Constellations | I Don't Know About That with Jim Jefferies

In this episode, the team discusses constellations with Colombian astronomer and post-doctoral researcher at École normale supérieure, Jorge Villa-Vélez.
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[@KickassUncle]

Mentioning "Summer Lovin'" was spooky.

[@alisonking5450]

I thought the exact thing. Knowing this is recorded 2-3 weeks earlier. Luv Olivia! Keep doing these pods, I love Tuesdays. I reckon I've listened to them twice or three times over. Luv Jim and gang! 6/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@paulclissold1525]

Vale livvy

[@dash-x]

The same thing happened the episode this week where they were talking about the royals and house of Windsor, weekend after the queen passed. 😬 Spooky. Jim’s like the cat curling up to the people in the nursing home. “He cant keep getting away with this!” 👻🪦 ☠️

[@stellarart3444]

A dipper is an old term for a cup used to dip into a communal water bucket to drink. Before water fountains.

[@christopherhunt1315]

Dam … thanks for the history fact…..saludos

[@stellarart3444]

@@christopherhunt1315 YW! It's funny how fast language changes. Especially English. Lol

[@I_love_music_n_cheese_n_music]

It’s extra fun when the guest expert has a good time.

[@karaimbopi9672]

forest sounds like R2D2 screaming when he makes those weid noises xD

[@sativarosegold3604]

And looks like an Ewok

[@corkyvanderhaven3391]

Constellation prize Bazingo baby. Here for that

[@kenniferlopez1]

One of the funner ones of recent! Cheers.

[@michaelkohlberg5072]

I want jack Hackett roasts the crew part 2

[@user-yr8rt9yl3o]

Columba in Spanish is Colombe in French, which I believe in English is Turtledove? It's the birds from Home Alone 2.

[@jacksonkeogh3320]

"it's really good dust" 😂😂 holy shit that's the funniest thing jacks ever said 😂😂

[@nartouzumaki8232]

Hank's the Man ..🤣😂

[@jwoo110]

As an avid disc golfer, 10:55 killed me

[@moneymike5549]

My rotc unit planted over 800 trees in our community park, 6 months later they were destroyed to make a DG course that sees maybe 15 uses a year. I'm sure you are a good person but fuck your passtime lol

[@kerberospanzer]

I can't wait for FIFA Futbol World CUP in Quatar and what Jim's podcast related topics will be

[@TheRealKalEll]

He's coming for ya MATE 🐸

[@yeetyeet7070]

The brightest star is usually a planet, they should've touched on that

[@gregbeck906]

Especially forgot to mention that a lot of the constellations are actually seen as stars, but are really whole galaxies.

[@saar144]

Stars and planets are two different objects.

[@yeetyeet7070]

@@gregbeck906 whoa, which ones for example? You surely mean all stars of a constellation are of the same galaxy? not as in every bright dot is a galaxy, like in a hubble telescopian way, right?

[@gregbeck906]

@@yeetyeet7070 The constellations are just a maping grid made up for astrological purposes and water travel. However, most constellations are spread out at incredible distances and are really whole entire galaxies.

[@peterferguson2344]

My cat was named Kallisto (most beautiful) after the Greek nymph 👍

[@dash-x]

Awee 😻 Thats cute! I like that name for a kitter ❣️

[@moneymike5549]

My favorite namesake of the nymph is a moon of Saturn. Oldest landscape in the system!

[@haraldisdead]

I like how they take for granted that this genius also learned English

[@kerberospanzer]

They assume speaking English is a given across the world but learning French is oh wow

[@dash-x]

Most countries where English isn’t the native language are taught it concurrently as they call it the language of trade. Im a polyglot, and went to school for a time in countries where English wasn’t the native language. Most people are soo excited to practice their skills and learn the actual day to day English or slang words, just like how English speakers love learning curse words in other languages 😹🫶🏻 I never laughed soo hard when I saw the graffiti with English curses, but they weren’t quite right. It was more an “Aweee!” 🫶🏻🥰

[@ksc1406]

This certainly was a podcast, of that there can be no doubt.

[@jacksonkeogh3320]

Commenting before watching, will update after the episode - what a weird topic haha

[@jacksonkeogh3320]

Okay great episode! I like these more specific topics. It feels like you're able to have a more complete discussion

[@gregbeck906]

Really wish he would have mentioned that Jupiter is possibly our second star. 👍

[@gregbeck906]

And Jupiter, along with Saturn, both have a huge gravitational-pull on all matter, just alike our Sun, that protects Earth from "most" Asteroids and Meteorites.

[@bgkclassic]

Isnt gravity relative to mass? Those planets still behave as satellites of the sun same as the rest of the planets. I dont follow the star idea? Unless you wanna say Jupiter and its moons are a "solar" system of its own.

[@gregbeck906]

@@bgkclassic Well Jupiter is about 1000 times bigger than Earth so it kind of acts as a buffer protecting Earth from "most" Asteroids and there are some theories that Jupiter once was starting out as a twin star to our Sun but then it took a different course/just a little too small to start fusing its Hydrogen into Helium, inwhich it is almost entirely composed of!

[@vapinmccloud412]

I'm the one who flicks the switch 😁

[@Max_Flashheart]

Why so Sirius?

[@ragnarlsonIII]

Disk golf?! Fahk me. Refreshing ad read in today's climate.

[@nartouzumaki8232]

Who comes up with these Subjects, Jack??

[@OfficialFingazMC]

Does Jack sing judging a book by it's cover?

[@julieclark3768]

Jim you make the time between finding places to sleep and eat better for other humans.

[@danielcorona2328]

Maaaan the person who gets the "experts" needs to be FIRED JIm!!!!!

[@sativarosegold3604]

Pretty sure it's Kelly

[@dash-x]

The husbeast and I are obsessed with water bears. He even got me a bunch of water bear stuffies. They have been found on other planets, they can survive in space, and have also been found on artifacts from the depths of the ocean. Probably some spooky galaxy of Water bear overlords. 😹🌊💧🐻💦

[@keepthinking9402]

Jesus Jim getting a little the Hutt

[@preston9189]

Jorge seems like a cool guy

[@stellarart3444]

The only fun thing near Tucson is Bisbee. Come hang out! Standhope lives here. It's a good time.

[@corkyvanderhaven3391]

Stellar, worthwhile comment. ✅✅/consideration

[@TheDohped]

its the plough in the uk not the big dipper

[@andrewthompson6908]

Just to make life simpler for people the aircraft graveyard is called the bone yard

[@emdiar6588]

Sorry to tell you this, but I read your post and life remained as complex as ever.

[@derheadbanger9039]

Have all the guests been from Skype a Scientist, ever since they learned of of it? I think so.

[@JAMES-my8bf]

What?

[@kerberospanzer]

When we see a star that is a sun are their planets or satellites orbiting it?

[@sparkywatts3072]

Give me a patch of sky with a dozen or so stars and I can dream up a hundred or so constellations and I don't even have a doctorate degree. It means nothing!

[@sidarthur8706]

i can see what jim means when he says there's actually a man in the moon in the south. i've always wondered why there's meant to be because there obviously isn't. it's just because i live in the wrong hemisphere

[@krupakarhans7140]

I'm on a raffle too! I try to select professors for a PhD with it 😎 Merman podcast and Jim not being able to retaliate like he does 😡 JIM JEFFERIES IS NOT A POLITICIAN! I'm going to timestamp my observations next time! They cannot be influenced! He was smarter in the Jim Jefferies Show! Forcing Jim to think about a single constellation for the entire sky is too much for me to take! You like it better with the southern hemisphere, I'm having to say that. Can't we be smarter instead?

[@kerberospanzer]

This was such a cool show and I learnt a lot

[@paulclissold1525]

Ice age jim they walked im guessing sails werent around 40,000 years ago.

[@corkyvanderhaven3391]

That would be a light guess. But, then explain granite machine marks in Egypt

[@paulclissold1525]

@@corkyvanderhaven3391 cant do ld need an expert to do that. I would however like to get whatever erik von danniken was on.

[@thirdearth3e487]

If you use a vacuum in a vacuum you will break the space time continuum

[@sidarthur8706]

pegasus and andromeda share a star

[@corkyvanderhaven3391]

I get it. I’m down. But us losers who watch podcasts could use a visual screen and a wee bit of, well, ya know…added fluff…(sorry editor)

[@michaelmcdonald5175]

Where's my Beatles episode!

[@DaveWhoa]

where's my Slayer episode

[@FourOneThreeOh]

Both these are great ideas.

[@JAMES-my8bf]

Where's my ICP and GG Allin episode? 😁

[@MK-fq4zl]

Not here! Jim only covers interesting topics.

[@JAMES-my8bf]

@@MK-fq4zl Jim is actually a huge Beatles fan and a Beatles episode is inevitable.

[@corkyvanderhaven3391]

Where are we gonna get the value of this guy? A smart 14 yr old could’ve handled this part so far. Then can we get some peacocking from this smart cat? So much going on rn and we’re talking Big Dipper definition. Come on y’all,bump this up

[@saint_tyler2945]

Forth!

[@dianejones5631]

First!

[@laalki80]

33:00 What's pretty amazing is that it's shooting that much energy - that we live on - in every fucking direction possible. And it's one of the smaller stars. So, a mathematician here pls calculate that percentage of energy of which we grew. And it's been there about 5.000.000.000 years and it'll be there for about 5.000.000.000 years after we're extinct. That's pretty amazing.

[@therealaaron8767]

I’m with forest..kinda..hear me out.. if I “earth” being roughly 24 some odd million miles around.. built a fire, nearly a tenth of my size at 2.7 or so million miles around.. then walked 93 million miles away from it. I’m no mathematical wizard, so I can’t contextually finish the reference to scale.. maybe it’s like being roughly four times the size of myself away from a heat source a tenth the size of me… people of the inter webs, please, feel free to finish the equation for us all!

[@sidarthur8706]

the big bear doesn't have a long tail. this has always annoyed me. we draw it the wrong way around and wonder why it doesn't look like a bear. its 'tail' is its nose, draw it that way and it's a bear

[@lemmy9942]

"When they invaded" I wish the Americans understood that..

[@dermic]

First

[@corypostell4247]

Chariot of the gods. Read it and your welcome

[@johnny207]

She’s wearing black again!

[@DaveWhoa]

out of respect for Olivia Newton John

[@kanewebley3156]

She's a big girl and it's slimming.

[@DaveWhoa]

@@kanewebley3156 uhhh... Olivia has never been "a big girl"

[@sativarosegold3604]

She'll be a black hole for Halloween

[@sidarthur8706]

plough isn't a weird word. i thought they had ploughs in columbia. they must be seriously backwards over there

[@jessedickey8851]

Jesus Forest. It's called exercise. Do some. Want your grumpy ass to live a bit longer. I'm only saying this because I care.

[@anecdotalmeat3412]

Whether you care or not, this is an unnecessary comment.

[@SptmbrsVryOwn]

@@anecdotalmeat3412 tough love is a form of caring. Ask anyone

[@sativarosegold3604]

@@anecdotalmeat3412 your comment policing his comment is the only unnecessary one

[@anecdotalmeat3412]

@@sativarosegold3604 I disagree. I think the original comment was rude AF. Neither one of you know what's going on behind the scenes. So try being nicer.