What Would Happen If You Fell Into Jupiter? | Answers With Joe

Jupiter is by far the largest planet in our solar system. But if you fell into it, would you actually hit... anything? In today's video, we jump in and see. Support me on Patreon: / answerswithjoe
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Jupiter is made of 90% hydrogen and 10 percent Helium and other chemicals. Its clouds include layers of ammonia ice, ammonium sulfide, and water vapor, but underneath the cloud layer, things get really weird.
The pressure forces the hydrogen together until it takes on some unique properties, first a supercritical state that is neither gas nor water, and the other a metallic hydrogen state where the flowing hydrogen conducts electricity that ultimately powers its massive magnetic field.
Oh, and it will kill you.
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[@victorvondeathstroke7682]

"It will very kill you." Best line ever😂

[@OCDTraci]

I thought the same thing, lmao

[@topknotsrule]

I had to take a screenshot. Joe is now a meme

[@maggsbufton1969]

As opposed to just killing you a little…?

[@sinistrality7883]

"Your friends push you off a Spaceship" guess they thought you were an impostor.

[@cmelton6796]

The Lefthander was not an Imposter. 2 Imposters remain.

[@robs.201]

I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Blanchard Oklahoma, exactly 2 miles from the neighborhood in Bridgecreek that the May 3rd tornado touched down in. I watched this thing, with my own eyes, from touchdown, to damn near Choctaw, almost 50 miles. That was the most intense experience I have ever had. I watched this thing rip entire foundations, plumbing, grass and even watched it rip the asphalt of Highways 9, 62, 37, 76 and I-44 right out of the ground. It looked like someone took a mile wide razor and shaved a path in the ground. I spent the next 24 hours helping with search and rescue. It's the reason I keep a 4wd truck stocked with medical supplies, water, food, 4,000lbs winch, chainsaw, sledgehammer, pry-bar, extra clothes, blankets, and cash, everything that I needed and didn't have that day, ready to go at a moments notice to respond to tornadoes and am 1 of the first on scene in the event of a tornado in the Okc Metro area.

[@yellowgut]

I'm not friends with them. I was just using them for their cool spaceship!

[@Megalomaniakaal]

Well, no wonder we kicked you out then.

[@ThePhobos100]

Until they pushed you out.

[@Colt45hatchback]

Good to see it worked out for you.... Haha

[@TheBeavadelic]

Whoah whoah whoah you gotta understand something man, I never even SAW these assholes before! - Ash, Evil Dead

[@franky7830]

Every time I see this thumbnail I think it's Tom Green.

[@aljr357]

It's too late to get new friends once they pushed you out of a spaceship.

[@squirlmy]

you might have time to make friends with other people that get thrown out, (or jump) share a few beers, like a night out at the pub, just while continually falling. I often become a baked potato that can't walk on solid ground at the end of pub nights, so... nothing new for me.

[@one-of-us9939]

If I had you as my science teacher I'd be a scientist. You are very good at what you do.

[@joescott]

My parents are both teachers and my wife's a teacher. Maybe something rubbed off.

[@lindathebaker]

Awe

[@absw6129]

5:09 'you'll float too... you'll float too... YOU'LL FLOAT TOO!!

[@Liam-vb3xo]

Adrian Bräysy WE ALL FLOAT DOWN HERE

[@captainclean2004]

Adrian Bräysy 5:13 RIP

[@musicalintentions]

The musical vignettes made me laugh. Plus this was an awesome video. Jupiter has always fascinated me since I was a kid.

[@NorthernDiaries]

"I will remember you" song was so unexpected lol. It all reminds me of Arthur C. Clarke's Jupiter description in one of the 2001 Odyssey books. Also I heard that Saturn's moon Titan has one of the most fascinating surfaces with salty liquid oceans.

[@deanwelch4995]

I've been to the center of Jupiter and it's core is not rock. It's just a compressed piece of metal that has an inscription on it that says "Made In China"

[@jukebox7719]

lol

[@robertkelly9772]

...and Trump just put a tariff on it!

[@tyeten5725]

Nah dude that was mercury you silly head. I have actually been to Jupiter and it is all-American

[@dayaautum6983]

Dean Welch and Tye Ten: You are both wrong, an inscription on the metal core clearly states "I made China" not "Made in China". Another states "I made the continent of Africa" and yet another inscription states "I made America and the Pacific Ocean". There is even an inscription stating "I made your moon". And if Trump wants to tariff the core of Jupiter there is even an inscription for that which reads "come get some you orange prune" You can not get any more hard metal than the core of Jupiter.

[@gardetto265]

Lame

[@ReezeGoingSenseless]

I will never tire of the RIP cutaway joke.Gets me every time.

[@AlexEvett55]

00:49 fun fact: 318 is the mass of jupiter in earths

[@inactiveaccount5455]

wow Jupiter is illuminanati confirmed

[@AXharoth]

is ti true or is it the volume ?

[@breadfan262]

@@AXharoth I just looked it up. The 317 number is correct. Jupiter is about 700X the volume of Earth.

[@AXharoth]

@@breadfan262 nice thx

[@Miikhiel]

Wow.... she thicc

[@randyriffers603]

3:51 Anyone else reminded of when Bill and Ted fell through the abyss for so long they stopped screaming and started playing 20 Questions?

[@saiyanprince7325]

throw a nokia 3310 into jupiter it will survive and probably blow up jupiter

[@fmlazar]

If that phone was a Samsung, I could see it happening.

[@jonathanjensen6507]

Damn, son.

[@pro0hunter1901]

BeagleMaster64 Old Nokia phones should be considered a deadly weapon.

[@csnoopy]

BeagleMaster64 calm down Satan

[@pepsizer6069]

Jupiter is a gas giant, i don't see if Jupiter has a solid surface....

[@MCsCreations]

Question. Let's say Jupiter formed without a rocky core. After all these (billion) years with asteroids falling into it... Wouldn't a rocky core form?

[@newsomaliandemocratofbrazi3214]

Juno Learned Jupiter No Have rock core

[@stabgan]

rocks will vaporize

[@cianbarry7386]

can you make a video about supercritical 😂😂😂

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

The joke's on my "friends". I farted before they pushed me out the airlock and they didn't pack extra air. And I pissed in their coffee pot. Hmmm, maybe I deserved to get thrown into Jupiter.

[@mreaves83]

Joe, please, please, please do a video about what will happen in the distant future, like when all the stars have stopped shining, and dark energy will rip everything apart and how long it will take for all the black holes to evaporate. Keep up all the good work. You are a legend

[@aaronjengo8174]

He made me laugh so hard when he said yea that’s the average Wind speed on Jupiter

[@jononymous81]

Yay Joe! Just throwing this out there, but if you think it's relevant and achievable, would you consider doing an episode on "mental health in the modern world"? (relative to technology, screen-life, the globalization of negative media, further class inequality, simulation theory, etc) I see it as a really important thing for people to talk about and try to contextualize (which you are so great at doing [contextualization]). Thanks for the grounding and laughs!! :D

[@KrisBendix]

What would happen if Earth falls in to Jupiter? :o

[@spacelisp1970]

Jupiter......burp

[@matthewbridges7369]

Kris Bendix The world will never know...

[@Megalomaniakaal]

Earth becomes the potato. Then over some extent of time probably separates(gets ripped apart) into clumps of its different chemical elements which disperse into their respective regions in Jupiter's composition.

[@Hodoss]

Shatters into a ring like around Saturn?

[@Megalomaniakaal]

Yeah, becomes a ring if it falls into a close enough of an orbit.

[@BardicInspiration]

Love these episodes about space. Keep them coming!

[@antonnym214]

Dr. Scott, you are informative AND hilarious! I love these! Keep them coming.

[@UpperDarbyDetailing]

Just so you know, Joe is not a doctor.

[@johnmoesche3959]

I’m not afraid of falling, its that sudden stop that gets me.

[@kasuha]

Well if your friend pushes you out of the spaceship while you're near the Jupiter, you'll likely continue flying in the general direction of the ship, just a little bit away from it. Because if you're near Jupiter in a spaceship you're flying at about 20 km/s at least and there's no chance your friend will push you hard enough to clear that. So you will stay in orbit. If you by chance enter the atmosphere anywhere near that speed, the wind speeds on Jupiter are inconsequential, they're order of magnitude slower. And you will evaporate thanks to friction of the atmosphere long before you reach top of clouds. Also regarding that crushing into potato, water is near incompressible even on Jupiter. So if you somehow stop your orbital speed and slow down your descent so you don't get evaporated by reentry effects, you'll end up as a pretty large potato. First only gas-filled cavities of your body will collapse, such as chest. Later of course your body will get boiled by the heat and the water makind 70% of your body will eventually escape, leaving a 30% worth of crisp. Still pretty large potato.

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

kasuha Perhaps your friends park their ship above Jupiter before evicting you. Your friends had better hope they have a powerfull rocket because to survive this stunt they need to pull away from Jupiter with a 2.5G surface gravity. They'll need to achieve 59.5 km/s pretty quickly or suffer a similar fate as you. Our current rockets just barely manage 7 km/s before they run out of fuel.

[@yellowjackets8395]

If your friends push you out of a space ship they probably weren’t your friends to begin with

[@clarewulf2054]

Not to mention that as you’re falling, you’ll reach terminal velocity (which will change as pressure increases, and lessen, but also there will be more gravity, but that effect will be less than the pressure increase), so you’ll know which way is down, because you’ll be decelerating.

[@louisgreschner2359]

You're right, but he's just talking theoretical, imagine if they'd float above the planet, with insane thrusters and insane amounts of delta v, then pushing you out. Or maybe more like a platform which goes beyond the atmosphere, even though that's again a very impractical example.

[@squirlmy]

@@CarFreeSegnitz If your friends are able to get a manned spaceship to Jupiter, they'd probably have the tech to go 60 km/s, anyways. And, I'm confused if you mean currently 7km/s in Earth's atmosphere, or in extra-orbital space? Big difference. And anyways, maybe they all jump after you in a bizarre group suicide? (since, you know, they're "friends")

[@danielgadomski5129]

Thanks for answering my childhood question! ;) Really, the idea of a gas planet and falling into it was bizzare and fascinating to me since I was a child. Thank you.

[@talonnewton5486]

0:38 I was in middle school when that tornado hit. I lived in Norman at the time, a city just off of Moore and OKC. The week after the tornado tore through Moore there was a massive influx of students who transferred to my school. They saw their friends and family get crushed by buildings, debris destroying their homes and their entire lives were flipped on their heads. Needless to say a lot of them were quiet…

[@Wreckhouse69]

If my science teacher taught like this I would be a bio chemist right now

[@writingtotortureyou]

So this is incredibly tangential but Jupiter has to smell awful considering it has all that ammonia

[@FirstNameLastName-gu1mu]

Actually, ammonia is cleaning fluid and smells pretty good. Do u mean sulfur?

[@I_am_a_cat_]

Joseph Lawhorn wow. So smart, you are.

[@fmlazar]

Forget the ammonia... it also has Hydrogen Sulfide.. otherwise known as 'rotten egg gas".

[@meisteryogurt1460]

And a variety of phosphorus gases smelling like onions and acting like nervotoxines.

[@michaelreed5416]

Wonder what would happen if you Poured a shit tone of bleach on it

[@raceliable]

You deserve moooooore subs and views!! Kudos man! Amazing content!

[@SirNickyT]

The RIPs caught me off guard and made me laugh every time.

[@MrGIMPdude]

that moment when you realize joe scott is the bro version of vsauce

[@MrWasted22]

Love the editing!

[@JediDanD]

0:39 "The Middle Finger Tornado" I see the locals are also fans of the Nostalgia Critic :D "We don't mention F5s in this house little lady . . ." "Yeah, the middle finger maybe . . ."

[@JediDanD]

1:20 "You need to get new friends?" Don't worry, you'll make plenty of new friends in Heaven . . . your old friends are going to Hell, lol XD

[@cristobalgarces1675]

JediDanD He said the May 3rd tornado

[@totally_not_a_bot]

I just watched the vacuum decay video, and this is far more troubling to me for some reason. Maybe because vacuum decay would just happen without warning and be done faster than can be perceived? While this is tangible, something that can be imagined. Like sitting at the bottom of a swimming pool, but heavier, and hot. And violently chaotic and pitch black and oh so very terrifying. It's like sensory deprivation, but without any actual deprivation except for vision and all of the searing pain. Oh, and don't forget the fact that you would be hallucinating wildly for most of the process. The brain does that in weird sensory situations sometimes.

[@jamiedawson7060]

I always hit the like button on your videos before I even watch it. I love your videos THAT MUCH lol!

[@saurabhmystery]

Great job with the vid Joe. It was funny & informative all the way. Lols ;)

[@buttergurls6401]

love these vids

[@kevinvitale8980]

I’m such a nerd... I find this stuff fascinating AND I really enjoy your talk... great way of presenting

[@curtisstephens4482]

I love how you open with an interesting story and tie that into your topic

[@baronblackdragon9078]

What would happen if I flew into Uranus?

[@54bigchris]

You will freeze probably

[@backbreaker127]

Baron Black Dragon You would encounter a thick, brown, pungent series of, uh, impassable "clouds!" 😂😂😂

[@sobitachatterjee197]

FART

[@RonaldLangereis]

Wouldn't that be a hell of a colonoscopy?

[@naomikolela8955]

You would turn into a diamond

[@trevormillin506]

I love that type writer behind you. Awesome.

[@Raketemensch-fl3sv]

And here i was thinking that it was a phony waste to have a cool typewriter just sitting on a shelf as decoration rather than on a desk for writing. But then i'm kind of a self-righteous snob with those kinds of things. I should work on that.

[@MichiganAngling]

“it will very kill you” *hard stare* that killed me

[@Kombivar]

Thanks for another portion of knowledge and humour :)

[@paolofox6604]

Friend : Us flat earthers have members around the globe! Me : Say that again but slooowly

[@damienwhited87]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@RQBtv]

Congratulations, you stole a post off r/facepalm.

[@RoryRose_]

Get better friends. And jokes.

[@syron7996]

Cannibal Corpse? :D

[@eviscerationplague1575]

But what's the song called

[@eviscerationplague1575]

What's the song though

[@asteroidinducedbear4983]

@@eviscerationplague1575 Sounds like the beginning of the first verse to Priests of Sodom to me.

[@eviscerationplague1575]

@@asteroidinducedbear4983 your a thousand percent correct

[@janosskublics7438]

Not what you would expect in a Joe Scott comment section 🤘😁

[@LORD-kg4sl]

Damn that metal part was hilarious

[@sarasmr4278]

I like the Live Life Pain Free books in the background while you describe in detail the painful ways Jupiter will very kill me. Love ya Joe.

[@Koinoyokan01]

Jupiter potato. Next screen name chosen.

[@pineapplepenumbra]

Hey, I read a short book called "Rumble Fish", they made a film out of it a few years later.

[@randomanimallover3196]

pineapplepenumbra What a coincidence!

[@pineapplepenumbra]

fnaf and friends wengi Probably not much of one (I've read a lot of books, that's what comes of growing up without a TV), I've come across stranger ones, but have a thumbs up anyway :-)

[@ryanwilliams3369]

cannibal corpse!

[@joescott]

Good catch. :)

[@bonelord3298]

Everyone's discussing the marvels of space Me- Cannibal Corpse is the most metal, the heaviest of metals.

[@reignofcrimson]

Priests of Sodom is the song for those interested

[@Tsumami__]

killzoid the lethal the one cannibal corpse song that even screamo kids know

[@NicePepsiProductionz]

I seen cannibal live in Belfast there last march, they were so fucking good my dudes omg

[@nsalaza]

Loved this video! It was awesome.... and hilarious!

[@Chrishelmuth1978]

5:26 is one of the best moments of scientific KZbin videos ever...

[@youeediot9776]

Who is this band? What's their name

[@Aanthanur]

"What Would Happen If You Fell Into Jupiter?" you get a red cheak :D

[@captainclean2004]

Aanthanur DC 5:13

[@BrickTsar]

The giant charred potato that was once you. I think that was a They Might Be Giants song

[@joescott]

Sounds about right.

[@michaelvantassell8725]

Great as always!

[@UliG66]

Good video to watch on supercritical state is the production of aerogels.

[@maranello55]

Jupiter Descending....get it? Get it?? Hhahaha Nvm

[@joescott]

Slow clap sir. Slow clap...

[@alphaadhito]

rF2 Asia TV Haha, best Jupiter jokes I've ever heard

[@BoYcLuE]

LOL Good joke, horrible movie.

[@PolarisCastillo]

Too easy...eh

[@Liam-vb3xo]

rF2 Asia TV that was a *good* movie. Get it? 😂

[@thecatserole245]

0:04 face you make when she pleases you

[@vinsanity982]

I immediately headbanged at the metal part. Didn't even have time to process what was happening

[@CDRiley]

You gain a new subscriber!

[@valky5318]

Sir, we found metal inside of Jupiter! Amazing! How much? About enough to make one or two satellites I think.

[@TheBsheep]

A homosexual guy told me he'd rather fall into URANUS!!!..lol

[@Paniekzaaiertje]

TheBsheep these days you'd get murdered for jokes like that. Everyone is butthurt (ha ha hehe) so easily!

[@ImSeriously2123]

TheBsheep I was GOING to tell you guys a gay joke, butt fuck it...

[@xx8782]

Did you hear about the homosexual candle? ....... It went out with a puff. /tumbleweed rolls past ........ ....... ill get my coat

[@Plubob_McHabblefluffin]

This remains my favorite video of Joe's.

[@altareggo]

"First of all you need new friends." As always, directly to the point, lololol!!

[@jeffkot8099]

I wonder just how big a mass has to be to become a star? If Jupiter kept pulling enough debris into itself could that happen ?

[@smiley-skeleton4598]

jeff kot Jupiter is a long, long way from becoming a star. Stars usually start at 75-80 Jupiter masses.

[@insylem]

jeff kot someone did that on universe sandbox. It was surprisingly a lot

[@meerderworter9192]

It would have to be gas... But theoretically, with enough time, when enough gas amasses, yep, it would happen...

[@darkreflection7319]

Most systems in the galaxy have binary star system. Our solar system only enough mass for one star. Jupiter is just the unborn remains of a child that could have been. Worked out great for us, because a binary star system would have made it impossible for us to live and Jupiter acts as a body guard to attract all the large debris. Our configuration of our solar system and the remoteness of it allowed early life to have a chance to survive.

[@mychaelmay6321]

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise?

[@TallicaMan1986]

Ginny Weasley its non canon so who cares.

[@nads4002]

TallicaMan1986 I care

[@frysause934]

I care Ginny, I care.

[@abhasgupta354]

Mychael May it’s not a story the Jedi would tell you

[@timnelson706]

Glad you've gotten back to science videos. Keep it up!

[@schalazeal07]

You are entertaining and very informative!! GREAT VIDEO! :D

[@joescott]

Thanks!

[@redvanderbilt289]

what would happen if I fell into Uranus?

[@priyamarora2977]

Red Vanderbilt you will get stuck in hair

[@robinchesterfield42]

I know this isn't what you actually meant, but I've seen a legit video about this. It includes a freaky part where you squish into a diamond! :)

[@pupil8]

I get it. Anal sex. 🥒💦🍑

[@abhishekgourav6144]

Priyam Vinestar for eternity

[@aMondayMorning]

OwO

[@Hrothgar98]

In no sense is Jupiter a "failed star". Not even close. Jupiter would need at least 80 times more than its current mass to fuse hydrogen and become a G dwarf star, like our sun.

[@treymiller5736]

Trev0r98 doesn’t stop ppl from calling it that bc it’s the same make up of a star. And our 80 Jupiter’s isn’t classed as a g dwarf it’s to small for that lol need to be roughly 250x bigger then Jupiter is

[@xpkareem]

If it had 80 times it's mass then it would be a successful star. How close to success do you have to be to be a failure?

[@btar1234]

@@xpkareem classic

[@davidnotonstinnett]

Christopher Perisho failed star implies it is “attempting” to be a star. By your logic then you yourself are a failed stat

[@squirlmy]

@@davidnotonstinnett yeah, but him, and the entire Earth, are a much bigger failure at being a star than Jupiter is. Jupiter had a much better chance than us. :-(

[@addisonmartin730]

Loved that intro!

[@abelucious]

The van allen belts were never mentioned during the Apollo missions , they had to address it later , they simply forgot to add it to the original plot .

[@LeesReviews69]

super high quality video and so interesting and funny. wow!

[@trulyinfamous]

You just need an asbestos lined space suit with a diamond casing for pressure resistance. Sounds feasible.

[@puckstop4286]

"First of all, your gonna need new friends." 😂😂😂

[@philipptielmann]

I know this short answer video is not the right occasion, but I would really enjoy longer. more detailed videos. like 30-45 mins. because you have so much interesting stuff to say, and I am sure your research is detailed enough for much more information.

[@gochygoobers]

My wife went to Jupiter and just got stupider.

[@SubKiller]

Jupiter fucked up big time for being a gas planet

[@jasonplant5432]

Love your feeds man.

[@Th4TGuy1984]

Great video!

[@ellroye7529]

I literally had a dream about falling into a gas planet last night. Thanks for uploading!

[@Imedge6]

you have f*edup dreams

[@imkindahungry04364]

Challenge accepted 😐

[@cdtaylor7732]

The tornado was so horrible that they considered making a new category for it, an EF6

[@ozgott1415]

I just busted out laughing at work when it cut to the RIP Jupiter Potato with the music. LOL

[@zealotguy]

Jupiter isn't even close to a failed star. It's no brown dwarf.

[@tylerwerner291]

While you're not incorrect Jupiter is an interesting case, as is our sun. Jupiter is unique among gas giants for its density and composition with its helium and hydrogen content being optimal for the formation of a star. With more than half of the star systems we know of being binary or larger, our sun being a loner makes it pretty unique as well. A lot of astronomers have theorized that if our solar system was binary jupiter would have been the best option. But our star grabbed most of the mass rapidly in the early days of our solar system, while mass is distributed more equally in other systems.

[@chipmewes5256]

Good video besides you pause to make a comedic point way too many times...

[@TharrisNogaud]

Super-awesome answer & it made me giggle!

[@Kp-rh4mc]

I have to pick up my phone just to read the comments. This guy is bloody good. Funny and intelligent.

[@alphaadhito]

That's why some scientists concern when Galileo planned to crashed into Jupiter because it had Radiosiotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG) which they thought that the nuclear fuels would get supercritical and become an atomic bomb... but it did not

[@alphaadhito]

It's not a nuclear bomb Plutonium anyway

[@antred11]

Alpha Adhito Why would that be a concern anyway? Jupiter puts out much more lethal radiation than a tiny-ass nuke ever could.

[@emrehatipoglu5856]

Dude that's what's been missing in your life the whole time. A beard. Please grow it further.

[@eymardfreire9223]

Thank you Joe

[@kleiv04]

You got my twitt with advert of this channel, funny movie about popular science. :)

[@charredskeleton]

I know what I want done with my body after I die. I thought I wanted to be cremated. Now I want to be launched in to Jupiter.

[@thoratraxsr8878]

So many interesting things I learned in just one video

[@starless4146]

at 1:02 I'm looking at him like "What!, What did I do?!"

[@FrancoNogueira666]

Jupiter Crushing Potatoe (feat Cannibal Corpse). Love it! \m/

[@JosephDEnright]

this is the content I know and love! also, I just noticed the Atlas Obscura behind you. have you tried to make sense of it!

[@JohannY2]

I love your sense of humour.

[@wrybreadspread]

much appreciation for addressing the radiation belt issue. this is the most concise refutation of the Luddite project Apollo sceptics objection to flying through the Van Allen radiation belts that I have ever heard.

[@Khether0001]

So it depends on how much material has fallen into Jupiter so far vs. Its size vs. Sheer location on Jupiter itself, but about the layer the "potato" would stop... would it feel solid all around like ground on Earth? Mushy like talcum powder on the bottom of ocean/quicksand/avalanche? or completely "gaseous" beneath like... rocks floating in... gas?!?!?