Io: A World of Ice and Fire

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[@stopka5848]

I like the option of killing mbts with funny biplane

[@StitchTheFox]

Warthunder is really fun, I have it on my pc. However, the servers are very bad sometimes, so it can be very frustrating to play and there is nothing you can do about it. (This is a community-wide thing btw not just my internet lol)

[@stopka5848]

@@StitchTheFox Better than tf2 man

[@ashh8019]

In a world where the history channel is a reality tv network, these various Simon whistler channels are invaluable. So thankful for your videos.

[@sandybarnes887]

Yeah. Im glad he has 14 of them

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@sandybarnes887 Do what I did. Ask him for more science/space. The more interest, the more of that topic Simon will cover.

[@harrietharlow9929]

Indeed. Even the Science channel is not what it used to be. Please, more science/ space, Simon! Io is fascinating because of its constant volcanism and seismism due to the gravitational pull exerted by Jupiter. Fun fact: this is why the premise of sci-fi film "Outland"--basically the OK Corral in a mining operation on Io--wouldn't work; the constant volcanism and seismism on Io would allow for such an operation.

[@Thisandthat8908]

youtube is full of amazing (and quite a few non-amazing)videos on topics like these, well away from tv channels most of whos documentaries got awful somewhere in the 2000's. You know with the dramatic scientists walk-ins und nose hair zooms in super simplified interviews... Astrum for example.

[@Madmedic8877]

Without a doubt

[@rwilliamisen]

“Probably while baked.” God I love everything about Simon’s content.

[@Nethershaw]

Bro, for real, when JWST starts cranking out spectrometry of exoplanetary atmospheres, you're going to have episodes for days. And I am here for it.

[@FallingPicturesProductions]

I keep expecting it to be smashed to bits by an errant asteroid or solar flare, it doesn't seem possible that it can even provide what we've gotten already.

[@justinbrockwell8396]

For sure! Simon will just launch a new channel to add to his list.. "JWSTgraphics"

[@birdmonster115]

Spacographics

[@michaelf.2449]

@@birdmonster115 "Hot Gases, and Bald ass's"

[@thepagnaet6361]

@@FallingPicturesProductions Space is big. Like really, really, big.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:20 - Chapter 1 - The fires of gehenna 6:20 - Chapter 2 - The body electric 11:15 - Chapter 3 - Three little stars 15:45 - Chapter 4 - Mission to Jupiter 19:35 - Chapter 5 - The road not taken - Chapter 6 -

[@SmilingRuby]

"...that will make Krakatoa seem like a wet fart." Wonderfully written! You actually managed to make me laugh out loud. 😆👏

[@perniciouspete4986]

Wet farts aren't anything to laugh at, especially if it happens to you.

[@daisiesofdoom]

Americans be laughing at any peepee or poopoo joke there is like there is no real humor out there

[@SmilingRuby]

@@daisiesofdoom And sad angry internet commenters just gotta spread that misery. Bravo

[@TaurusWitch29]

@@SmilingRuby well said on both parts 👏😂

[@RevinSOR13]

The fact that 90% of our scientific understanding of the planets, solar system and by extension, interstellar space came from and still comes from, the Voyagers is nothing short of miraculous. Those two probes gave us so much information they'll be studying it for decades to come. Godspeed little buddies.

[@jesussmith8788]

Simon u and ur team are legends you’ve been entertaining me for years now and just wanted to say thanks

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

You enjoy and appreciate what Simon does, but you can't be arsed to respect him enough to spell *you* and *your,* but use the ridiculous "shorthand" from way back in the Dark Ages of texting, when you were charged by the freaking letter. It's _very_ disrespectful, not just lazy. Shame on you!

[@jesussmith8788]

@@MaryAnnNytowl u were that kid in school huh

[@jesussmith8788]

@@MaryAnnNytowl also how’s that divorce goin

[@ally_crawford]

@@MaryAnnNytowl u ok m8

[@tommytaylorberge3875]

Just finished the latest arc of One Punch Man where there's a fight on the moon Io, so this video sure came in handy.

[@oyudie2745]

Facts

[@D00DM00D]

Ahh, i've been looking for this comment

[@guyprovencal1742]

“You may have previously spent an evening, probably while baked….” I feel attacked. 😂 how did you know, man? Love the channel Simon!!

[@christopherpierce8010]

I am 100% behind a channel just for these videos. Super excited every time I see a new astronomy based video.

[@iTeerRex]

A world of ice and fire, encountered by creatures of earth and air. Sounds like a magical tail of our first time there.

[@theawesomeman9821]

Sounds like something G.R.R Martin would think of

[@olindafabiandemarrero8764]

Games of thrones comes to mind

[@olindafabiandemarrero8764]

@@theawesomeman9821 he did But Is call a song of ice AND fire Is about the targeryen family dinasty

[@theawesomeman9821]

@@olindafabiandemarrero8764 was hoping to see this comment :)

[@olindafabiandemarrero8764]

@@theawesomeman9821 👍👍 Are you ready for house of dragon? Is going to be amazing

[@benmcreynolds8581]

I really am starting to realize how facinated I am into learning further about the impact and importance of electrical charges in space and on the levels of entire solar systems and entire galaxies. You covered the interaction of positive and negative charged particles and the electromagnetism, plasma, etc. Then I remembered seeing a video that covered the "what looks like a vast bubble around our solar system" that's from our sun and the particles it gives off then eventually there reaches a membrane layer sorta like perimeter that clearly seperates the inner state to the outter state and it makes me think about how just like in the upper parts of our atmosphere and space where we have seen a charge differential occuring and then it creates this dynamic system and a active membrane layer, I can't help but think, could that possibly occur in other regions in space where we find two areas of different charges and a layer in between them? It's just interesting to ponder about. It's interesting how systems in nature can kick start functioning just from the base guideline of having two different states and that can cause interaction and then start natural systems. Hot and cold temperatures which cause air currents. High low pressure, Very dense and less dense, static charges and electromagnetism in a cloud of dust particles in space can start dust to stick together and clump together and things start going from there. The natural world is freaking awesome.

[@anarchyantz1564]

Always love waiting to see if Simon's writers manage to sneak in a Lord of the Rings or Star Wars reference and get Simon to deadpan read it 21:00 lol

[@andersjjensen]

One of the writers snuck in a Slayer lyrics reference in the episode about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and it was done absolutely at a place that absolutely captures the emotion of the song which was referenced. I'm starting to think it's a team sport for the crew to see who can get Simon to spout the most things he has absolutely no idea what means :P

[@joeam5018]

Simon, I like how you made your beard look like Thanos' chin 🤣 Love your channels, dude! Thank you!

[@KimdraStBiryukova]

Or, you know, into the very title itself.

[@anarchyantz1564]

@@KimdraStBiryukova Well sort of. I guess they couldn't justify "A Song of Fire and Ice" for some GOT reference.

[@nyax129]

I watch ALL your channels and have for a lone time. I LOVE these planet/moon videos. Well done good chap

[@Beryllahawk]

Beautifully done And once again I just love it when you all geek out about space stuff!

[@CartoonHero1986]

Side note to Io interacting with Jupiter's aurora; you can actually watch Io and some of the other moons that directly interact with the magnetosphere in the patterns of the aurora. On the outer edge of the aurora there are these dots with tails trailing behind them and those are basically a projection of the moons interacting with the magnetosphere playing in real time in Jupiter's atmosphere. You can actually watch them "orbit" in certain videos that show enough of a timelapse. Also I suspect that IVO will go the way of JIMBO at this point. Any future mission proposals will be under a totally different mission plan and name for Io since the mission has failed to get enough attention to be scheduled so many times. Future proposals will probably look more like the Cassini Huygens collaboration mission to get some information about multiple targets instead of in depth information about a single target in hopes they will find something that will make the need for a special mission more likely.

[@stephencrabtree4256]

So glad you’ve finally taken a look at Io. I’ve been waiting for this video for quite a while.

[@llamasugar5478]

Darned autocarrot changed your sentence for you! 😅

[@flyboy152]

The vastly underrated 1981 movie “Outland” was set in a mining colony on Io. It stars Sean Connery as a federal marshal vying with corrupt officials who are pushing a dangerous narcotic to the workers. While in the movie Io is rocky and volcanic, it’s nowhere near the hellscape we now know it to be, where a colony would be impossible.

[@resileaf9501]

I like the space videos we've been getting lately. They're very good. :D

[@Alasdair-Morrison]

IO, IO it's off to space we go 😁🎶

[@jamesmoore6752]

This made me chuckle.

[@tim-tim-timmy6571]

These series about planets and moons are amazing. Looking forward to hearing about Venus!

[@harrietharlow9929]

They truly are. Space is amazing. I grew up in an era when exoplanets were completely unknown (born 1953). We did realise that the Milky Way was not the entire universe, and whilst scientists suspected there were planets around other stars, we only found that to be true in 1992.We once thought there were canals and possibly civilisation on Mars (the reason we thought we saw canals was because of the faulty telescope optics of the time and the mistranslation of the Italian word "canali"--it merely means "channels", not necessarily canals" In 1976, the Viking spacecraft showed that there were no canals and no civilisation. I am glad to be alive to hear of all the exciting discoveries that have been and will be made in my lifetime.

[@coconutsmarties]

​@@harrietharlow9929 It's actually quite incredible how much your generation has lived through

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@coconutsmarties When I look back over the past 70 years, there certainy has been a lot of wonderful (as well as terrible) history that has happened in that time. Unlike my mother, who lived to see the rise and fall of soviet communism, I did live to see the building and demolition of the Berlin Wall as well as seeing humans wallk on our moon. It really has been a wonderfu 70 years so far.

[@teabagginelite7030]

Simon: celestial bodies have no effect on your life Also Simon: celestial bodies have effect on lives of other celestial bodies Love you Simon

[@DerptyDerptyDUM]

Io (Moon) ...Not to be confused with the cow chick that Zeus was uhhhh ungentlemanly with.

[@kokorolex]

Can't wait to see the animated fight between Saitama and Garou in Io.

[@noahlogue3807]

Interesting fact: Io is also the future birthplace of Arnold J. Rimmer 2nd technician.

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Also where Dennis the Doughnut boy plied his trade hefore becoming Captain Hollister, abusing the crew's confidential filed to gget the job.

[@knowitall82]

"Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast."

[@dustingaethje1332]

Another fun fact: It's the place that got completely wrecked by a baldy who's just a hero for fun

[@noahlogue3807]

@@knowitall82 stoke me a clipper ill be back for Christmas

[@NickMellis]

Just discovered this channel! Love it. Funny but at the same time very informative. The very definition of infotainment 😊

[@timferguson1593]

Thanks to Simon and staff. Outstanding channels!

[@Dank-gb6jn]

Please cover Ganymede next. Plenty to talk about, especially in regards to a certain Space Cowboy 😉

[@CanadianDerwood]

I made one of the mosaics of IO. I used Voyager images and stitched them together in photo shop for an Astrogeologist from Western University in London, Ontario. That was 24 years ago. 😳 That image I made helped fuel the idea of another mission to IO and Europa.

[@charlieduke6393]

I’ve never made it to a video this quickly. Love the channel and love the content

[@Chris-vl1fn]

"He died before Specsavers was a thing" 😂

[@SuperEasy1337]

Probably a little less surface area on this moon after what Saitama did to it when he was battling Garou.

[@chrisevison4092]

Achoo!

[@cypherbrittainnethegodofsl4988]

You know that eruptions on Io is scary when the likes of Yellowstone and Toba looks like children fireworks

[@owenshebbeare2999]

Toba, live near it and studied it. Well worth a visit. The Toba event was the largest eruption in the past 25 million years, created the largest lake in Asia, yet tiny lined up against Io.

[@PlanetGuy901]

You know, at least Earth doesn’t have as much dangerous volcanoes as Io. The Sun is thousands of times more massive than Jupiter, you’d expect it to cause higher tides. But Earth’s orbit is much farther away from The Sun, and that’s a blessing. Because we discovered a planet that is more geologically active than Io: Trappist-1b. A planet that’s basically Trappist-1’s larger version of Mercury, but more extreme. Trappist-1b is thought to be more volcanic than Io because of intense tidal heating from Trappist-1 and the other 6 planets orbiting Trappist-1. Makes you appreciate not being so close to The Sun.

[@TheJMBon]

Fantastic shows Simon. You and your team produce better content than most television stations do.

[@stacyrussell460]

Io reminds me of a nasty bruise that is constantly changing colors.

[@baalzhamon8491]

The biggest problem with all of the three innermost moon, Io, Europa and Ganymede, is the amount of radiation. The Europa Clipper will go into and elliptical orbit around Jupiter, swinging by Europa 44 times due to this problem. If it had stayed in close orbit around Europa, it's instruments would be fried quite quickly

[@ignitionfrn2anonymous118]

Fun fact-- Ole Roemer became the first person to measure the speed of light. Roemer measured the speed of light by timing eclipses of Jupiter's moon Io.

[@mr88cet]

Great topic and video! Thanks. What an amazing moon it is! I can’t for the life of me remember his name, but one of the Voyager imaging scientists once said, “if you lived on Io [bad idea!], you wouldn’t get a daily weather report; you’d get a Geology report: Volcano eruptions to the East, lava flows to the Northwest, mountain-building to the South…” Io is only very slightly larger than our Moon - about 3600Km diameter vs. 3400Km. At first, it seems a little strange to describe it as among the larger moons in the Solar System, considering that Ganymede and Titan are a little larger than the planet Mercury, and Callisto nearly as large! However, yes, the vast majority of the moons of the Solar System - most of them around Saturn and Jupiter, aren’t even big enough to have gotten a particularly round shape.

[@darth856]

Nice to see a video where Io's ice is also covered. Most people focus only on the volcanoes and neglect to mention how cold this moon is on average.

[@IamHat]

9:37 for thirty seconds I was holding back a laugh. It proved... unsuccessful. I was hearing him describe the ultimate tug job

[@Gingernanigans]

I'm a simple man. I see a thumbnail with stars and/or moons and I click.

[@cypherbrittainnethegodofsl4988]

When you thought Io is being distorted by Jupiter is insane, imagine being in Metis, Adrastea, Amalthea, and Thebe

[@stephenhammond6962]

“None of these hold a candle to Io, which makes Krakatoa look like a wet fart 💦💨” 👌Nomis👌🤣🤣🤣

[@AceSpadeThePikachu]

I.O. might be my favourite moon in the solar system just because of its violent ever-changing landscape and hellish conditions, but if there's going to be a dedicated mission to Jupiter's moons, all four of the Galilean moons should get equal time in the spotlight. That's why I'm hopeful missions like Juice and Europa Clipper will park interest in bigger, more extensive expeditions to all four moons. Each are fascinating in their own right and have much to tell us about the solar system and planetary formation.

[@sharonbraselton4302]

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[@andersjjensen]

The writer for the space-stuff episode needs to be given the Enthusiasm Award of the year... and a pint of weapons grade larger on the house!

[@rykercabler9756]

“Like a large but tender lover” Hey! I finally made it on a video! 🤣

[@andreasencio3184]

Fun fact: Saitama turned IO into an asteroid field with four fingers.

[@JETWTF]

The volcanic region of IO is right where they should be rather than the poles. If you take a balloon and squish it where you are squishing it will compress and the rest will expand. The same effect happens to IO but rather than compressing and even expansion around it's being pulled in opposite directions. Those directions are where the expansion happens and everywhere else the compression. Expansion like in the balloon make the surface thinner, since it is rock pulling it thinner creates cracks and weak spots in the crust. Cracks and weak spots are where volcano's like to reside on a planets crust hence why they like to be along the tectonic plate edges here on earth. The poles on IO are the least likely to have volcanos.

[@grisslebear]

23:07 - Insert cut to Mr. Mackey being propelled down the hall by explosive diarrhea bemoaning "IT'S BAD, MM-KAY!!!"

[@ARIXANDRE]

I hope the residents of Io get a better Game of Thrones finale.

[@sharonbraselton4302]

yes wé dó

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Jupiter's moons are a fascinating and motley collection. Thanks for this, Simon. ❤️❤️

[@xyz7572]

I’m so happy I found the Astrographic subgenre of the Geographics Channel 😩❤️

[@willmfrank]

Johnny Carson, a keen amateur astronomer, was friends with Carl Sagan and often had him as a guest on "The Tonight Show." Once, Sagan showed the first Voyager images of Io Carson: "That's one bad-lookin' moon." Sagan: "It looks like a diseased fruit." 😁

[@alexlubbers1589]

Please make an astronomics channel!! We love your space videos.

[@Itsthatoneguy371]

At 4:01 I noticed the pictures of the moon, the two pics to the left there is a marking that looks like a skull. 💀 towards the bottom.

[@JayDeeChannel]

Where there is water there is life.

[@godnaz]

"While you were baked".... Okay, you know me too well.

[@Defectoboy]

Ooh I can't wait for that Venus video. I love these space ones.

[@Bagledog5000]

Honestly is there any other program that has given us as many groundbreaking revelations about our solar system and universe as the various NASA missions have? Well worth the cost IMO.

[@dtucker666]

These space videos are incredible! More please

[@Mister_Kourkoutas]

“And now at last I see with eye serene, the very pulse of the machine.”

[@oilersridersbluejays]

What was Johnny Carson’s favourite moon? “Io!”

[@wezacker6482]

Plot twist: Io IS Hell. Do we really want to go there? Might be a good party... Maybe we do.

[@carloshenriquezimmer7543]

And the shortest way to get there is from Mars... if you are the Doomslayer...

[@Aquascape_Dreaming]

Venus is Hell, IO is the lake of fire that burns with sulfur mentioned in Revelation. No, I'm not being literal.

[@sharonbraselton4302]

wring

[@StoneInMySandal]

I was only half listening at first and I thought he was saying Iowa. I was like WTF is he talking about volcanos and magma lakes. Hahahahaha!

[@corkbulb2895]

Yeah, and Galileo was imprisoned, excommunicated from the church, had to pay steep fines and had to destroy his telescopes and research material for making one of the most significant and important discovery in planetary science. Humans are great!

[@joshuawatson575]

Simon has taught me more than school. Amazing Content

[@BigBinky_Gaming]

This was super interesting, and I love random space pics

[@Clevelandlantis]

“The fire planet and the end of revenge of the sith” gonna do Mustafar dirty like that damn… 😂

[@mrgrumboldt]

Neptune's moon Titan? You mean Neptune's moon Triton? Or do you mean Saturn's moon Titan?

[@CarolinaguynTX]

@ 22:03 in the video, I was just about to ask the same thing.

[@Aquascape_Dreaming]

I saw your comment too late, and already posted one the same. I searched before I posted it, but so many people seem to have not noticed. I'm glad I wasn't the only one.

[@skurinski]

Triton

[@cricketman7335]

23:00 Talk about saving the best for the end

[@annoyed707]

Science is a huge part of history, with its own history, and advancements in science affect the study of history.

[@summeronio9751]

I've been waiting for this episode

[@Khalrua]

I didn’t know there was a moon called “ten”. Can’t wait to watch this one!

[@harrietharlow9929]

Thank you for showing space/science content. If I may, I would like to encourage you in this.

[@AlmostEthical]

Io is the only body in the solar system that looks like a decomposing pizza.

[@MrZimmerson]

What's the music that plays from 6:26 till 11:00 ?

[@Overworkedandunderpaid]

YAY MORE SPACEOGRAPHICS!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@aoeu256]

IO may have a exotic form of life living inside volcanic caves where the gases can reach high pressures and temperature. Its body may use a combination of hydrogen bonds, covelant, and ionic bounds rather than just being dominated by carbon bonds, and it will use exotic liquids as solvents like molten sulfur, sulfuric acid, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen flouride, and liquid carbon dioxide.

[@wulf801]

"Ah, Assistant! You are just in time to join my dimensional anomaly research crew!"

[@coreyh233]

So Io is basically Iceland on steroids?

[@MarloSoBalJr]

More like downing some Mountain Dew while high on opium

[@catholiccrusader5328]

Simon too bad you never taught high school when I was a kid back in the Stone Age; You're damn good, man!

[@HerrCobra_762]

If only the utterly hellish surface of this moon was more accurately depicted when Saitama and Garou were having their fight there. LoL

[@getsmart3701]

Looking froward to Venus. Great video guys.

[@laurachapple6795]

You do not need to be baked to appreciate the funky blue aurorae! You just need to be a tremendous nerd, which I am.

[@Replicaate]

Io is such an underrated Jovian satellite. It's not likely to have life or even be a potential colonial world, true; but it's beautiful and a reminder of the wild diversity of worlds in our universe. Idk I'm an artist, not a scientist so maybe I'm full of crap. Also, Astrographics channel when? Half the Geographics regions aren't even ON our planet at this point.

[@michaelf.2449]

It's amazing because it's so just unforgiving lol you survived the lava flows? Welcome to the frozen wasteland! You make it through that? Welcome to the nuclear wasteland! You somehow survive that? Gravity pulling the survive 100ft in different directions every so often just to spice up the trip.

[@Replicaate]

@@michaelf.2449 That's probably what i was getting at lol. It's such an extreme world and it's practically on our doorstep, it begs the question of how many exoplanets or exomoons there could be that are even wilder.

[@andersjjensen]

The masses are captivated by "the possibility of alien life" so that gets funding. Once the funding is in the scientists go "And what actually useful instruments can we afford for this probe?". It's a shame really, because understanding more about gravitational interaction, tectonic forces, magnetic fields and volcanic eruptions could lead to better understanding of our own world. Io seems like an obvious place to go to study extremes... I mean, it doesn't have anything BUT extremes.

[@constantinethecataphract5949]

Well IO might have nuclear ores like uranium so it might have some value for colonization.

[@Replicaate]

@@constantinethecataphract5949 it'd be a hell of a post, literally. Might even pay good on account of radioactive ores being something we always need more of, though; if you don't mind wearing lead underwear at work.

[@gravy7861_]

The title of this video makes me feel like their should be dragons involved

[@cruzbohy]

How many KZbin channels does this guy need!

[@irwainnornossa4605]

Date is year, then month and day. In civilized world, that is. We should serialize the manufacturing of probes and rockets, so we can send them to every interesting place for relatively cheap.

[@turdferguson353]

My kids love looking through our telescope, and you can normally see all 4 moons from Jupiter. It's awesome

[@aspiewithattitude3213]

I can't wait for mission "Martin" to land on the surface of Io, I only name this mission after George R Martin's "A Song Of Fire And Ice".

[@FallenRingbearer]

I shall make much use of these videos after I'm brought out if suspended animation in 100 years.

[@KURUZU43]

Because of the volatility of the temperatures on IO is it possible that some extremophiles could reside there? We've certainly observed that here on earth particularly around Yellowstone and the heated pools of water in the park also we've observed life in around volcanic vents of hot sulphuric water at the bottom of oceans is it conceivable that's something of a similar life form could exist on these worlds and not just the moon IO but what of Enceladus and Europa both moons are said to have liquid oceans and we think they're heated due to their host planets gravity also the evidence of guisers erupting from the various locations on both of these beautiful moons.

[@theWinterWalker]

Hearing Simon say fart is pretty epic ngl

[@marvinmauldin4361]

If that turns you on, try his video on Uranus.

[@victoriaeads6126]

Io's lava: the inspiration for the horror that is Minecraft Nether lava.

[@sharonbraselton4302]

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[@colbyshea5915]

“That makes Krakatoa seem like a wet fart”. 😂😂

[@fortitudevalance8424]

Io is literally where in some parts hell has frozen over.

[@eggshellgoesgaming]

Captions: "the nightmare nature of iowa itself".

[@andersjjensen]

I knew it. Always heard that was a place to stay away from...

[@pmcg5907]

That beard. 👏👏👏 We'll done sir

[@13thravenpurple94]

Great work 🥳🥳🥳 Thank you 💜💜💜