem Ipsum text five seconds in for a short clip needs more recognition.
Grey walking into the international space station: "guys can I just grab a quick look at mercury"
The astronauts: "wtf"
Mmm, yes, “walking”
"How the hell did you get here?"
@ThePCguy17 rocket go brr
“Sound like a completely different person” *proceeds to sound exactly the same
The two sections of the video doe sound noticeably different.
I feel like if I saw his arm and in public I feel like I’d recognize him as that’s all I’ve ever known.
I feel like you might also recognize him because he's talking in the CPG voice and wearing the CPG logo on his chest though
There are ways to see his face. You need to use a little brain power, but you can find it.
If you want to ruin it for yourself you can, but suggest you don't, Google image him.
or you know, the logo on his jacket
ander jr wtf
"Thanks for getting old models out of my head" ----Is an interesting sentence
Brilliant. 60 years of being a space nerd and this never occurred to me. Thanks.
Can't count the times I've said "don't know enough to ask a good question". Oh well...
This is the first time I’ve seen “re:” in a video title and it being someone just praising something else
0:03 Did you seriously just write the standard "Lorem ipsum" dummy text by hand just for this video?
0:06 He also made up a few corrections (the red ink). In sample-text Latin. For the sake of a few frames. What a legend.
I translated ipsum loram on google translate thru like 10 languages and this is what i got:
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in conclusion
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Works quoted
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Thats why he’s the best.
@Aereto I was bored and wanted to see if it was hard to convert from letters to ASCII then binary, to octal in my head for anything I'm writing.
It kinda stuck.
@pesadjo you cant because its not the text
tablet he was writing on dont know this is text, for it its just drawings
tablet only knows something is text when you write it with keyboard (wether screen keyboard or physical one)
Whenever we discussed which planet was closest growing up I always thought of it as which planet's orbit is closet to our planet's orbit, which as orbits aren't perfectly circular could still lead to other answers with some planets, but was still a better question imo than which planet is closest in general as that varies whereas the orbits vary much less.
Where are you at in this video? That looks like a neat museum.
The Natural History Museum in London.
@History Nut I need to visit London sometime.
Imagine this question on a test (short answer) and having to write pretty much an essay explaining why the answer you put down is the correct one even though it’s totally not the answer the teacher intend
"You're not thinking 4th dimensionally"
I feel that there should be a 5th part too: which planet is closest to earth right now.
Right here, right now
@Jørgen Kalsnes Hagen the answer to that would be Mercury also because the other planets' greatest distance is when they're on the opposite side of the Sun
Aleksandra Burger-Roy Mercury is in retrograde.
Hasn’t Jshlatt already said?
Which is a stupid idea since it will not stay true :D
Right now, Mars.
Seeing the moon in the thumbnail, I almost thought this was going to be a video about how the ESA, Asimov, and others have argued for recognition that the Moon is not actually a moon but rather Earth's partner in a binary planet system.
I always thought of the 'closest' planet being the planet that it takes the least amount of fuel to reach, which now that I think about it, probably isn't linear either when you take into account gravitational slingshotting
"The universe awaits with more knowledge for you to find" is the kind of sentence that gives me chills. Great videos!
1:21 really bugs me: why is Venus not even close to being the second closest to Jupiter? Doesn't the geometric effect with Mercury generalize to other pairs of planets like Venus vs Mars?
I think it actually is — these aren’t just top 3 lists, they’re more like comparisons between Mercury and the planets that are “seemingly close” to the given planet.
@KasabianFan44 thanks for the "confirmation"
I love how all of his recommended videos are just BOTW episodes
I love the Natural History Museum in London, I used to live right next to it.
Whenever someone asks which planet is closest, I have always thoughtabout it in terms of distance between orbits...
Love the “almost vlogs” keep it up grey
I definitely interpret “which planet is the closest to earth”, without a time frame, as “which planet ever gets the closest to earth”.
Also really bummed by the lack of the other dwarf planets in these videos; if you’re including Pluto then at least include a few others.
Fun fact : Your whole childhood was a lie
“Get a physics degree” I did that but it didn’t help haha
Fascinatingly enough, the order of the planets in the Geocentric model is:
the Moon
*Mercury
Venus
the Sun
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
lol
don't worry, i'm just well read
@RiverMund Catradora I didn't really think you we're a geocentrist don't worry.
But it is an interesting fact.
sun closer than mercury no?
mim zim they could see the transits of mercury and Venus across the sun, so they knew it was farther than those two
Does it matter how some people incorrectly model a system?
"Which planet is closest to Earth?"
"Venus"
QI Klaxon Sounds
@robin morrison It already has! ;)
@Talhah Hussain what
@Talhah Hussain what
@Jon Carlo Soriano
- Alan Davies
-Comedy
You're going to have to pick one, pal.
A BLUE WHALE!
"In my old video about pluto, where I sound like a completely different person" Wow I love that he is aware of how his voice or narrating ability changes
I always though that "wich planet is closest?" implied distance to the orbital radius and i dont think thats a failed assumption to make. If people want to be more specific they can just explain further AND people that assume things can just be open to the fact that several interpretations is possible.
Nobody talks hyperspecific anyway in their normal life.
seems like "Venus' orbit is the closest to Earth's orbit" is about as close to "Venus is the closest planet to Earth" that we can get
"Model-induced blindness" is one of the topics discussed in "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Kahneman
Me: How to pronounce "Uranus"?
CGP: lol get a Physics degree
I would pronounce it You-ran-us to avoid stupid jokes
@Dumb Comment That's what I meant. (Are you trying to live up to your name?)
@Dan Schwartz wait ...what I didn't see your comment I just click the reply on the top without clicking the "read more comment" button
@Dumb Comment OK. I've said this before, I wish there was a way to get notified only when someone responds directly to your comment, and not about all comments added to a thread.
@Dan Schwartz YouTube acting dumb
So here's the thing, I'd tend to think about "who's the closet" in terms of orbits. It makes the line work.
I remember when my dad would take me to that museum when i was really young. The earthquake simulator thing always terrified me
When we generally ask The question, we actually mean closest to the Earth's orbit.
Knowledge yields questions, and those questions yield knowledge.
"My responses are limited. You must ask the right questions."
Did anyone else mispronounce the title as “Which planet is the closet”?
I've always understood this question to mean "Which planet is closest at perihelion? What is the planet's closest approach to Earth?" With that precise meaning (which is the natural meaning people assume), the answer is Venus. Which you state in question 1 in the video. The other questions are interesting, but not what people assume or mean.
The Moon, duh!
DunnoAUsername Dunno - 2019-10-31
can't believe he actually went to mercury for this video
HDTomo - 2020-12-26
@Dankster and because you hate a term that says you didnt get the joke your also an idiot
Dankster - 2020-12-26
@HDTomo ??? Hayk3000 made an extension to the OP’s post and 3 people didn’t get his joke and wooshed him when in reality they were the ones being wooshed. If you had more than 5 braincells you would have understood it. Perhaps you’re as dumb as those three.
You’re*
Torian Caldwell - 2021-01-03
@hayk3000 Not agree. They liked your comment because they got someone to laugh at for taking the internet too seriously. Also, heat of the sun is one of many ways you would die on Mercury.
CuddlyBubbles 69 - 2021-01-08
@minecraft_steve its wooosh with 3 o’s
Alden Heino - 2021-03-11
@hayk3000 r/woooosh