5 EARTH FACTS THAT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND! QI With Stephen Fry & Sandi Toksvig

 Stephen Fry asks a series of Earth questions but those answers aren't as simple as they may seem! From the shape of the Earth - to how many oceans and moons does earth actually have... all will be revealed! Did you know these 5 facts about the Earth?
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[@ViperRulerlm]

That moment when you realize that there's probably more people who believe that the Earth is flat today than there were in the 1400s.

[@metacarple]

If the earth were flat, cats would have pushed everything overbthe edge by now.

[@RevolutionibusOrbiumCoelestium]

If you think back to the 1400’s and assume there were a few village idiots who believed in a flat earth. Proportionately there are far more people alive today than in the 1400’s so proportionately about the same number of idiots.

[@frankiebaxter2590]

thats because flat earth is an antisemitic conspiracy theory - one of many which come from the 18th/19th century

[@RubberyCat]

@@metacarple * laughs heartily * ^_^

[@JoRiver11]

@@RevolutionibusOrbiumCoelestium The key difference being that back then there was a lack of proper education for the working class. The people today have no excuse.

[@calliarcale]

The main reason astronomers resist calling the Earth-Moon system a double planet is the fact that the barycenter of the system is comfortably deep within the Earth. Now, Pluto-Charon is another matter. People got all upset about Pluto being "demoted" to dwarf planet, but it's far more interesting to call it a double planet. Unlike the Earth-Moon system, the barycenter of the Pluto-Charon system is in open space between the two bodies.

[@iluvdissheet]

Thanks for the explanation 👍🏾

[@TheGreatAtario]

The dangerous part of this criterion is that the barycenter of the Sun-Jupiter system is outside the surface of the sun! So we might end up having to promote Jupiter in some way…

[@ceaser500]

The only thing flatearthers fear is sphere itself

[@AdamMGTF]

The only thing more common than flat earthers is that joke... 🙄

[@X3105i]

@@AdamMGTF Oh come on its a good joke

[@ClepsidraSideral]

That joke is so common, it's not funny anymore.

[@X3105i]

@@ClepsidraSideral Its still punny

[@ceaser500]

@@AdamMGTF No what's common is you darling.

[@weckar]

The earth actually has about 40 million Poles by now. Most of them are in Poland.

[@DrewskiTheLegend]

Heh

[@casperhiscock4871]

Adolf as you rightly say, Hit as you pointed out, Ler thought there should be no poles

[@iain860]

Used to load frozen transport containers. They all had signs inside stating "No Poles Allowed!' Nearly all had scrawls underneath along the lines of "or Estonians, Latts, French....." etc.

[@kenmendoza6932]

Hah! Gottem'

[@dylanroper6446]

The rest are in Ireland.

[@MFCSte]

Stephen Frys wit gets me; Do I read books, yes. Have I visited every star in the universe? No

[@Anonymous-wq1rf]

He obviously has not read the 'Discworld' text books that explain exactly how a flat world works as well as a considerable appreciation of the 'Art of Magik'!

[@lugialover09]

"What'd you eat?" "Food." "Oh, food."

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

I like how he said it as if "food" was just the first thing they ate. It sounded like a list, and food was just the first item on the list.

[@andrewcox6120]

Good

[@InformationIsTheEdge]

10:52 Right after Alan says, "I like powdered custard." that look on Sandi's face is priceless!

[@NickC-Ohio]

4:50 "I tried it and it was a disaster." Stephen is so hilarious he will always be my favorite.

[@matthewsawczyn6592]

6:40 - What a humble man. So down to earth (all the way at the bottom, to be exact)

[@Azivegu]

And that chick behind him had the hots for him.

[@brmbkl]

@@Azivegu yeah, that chick is his proud daughter, probably. (or sister, he has that undeterminable age) look at the faces surrounding him, that's his family

[@MarcoTalin12]

"... he blames Washington Irving, the American writer ..." [Camera cut to Rich Hall as an example of an American]

[@brianmacgabhann5630]

Any two orbiting objects rotate around a common point known as the Barycentre. If the two objects are of equal mass then the barycentre will be exactly midpoint between them. If one object has a greater mass then the barycentre will be more towards that object, and the greater the difference in mass between the two objects the more the barycentre will move towards the more massive of the two objects. The generally accepted definition of a satellite is an object where the barycentre is contained entirely within the larger body. As the barycentre of the moon-earth system lies entirely within the Earth, (about 4,700 km below the surface), the moon meets the official definition of a satellite. In order for it to be classified as a binary planetary system the barycentre would need to be outside either body.

[@anxiousproductions9183]

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[@wint3rsmith42]

A mention of the great Terry Jones who sadly died today.

[@leodb3894]

‘I like powdered custard’

[@nirmalsuki]

me too

[@madman2u]

More likely acid, if not water. Not a good place for a bath, should be able to take the trip.

[@colinp2238]

@@madman2u Or icould also be alkaline water because of salts?

[@macnutz4206]

Useful stuff, custard powder, says the cook.

[@weckar]

The moment poor Alan hit dementia.

[@djfussell1987]

The ironically funny thing is that the joke answers they give to the earth shape being flat are legitimate answers and arguments flat earthers use in serious sincerity in their arguments 😂

[@mattnar3865]

they knew that and did it to annoy Stephen, he definitely got a bit more stern looking as that conversation flowed

[@hayreddinbarbarossa661]

I love the temper brewing in Stephen as bill and Allan poke the bear about the world being flat.

[@AJSZodiac]

I honestly want the last ever answer on Qi to be "Blue Whale" or maybe "How many moons does the earth have?"

[@Your.Uncle.AngMoh]

If the earth was flat, cats would have pushed everything off by now!

[@gregoryashton]

You stole that comment! I’ve seen it elsewhere in KZbin comments with thousands of likes 😏

[@Allexstrasza]

@@gregoryashton You stole my response

[@thunderbearcourage]

If you can see Venus at night then the Heliocentric model is not right.

[@ozymandias1192]

thunder bear courage Stop spreading your bullshit on every comment

[@austenhead5303]

@@thunderbearcourage Ok, I'll bite. Why is the heliocentric model not right if you can see Venus at night?

[@WillRennar]

Q: How many moons does the Earth have? A: Blue Whale! *[DOUBLE KLAXON]*

[@bennylloyd-willner9667]

As the number changes by scientists changing the definition, who knows - it might be true in the future 😊

[@NoisqueVoaProduction]

I would love a compilation of classic wrong answers. I always laugh at them.

[@Jivvi]

Q: How many blue whales does the Earth have? A: Fish [CONFUSED KLAXON]: THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A FISH

[@merlinious01]

Seems like the bust would be the coolest thing to steal. One of a kind, historically significant, no one would notice for years.

[@chaos.corner]

All property is theft. So I'm stealing this bust.

[@merlinious01]

@@chaos.corner I'm not sure what "All property is theft" is about, and i don't condone stealing. But if you take it I think it would be pretty funny.

[@chaos.corner]

@@merlinious01 It's from Proudhon but I'm actually referencing "The Young Ones" where Vyv steals Rick's purse.

[@TheHutchy01]

"Where did you get that massive bust of Lenin and why have you kept it?"

[@merlinious01]

@@TheHutchy01 Found it. Some dumbass just left it out in the snow!

[@hcAdonis]

The look Bill Bailey gives Alan at 5:00 when Fry makes that weird joke about the letter from a viewer LOL

[@Laudon1228]

This year (2020) the world _is_ pear-shaped. 😢

[@TheTruthKiwi]

Stephen is an absolute treasure

[@legendofFranktheTank]

i love how he jokingly makes all the points that flat earthers nowadays make in earnest

[@SamuelThomasFraser]

I'm sure the drivers in New Zealand, as they see the full moon shining in the night sky, are reassured to know... that it's NOT THEEEERE.

[@Karma-qt4ji]

Mira-a-a-age!

[@thunderbearcourage]

If you can see Venus at night, then the Heliocentric model is not right.

[@28russ]

@thunder bear courage You keep making this comment. Are you try to say the is flat or something?

[@camogrrl]

I’m a kiwi too. Tomorrow’s gonna be quite nice by the way

[@codyhannahmary83]

@@camogrrl how was last week?

[@logix8969]

"If it's water... we don't know what--it could be custard" The sheer randomness, immediate imagery and David's dead serious delivery... the idea that a moon could be coated in a man-made(?) food product (question mark because it wouldn't be man-made if it was on a moon that we cant even get to)... does it mean that custard is not our own invention? What other foods already exist in the universe that we think we made up? We must investigate this further xD

[@Lucifronz]

He's not saying it *is* custard, he's just saying we don't know it *isn't* custard. I want to live in a world where it is, though. Mmm... custard.

[@tarantulaguy1998]

“6, I can count them” *KLAXON* I lost it, idk why 🤣🤣🤣

[@alexroxhissox]

The southern expeditionist Rupert Longstone I think they said. He looks kind of quiet and posh/nerdy. Humble. That quiet bloke in the audience there is hardier than more or less any bloke that any of us are likely to have met. I find people like him fascinating. Everest climbers are another example; ultimate endurance fitness; unbreakable mental fortitude, fearless in the face of possible (if not probable) death or injury. And yet they all without fail appear as bank managers or estate agents.

[@jparky1972]

Lol. You are right. As soon as they showed him I thought ... "He looks like an arctic explorer." Lol

[@treehousekohtao]

I missed the days when Stephen had a huge pile of cards.

[@DeniseF]

"Have I read books? Yes!.. have i visited every star in the universe? No!" Lol

[@mathewfullerton8577]

Has he read EVERY book? No. So there could be a book from medieval times that says the Earth is flat. For Mr. Fry, that is one of his most poorly argued points.

[@samuellawrencesbookclub8250]

@@mathewfullerton8577 So few books survive from the middle-ages that - within Fry's lifetime - it would be perfectly possible to read them.

[@jeremymiller9582]

In fact, the moon is a “planetary-mass object,” that in addition to the names “Moon” & “Luna” can also be called Earth I (as the natural object orbiting most closely in the “Earth” system). The IAU does not consider the moon a planet, though some astronomers argue, for various reasons, that it is. Given the recent instability of the IAU’s definitions, this may be subject to change.

[@Valandar2]

"Laxative Roulette" sounds like something that happens on long field excercises in the Army and Marines...

[@MySerpentine]

The ancient Greeks knew about how large the Earth was, too.

[@ProbablyFarting]

And that it had a chewy nougat center.

[@IndecentExposure.]

But they didn't know what constitutes a suspiciously oversized wooden horse?

[@Daniel-mi6gd]

Yet there are people who believe the earth is flat

[@MySerpentine]

@@IndecentExposure. That was the Trojans. And a myth. :D

[@IndecentExposure.]

@@MySerpentine the Trojans were inside and killed the Greeks? No more myth than any religion

[@hannahk1306]

Fun fact: Mr Bird invented Bird's custard powder in the Victorian era because his wife was allergic to eggs (and presumably wanted custard). It then caught on because it was so much more convenient than proper custard.

[@christophermccutcheon2143]

Hate that stuff. Used to like it when I was a kid, but I think once you taste real custard you realise they don't even compare

[@erictaylor5462]

"what did you eat?" "food"

[@rosehill9537]

Right after "was it cold?"

[@Sam_on_YouTube]

Yes, every star is round. Everything gravitationally bound enough to ignite nuclear fussion is also dense enough to collapse into roughly a sphere. And the difference between the Earth and a true sphere is very very slight. It is hard to even build a sphere on Earth that is closer to perfect than the Earth. The deviations are tiny compared to its massive size.

[@thunderbearcourage]

The Earth is not a planet. Proving flat Earth is really simple. Infrared video shore to shore over ocean water at least ten miles apart. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bV7TiYqIo8SqnM0 and kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqSpp4KJgsahjpIdone. (If that part of the ocean is flat then all of the ocean is flat. If the ocean is flat then the Earth is flat.)

[@frederickj.7136]

"Proof" [sic] to right wing political-religious trolls, maybe; but to non-idiots... 😂

[@thunderbearcourage]

@@frederickj.7136 i am not religious or right wing. i base this knowing on real science not quack superstition or belief in cartoon balls or proven liars like NASA. Get rid of your religions belief in the globe and embrace real science. Go ahead and try to disprove the flat Earth, i dare you. You can't. All you will succeed in doing is proving the globe model wrong. If you can see Venus at night, then the Heliocentric model is not right.

[@ozymandias1192]

thunder bear courage Good job spewing out bullshit and then more bullshit, The earth is flat if you can convince yourself it is. Why can’t you see beyond the horizon line, why do ships appear top up and disappear bottom down. Why hasn’t there been any actual proof of the flat earth? It’s conspiracy for the sake of conspiracy

[@exo4rcist3]

@@thunderbearcourage Eratosthenes. Please read up on him and his work. This is not with the help of any telescopes or modern atrophysics equipment. This is in ancient Greece, lived around ~300-200BC~, conducted experiments using rudimentary methods (by today's standards). It's not technical jargon, very simple and easily understood. Read with an open mind. It's a strange conspiracy to claim that people are only believing what they are told by Nasa or whatever, when a man 2300 years ago, applying basic experimental science came to the same conclusion that we know today to be true.

[@sheldonpoisson]

At 12:55 , the toughest old South African flag to replace.

[@nintendogamer4703]

(Genuine question) Do you think this video can be flagged as hate speech now?

[@bentheswitchsportsfan06]

This channel: uploads earth stuff *Flat-earthers have joined the chat*

[@user-jl7ym4en5b]

Alan is SO underrated. He is the spine of the show in both the Frye & Sandy years. I hope he makes buckets of $ 🙂

[@ProfRonconi]

I don't thnk he's underrated at all, judging from the reception he gets from the audience every time. He's just playing a role, and he does it wonderfully.

[@yamanmustafa7574]

Who's Frye?

[@ProfRonconi]

@@yamanmustafa7574 Fry (not "Frye") is Stephen Fry. One of the world's treasures, and certainly the UK's . He's the one asking the questions. Of course, I may have misunderstood your question. Perhaps you just wanted to point out a misspelling. In that case, I only halfheartedly apologise, because it wasn't anywhere near being "quite interesting".

[@hanreality.7266]

Just googled his net worth - a cool £3 million. Which is a very expensive net.

[@NotAnAustralianEngineer]

I adore the idea of an Earth-Moon binary system. It just seems so much cooler

[@NotAnAustralianEngineer]

@@UncommonSense-wm5fd Just leave it, mate. I just said I liked the idea. Thats all

[@NotAnAustralianEngineer]

@@UncommonSense-wm5fd Not trying to say it does, pal. How about we both relax and go out own ways, yeah? I'm not here to start an argument.

[@ElMoShApPiNeSs]

@@NotAnAustralianEngineer If you didn't want to start an argument there was no need to reply.

[@mekothefreako838]

That actually did blow my mind. Who thought there wasn’t a moon?

[@RIXRADvidz]

I've known we were co-planets since the 1960's. yeah, I'm Olde.

[@hanreality.7266]

Wait... THERE’S A MOON?..

[@peterclarke7240]

That's no moon. It's a SPACE STATION!!!

[@imraanwadiwala]

The Soviets putting a statue of Lenin in the middle of the South Pole makes me imagine a parallel universe where the Soviets made it to the moon first and did the same there.

[@Lord_Skeptic]

It is not the south Pole it is the antarctic pole of inaccessibility. Pole of inaccessibility means the point of land that is furthest from the sea or the point in the sea furthest from land.

[@AmarthwenNarmacil]

Reminds me of that joke: American Astronaut on the moon: "Houston, we have a problem. The Russians were here first and painted the moon red. What should we do?" Houston : "Allright, allright.... Do you have white paint? Astronaut: "Yes, why?" Houston: "Just write 'Coca Cola' in huge letters."

[@rob28803]

I don't think "round" means "perfectly spherical", it just means approximately ball shaped. So Earth is both round, and an oblate spheroid.

[@zdcyclops1lickley190]

While "radius" normally is a characteristic of perfect spheres, the Earth deviates from spherical by only a third of a percent, sufficiently close to treat it as a sphere in many contexts and justifying the term "the radius of the Earth".

[@ProfRonconi]

@@zdcyclops1lickley190 Exactly. If that small deviation was sufficient to call the Earth "not round", then most volleyballs, footballs, golf balls and tennis balls wouldn't be round either.

[@MrPoopnoddy]

@@ProfRonconi Even snooker/pool balls wouldn't be round; the Earth is more spherical than almost anything we can make.

[@ProfRonconi]

@@MrPoopnoddy Not really. Let's consider the largest convex irregularity above sea level, Mount Everest. Let's say it's 8 km high. The radius of the Earth is about 6370 km. Therefore, the percentage error in roundness for Mount Everest is 0.12%, which is a lot by modern machining standards. For example, it would mean that a 1 cm ball-bearing ball could be out by 1.25 microns.

[@ProfRonconi]

@Cara Salusc I agree: most commonly used "balls" are less perfecttly round than the Earth, but he Earth is by no means "rounder than almost anything we can make". And there's no need for advanced technologies either: ball bearings have been around for a long time, and the manufacturing process is as crude as it gets.

[@heathergroves4497]

I can't believe no one asked Rupert if he "won" laxitive roulette!!

[@toffybatter1034]

Yes it was a shame that because they were all too preoccupied with waiting to hear the sound of their own voices

[@brantlambermont1657]

Toffy ...sigh

[@nocalsteve]

No one who “won” laxative roulette brings it up on national television

[@DarthBil1]

Goddamnit, did Bill Bailey start this flat Earth nonsense?

[@thunderbearcourage]

If you can see Venus at night then the Heliocentric model is not right.

[@MasterShakeXYZ]

@@thunderbearcourage Why, though?

[@toffybatter1034]

@@MasterShakeXYZ I know what it is Thunder Bore Cuntage wants to steal zee mooooooooo,ooooooon.

[@johnpliskin8759]

@@thunderbearcourage nope

[@jamesdeanlovespunk]

@@thunderbearcourage Don't be ridiculous. If you had even a child's spatial awareness you'd understand what nonsense you spout.

[@Eralen00]

referring to any natural satellite as a "moon" is somewhat of a misnomer. "Moon" aka "Luna" (Latin) aka "Selene" (Greek) is the 'proper name' for Earth's natural satellite (although they are often used as synonyms). It would be like calling other planets "Earths"

[@grizzlygamer8891]

I don't know. You don't call Luna "moon" do you, you call it The Moon, capitalized. It's like the difference between God and god.

[@thedudeabides3294]

Somehow I agree with both of you. Not sure how.

[@chrisburn7178]

I haven't seen anyone who looks more like he should be called "Rupert" than the explorer guy.

[@trje246]

-YOU'VE BLOWN MY MIND!!!-

[@101theFerny]

Its been a while since we had a video! lol nice to see a upload

[@jamesoblivion]

Stephen: There are only eight planets. Pluto's out. Also Stephen: The moon may very well be a planet. So there's a good likelihood there ARE nine planets, then? You, my good man, owe Alan some points.

[@thegoodgeneral]

If we accept things so that there are 9 planets, then there are most assuredly *way more* than 9 planets in the Solar system.

[@mathewfullerton8577]

"How many poles are there at the ends of the Earth?" None. He already stated the Earth is an oblate spheroid, so there are no ends.

[@wordreet]

Soo, there's no end of 'em.

[@ProfRonconi]

Even an oblate spheroid (hell, even a lump of putty) can have an axis of rotation, and the intersections between that axis and the surface of the Earth could reasonably be called "poles" (or, unreasonably, "Poles").

[@robmarrin6720]

Love Suggs ❤️👍

[@debeeriz]

the earth has thousands of moons, look them up in the phone book

[@DavidOakesMusic]

Find someone who looks at you the way Aisling looks at David at 10:23 :)

[@detectivesquirrel2621]

Mr Rupert Longston, who will be played by Hugh Grant in the film

[@alexw5085]

I knew he reminded me of someone ... 😁

[@somegirl558]

QI: "it maybe is qualified as a planet" Phil Jupitus in my head "I ..hate this show.."

[@fst-timer7107]

These are the best flat earth arguments I've heard.

[@mulgerbill]

Oblate spheroid! THAT'S why I came here A thousand points to house Melchett! Beehhhrrrr

[@thunderbearcourage]

The Earth is not a planet. Proving flat Earth is really simple. Infrared video shore to shore over ocean water at least ten miles apart. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bV7TiYqIo8SqnM0 and kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqSpp4KJgsahjpIdone. (If that part of the ocean is flat then all of the ocean is flat. If the ocean is flat then the Earth is flat.)

[@theguythatmakesyoumad3834]

What about all the poles in Poland?

[@jyazman]

I think the word moon was invented to describe that large object that is in orbit around the earth and has then been applied to other objects orbiting other planets so saying we don't have one or it isn't one kinda means that the word doesn't exist at all

[@chrisofnottingham]

Well, the meaning has drifted. I find the whole idea of the meaning of words interesting because historically they were used and the meaning was intuitively clear; Moon, life, book etc. But then the world discovers new information and invents new things and suddenly our intuition isn't up to the job any more; is a virus alive, are we in a binary planet system, where is the book in my kindle?

[@jyazman]

Intuition feelings "the truth of my lived experience", bollox ! if its not the dictionary definition then you've misunderstood and using it is misleading. words are code that have ascribed definitions that allow us to share ideas if we change their meaning willy nilly then we fall from the tower of babel to use a biblical reference or archetypal story.

[@jyazman]

That might be a little harsh "THE MOON" is the archetype all other moons become moons in reference to or because of it. If it is no longer a moon then moons cease to exist and become orbitals or some such word....

[@Sigart]

@@jyazman That is a misunderstanding of what language is. All language evolves as new ideas evolve and as old words and ideas are forgotten. Sometimes it's beneficial, sometimes it is not. Please remember that language has existed for far, far, _far_ longer than any dictionary. The first dictionary in the Western World was written in the 19th century. Before we invented the idea of a set definition to a word, there was no way to know what it meant _except_ intuition. Even now, as I'm writing and as you're reading, it's not like you need to think about the definition of each word I use; you intuitively know the meaning behind it. As you teach a new human being (aka a child) to speak, it's not like you give them the definition of words either, you use words and expect them to slowly intuitively learn what they mean.

[@jyazman]

@@Sigart intuition /ɪntjʊˈɪʃ(ə)n/ noun the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning. This in part illustrates my point I didn't intuitively call the moon the moon I asked someone what is that and they told me it was the moon I then stored this information to use again when needed

[@strideysworld2843]

Mind was not blown. Helped me fall asleep though!

[@twrampage]

The moon is the basis of what we call a moon in the first place. Even learning that it is different than we first thought doesn't stop it from being the moon.

[@waynethompson8416]

On the subject of the number of Poles on the earth, he said it was 11, however, that is excluding the 37.98 million Poles in Poland!!! ;-)

[@ProfRonconi]

Not to mention tent poles, pole-vaulting poles, etc.

[@jakovbrizic]

Alan is a gem

[@enkisdaughter4795]

Awwwww, Clangers😍

[@harryturner8701]

Surly then it would be to do with where the centre of mass of the earth moon system is, if outside the earth; a planet, if in the earth; an moon.

[@clickrick]

Indeed, and the barycentre of the earth-moon system is well within the earth (on average around 1,000 miles below the earth's surface).

[@Joe_Payne]

but that only works as a ratio of the two planets/moons. something earths size could be a moon with that definition and also the ratio between the two would have to be massive to call something a moon

[@fenhen]

Joe Payne So? There are moons larger than Mercury.

[@paulmccloud9395]

Imagine if the moon was just a smaller Earth, but with no humans on it.

[@camogrrl]

In a lot of ways it’s completely different

[@tkkonigstiger3868]

But i wanted to know about the poles :o

[@LinkTheFusky]

After the moon one i had to stop and think then get a creme egg out the fridge

[@LinkTheFusky]

Christopher Columbus thought the earth was pear shaped and only ever set foot in the Caribbean

[@clickrick]

3:50 Alan setting himself up to get bitchslapped :D

[@Allexstrasza]

Yet he looks like he doesn't understand he just got verbally bitchslapped lol

[@micheller6804]

Why can't Stephen Fry bitchslap me? 🥀😭

[@erictaylor5462]

Actually Earth has 1 permanent moon, two or three semi-permanent moons and a few temporary moons from time to time. They even had one very odd cylinder shaped moon coated in titanium. This was, of corse, not a natural moon. It was the S-4B booster from a Saturn 5 rocket.

[@ATinyWaffle]

Any man-made object in orbit such as the Saturn 5 booster is defined as a non-natural satellite. No man-made object can be classified as a moon because a moon must be a NATURAL satellite. I would also argue that for something to be a moon it would need to be of a sufficient mass ratio compared to what it is orbiting. Otherwise, things like Saturn would have millions of "moons" because every single separate rock, grain of sand/ice, and particle that make up its rings would be considered a moon.

[@camogrrl]

That escalated quickly

[@erictaylor5462]

@@ATinyWaffle Perhaps rather than assuming you know the answer, you should look it up. This will do two things at once for you. It provides a link proving you are right and the other person is wrong, and it saves you looking foolish when they are, in fact, not wrong. www.bing.com/search?q=What+is+a+moon+as+defined+by+the+IAU&PC=U316&FORM=CHROMN

[@pseudonayme7717]

@@camogrrl Haha! We seem to have stumbled into the nerdverse! 😁

[@peterclarke7240]

Sadly NASA, and science in general, disagree with you. A moon is not classified by its size, shape, mass or constitution, simply that it's something that has no atmosphere that orbits something larger than itself that is not a star. The definition is currently obviously vague, but this is deliberate, as it allows for new moons to be discovered without everyone having to get into a huge barfight over how much paperwork the discovery of a new moon might generate, and who's going to do it.

[@lohphat]

Kite skiing is a mechanical method of transport, just as surfing is.

[@vilstef6988]

The Pole Inaccessibility should have a bust of Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Stefansson was an explorer, writer, creator of libraries and speaker, among other things. He was the person who propounded the concept of the Pole of Inaccessibility. Though the Russians admired Dr Stefansson, they gotta honor their own.

[@roracle]

The sun is the largest ocean in the solar system. If we're going to be told some planets "rain diamonds" then it's logical to conclude that an "ocean" is a liquid body that is flowing, not having to specifically or necessarily be H2O. The sun is the largest ocean in the solar system.

[@mocorabbit8968]

...liquid would imply in a liquid state of matter, which the Sun isn't... it's a Plasma. However, if you defined oceans as being Fluid (i.e. either liquid, plasma, or gas)... then you may have an argument; although that since interplanetary space isn't a true vacuum the entire solar system is an ocean, too... which is kind of poetic.

[@roracle]

@@mocorabbit8968 touche my bud.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

If Pluto isn't a planet, the moon sure as hell isn't.

[@gerryjtierney]

The moon is 6x the mass of Pluto, and its diameter is 1.5x that of Pluto. Try again.

[@adriendowney]

@6:41 "is it Lenin?" genius

[@omarzepedaaguilar]

I thought it was a family feud video for two moments there

[@thebigitchy]

Just to point out, “round” and “a sphere” are not synonymous. Yes, the Earth is round (ie. not a cube or whatever), but it’s not a sphere (rotation causes the equator to have a greater radius than at the poles).

[@catlee8064]

Oblate spheriod....Stephen did correct them

[@Bluetoothedshark]

Just to point out, no-one came here for educational purposes.

[@the-chillian]

Yes, that's correct. Saying the Earth is not round because it's an oblate spheroid is a bit of pedantry that isn't even right. And it wouldn't be right even if the Earth were not approximately as spherical, to scale, as a billiard ball. It's only off by about 0.3%, which you could never detect with the naked eye. It's about as perfectly spherical as anything we'd call a sphere in our everyday experience.

[@geoffreygriffin3015]

ChrisC has watched the other episodes too. 😂😁

[@Bluetoothedshark]

@@UncommonSense-wm5fd this is an entertainment show, the facts given, often change, if this is where you are learning, then you are mistaken..

[@Pencilneckgeek216]

That girl behind Rupert was pretty stricken with him, lol.

[@iuriepripa3171]

hahaha that was really funny

[@Cobalt-Jester]

The two girls behind him are his sisters and the girl to his left is is missus.

[@nn-nu8hf]

@@Cobalt-Jester That must be a Freud thing, because that one "sister" of his, wanted him to do things to her.

[@derrickwhittle9012]

N2I made it all that way great achievement but failed to know which why the the flag is up down! I correct myself not upside down presented wrong way for display flag pole to the left. Great job though.

[@rosemorris7912]

You've set Sir off!

[@funkycacahuete2933]

wow, we have discovered one of the first "flat earth" conversations :) :)

[@jaxkovak]

"Roger Bacon wrote about the curvature of the Earth in the 13th century" Does evolution work backwards? It must do, because in 2020 we have imbeciles who believe the Earth is flat.

[@jasonwoods5326]

I'm sure there were many, uneducated persons in the 13th century who believed the Earth was flat, based their observations and general ignorance. Doesn't go far to explain 21st century idiots.

[@mrdog4529]

Many people repeat the statement it is or isn't flat, but don't have the critical thinking skills to prove or disprove either way.

[@jaxkovak]

@@mrdog4529 You don't need critical thinking skills to look at a photograph. Unless of course you are talking to an idiot who will claim _everything_ is fake in order to promote their stupidity.

[@danielburger1775]

Roger Bacon never existed...

[@Alphabunsquad]

Columbus didn’t think the world was pear shaped. He wrote about that once as a whimsical thought to a friend, all other records show that he thought the world was almost certainly round and used that to calculate his journey. He did think the world was smaller than it was or that Japan was closer to Europe but that was based off of some of the most trusted maps of the day, so it was not a unique thought.

[@Rocket1377]

He wrote about it, and said that it MIGHT be round. So he did think about it (no matter how briefly). Which is what Fry said.

[@ShropshireFox]

Curvature of the earth 😁 thats funny

[@rohmarts]

Sorry, I think I gotta call foul on the Ceremonial South Pole.

[@shmookins]

I'd call foul on a lot of things mentioned here (and in other episodes), but I think it's the cheeky parts of the show. This is primarily a comedy show, really. But it is amusing to think of things that are unusual. :)

[@Intedujag]

think of it as the political south pole. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pole#Ceremonial_South_Pole

[@jeffreyblack666]

1 - is wrong. They both orbit their barycentre, which is well within Earth. Regardless, that doesn't address the question. Pointing out what a planet is doesn't have an impact on what a moon is unless you provide a definition for a moon which excludes a planet. 2 - debatable depending upon which society you look at. 3 - Earth has no end (spatially anyway, give it some time and it will with time). 5 - There are more, we have an orbital north pole.

[@neiloch]

I only have a casual knowledge of these things but even I recognize QI's 'facts' about a lot of these are debatable to say the least. Every time this stuff comes up on the show I roll my eyes and try to skip it if I can.

[@emjackson2289]

"Oh God . . . ." 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@beastlyza]

@12:55, what is the flag two left (above Jimmy) of the USA flag?

[@davidwilliams6249]

Old flag of South Africa

[@erictaylor5462]

Actually Russia is something like 51 miles away from the United States. Russia is closer to the US than it id to England.

[@tea4223]

Eric Taylor... True. But actually, Russia is closer to the US than All the countries in the world except Canada and Mexico.

[@erictaylor5462]

@@tea4223 Indeed. I believe that the US is closer to Russia than any country that doesn't physically border Russia.

[@g.moeller308]

I can see Russia from my house.

[@marccolten9801]

@@g.moeller308 Not impressed. Every Russian can say the same thing.

[@lukemclellan2141]

@@erictaylor5462 Japan might just edge the USA in that regard.

[@bd603]

The only thing that flat earthers fear is a sphere itself

[@almostfm]

Hang on a minute-the North and South Celestial poles aren't on Earth-they're the points in the sky that the night sky revolves around. If you take the Earth's axis and extend it out to the celestial sphere (assume for a moment that the stars are on an actual sphere), where it meets the sphere are the celestial poles

[@XKloosyvv]

Fairly certain they were talking about Enceladus and Europa at the same time

[@richyb1643]

actually planets can be moon's I mean look at Jupiter

[@generalhyde007]

So what you are saying is that the solar system has over 1000 planets?

[@gerryjtierney]

What

[@baddad1981]

It's funny seeing Jimmy Carr without his fake teeth

[@francaperotti5934]

And fake face.

[@tony.h321]

I have to wonder if the whole thing of the ancient Greeks (and other ancient cultures) knowing the shape of the earth "might" be a bit generalised and misleading? When he says "no-one" thought it was flat, or "everyone" knew it was round/spherical, does that actually include "everyone", (eg. the common folk) or just certain scholars after a certain period in their +- 350 years of existence? And even then, perhaps it was more "postulated/theorised" than held as "accepted fact" by all?

[@vidiaparamaatmaseeker2130]

Was actually interested in the poles.

[@ellaisplotting]

Jesus Christ, did Jimmy just reference Telford?! He's right, it is the end of the world, and far from interesting.

[@larapalma3744]

The blue whale

[@TehDMBfan]

"What?" Mmm "Does it?" Mmm! *holds head in hands*

[@zetetick395]

For a start the 'Ceremonial Pole' can fuck right off XD (I did wonder why no one picked up on it being an ODD number of Earth poles)