Voyager 2's 11 billion mile journey at a human scale

[@aldogallegos3209]

0:32 - 56327.04 KPH 0:40 - 17110242627.6292 Kilometers 0:55 - 3.81 Centimeters 1:04 - 384633.216 Kilometers 1:08 - (uses grapefruit, so the measurement is redundant.) 1:16 - one nanometer, a human hair is 100,000 nanometers thick. 1:22 - Distance between cameras: 0.03048 Meters Average distance from Earth: 384633.216 Kilometers 1:27 - 7.83336 Meters 78214118.4 Kilometers 1:36 - 62.88024 Meters 628931635.2 Kilometers 1:41 - 128.38176 Meters 1283934643.2 Kilometers 1:51 - 272.27784 Meters 2722688179.2 Kilometers 1:58 - 434.55336 Meters 4,345,389,734.4 Kilometers 2:08 - 575.67576 Meters 5,756,623,488 Kilometers 2:51 - 1709.50128 Meters 17,095,042,985.1 Kilometers 2:57 - 15,610,636,800,000 Kilometers 3:04 - 48,280,320,000,000 Kilometers Just an American tryin to help.

[@rahuladesilva7686]

You should've more likes

[@kabeerdas8149]

A good american for sure😂😂.. thank you

[@MultiWeb23]

You are a hero keeping the world free from ignorance and I love you.

[@HireDeLune]

I like how you used nanometers then went back to Imperial units.

[@aleksey4e]

Yep, it was kind of weird Seemed like author didn't really care about whether the viewers will understand that

[@alyssaa6219]

P

[@jovsdimacali6193]

its because the scale is so small and there's no unit for that in the imperial units

[@syechpudinharis6158]

Lol, cause there's no such thing as Nano-Inches

[@rsmith02]

It's scientific notation for that but the rest are familiar units. Really though the units don't matter as the point of the video is to create references to more comprehensible distances.

[@tegjwokjohn1839]

Vox: It will pass within 30 trillion miles of sirius Me: *Are you sirius?*

[@jovin_sucks]

Nice 🤣

[@LuigiCotocea]

Nope

[@Beard_Biceps]

Sirius: Why so serious?

[@cheesedmacaroni]

This comment is underated

[@countrymanrandylewis8463]

@@Beard_Biceps tf

[@Kayjillypoo]

This actually didn't help to visualize the distance at all. Would've done better with an animated comparison picture, or at LEAST a drone shot because this video didn't even give a proper overall view of the distance between the two cameras. K, I'm done dragging y'all 😊

[@Yt_ShadowBannedme]

Oh yea yea yeayea It is good tho

[@Jc_313]

Top300Drugs okay then.... make a better video than this

[@boimeme.]

@A.C. B. ART you go to mcdonalds and they make you a bad hamburger so you should not complain but make ur own???

[@ashwingupta9347]

As an American, I concur that in science metric is the way to go. Imperial doesn't make much sense, base 12 isn't practical for most situations. Plus random relationship between mile and foot doesn't help either. Still a great video tho.

[@MrudulJain]

base 12 is only good for day to day measurements and especially for carpentry as it is divisible by 2,3,4 and 6. Metric system for everything else

[@MisterFro9]

@@MrudulJain the thing I've always wondered though, what if you have something 11 inches long? I feel like the benefit of 12 has more to do with how you design something and not with the unit itself. i.e if I design a house in multiples of 12 (1.2m for example) then all the same divisions are possible. With all the added bonuses the metric brings with it.

[@xenontesla122]

@@MisterFro9 That's a good point, it's not like we ever measure thirds or sixths of an inch.

[@craigkenny28]

Everyone giving out about the metric system but honestly I just think it was a terrible representation of the scale.there are so many better ways to visualize this...👎

[@chefbeefsalsa2938]

Craig Kenny for reals man. I was about to comment the exact same thing but I couldn’t put it in my own words

[@tonu529]

still better than this though

[@pekonipappa9292]

football fields?

[@oatmeal7818]

Perfect. The video is terrible

[@geminiapollo2319]

This comment section: 99% Complaining abt metric system 1% others

[@mohammedrashid1977]

Gemini Apollo oh u r right

[@Im-mv6bf]

you mean 99% sir0knightfall trolling and 1% complaining

[@PeanutNougatine]

This shows how stupid vox is. They need to realize a big part of their subscribers are not americans and adjust their contents to that.

[@uvscuti2047]

Kira I would say over 80% of them are

[@bclaus0]

Too bad *nobody* except US citizens can understand this video.

[@TheGamingParadise22]

And Liberians and Burmese people

[@anantahandley]

pretty sure people in the UK can understand it as well

[@thepotatojuicer8245]

300,000,000 people is a lot of nobody.

[@KarloBatur]

US is the only nation that still uses metric, UK switched decades ago Myanmar and Liberia still use it but I think it's a different variation

[@anantahandley]

Christian Smith I know we did but do you genuinely not understand miles at least? I'm 21

[@Pscribbled]

What was unclear is which distance you went by for the total distance of voyager. Was the the curvy path that you took or the straight line distance that you showed at the end? Cool concept, poor execution

[@Puleczech]

The concept is nothing new, so it only boils down to really poor execution unfortunately...

[@Lyf4rMusic]

I was wondering that too.. he could have used the Central Park if that Governor's place was so filled with obstacles that he couldn't go around it!

[@harshverma6485]

Lol this video made it even harder to visualize the distance 😂

[@JamesRoyceDawson]

Inches and miles? Use real measurements. You're talking about science here

[@snaaail]

It's an American channel, they're going to use American units

[@MijnAfspeellijst1234]

At least put meters below the inches

[@ScarletGEHenn]

They can use what they want. They are an American channel, and therefore use inches and miles.

[@andersrabenhansen5017]

Completely agree. Disliked the video just for that. Aint got time for stupid measurements only Americans use.

[@umittaskin]

They are talking about science, using miles and inches is stupid. It has an international audience too.

[@zoomksa1212]

can you start using the metric system ,,,

[@ericktorres9791]

You do understand they are an American company with the majority of their audience being American right?

[@SkeleCrafteronYT]

Boosted Bathtub that's exactly why if people in the US knows what's good for themselves, they should start using metric as well

[@Hoehlenmaensch]

Was about to complain, but thankfully someone did already xD

[@doomdoktor]

Nasa switched to metric.

[@ericktorres9791]

lol it's a measurement don't get your panties in a twist. Vox is gearing their content towards the targeted audience.

[@LordOrio]

at least use both, imperial and metri systems togeder, so everibody can understand scales easaly

[@sir0knightfall]

Lord Orio NOT IN MY COUNTRY! THIS AMERICA! YOU CHANGE YOUR SYSTEM! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! LMFAO!

[@LordOrio]

you know, exactly people like you make stereotype that americans are stupid real.

[@pornesianparrapio5147]

sir0knightfall i canf 😂😂😂😂😂

[@sir0knightfall]

Pornesian Parrapio LMFAO! NOBODYS USING YOU COMIE METRIC SYSTEM! IF I WAS IN FRANCE, I WOULDN'T TELL YOU HOW TO MAKE BREAD! AND IN AMERICA WE MAKE FREEDOM! AND THE METRIC SYSTEM IS FOR COMIE BASTERDS! USA! USA! USA! USA! LMFAO!

[@LordOrio]

are you acting like an idiot, or you just are one?

[@catalonwarior2301]

comments: 1% about the subject 99% use metric system

[@davebrooks3161]

Not my fault 99% are wrong

[@krobolt5745]

Can't talk about the subject of the video makes no sense

[@theyes647]

@@davebrooks3161 *are right.

[@peternesic959]

He made a scientific video in imperial, OMG that’s funny 😂

[@RicochetPuno]

Go make your own. Their video their rules. DUH! 🤣🤣🤣

[@jordanlathrop2555]

1) It's U.S. Customary Units, not Imperial 2) With KZbin and NASA both being American, it doesn't take a genius to see why the units were used.

[@santiagomartin221]

Nasa use centimetres and Km genuis,and were they don't they crash a roover in mars

[@e1532]

@@jordanlathrop2555 nasa uses the metric system. One time they tried using imperial and it resulted into a several milion dollar rover crashing into mars.

[@williamgoddard8566]

FREEDOM UNIT

[@daviderenda9211]

We get it, you're an American company, but you talk about science and ypu have an international audience, so please, if you don't want to completely switch to metric, which is understandable, at least use both units if measurements!

[@sir0knightfall]

Davide Renda NOT IN MY COUNTRY! THIS AMERICA! YOU CHANGE YOUR SYSTEM! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! LMFAO!

[@alexsiemers7898]

sir0knightfall ok, you don't have to copy-paste your statement of every comment, just shut it already!

[@pornesianparrapio5147]

sir0knightfall i canf stop laugjign

[@vollste]

Multiply miles x 1.62 to get kilometers. There, that was tough.

[@chronic_slayer5703]

Im laughing because your feeling the exact same thing us americans feel with EVERY VIDEO!!

[@PlayTheMind]

Still hasn't reached the extent of mankind's ego.

[@CATboss001]

Can you translate the measurements from inches into centimeters, or would that ruin this song's sound?

[@mike4ty4]

Which is rather not uniformly apportioned among the different humans - some egos are much, MUCH bigger than others and so contribute a much larger share of the total ego. Generally seems like it scales according to a rather peculiar factor that is often described in terms of small, rectangular pieces of paper, often artfully decorated, of various sizes and over which people actually murder each other. And the scaling does not necessarily seem to be linear. It also seems to scale in proportion to the amount of information that the person acquires in some domains and in inverse proportion to the amount of information acquired in other domains.

[@mike4ty4]

@Robert Horker Nice counterargument to whatever you were arguing against given that it doesn't actually provide any _argument_ and merely provides _assertion_ . Do you actually have anything more than that, like details, like actually addressing points?

[@glennabraham2345]

Voyager 1 only just recently passed the extent of my ego.

[@swiggityswikesmashthatlike575]

Hey, when you're the only living things around for millions of light years, there's room for bragging.

[@shawnli9775]

At least put some metric conversions on screen?

[@sir0knightfall]

shawn li NOT IN MY COUNTRY! THIS AMERICA! YOU CHANGE YOUR SYSTEM! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! LMFAO!

[@tonyzan5268]

shawn li Vox is an American company. Go watch European/Asian/African/etc videos about space if you want metric Complaining about America not using metric is like complaining that mosques don't display the star of David. You should have known​ what to expect.

[@Ev_-ho8em]

sir0knightfall calm down bro they're gonna start thinking we're a weird ass country 😂

[@cormacsmithy3975]

3:00 NASA: 40,000 years?! Are you Sirius? I'm sorry

[@cartoonjoseph7237]

this was such a bruh moment nobody replied in a year

[@nativetube]

Wrong spelling that should be serious, & this is not funny

[@nativetube]

@@cartoonjoseph7237 this was such a bruh moment nobody replied in 6 months. I think you're long dead human

[@shallower6544]

@@nativetube I don't wanna do this but r/whoooosh

[@MRSLAV]

Also it takes more than 41 days to for the light to travel 11b miles

[@alexsiemers7898]

It's only about 16 hours...

[@impartialobserver9272]

@@alexsiemers7898 thanks for correcting the horrendous math

[@TheRubyGamersTRG]

no it doesn’t

[@steveqaiser7523]

@@TheRubyGamersTRG you failed math

[@ishworshrestha3559]

Ol

[@xyphn3910]

METRIC SYSTEM

[@HopeRock425]

So "helpful", l "totally" understood how far Voyager traveled.

[@de-plug]

So NASA can get pictures from a satellite that's billions of miles away and I can't get Wi-Fi from the other room?

[@sir0knightfall]

Dé-Vonté Hunte YEAH. BUT THEY SPENT A LOT TO COMPLETE THAT TASK! AND YOU PROBABLY BOUGHT THE CHEAPEST ROUTER YOU COULD FIND! LMFAO!

[@de-plug]

sir0knightfall Second cheapest 😂

[@FordFalcon1962nBlue]

thats a good question i wonder if it will slow down since it'll take 40,000 years to get to the next location..., no human will even ever know if it makes it

[@mmatthews61687]

Joe Chang because gravitational pull between two objects is directly related to mass. Voyagers mass is virtually nothing compared to the other celestial bodies in the solar system that are held by gravity

[@Sethslayer1147]

Telecommunications and space travel are to completely different fields

[@michaleandmore5111]

I've always loved the voyager missions, it gives me hope that somewhere out there, there is a part of humanity, something that we created out there, so even if none of us survive, a part of humanity will be out there

[@Outsidesman]

It's funny how people are arguing about the fact that miles and inches are used when the whole point of the video is to show that it's impossible for humans to understand this great distance. ... 11 billion miles vs. 17.7 billion kilometers... what's the difference? Our minds can't even comprehend the distance. They showed the cameras really close to represent the distance between the Earth and moon then really far apart to represent Voyager II's distance from Earth. I think everyone can understand that.

[@tonu529]

lol we already knew that, and those that didnt probably dont even know what voyager 2 is. In essence this vids kinda pointless

[@keithlarcombe4694]

Kilometers,making out you are traveling faster and further than you actually have.

[@LiamE69]

"Over a quarter of a million miles" ... "239,000 miles" Erm.

[@Vox]

Fair point! To clarify: the Moon's orbit around us is elliptical, so sometimes it ~is~ over a quarter-million miles away. But the average is around 239,000. -joe

[@TheRealHarshK]

lol get wrecked LaimE69

[@StefanVeenstra]

Vox The apogee is estimated at 404 000 km and the Perigee at 364 000 km. So yeah, average should be around 240 000 miles. 239 000 is close enough.

[@sir0knightfall]

LiamE69 YOU DAMN RIGHT MILES! THIS AMERICA! YOU CHANGE YOUR SYSTEM! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! LMFAO!

[@Hellephant426]

sir0knightfall LMAO

[@katowo6521]

I'm honestly surprised we somehow managed the world to use the same units of time

[@jattmixer]

Honestly, you just made the comprehension more complicated for no apparent reason.

[@alphaapple1375]

Here it is in metric units: Title: "Voyager 2's 18 billion kilometer journey at a human scale." At 0:00: "Imagine if the Earth and Moon were only 38.1 millimeters away from each other." At 0:04: "In reality, it's over a quarter of 1.6 million kilometers, but that's the scale we used in order to visualize the 16 billion kilometers that Voyager 2 has traveled." At 0:28: "Since 1977, it's been traveling through space at the rate of nearly 56,000 kilometers per hour." On screen at 0.35: "17,010,898,846 km -> 17,010,899,016 km," At 0:40: "But 17,010,898,968 kilometers is hard to wrap your head around." At 0:55: "We started by setting up our cameras 38.1 millimeters away from one another to represent the distance between the Earth and the moon." At 1:03 "The real distance is 382,400 kilometers." At 1:07 "At this scale, the sun would be about 140 millimeters wide, around the size of a grapefruit and Voyager 2 would be way too tiny to see around the size of 1 nanometer." On screen at 1:20: (Distance to the Moon) "Average distance between cameras: 0.381 m, Average distance from Earth: 382,400 km" On screen at 1:25: (Distance to Mars) "Average distance between cameras: 7.833 m, Average distance from Earth: 77,760,000 km" At 1:25: "Within a year, the spacecraft was as far away as Mars. A planet that averages a distance of 80 million kilometers from Earth." On screen at 1:35: (Distance to Jupiter) "Average distance between cameras: 62.88 m, Average distance from Earth: 625,280,000 km" On screen at 1:41: (Distance to Saturn) "Average distance between cameras: 128.38 m, Average distance from Earth: 1,276,480,000 km" On screen at 1:50: (Distance to Uranus) "Average distance between cameras: 272.28 m, Average distance from Earth: 2,706,880,000 km" On screen at 1:57: (Distance to Neptune) "Average distance between cameras: 434.55 m, Average distance from Earth: 4,320,160,000 km" On screen at 2:07 (Distance to Pluto): "Average distance between cameras: 575.68 m, Average distance from Earth: 5,723,200,000 km" At 2:38: "But after a boat ride and over 800 meters of walking, I reached a point that represents just how far away Voyager 2 really is." On screen at 2:50 (Distance between Voyager 2 and Earth): "Average distance between cameras: 1,709.5 m, Average distance from Earth: 16,995,787,582 km" At 2:50: "But it's continuing every second. Currently, Voyager 2 is traveling towards Ross 248. A star that will be 15.52 trillion kilometers close to in about 40,000 years." At 3:02: "Next, it will pass within 48 trillion kilometers of Sirius: the brightest star in the sky that is over 8 light-years away from Earth." By the way, 1 light-year is defined as exactly 9,460,730,472,580,800 meters.

[@robotfightingreplicasertwa8351]

Thanks

[@TadeoDOria]

Gee, thanks for using a measurement unit most of the world can't understand... At least put metric units in text only while editing the video, how hard is it to google the unit conversions? Also, given that you had to travel to Governors Island, why not just travel to a place where you can be accurate in your travel distance instead of having to take the ferry and all those distractions? I usually love your videos, but this was just poorly idealized and poorly executed...

[@redfish337]

Yes, how hard is it to google unit conversions? Hard enough for most of you apparently.

[@jc__-du6oq]

Tadeo D'Oria That's so ironic.

[@twistedgwazi5727]

The Imperial System is what I've learned to use, but it's honestly just stupid. Metric should be used instead, but so many people have been forced to use it because they live in America.

[@redfish337]

Imperial has good points. Remember that we use "Imperial" time, like it or not, and everyone can still manage to use 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day even as they curse Imperial weights and distances. I'm not saying Imperial is superior- it could definitely have used a governing body to simplify it if nothing else. I'm not saying it's superior for this video- metric would have been, though using a single imperial unit would also have worked. Switching imperial units was foolish. BUT, Imperial does some things easily that metric has difficulty doing, so you're at an advantage knowing how to use both.

[@Puleczech]

+redfish Lets change time to metric too, I don't care. It simply makes more sense. Period.

[@Yoctopory]

For those of you who donˋt know: 1 mile equals 14.5 freedoms per eagle

[@ImAfemaleNoob2]

As someone who uses the imperial system, why didn't you add the metric system to the astronomical measurements at least? There's a lot of people that know that better.

[@SeanMacadelic]

It’s called google… use it to convert the measurement yourself if that’s what you prefer. If you are too lazy to do that, then stop complaining.

[@ImAfemaleNoob2]

@@SeanMacadelic not complaining, princes. It’s just criticism. It would help viewers that are unfamiliar to the imperial system.

[@habibsyed9190]

Imagine we invent spaceships capable of travelling near the speed of light 100 years from now, and NASA goes on a mission to intercept Voyager 2. It would be so cool to just see it travelling besides us through a window as no external forces act upon it.

[@laminn4813]

As a Burmese, trying to understand this content makes me feel like I'm back in my science class. Switching from Imperial to Metric. And back n forth. lol

[@LightsaberAddict]

People. Google is your friend to convert to different systems. It is not hard to do it yourself. I have to do it a lot but 5 seconds of my time is not a big deal. Some people do forget to add both. Shouldn't be a big deal. Thanks for the video. Good job.

[@ci7210]

Lightsaber Addict exactly most space videos I watch use the metric system and as someone who grew up using miles and inches have no problem using Google. People about about lazy. Why don't you stop complaining and convert it youself.

[@kylekhan9614]

so Voyager 2 is just somewhere in space? does it sing Happy birthday to itself too?

[@TheGamingParadise22]

Probably

[@TheKurtkapan34]

awww, that's a little sad actually.

[@alexsiemers7898]

It's last birthday celebration will be in the 2020s, before we lose communications with it due to a lack of power.

[@HorribleSonofa]

We should send out probes in pairs so they aren't lonely, and then they can eventually reproduce to populate the galaxy with their offspring. Or maybe they won't like each other and it will be like that drive home from college with your ex, but it will never ever end...

[@TheManofthefuture101]

No, like Voyager 1 it's humming along the cold, dark and lonely void of space.. link : kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGmkpoyjfqlnrcU

[@jacksonreid4824]

METRIC SYSTEM PRETTY PLEASE

[@quinnreverance611]

Terra Titanius no.

[@e1532]

@@quinnreverance611 yes.

[@bouhaah]

Complicated for no reason

[@sir0knightfall]

Lucas Soné YOUR SYSTEM IS COMPLICATED FOR NO REASON! NOT IN MY COUNTRY! THIS AMERICA! YOU CHANGE YOUR SYSTEM! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! LMFAO!

[@TwoAPTMLMusicProductions]

I don't even understand what they're trying to do.. How is the distance between earth and voyager 2 relatable on any scale to governors island and new york?

[@vetonkllokoqi216]

all hail the mighty usa the bringer of democracy the land of milk and honey the nuker of japan the savior of my country and the country that has the mighty lord trump as president USA USA USA THANK U USA FREEDOM TO ramush haradinaj he is not guilty he is hero THANK U USA

[@trombone7]

I agree. You expect to see clear, linear progress. Not curvy swervy ferry rides and foot paths and stupid hand drawn arrows pointing to things on the horizon. Like the shot at 2:51.... useless.

[@CrossfireVAL]

TwoAP. I understand it and it's easy to understand them. It's just in a human scale, not rocket science. It's like making a model for a city, just scaled down.

[@ragingviper1389]

Pls don't stop making quality videos.

[@m3ammad]

Please always add an English subtitle! it helps non-native speakers to understand and enjoy your amazing videos !!!

[@Harley411]

Just metric system in my country don't understand here

[@TheGamingParadise22]

Neither does 98% of the world

[@emilchandran546]

Andreas Hoeg bullshit.

[@tostupidforname]

Andreas Hoeg where do you know that from?

[@emilchandran546]

Andreas Hoeg not that they need intent to be confused by an outdated imperial system that only the US uses.

[@michaelmoritz7915]

Emil Chandran Actually, there are three countries that use it. USA, Liberia and Myanma.

[@sashimituga]

Since less than 10% of the world uses the imperial system you should at least have a foot note or something for the rest of the world.

[@RUNSHOOTKILL09]

Sashimi Tuga google it

[@SvrffyH4ndel_s]

"The Sun would be 5.5 inches wide: around the size of a grape fruit" In that case that be one hot grape fruit.

[@loyaltyovermoney5942]

Alien find golden record Alien: oh I already seen this on youtube

[@andyharpist2938]

Here in England everything is compared to either, Wembley Stadium; the size of Wales; a number of London double decker buses end-to-end ; or filling so many Olympic Swimming pools. Don't ask me why .

[@ngc-fo5te]

Why not? Saying a million gallons or so many million litres is meaningless to most people but so many swimming pools gives a point of reference.

[@marteenyo]

"voyager 2 will reach the star in about two hundred and ninety six..." :D "...thousand years" D:

[@masdzulfikar6201]

I get the point of the visualization, but it's pretty unintuitive. Dot on a paper would do a better job.

[@Masquerola]

Comments: 50% "use metric", 50% actual comments.

[@Puleczech]

So highlighting the fact that science related video on a popular channel does not speak the officially accepted language of science is not an "actual comment"? What else do you want people to comment? The fact that they made it super unclear whether the length of the curvy path the guy took is the actual distance of Voyager or just the final distance between the two points?

[@davidc.pierce9631]

Excellent vid! The voyager has made an astounding journey, and will continue on... Thanks, for the nifty visualization. 👍

[@BlooIhara]

Wow!! i really love the effort in making this video.. Great work Vox!! 👍👍

[@kalebhobson-garcia3690]

It's funny how 99% of the comments are just people complaining about the use of the imperial system instead of the metric system

[@hopefulromantic.]

Kaleb Hobson-Garcia Because American is funny too tho

[@Sunny-mo7fr]

First satellite to pass uranus.

[@jacktran3516]

Lmao are the people at NASA sirius about taking like 300 years to get to a star?

[@jarreddeforge8094]

Jake Doogily 300? You mean thousand.

[@mohammedrashid1977]

U think it will reach within few days or months

[@thatkeepskillingyouintitan64]

Sirius Hehe

[@FordFalcon1962nBlue]

40,000 you mean to the next location..and then nearly 300,000 years to get to that large star 8.9 light years away.....humans probably wont be around anyway..

[@FordFalcon1962nBlue]

to give you a perspective on time...think about the BC times whenthe romans were around, 4,000 years ago....imagine going from the roman era to the present 10 times in a row.......

[@mgibbs88]

To all you complaining about using the "Imperial System" you're actually wrong. It isn't Imperial it is US Customary Units which are slightly different. Both are based off of old English units but the Imperial System got modified in 1825 while America, which was independent of Britain, continued using the original system. This is why American and Imperial gallons are different.

[@unsatisfiedfans7422]

Alternate title: Voyager 2's journey using non-standard measurement used by less than 1% human in the world

[@ItsMe-ox8lm]

Ok, I know there is a lot of problems about the Units they used, but people in high school they teaches different types of units, so I prefer International Metric System, but I can do the conversions too. Take it as science/math problem you need to solve, 1 mi = 1.6 Km. And is incredible how far that machine has gone.

[@KyivMapping]

The comments in a nutshell: 99.9% People complaining about not using the metric system 0.1% This comment

[@kittyhawk9707]

To all the simpletons who watched the video, but decided to complain about the measurement system used ... Here it is in a way you can grasp and comprehend .... VOYAGER 2 IS VERY VERY FAR AWAY. .... there that simple enough for you??????

[@mike4ty4]

Which also makes the video very useless because the whole point is to COMPARE the distance scales on a recognizable scale.

[@DarkfireYGO]

I don't care that this video is not using the metric system. Honestly, this was a great video Vox.

[@esmailiyou]

dude, showing distance with your camera on this island made it even more complicated than understanding the actual millions and billions miles

[@ariqrashid4034]

Don't waste your time scrolling down, 99% of the comments are these: "Stupid channel talking about science but not metric system" Thank me later

[@rnqtn]

Watch a video by Cody's Lab called "How Far Are The Nearest Stars?" The example from both this and his video are pretty similar but I think his method will blow your mind further.

[@koushuu]

I think both Mark Rober and To Scale have done this already, but hey! Cody's my favourite!

[@umiluv]

Dream Big - yah this methodology sort of sucked lol. It would have been better visually if they had a person hold a planet symbol at each stop they noted so that the audience could both see how far Voyager 2 was from the Earth and how far they were from the planets they had just passed. I did a similar example with some 5th graders for summer school where we used the scale of 1cm = 100,000km or something like that. They had to convert the measurements I gave them to cm and then mark the planets from a starting point I noted was the Sun. It's a great way to teach them about a) math, b) the metric system, and c) the vastness of space. It was a really fun exercise and they got to run around and be hyper as well. So win-win for everyone.

[@tikket10]

1:16 lol cant you go smaller than an inch by adding nano to inch? Oh no, just use the metric system in that occasion.

[@TheonlyHoneyBadger]

Hearing that voyager 2 will reach a planet with potential life on it in 290,000 years makes me so anxiety ridden... who else??

[@Zukku15]

I had so high hopes when i saw this hit youtube. Then it was the imperial system..

[@lolpauve]

All these people complaining about Vox not using the metric system is truly pathetic.

[@naciremasti]

my questions simple. i get the gold record thing...but voyager 2 is traveling so fast...hows a. an alien civilization gonna spot it (as its tiny) and b. how're they gonna slow it down?

[@Woody615]

Agree. It's going to be 30 trillion miles of Sirius. That is 3,000 times the distance between the Earth and Voyager right now. AND it will be a dead craft. The power will be long gone, and even the radioactivity from the RTG will be gone. It's 1/2 life is about 88 years, and it would go through over 3,300 1/2 lives before it is even that close. So it will have transformed into new elements, possibly even lead by then. IF however, they are even able to be out that far, AND be able to detect it, they would probably have a way to move that fast long side of it and capture it.

[@mrmatt5356]

99.9% of the comments are angry foreigners lol

[@be2Gee]

Mr matt You’re the foreigner lol

[@brianbethea3069]

@@be2Gee This video was made by Americans, mostly for Americans about an American probe designed and launched by an American organization, and it's hosted on a website that's based in the US, run by an American company. How are Americans the foreigners to this video? You might want to rethink the logic behind your statement, it's not really making any sense.

[@anthonyc4138]

@@brianbethea3069 yep

[@cheezywolf7777]

Pretty much every comment on here is complaining about how there's no metric units in the video. Just look up the conversions if you don't know imperial units.

[@bronzebuilder2115]

By the time voyager2 reaches Sirius human would no longer walk the earth.

[@1UpsForLife]

I agree that metric units should've been used, but why dislike the video because of it? now there are 1000 dislikes on a great video =/

[@markojovanovski3372]

Bcs the point of the video is to compare the distance to a human scale...which it failed

[@fridayLord]

1:45 I will be mature, one day to understand that 😂😂😂

[@perhapsahumanbeing]

The weirdest thing about the Voyager is that they were too prude to put an anatomically correct depiction of a woman on that golden record

[@quinsv3632]

this didn’t help. just felt like watching someone scroll on google maps

[@vishnuvarma1142]

Are people actually disliking this video because of the units they use? ._. I'm a fan of the metric system myself, but come one, you can completely understand the point he's trying to make. It really doesn't make the video any worse. Chill. I do Physics in England, and lots of Professors like to use miles instead of km for making approximations, particularly when they're using the Earth as a base uni, cause they can approximate its radius to being ~4000miles which is a nice round number to work with. If you actually had an issue with units when it comes to the topic at hand, you'd want them to use AU, because that's likely what the astrophysicists are using, but that's just not intuitive to use for a public explanation.

[@tallglass]

Oh my God, can we talk about the Voyager, rather than the dumb measurements. There is a map included for scale!

[@Deadassbruhfrfr]

Nah as a fellow American I have to admit, sadly, that using freedom units will not suffice.

[@drizm9257]

Let's legalize all drugs so Americans finally learn the metric system.

[@sir0knightfall]

Driz MT THAT WON'T CHANGE ANYTHING! YOU CAN USE OUR SYSTEM TO MEASURE DRUGS! LMFAO! NOT IN MY COUNTRY! THIS AMERICA! YOU CHANGE YOUR SYSTEM! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! LMFAO!

[@descai10]

Most americans actually know the metric system.

[@aescius1455]

Name Source? No they don't. I'm an American, and I use the metric system. No one else I know uses or understands the metric system.

[@descai10]

+Aescius Everyone I know can use the metric system. Most people as far as I can tell know at least some of the metric system. Especially meter measurements.

[@robthehitmanrude]

The gold disks are not diverse enough. Aliens will think we were a species of bigots. smh

[@bensweet2011]

Have you actually done any research as to what's on them? They're incredibly diverse and contain pictures and music from several different cultures around the globe, historical and modern.

[@laszu7137]

The more bigoted society is, the more advanced it is. Aliens must be some ultra-nazis.

[@ape2325]

you guys should stop complaining about what system they used to measure the distance and appreciate the video and how well it was made.

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

Good vid!!!

[@Crystal14351]

Are there really this many dislikes over the fact that he used *miles*? Jesus Christ. Grow up, people. Get a calculator.

[@L4wr3nc3810]

I disliked because the visual presentation sucks

[@Puleczech]

+manifest LOL you mean the fact they visually represented the distance by a curvy path? Also "get a calculator" is probably as much a good solution as assuming everyone speaks English outside the US...

[@dieubangmach9409]

use metric !! dammit!!!!

[@Cosmic_Solace]

Use. The. Metric. System. Seriously..feet and miles are really hard to understand when it comes to distances.

[@wasabiwaffle]

no. Convert it yo own Damm self boi.

[@FyberOptic]

Almost every comment is whining about the measurements used because they don't understand that 90+% of the audience are Americans, or aren't capable of simply judging the shown distances in their own system, when they should actually be complaining about how this video didn't really do anything informative other than a couple of photographers trying to come up with an excuse to run around New York City with their cameras to compare distances of a spacecraft that isn't even the furthest out of the two.

[@GigTube]

Voyager: "Don't make me smell Uranus!"

[@JustinLHopkins]

Metric system complainers. Stop being lazy and either translate the numbers, or go to Wikipedia and look up the voyager numbers yourself. It's really not a big deal.

[@razmuzen1090]

-Inchman

[@thatkeepskillingyouintitan64]

Metric measurements are already needed to be in the video It's the uploaders job to translate it not ours

[@Puleczech]

+Justin That is like me making a video in Czech and expecting you to understand me by advising you to "just" translate the words. They make science related video, they should use the officially accepted language ffs... Sure, it is not a big deal here, but it is a big deal in science. There have been countless problems, including crashes, in the history of space flight exactly for the reason of bad unit conversion.

[@KrisMcCool]

Justin Hopkins Shut up So do I have to go to a Wikipedia page every time I watch a video? Bullshit

[@duccio1299]

Yeah, we have to go to Wikipedia and look at some bullshit like "1 yard=3 feet, 1 foot=12 inches and 1 inch=2,54 cm". Seriously? Feel free to use such a mess of a measurement system, while the rest of the world use the logic and scientific one.

[@mazzyvictor]

I think it's funny that non-Americans who claim the metric system is SUPERIOR to the INFERIOR Imperial system(which Americans used to put twelve men on the Moon and brought them ALL back safe and sound)have NOT accomplished such a STUPENDOUS, INCREDIBLE feat like the Americans did almost 50 YEARS AGO! Way to go USA! Looks like the rest of the world is JEALOUS of the Americans. My mother is an American ... which means ... For Goodness sakes! I'm also an American! Life, Liberty and the pursuit of ALWAYS using a yardstick!(pounds and gallons)I'm just saying. :^()

[@victorvelazquez6547]

I wish I was an American, then I would help her transform from a plain-old SUPERPOWER into an enviable, unbelievable ULTRAPOWER! GO USA! I'm just saying. :^()

[@gunnargrautnes4451]

Eichelgut And of course NASA used the metric system to put people on the moon...

[@uvscuti2047]

Eichelglut yeh let’s just teach over 350 million people a new unit of measurement

[@tobagotr3571]

UV Scuti 325 million*****

[@uvscuti2047]

Mercury is just a horse my bad

[@REAlREAction]

**Vox is Democratic PROPAGANDA**

[@homeXstone]

there is always that one guy who hasn't even watched the video but still has an opinion

[@ThruThe9]

No. Buzzfeed is democratic propaganda.

[@mike4ty4]

What on EARTH is even REMOTELY political about this video eh?

[@E-2.71]

This is about Human's reaching out in the Universe, NOT Politics, what a A-hole, this REAl ReAction is, should change his comment name REAl A-HOLE!!!!

[@unknownchannelwelp254]

ThruThe9 is

[@PatBatemanAtDorsia]

the human scale visualization is more confusing than just saying 11 billion miles. Good job on the video. Impressive.

[@pratikkatkar5032]

We are proud for these two spacecraft voyager This is remarkable achievement for usa and nasa Keep doing this work show mysterious our solar system and milki way

[@-eternal]

True Comment section: 99% Voyager puns. .5% Metric System Flame Wars .5% Comment pointers such as this.

[@idkbro4932]

This is the stuff I subscribed for.

[@andrewgill6770]

How about giving the guys some respect. They worked hard on that video.

[@that_pac123]

Aside from the fact that you didn't use the metric system, this video's pretty cool.

[@DeltaRoSigma]

Kindly include metric units

[@JaneDoe-ng9kx]

Oh my freaking god, why are we disliking and commenting this thing to death just because it doesn't use the metrics system? Even if a lot of people don't use it, the video's main point is giving us a physical visual as to just how ridiculously far Voyager 2 is from us! What do you guys want?

[@theyakamoz1]

"about 296,000 years", DUUUUDEEE I can't wait to see that dude

[@yurab1834]

Using nanometers alongside with miles is such a smart idea.

[@ashcom511]

I don't understand how people can complain about the standard system. I live in the U.S. and therefore I'm accustomed to it, however I still learned to do the conversions to metric. I think it's something we should all do. (And yes, I agree the U.S. should've just followed suit with the rest of the world, but we can't change that now.)

[@iandrsaurri625]

As a Canadian who knows the metric the most well I APPLAUD VOX FOR HAVING THE BALLS TO USE METRIC EVEN THOUGH EVERYONE HAS A HISSYFITT ABOUT IT. Like seriously, what if we went to a KZbin channel from India and spammed the comments saying that english is the world language and they should not speak hindi. Just chill and watch the video and criticize it for it's real problems.

[@iandrsaurri625]

Also if anyone here has an education, I think you all understand how large a foot and mile is