Why Can't Scientists Find the Enormous Planet X?

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[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Planet X is simply hidden underneath his magnificent stache.

[@taunopaavo321]

Nice to see you here aswell

[@plasmaticlmao]

Oh hey

[@alilweeb7684]

Get out

[@manueldope2292]

So, it's a booger?😪

[@ceyuz0]

LOL might be true tho we never know

[@Redacted_Ruler]

Can we put some respect at this man. He’s been grinding youtube nonstop for nearly 9 years straight.

[@nteta10k]

And he drops bars. 'Just goes over people's heads sometimes. Me included. But he KEEPS PUSHING. Shedding light, informing us

[@collin5752]

Honestly. Definitely one of the most respectable you tubers

[@ricksanchez7999]

Yeah he’s one of the very few who are original.

[@ricksanchez7999]

I remember when thoughty2 only had 50k subscribers lol

[@KLK01]

Facts and he still uploads really constantly.

[@esko911]

Imagine if he died from a stroke because he found planet X and he was so shocked, happy, and surprised that he suffered that stroke as a result, leaving everyone clueless that it exists lol.

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

If you are camping in a mountain and you have a fire, and there are lights in a city nearby, it is easier to see cars in that city with binoculars, than to spot a marble a few hundred meters away from the fire. The problem is that you rely on reflected light., and the car in the distance reflects more light than the marble near you. And on top of that you know the car is passing near a city light because you spotted the light first and the car is around. But with the marble you do not know where to look at.

[@mdesnica]

If a planet is N times the distance from the sun than earth, it gets N^2 less light than earth. When that light travels back to us, it is N^2 times weaker (approximately), hence it is N^4 times weaker (where 1 is earth radius).

[@deborahchesser7375]

I thought when stargazing ambient light makes it harder to see ?

[@macumbeiro_xx]

Plot twist: when we find Planet X, its orbit appears to be influenced by another more massive object further away.

[@Distrustful_Faker]

Other solar system possibly?

[@macumbeiro_xx]

@@Distrustful_Faker that instead of a star it has a small black hole in the center and that’s why we haven’t detected it.

[@tdublove9558]

It's a black sun we can't see it because it absorbs light but we know it's there 🤔😂😂 NASA makes 56 million dollars a day for doing basically nothing in 50 years we can't go to the moon because we destroyed the technology and it's a painful process to build it back up 🤷 I'd rather follow sea level over something that isn't observable testable and repeatable 😉 🙈

[@BallMuncher555]

@@tdublove9558 black stars don’t exist yet. It will be billions of years before the first white dwarf dies.

[@macumbeiro_xx]

@@tdublove9558 well, if it wasn’t for space exploration we wouldn’t have satellites and all the advancements that came with them

[@MikinessAnalog]

The more you know, the more you realize how little you know.

[@marwan4358]

Well said

[@agentofchaos2901]

A quote that is in context? So rare. Very good lad

[@MikinessAnalog]

@@agentofchaos2901 "Lass" XD

[@agentofchaos2901]

@@MikinessAnalog oops sorry but thats what i call everyone lol.

[@MikinessAnalog]

@@agentofchaos2901 much hugz

[@anastasiak.c.lynch-romanov1029]

I have always enjoyed watching your videos, and I love all of the research that you do, too! Usually, KZbin videos have very few facts, and a ton of really cheesy, terrible jokes, but not you! Thank you so much for always doing the research, and for knowing how to keep your videos interesting as he*l, but without the stupid crap thrown in!

[@lylez00]

I wonder if Planet X is the atronomer's version Atlantis.

[@BDPershing]

The problem is... we know Atlantis existed, and it's now called "the eye of the Sahara"

[@lisah9561]

@@BDPershing “we KNOW Atlantis existed” Do you see the flaw in your argument, yet?

[@BDPershing]

@Lisa H no flaw, it's in texts everywhere... all because it's "lost" does not mean it didn't exist. Just like the city of Troy, Elba, Mari, Akrotiri, Pompeii, Mohenjo, Dwarka, Sanchi, Vijayanagara, etc... it would do wonders to educate yourself. I suggest youtube search "Bright Insight, eye of sahara." Could even just youtube search "eye of sahara, Atlantis," but commenting just for the sake of "see the flaw" is evidence you don't really search to provide evidence.

[@user-zc5ft9nw9b]

What's an Atronomer?

[@galilei7748]

It's worth mentioning that the red herring regarding Uranus and Neptune was actually the reason we discovered Neptune in the first place: astronomers inferred based on irregularities in Uranus's orbit that an unknown eighth planet was tugging on it, and that's what inspired them to search.

[@rollochairbreaker230]

Yeah, Uranus does have a pretty irregular orbit.😏 I'll see myself out.

[@dford0001]

Uranus's orbit has got nothing on the irregularities of Heranus's ...

[@eriks.uperpatriot5817]

I don’t understand. I remember reading the 80’s they found Planet X. Then they made this claim again in late 90’s. Supposedly I read they originally found it in the 50’s.

[@williammaddock9179]

In fact, when the team that found Neptune finally began their search, based on a mathematical exercise by a scientist who could not convince astronomers in his own country to bother with a search, they found it inside of an hour. It was pretty much EXACTLY where the math guy said it would be.

[@bryanplumstead9005]

@@williammaddock9179 so planet x was found? Any links

[@johncronin9540]

Well, if no Planet 9 is ever found, we could call it “Pluto’s Revenge”.

[@andremorning7427]

Why?

[@thesavantart8480]

Because If pluto can't be planet 9 then no one can be planet 9

[@Zach-kx1dq]

@@bingoitsapickle7071 david bowie

[@marcanthonywhitfield6797]

"If no planet is ever found" , we could call it Pluto's revenge" but if no planet is there then there is nothing to name, unless you're naming the empty space where we thought planet X was

[@Sanakudou]

@@thesavantart8480 😂

[@johannjohann6523]

Respect, love the channel, and his reasoning. many, as I have, can learn from this channel.

[@Tain950]

I totally agree just because we haven’t found it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. We have recently found planets that we had no idea existed

[@rashmibhargav1343]

No we didn't find any planet

[@jamesmacleod9382]

That doesn't sound very science-ee.

[@kristofferkarlsson701]

@@rashmibhargav1343i believe he meant planets as in other galaxies tho i agree thats not the same

[@verminsupreme6801]

The reason why we found exoplanets before Planet X is the detection methods used. We find exoplanets by looking at a star and measuring the light it gives off. If there is a rhythmic dip in light level, there most likely is an exoplanet revolving around that star. We simply cannot do that with Planet X because it revolves around the same star as us

[@Frytoons]

That’s actually a pretty cool explanation

[@ESFilms77]

@@blackoutgaming6394 and it could be because it is too dim to detect in our polluted areas

[@thebungalawang6841]

in my opinion planet x is a home of Aliens who have a hidden tecnology to covering their planet .!!

[@LocseryuOfficial]

@@thebungalawang6841 ok wang

[@verminsupreme6801]

@@codemcloud6073 I always thought it was a pretty dumb idea to send signals out to get other inteligent life's attention

[@jakesta104]

I actually remember as a kid when they said on tv they found a new planet and called it planet x then after awhile it was like no never heard of it.

[@sarahbaker1937]

Really? Makes me wondwr what they’re doing with the info they have🤔

[@jackmerry1972]

@@sarahbaker1937 ... ah yes, they're communicating with the alien dragon creatures found on the surface, pledging eternal servitude and enslavement of the human race behind our backs... (Joke btw. Here I thought I was making some outlandish theory that nobody would agree with as a joke, turns out, its a real conspiracy theory. 😟)

[@sarahbaker1937]

@@jackmerry1972 put a lot of thought into that huh?😂

[@PtylerBeats]

They have found evidence that can only be explained by another planet lol unfortunately, not the actual planet yet

[@spaceiscool7354]

Same bro

[@diyardley5213]

'Aw Bless! Such a cutie!' - and that's me describing Thoughty2! Another ace video young man, your witty humour, clever imagery, and yet highly intelligent dialogue makes you a must watch! Don't ever leave us!!

[@KORGULL-ISOLATES]

Hello Mr. Thoughty ! I absolutely love your videos and watch them as often as possible, I am commenting today so I can impart a bit of ( je me said quoi!) YOU might not be aware but there's a very large section of anyone's audience whom are staunch supporters of Pluto!! In the future please always be extra kind towards Pluto! IT has been put through ENOUGH already! Thank you❤‼️

[@RelativelyBest]

There's a perfectly rational explanation for all this: The aliens who live on Planet Nine are using their space magic to hide it.

[@HEYBERT1984]

Sounds right to me 👽

[@WorthlessDeadEnd]

I wonder if they're related to the aliens who hide our eyes from discovering what's really going on in the Bootes Void

[@cyloneking01]

They use a cloaking device

[@RelativelyBest]

@Atlantean Trismagistus I mean, it's all pretty obvious when you think about it. Only aliens had the magical powers needed to build the pyramids, for example. Mythological and folkloric accounts of magic make perfect sense if you consider that knowledge of such things were brought to Earth by visitors from other worlds. The reason modern science doesn't accept "magic" to be a real thing is simply because that technology was lost when the aliens left Earth.

[@moisesmouretarzaba1022]

Malcador the Sigillite's secret lair.

[@This_Is_Something]

This guy literally posts the moment I get bored.

[@derekflockaflame]

How do you get bored on KZbin bro

[@petahoee8281]

That's just your mind playing a trick on you. He has a video about this

[@GodsMistake]

You're in love with him. Gay, dude.

[@That80sGuy1972]

Sys Op into the mic: Simulation Earth, you guys are getting sloppy. Patterns are getting noticed.

[@3bdullah666]

@@GodsMistake how the hell do u know he’s gay just because he said he’s bored 😂🤣

[@Gabriel87100]

I always imagined Planet Nine would be a gas giant rather than a rocky one. It could also have such a ridiculously low albedo combined with how little light it would receive from Sol at such a distance that it would be pretty hard to find out where it could be in the sky.

[@kennethferland5579]

At 10 Earth masses a planet is definitly gas covered but not not a true gas 'giant' a term used to refer to Jupiter and Saturn. Rather it would likely be like Neptune and Uranus which are called Ice Giants because they are actually composed mostly of water and amonia ice.

[@pianoboylaker6560]

It's not planet nine. It's planet ten, ie, X

[@thesandwich5321]

Only if you think Pluto is a planet.

[@ethanbrown4656]

@@pianoboylaker6560 ​​⁠ are you saying there’s 9 planets? what is this 9th planet? It’s not Pluto, because if you count Pluto then you also have to count at least 4 other dwarf planets

[@pianoboylaker6560]

​@@ethanbrown4656 No, I'm not counting Pluto, I'm talking about the mythical Planet X which if you read my comment properly you would see. If Planet X was in exactly the same orbit as the Earth but on opposite sides of the Sun then they would never be seen by each other. It's not hard to understand that. But if you don't understand what I'm saying I'll make it easier for you. Stand by a large square building and ask someone else to stand at the opposite corner to the one you are standing on and then take 12" steps to the left at one second a step and you do the same, you would never meet because you would never see each other. It's the same for Planet X and Earth on opposite sides of the Sun. No one knows about Planet X, if it, indeed, it actually exists because no one has detected it. But Astronomers have detected an anomaly that is interfering with the obits of the known Planets, they don't know what is doing it but something isn't quite right because their figures are not adding up the way they should. But you missed the joke. Planet X, the tenth planet. X for Roman Numeral TEN. However, Planet X (i. e. 10 ) if found, could still be the 9th Planet since Pluto is not a planet anymore but if Pluto was renamed as a planet then Pluto would become Planet X the 10th Planet. It's a complete Mind fuck when you think about it. So don't think about it. It's easier that way. Or it could be just a load of shite worthy of a BigMac with chips. Not French fries, chips. They're called chips.

[@Travelbythought]

Well done, I love the topics you choose.

[@dirtyroomproductions9268]

My whole childhood is a lie. Scientists : we have 9 planets Scientists later on : WE MIGHT HAVE 10!!! Scientists later later on : nah sorry fam we only have 8 Scientists today : maybe if we squint our eyes we can see 9?

[@ibrahimraysidrr4609]

why dont use satelite telescop ? if the problem finding it is our telescope at earth get asmophire distrubtion ?

[@paysmenot2624]

@@ibrahimraysidrr4609 he explained that in the video, we can only get the perfect conditions to locate the planet a few times a year and even then we have to be looking in the direction of the planet (which we don't know).

[@ibrahimraysidrr4609]

@@paysmenot2624 i see , thx for the explanation , maybe in the future we can have more detail map like google earth but its google map for our sollar sitem ...

[@Aryan_0]

In my country the education board is so slow all the info is like a decade old, considering the rate of innovation and its only increasing its doomed to doom

[@hellzonefirebrigade3056]

@@Aryan_0 that's what computers and online programs exist for

[@imRehnzy]

I never knew yeti's were such good dancers. I feel enlightened

[@trsidn]

well, Xanadu is magical...

[@weakness.detector]

one of the best tweakers aswell

[@Ayveh]

lmao

[@merkcityboy834]

They're shy too an also did you know playas come from the himalyas..

[@Pauleigh55]

Love your work 😊. So very pleased to watch every new video. Seriously impressive.

[@sdarms111doug9]

Great video, really enjoyed it!

[@David-ce7mh]

"Uranus orbital oddities." Listen bro, everyone is little different, no need to judge.

[@ethansbluefox3studioscreat134]

your thinking on the right track..theres a reason why Neptune and Uranus has a odd rotation. hehe... use your common sense

[@truescotsman4103]

i was going to comment in kind. if this planet is so massive we should have proof of its existence at least on paper. its bullshit unless its orbit is so massive that we have no historical record of its last passby.

[@sdunstan1985]

Uranus is certainly a planetary controversy... on one hand it is not recognised as an object of substance... on the other, one would suggest it is an underestimated object that deserves recognition. I postulate that the classification of Uranus should be recognised as a planet from the sun and not declassify Uranus as a celestial body of lesser significance by volume and popularity

[@ikosaheadrom]

@@truescotsman4103 do u know when things are further they get smaller and the large distance means there are more places to look at

[@jackmerry1972]

@@ikosaheadrom I dont think he realises how staggeringly, shockingly big space is.

[@skunkybong]

“Up a suit and down a moustache” is brilliant sir Well played

[@archdukehamburgervononionr1948]

I live in Dublin and as yet have not seen this planet 9. He may be down a moustache but we Dubliners are down a Planet. Good day sir!

[@SantiagoTM1]

Planet X is the Lochness Monster of Space. It's there, we can feel it, seen glimpse of it, but we still can't spot it.

[@XxxXxx-fm3wo]

Likely a tiny little black hole which does not warp light, and therefore nearly imposible to see or observe. That said also these are likely a common feature in our universe. Only a computer model could expain this and sort of locate it's general whereabouts, it might be found. Maybe a radio type of telescope could read radio waves from it, if we can find that general location.

[@Welkon1]

It’s basically like putting 100,000 rocks right in front of you, then trying to find the blue rock with a telescope

[@Tiago_C]

No thats not an accurate analogy

[@myeyesaredrymylove]

@@Tiago_C Care to give one?

[@user-yb5tg7ko7n]

@@myeyesaredrymylove it's more like 1 huge colourful rock in a bunch of super small rocks

[@c0unt1ng5heep4]

@@myeyesaredrymylove Ghosts. They dont exist either

[@myeyesaredrymylove]

@@c0unt1ng5heep4 How would you know? There are still an extremely large amount of planets still undiscovered and well hidden as the video explains, who's to say Planet X isn't one of them?

[@secondcomingofbast9908]

This is the first KZbin channel I've ever seen that utilizes humor effectively without being cornball or over-the-top. You also learn something, with salient facts presented in a very interesting and concise manner. Very well done..

[@haveagreatday8248]

You are a very smart cat. A human could learn a lot from such an observation. On behalf of my cat's who are hungry and are giving me that "look" I extend our gratitude and appreciation. I dare not open a can of tuna right now it's too hot to put on my suit of armor. The sun goes down within the hour with a little luck my cat's will wait if not.....I don't know? Don't cry for me Argentina????? I'll be ok...ouch stop NO!...I'm ok...

[@bubbyft3779]

@@haveagreatday8248 bruh it sounds like you had a stroke half way through writing that

[@bubbyft3779]

@@haveagreatday8248 k

[@heyyou5189]

Have you watched The Report of The Week or his podcast VORW?

[@Ktulu789]

Half as Interesting has a similar style, and maybe Kurz-xhÇwOmegaPhyTheta-gezagt, a little different, but funny too, CGP Grey too, but not his latest gameplays (WTF happened to his channel this month?). All great channels indeed, even the one with the weird name xD It has ducks, and that's a good thing.

[@jamkat7785]

There's also the fact that when you have a large sample size (ie: thousands of STARS to examine) you're statistically bound to find something in that data. Whereas when it's smaller in sample size (ie: our own solar system) there's much less to work with. (ie: literally, trans-Neptunian objects are comparatively small)

[@charleshixon1458]

Gonna throw out a a possible explanation and my theory for a Grand Unifying Theory linking relativistic and quantum physics. The Higgs field generated by matter(mass), which slows time and thus creates the effect we know as gravity (established special relativity) also has a relativistic relationship with statistical expression of Quanta (wave/particle information packets). In the absence of a Higgs field, a quanta field of probabilities expand and this expansion stretches space, causing space between galaxies to accelerate while the galaxies are able to hold themselves together. Even within the solar system, the difference in the Higgs field between interstellar space and solar space produces this additional “gravitational” effect.

[@Jarrmia]

Uncle Iroh: Prince Zuko, you’re really gonna get a kick out if this, Planet X was in my sleeve THE WHOLE TIME :D

[@tibik.8407]

*throws planet into a blackhole*

[@itskorey577]

40th like😂😁

[@emmavrijburg6676]

Ah yes, a person of culture

[@thesmockinggunYT]

Just your mother

[@zakgunning1]

This mans videos are so interesting its nuts. Considering the effort and knowledge that goes into them and he uploads about twice a week while working alone is crazy. Another brilliant watch

[@Forming]

I'm pretty sure they're a team of three, if you look at the description, but it's still amazing

[@miraqen7801]

He even wrote a book in between researching, editing and uploading videos. He's a truly dedicated man!

[@rubycelica]

a real f***ing treat indeed!:D it's like the cherry on top of cherry icecream splashed with cherry sauce that it's about something space, i really truly ADMIRE arrans knowledge and humorous way of narrating!

[@THE_TECHNOIST]

Yeh this channel is an audio encyclopedia for sure,I'd use these in a classroom if I were a teacher.

[@Robski18]

Definitly ! And what's more, he doesnt tell bullsh*t. His sources are very reliable

[@scottbraun2457]

Seeing this again prompted me to consider other possibilities..including, if it's really that far off..it's orbiting might have just been broken off..and it's gone.... I haven't heard anyone else suggesting that, but surely, I'm not the only one to think of it. Also, I'm sure I have heard of the suggestion, that it's a "DARK MATTER OBJECT", explaining how it goes unseen, and still has the effects people suggest that it does. Run with this and see what it gets you.

[@daveygamey4553]

hey got a question, would it be possible to mistake one planet or celestial object to belong to another sun? cuz all we have to go on the slight dim that celestial body shadows the star. lets say you are using a telescope and watch a star for a few years and it dims, well what it whatever it was was actually much closer in our suns orbit or even possibly in another star entirely, i know the odds of that much lower than it even happening, but just a thought?

[@Airijko]

Bruh after 5+ yrs this guy is back in my recommended now lmao

[@Tiago_C]

Hes waaaaaay better than 5 years ago.

[@kartafla]

Cool story bro.

[@sveinungj]

watch the video about the guy who could eat anything, it's not that old. it's an crazy and amazing story.

[@giacky]

hello there

[@dot2562]

Lowell

[@simonroper4713]

This stuff is so much better than my memories of seeing television.

[@wetsponge151]

These video's are very entertaining indeed There was once a show/documantery on national geographic about space amd the cosmos i've seen about 8 years ago i remember it being very interesting It made me more curious about space and shit since i was about 14 back than *Bad english probably present

[@Oddie99000]

Indeed I miss actually finding ways to entertain myself other than watching KZbin videos

[@petahoee8281]

@@Oddie99000 omg yesss

[@PaintedMoonBlue]

Okay then. Crack kills.

[@wetsponge151]

@@PaintedMoonBlue h2o too

[@carterstoinis3397]

your way of explaining scientific things.....its awesome

[@Travelin2Wit]

Thoughty2 has good delivery. I don't know if he writes his own material, but the technique of alliteration, where playing off the similar sounds of words to create additional layers of richness to either make a point or interject humor, works perfectly with his delivery. You can't just listen to him - you really have to watch him too. The 9th planet? Scientists are looking very far away for that planet. I wonder if it could be as close as intra-Mercurial , in an orbit 90 degrees to the plane of the Solar System. That would be hard to find, unless you looked that the god Mercury's Caduceus, noting the double helix formed by the snake etwined with the staff.... Oh well, just wondering....

[@tomfromoz]

Well, 42 _IS_ the answer... (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) *Tom's wife Pam*

[@bflex89]

The yeti comparison was top class and very easy to understand for us simpletons

[@stonefacewiththedrip3377]

Mericans

[@plixplop]

Those are some big damn Yetis too

[@F0restcall]

@@stonefacewiththedrip3377 “hAhA aMeRiCa BaD aNd StUpId Me FuNnY pLz LaUgH”

[@divest_.2759]

Its 7 in the morning, i got my coffee, im relaxed and the sun is up. And thoughty2 uploaded...

[@hubazubax]

İts 5:30 pm

[@zakgunning1]

@@hubazubax you're on a thoughty2 video yet are unaware of timezones? If you're subscribed, unsubscribe, unsubscribe now!

[@whiskeyweekly7533]

I had the same thought. I saw he uploaded and furiously smashed the play button followed by the like button.

[@smoothiemotchi3434]

@@zakgunning1 made me laugh , thank you

[@LexaGamerSrb]

It's 7 in the morning I got my addiction covered lol.

[@seankennedy1377]

Thoughty2, been a favorite since the beginning. Always quality never quantity.

[@moxdragon1857]

Please do an update video on this! Webb telescope has introduced evidence that you're gonna love.

[@piramaniak]

I think I’m going to get “you’re only mental, until you’re right” tattooed, what a mantra 😂

[@Aliyahsarchive]

Haha

[@GabeDrumBeats]

Lmfao duh obviously it exists. It’s just inter dimensional.

[@VonSpud]

I had to laugh at that one too 🤣

[@kenanacampora]

The highing of fives. 😁👍

[@Sol-ui2if]

I like that one too. Epic. I had a psychotic episode back in 2019. What if all them chstscters from my trippy narrative are coming to Life? What a delight! We already know each other very well.

[@nickolashogg259]

What I take away from this is: We don’t know a whole lot I guess.

[@roguemf9187]

You didn't know that you didn't know, huh.

[@josephlawson1796]

Known known= researched Known unknown= doing research Unknown unknown= we don't even know if it exists. All and all it wasn't long ago (even on human life time scales) that dragons were identified as dinosaurs

[@galilei7748]

The more you know, the more you realize how ignorant you truly are.

[@mbrackeva]

The less you know, the more you can be surprised.

[@CrazyBear65]

That's what they want us to think...

[@TheXeneco]

I had always thought the x was for the Roman numeral x for planet 10, having assumed the symptoms had been detected after the discovery of Pluto, but before it was reclassified 😊

[@nonow1353]

Meeee too

[@bartman7144]

Anunnaki are cloaking Niburu to our instruments. Seriously, if JWST can’t spot it, it’s probably not there. Would we really be informed if it was?

[@ZeroDim]

Nah get outta here with that conspiracy joke the actual scientific answer it is either a Blackhole too close to detect or it's orbit is in a literal Blind spot and it's influenced by something massive outside of the Solar system (Likely a Blackhole) that causes its orbit to Fluctuate wildly. Basically we can't Find it with the methods we use to find closer Planets like Jupiter, Venus, Mars, Saturn, ECT because it is too far and has a funky orbit, and we also cannot detect it with longer range equipment because it's too close to use the methods we use to detect farther solar systems and Galaxies. The reason as to why it's definitely somewhere is due to us being able to detect the Gravitational shifts it causes.

[@cmd31220]

My high school physics teacher had a saying: "the math is never wrong. But your numbers might be" Reminds me of the planet X discussion, especially the first go around when it turned out yes, our numbers were in fact wrong.

[@MrBottlecapBill]

It's a common mistake many people make when doing research or being educated. Assuming what they've been taught is correct. Think of all the time that guy spent trying to prove that planet X existed but not once ever considering the data on the planets orbits, which was the basis of his theory was in fact incorrect. Talk about dropping the ball. Work smarter not necessarily harder kids.

[@crossdressfet-ish]

Hari seldon? Ah yes he taught me too

[@johnbockelie3899]

When I was a kid everyone believed Pluto was the size of Earth.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Pluto, planet 91/2.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Percival Lowell, " Mars has Martians !!!!". H.G. Welles " Hmmm, .....i smell a story."

[@Valarius_J]

"Why haven't we found it?" Master Thoughty? Because someone erased it from the archive memory.

[@Dianji]

That one got me :D

[@seanreedhere9393]

Nonsense, if it’s not in the archives then it simply doesn’t exist

[@bluescorpion5954]

That is a thought crime. Be careful, Big Brother is watching.

[@davidcostello6527]

Erased as in orson wells predictions 1984 he predicted yesterday's News would be rewritten

[@FriendlyKat]

Impossible… perhaps the archives are incomplete.

[@gunengineering1338]

I am far more excited about the fruits of the journey than proving the goal. I imagine that by the time we find the planet or rule out it's existence, we will know allot more about what actually is in the kuiper belt. Lighting the room seems more interesting to me than finding out of there's a toy in the corner.

[@DarthAverage]

Part of what may hamper a visual search for P9 is its "albedo". This is a measurement of what percentage of the light striking a body is reflected back out into space by that body. For example, the earth reflects (on average) 43% of the light that strikes it, so it is said to have an albedo of 0.43. If P9 has a very low albedo (for example, if it has a dark matte surface), then it may not reflect enough light back to the inner solar system to be detectable by earthbound telescopes. It may be that P9 might only be discovered by launching spacecraft to distances beyond 600AU, then turning their cameras and hoping to capture P9 transiting our home star. (Of course, if it's a super-dense object rather than a super-massive one we'd probably only discover it if one of our spacecraft passed close enough to it to have P9's gravity deflect it from its projected course...)

[@elizabethebbighausen9341]

Things Percival Lowell and I have in common: "You're only mental until you're right..." Always informative and entertaining. Why wasn't school this great?

[@srinivastatachar4951]

Because our teachers didn't have his mustache, voice, cadence and sense of humour! ==============================================================================================

[@ethereal2620]

First, new ideas are laughed at by a few. Afterwards, vigorously opposed by most. Then accepted as self evident truth by everyone.

[@swilliams2229]

Because our teachers thought and im sure still think that day dreaming is bad.

[@littleredpony6868]

the 1996 movie version of gullivers travels demonstrates that very well, you’re only mental until you’re right.

[@hosmerhomeboy]

I often wonder, how often people who think "they are out to get me" wind up dead in weird circumstances.

[@jeremythornton433]

It all boils done to what Douglas Adams said. "Space is big! Really really big!'

[@joshswimmerly7110]

Mind boggling huge.

[@GuinessOriginal]

You might think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space.

[@njones420]

Listen; when you're thinking big, think bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real 'wow, that's big', time. It's just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.

[@GuinessOriginal]

Probably need a total perspective vortex to demonstrate the concept effectively

[@philokrnotch387]

there is also a disc on the backs of four elephants riding on the great tortoise. Must be at the other end of the universe 'cause nobody has seen it yet, very improbable.

[@0AEROPLANES0]

These vids r great to watch before sleeping

[@thequantumnexus4270]

I think I put the Planet X hypothesis as more likely than the primordial black hole idea. Some say it's most likely the combined gravitational forces of all of those millions or billions of probable objects out there. But a large planet would be so dim and so small to our view as to be basically impossible to detect. But the lovely thing about science is that as more evidence is collected, competing theories and hypotheses can be ruled out. And that narrows down the search for answers, and that eventually leads to knowing what we're looking for and finding proof. If there's a really big rock or another Ice Giant out there, one day we'll find it or we'll know it's something else causing the weirdness. Until then, I'm falling in line with the most likely explanation - the combined mass idea. But will be open to hearing more evidence and look forward to new ideas put forward.

[@tyster911]

I like how even the captions say “hey 42 here”

[@specialed6357]

It's farty two, they should get that fixed.

[@palashsoni6442]

i thought i was alone...........at last someone

[@westside4372]

Im pretty sure he intended that, because 42 is the meaning of life and the universe, search up "42 hitchhikers guide to the universe" Sorry if i mispelled hitchhikers, english is hard

[@somewhatoccupied8696]

42 is my lucky number🤪

[@jakeeaton655]

The captions are retarded all the time .

[@Animenji]

OH man, I forgot what a moustache-less Thoughty looked like 😆

[@jonathanmachado3107]

U were lucky, lolz

[@Animenji]

@@jonathanmachado3107 😆😆😆

[@onemoreguyonline7878]

Wouldn't that make him Nought-y instead?

[@donovanberes]

I haven’t lol I miss that mustache-less face

[@MrVexedviper]

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[@JohnLee-ue6gy]

Ha! Percival Lowell and the 'Pl'uto connection was on this week's University Challenge.

[@jimspy1001]

Just a trivial correction..."Extraordiniary Claims Demand Extraordinary Proof", though almost always attributed to Carl Sagan, really came from a physicist named Murray Gell-Mann. Sagan confessed to this at a skeptic's convention I attended back in the 90s.

[@olivier-pierredebelmont.3630]

As a French,my big regret is that many of my friends don't speak English,and I can't share these videos with them.If only they knew what they are missing ...

[@lamepotato3407]

Get well soon

[@faustin289]

Me here was thinking all Europeans can speak English. I am yet to meet one who doesn't. What gives?

[@Kevin-nm8hn]

@@faustin289 playing online games have taught me that there’s not many french or romanian people who speak english

[@manny_menin022]

@@faustin289 I'm shocked as well. I thought every European nation taught English

[@justfreezer4157]

@@manny_menin022 It is taught in every European country I believe. But as a French, I can confirm our education system barely push English, only the bare minimum is taught for the first exam most students pass. But to be fair, our education system altogether is lacking in every department.

[@bradclifton5248]

Truth is that there have only been a couple dozen nights, tops, of observations in the last 5 years. If the could access the telescopes every day/night, they'd have searched the entire region of prediction long ago. It really does come down to time.

[@yourdashingheroidol7909]

Then it sounds like misappropriation of resources and manpower. Shouldn't there be a few years of mandatory observation,everyday for new astronomers?

[@bradclifton5248]

@@yourdashingheroidol7909 telescopes are busy on dozens of projects, each allocated time every year. The 9th planet is not necessarily the most critical thing. But, it is interesting.

[@yourdashingheroidol7909]

@@bradclifton5248 I didn't mean all hands on deck should be focused on planet X. Lol. Just curious as to why a gameplan seeking knowledge and a better understanding of things wasn't being executed. I forgot how expensive high powered telescopes were. Yet w/such wasteful government spending and missing trillions, I wish they would make a half dozen or so specifically for our country's top nerds to work with. And to ruin the discussion.....I know the Earth isn't flat etc.lol, I am however doubtful that we have nearly as many answers as space agencies let on. NASA is part of the defense department, not a privatized group. Do you think it's beyond ours or any government to tell us half truths or even less? I do not.

[@bradclifton5248]

@@yourdashingheroidol7909 perhaps they are waiting for webb

[@John-NeverStopLearning]

One reason the search for planet 9 / X is with the equations being used for our solar system it keeps coming up short on the amount of mass in the solar system. This was an astronomer 15 years ago.

[@priyeshsekar9417]

At 4.00 the Yeti dancing is the best 😂

[@priestessholleywood]

“One time she told me the sky is blue because we live inside the eye of a blue-eyed giant named Macumber”... “Maybe we do.”

[@kracen8861]

Glory to great Macumber!

[@evilchaosboy]

Who is she? Your Grandma I bet! Well, I concur. Cause what Ol' 42 said really hurt! \m/

[@normonsta8057]

@@evilchaosboy winter is coming

[@evilchaosboy]

@@priestessholleywood Don't throw shade. Never saw the show. Don't make assumptions either.

[@vid2ification]

Wtf you goin on about?

[@lestergillis8171]

"600 AUs?" That should put it out there somewhere around the neighborhood of the Oort Cloud.

[@mcfox4172]

Just about at the start of it. Roughly three light days

[@nickrog6759]

That's 600 Australians across per Arc degree , that's a fuck load of Outback !!!!

[@dreamcast2003]

The outer ring, because there is no pl x, it’s Einstein’s theory of Vulcan or mercury in transit from a fallen star to a planet. Or Nibiru, it’s once twin star, which is too far or outside the crown of thrones so to speak.

[@christianealshut1123]

Couldn't what we interpret as "possibly another planet" be actually the gravitational action of all the objects in the Kuiper Belt/Oort Cloud combined? I thought they were postulating the existence of that planet mainly because of some gravitational effects they could not explain otherwise...

[@richarddutton1981]

The reason we can see exoplanets very far from us is because A) their host stars are relatively bright and B) said exoplanets are MUCH closer in orbit to its host star than planet x would be to The Sun. Planet X, if it exists is essentially in complete darkness at that distance. It'd be like trying to see a fly on the bathroom wall in complete and utter darkness.

[@2bsurreal653]

This is a layman's observation of the search for planet x. There were no theories thoroughly explored or critical thought projected. You are correct 💯🖤

[@jay_kay709]

your editor finds the most obscure stock narratives and make them work.

[@patrickols]

That suppose Planet X was suppose to arrive in 2012, after nine years of waiting I have to say that even my old GF was never that freaking late to arrive

[@xavierrodriguez7836]

Man I remember I used to watch videos about that & I would always look up n shit n see the spraying since 2012 🤦🏽‍♂️ man I don’t believe in this shit anymore shit is all fake

[@sasjav1408]

@@xavierrodriguez7836 When I was in school, all of us decided to not do homework on that day and when teachers asked we just said "The world was supposed to end so what would've been the point of doing it".

[@elavke5441]

Planet was to arrive to where? Where did they think it was going to? Why did they think it would go anywhere? It's a planet

[@weakness.detector]

good joke, but let's not forget the fact of passing by planets. Essentially what I mean is the Earthlike mega planet passing by near our solar system in the recent years. Such occurrence can probably permanently change the orbit of a planet, or at least for a long time and on the cosmic scale of time, for us it will take far too long.

[@FocusRS500]

If its orbit around the sun is around 20,000 years, imagine how many years it will take to go around the sun once its here ... it's been near the sun since 2012

[@NoobGamer-xw7jf]

Congratulations for 5M!

[@TheDarkLord239]

It may not exist, but just the idea of a mystery planet hidden in our solar system is just cool by itself

[@greatcondor8678]

It's just a fake out to keep us distracted from factual information

[@danielirl9252]

I legit just learned how Pluto was named... how can't you love this channel, you learn so much in such a little amount of time

[@ronaldnixon8226]

Science isn't true

[@unnamedchannel1237]

From the dog on the cartoon

[@albireothestarthebacklight2990]

@@unnamedchannel1237 no, Pluto (the planet) came first, and was named after south-European mythology, like most other planets. The dog was named in example of the planet.

[@evilpompom]

Considering Pluto was the Roman god of death naming its moon Charon is very apt since Charon is the name of the ferryman that brings souls across the river Styx to the realm of the dead 😊

[@boatybear1013]

Pluto the Cartoon was released the same year that "Pluto" was "discovered" Conveniently it has an image of the cartoon ON the planette!

[@powermetaladdict]

* *plot twist* * Planet nine is the home of an unimaginable advanced civilization with super massive cloak device and they made an experiment long long ago and they observed it since the beginning. Their experiment being life on earth *X-files theme intensifies*

[@Ugapiku]

Wait so that black spot in the universe...

[@gerry5134]

Or the advanced civilization on planet X has been searching for a planet E... (earth) 😁

[@lovingdeanthegodmachine5622]

My brain philosophizing 🤔😂😂

[@daleksix1396]

Ok, this is too Spicy to pass on, I'm in! Someone get James Cameron's Personal Assistant's Executive Assistant's Personal Driver's Assistant's Assistant to his Assistant on the iPhone A.F.A.P.

[@spoonblender797]

You are almost correct except it's the earth that is being cloaked for our own protection. Read the teachings of Ra from the Law of One series if you want to know more.

[@RedVynil]

They discovered planet X back in the early `70's! i remember hearing about it on the radio in photography class in high school. Then, about 20 years ago, we started hearing about Niburu and how it's coming very close to the Sun and is gonna fuck up rotations of lots of other nearby planets when it gets here ion a few months!! Still waiting for that to happen! According to what's been said about the size of it, we should've at least SEEN it about 20 years ago!!

[@SisavatManthong-yb1yn]

Its nice kniwing each other out there on space 🌌 stealth stuff and team linements! Of 6&12

[@conjugationsm8528]

"I'd have been up a suit, and down a mustache." BRILLIANT!!!!

[@Gazmus]

I think Douglas Adams would be proud you chose that name for your channel. Great stuff.

[@fordprefect5304]

I agree

[@seanfoley8777]

This is the best comment throughout Life, the Universe and Everything.

[@0ned]

Last chance to see

[@TheElusiveReality]

i think even though he was wrong about it being another planet, his observations were still incredibly valuable because he noticed that something was wrong with our calculations about neptune and uranus. he predicted the wrong cause but there WAS something amiss!

[@terriallen174]

Love the episode, Aran but at minute 2:45 Neptune is 30 AU. Uranus is 19.8 AU. The diagram points to Uranus not Neptune.

[@clonetroopercommander276]

I remember when everyone thought that Planet X was gonna crash into earth.

[@kibblesnbits3174]

2012 was a crazy time. Everyone was pretty sure the world would end

[@RainbowFlowerCrow]

@@kibblesnbits3174 ey, don't forget Y2k; do you remember when so many people were preparing for the world to end because of computer malfunctions?! Lol, we all thought planes were going to drop from the sky, and absolute chaos was going to ensue..

[@johnmknox]

It won't crash into the earth but it does come sufficiently close to cause major problems every few thousand years.

[@Vaultboy-ke2jj]

Everyone? That’s a weird way of saying a few fringe loonies

[@spartan97351]

What if it did and we didn't even realize 🤔 it?? Who's to say its actually a planetoid and not a gasiod sphere?? It's could be passing over us right now,..Or we went thru it,in 2012,then 2020,then who knows,hit a core part in 2030..No one will really know, but for entertaining purposes its fun to engage in fun role playing speculative hypothetical theories..

[@Rhysman30]

Something to note about the transit method. It only works for planets in near-orbits. It captures planets crossing the star after looking for months to a few years. Its not very useful for discovering planets with distant orbits. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune have orbital periods of decades to centuries.

[@grahamking9121]

Also, transits can only work for a planet orbiting its star in a plane in which we observers too lie.. or very nearly so.. which must be only a tiny fraction of all planetary systems.

[@thegreatfusili4673]

I’m confused. How is this a note when he specifically explains this caveat in the video?

[@shelbyseelbach9568]

No, they don't. Neptune had an opportunity period of 165 years. That's not centuries. It's only 1 fill century and .65 of another. It would have to be a minimum of 2 full centuries before it had an orbital period of centuries.

[@markmccullough5873]

In addition the transit method is not as useful for finding planets whose orbits are not perpendicular to the Earth. I'm assuming planets can still be found by the gravitational wobble the planet induces on the star, if this can be detected.

[@jpt3640]

Planet X is going to have an orbit of like 10^4 or ^5 years. A shame he didn't mention. Great vid tho

[@ianwild66]

Is there an update on this in respect to James Webb? Would it be possible to use it, even though it is infrared?

[@alexgraham263]

Well, if your proposed “yeti in the backyard” metaphor is accurate. We haven’t found it yet because the explorer spends more time looking in the Himalayas than he does at home. Pretty simple

[@dumbassloser]

"Highing of fives" is a cool term. I'm disappointed I didn't come up with it.

[@thesilversurfer285]

don't be disappointed - you're not that bright....

[@richardcrosby6682]

If we find Planet X they'll send King Ghidorah after us.

[@stevekitt52]

We have a radioactive lizard near Japan that would stomp his ass. 😊☢️

[@merkcityboy834]

Ppl should find planet fitness first it the closest to earth..

[@fox____]

5:49 Gigachad must be hiding there too

[@mattwalmer6162]

I watched a KZbin video a few months ago that explained Planet 9 isnt a planet. The video explained that it's the core of a dead star detected by a NASA mission in the late 70s early 80s. We are part of a binary star system. And with it being a dead star, that is why we cant see it....its black. They referenced the NASA Mission results as being scrubbed from the internet. But said they found reference to the mission including diagrams with the results in a 1984 Encyclopedia Britanica. Lol.

[@j.p.9522]

I'd really like to see that video, do you remember the title?

[@j.p.9522]

I think the diagrams are in the 1987 New Science and Invention Encyclopedia.

[@mattwalmer6162]

@@j.p.9522 I dont. But pretty sure it was under a Neburu search.

[@j.p.9522]

@@mattwalmer6162 Check out "Secrets of the Solar System, 1987 Science and Invention Encyclopedia, Pioneer Probe 10" around the 35:00 mark. Diagram visible there.

[@Beartooth18]

The name 'FarFarOut' is something only a 70's stoner could have came up with.

[@YTEdy]

Or a Shrek writer.

[@billyw3130]

@@YTEdy or a jazz musician

[@williamsizemore98]

How about Spicolli from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"? Far Out Dude.

[@data1.078]

@@YTEdy It would not surprise me if there is a brilliant 70’s stoner behind the writing of Shrek.

[@merkcityboy834]

Or star wars..

[@nect-a-nene8657]

This is a nice channel not click baity while still interesting has facts that actually mean something stresses when things are not fact but opinion rather than counting it as fact and talks about topics people care about golden I’m subbed for sure

[@jigglybits9729]

Nice sentiment, maybe add full stops? I'm glad you enjoy the content too

[@MrExcessum]

It wasnt full of click-bait videos so far, but this one is 20 min long videos made to earn money from ads, that has information enough for a 30 second long exposition.

[@ssokolow]

A bit under-researched though, in my experience. For example, compare Thoughty2's perspective on Percival Lowell vs. that expressed in LEMMiNO's Bygone Visions of Cosmic Neighbors. (TL;DR: At the time, a belief that Mars had a civilization on it wasn't unusual.)

[@EyeOfThePhi]

@@jigglybits9729 lemme guess. u also dont like "ebonics"? let folkx talk and type how they wanna talk and type if u dont wanna come off as a racist prick. no cap

[@anastasiak.c.lynch-romanov1029]

Jesus… where did you learn to, dare I say, speak English?! Horrendous!

[@alexbowman7582]

It’s possible there’s unknown gravitational laws just like pre Einstein relativity astronomers looked for the fabled Vulcan in between the Sun and Mercury due to planetary Newtonian perturbations which was actually the energy from the Sun.

[@lunastar7599]

Thank you!!!❤❤❤❤❤

[@ChrisPyle]

Maybe if they’d quit booting planets out of the “cool club” aka Pluto, we’d still be at 9 discovered planets. Easy fix

[@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis]

Pluto should have been kept as a legacy, even if it didn’t fit the updated definition.

[@gokusamm]

@@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis this is science, planets don't have feelings, humans aren't sentiment about planets either (other than earth ofc).

[@morganboggis03]

@@gokusamm it is a joke, try smiling once you might like it.

[@gokusamm]

@@morganboggis03 Chris Pyles comment was a joke, but John's was not. Maybe you should take things more seriously

[@morganboggis03]

@@gokusamm he said Pluto should be kept for the legacy, which is a meme on Reddit 😂 so his comment is also a joke

[@byff69]

From the first of his vids I've seen to the firtheenth, Foughty2's videos have been fabulously fought-provoking.

[@ricojes]

Yetis be looking dummy ficc.

[@christiankalk4668]

Fank you, I fought I was the only one bovvered by that. Somefing just didn't sound right.

[@ComfySoul]

Love your personality showing through more. Dancing yetis for the win!

[@Projekt_Nightmare]

idea for tf2c weapons submissions we can submit a weapon that we have made or an equipment

[@keithreinsel7842]

Its called "Rudolph," named so by Douglas Adams in the fifth book of "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy."

[@keithtwort9655]

Last night I met upon the stair, A little man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today, I wish, I wish he’d go away! (William Mearns)

[@jackhamilton606]

I've known about an Apollo orbital scientist Jim Bagby who in the 1960's determined there was a 10th planet [back then we thought there was 9 planets] this was derived from the orbital paths of our planets - which they made careful calculations of to determine the Apollo moon missions. It was called planet X because it would be the 10th planet.

[@Thuktun]

One of the reasons it was called Planet X is that it was a purported 10th planet (X = 10 in Roman numerals) when we had 9 planets, prior to Pluto being demoted to dwarf planet status.