Why Our Solar System Is Weirder Than You'd Think

[@Catman2123]

Sun: “WHY CAN’T YOU JUST BE NORMAL!” Jupiter: **Ceases inward migration and holds steady orbit protecting inner planets instead of ejecting them** Saturn: **hula hooping** Uranus: **lays down on its side** Neptune: **kidnaps a moon** Mercury: **loses most of its crust and floats as an almost naked core** Venus: **literally spins backwards** Mars: **rusts like it’s an abandoned warehouse** Earth: **actual screaming**

[@feynirr]

I'll only be content if I see this as a short animation

[@unlucky_111]

Things are getting a little *wild* in coullious house...

[@Pacbandit13]

@@unlucky_111 oh that solar system, what are we going to do with it 🤣

[@alexanderabrashev1366]

Earth: *flat*

[@CasperFiles1969]

Asteroids and dwarf planets: Umm we are normal!

[@ReachSkyla]

(Everyone looks at jupiter in shock) Jupiter: It was a different time! I've really grown as a planet.

[@yamierfoster532]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA deadd

[@vantagepoint6344]

Planet obesity

[@rohanjarande]

That planet is the reason we exist.

[@TheAdekrijger]

@@rohanjarande damn right.

[@toropazzoide]

Mars: YEAH. TELL ME ABOUT THAT. YOU'RE WELCOME, DUDE.

[@DeadlyLazer]

Sun: *spends hours cleaning out the house* "there... Finally done" Jupiter: *storms in drunk* "hey honey, im home" *knocks everything over and passes out on the floor*

[@cool985]

I think jupiter would be the she

[@lethalhotbox3778]

@@cool985 ur so sexist

[@yakarotsennin3115]

Jupiter wouldn’t be a spouse, it would be a child.

[@mikep8071]

@@cool985 Jupiter is a male name.

[@sambradley9091]

@@cool985 Jupiter is named after the ancient Roman god who was a male. But also, neither the sun nor Jupiter were gendered in this sentence.

[@TheHWR]

Meanwhile in another solar system: “Why our solar system is weirder than you think”

[@sbevebren1642]

Not everything is called solar system There are Trappist-1 system Alpha centauri system

[@naturegirl1999]

@@sbevebren1642 Because we named them that. Maybe our sun isn't called a sun by other sentient lifeforms from another planet orbiting what we call a star. I guess my point is, other lifeforms will have different names for the same celesttial bodies.

[@Codydog125]

Lol you two that replied to this guy are the worst. This dude made a joke and no one cares that aliens probably wouldn't call it a solar system and anyone could figure that out. Pointing it out doesn't make you a genius it makes you look stupid

[@sbevebren1642]

@@Codydog125 did I say I'm a genius? And I don't really care of your opinion, I'm stating a fact

[@ralphgoreham3516]

@@naturegirl1999 Of course you are surmising hypothetically. If there were lifeforms, and had superior intelligence/knowledge than us they would have had to evolve, and evolution of life anywhere and any form is impossible. No-one on earth knows how life began here. If one correctly reads the Genesis account (not YEC) one does know. Psm 36:9 states with YOU is the source of life. FMI study with JWS.

[@Jaburesu]

Well, the god for which Jupiter is named certainly threw his "material" around.

[@DarkMagickan]

Yup. Perfectly named.

[@russellwoodstechno]

😬

[@radityapoerwanto7018]

Gasp, does that means the ancient Romans/Greeks knew the truth all along.

[@88marome]

@Raditya Poerwanto Illuminati confirmed

[@spookyplaguedoctor5714]

oH

[@Chromia1]

The Early Sun: "Behold! My beautiful creation! All nice and orderly. " Jupiter: "Hold my beer...."

[@rebelli65]

Tina Corbett I don’t want to like cause it’s at 69

[@suddenstorm8]

Saturn: "Jupiter! What are you doing? Get your fat arse out of the inner solar system!"

[@EnchantedSmellyWolf]

Jupiter is da troll and devourer of worlds! Jupiter: U mad?

[@thebusiness70]

Tina Corbett more like... Jupiter: “Hold my GRAVITY!!”

[@shubhankardasgupta4777]

@@thebusiness70 Hold my curvature!!!

[@o0Noctuabundus0o]

SciShow: Our solar system ended up this way due to it's higher than normal levels of drama. Me: Yup, that checks out...

[@grimmington2569]

Needs some of that Drama-MINE keep all that drama to itself

[@zes3813]

no such thing as drama or not, any is ok

[@ketfoen]

Hahaha, yup. Where you have people, you'll have drama, guess we can thank all that drama since the birth of our solarsystem and we ended up inheriting it all. Guess we have to keep it spinning.

[@abloogywoogywoo]

But not too high, obviously.

[@marlonthomas2713]

I swear to God I thought the same thing when he said that.

[@jamesfitzgerald1021]

Without Jupiter to act as a vacuum cleaner for passing space objects life most likely would never have happened on Earth ,and we would be constantly in danger of being pulverized. So cut the big guy a break!

[@EugeneParallax]

Um, without Jupiter, Earth would still be a ball of iron and rocks. We would have an extra planet, sure, but there would be no life on either of them.

[@lordshinumbra6441]

We should all listen to the ancients! ALL HAIL THE GOD JUPITER FOR ALLOWING US TO EXIST!! they knew whats up long before we did!

[@thescarlethunter2160]

Jupiter if you can hear me : Thank you !

[@imdawolfman2698]

If Jupiter is our vacuum cleaner we better morgage the moon and buy a Dyson(c). Since NASA got its asteroid tracking system up to speed there have been many reports of Earth orbit crossing rocks every month, some within the orbit of our moon. Did I say 'up to speed'? Half of the time it's only after they pass, or with a day's notice.

[@sulphurous2656]

Let's not forget another gas giant that decided to fly into the sun for whatever reason, and give it a ton of lithium.

[@johnnarogers5636]

Jupiter the rebellious oldest child to the over protective big bro.

[@baloch78]

Johnna Rogers yeah

[@slabs379]

Thanks Jupiter If it wasn't for you we wouldn't be here to thank you

[@lauchsuppedeluxelauchsuppe1803]

But without jupiter there would no wright brothers and no air plains meaning 9/11 would be impossible. Jupiter did 9/11

[@Bread_0]

@@lauchsuppedeluxelauchsuppe1803 this explains everything

[@brawlgaming4612]

Jupiter made every problem in our solar system

[@lombardo141]

Lauchsuppe Deluxe I luv how you skipped billions of years to reach that conclusion. 😑

[@kevinvergara7445]

lombardo141 r/woooosh

[@lionobama1397]

*sun gets planets* jupiter: imma end this man's whole career

[@Pacbandit13]

Jupiter; my time has come!

[@routannethegamer2390]

I'm really curious how many current theories and such about the universe will be laughed at in 300-500 years time.

[@ded8103]

Well, tbh similiar to how we respect astronomers that lived a melenia ago, id imagine todays findings would also be respected.

[@TJ52359]

why wait 300? for some perspective; the term 'Big Bang", the now generally accepted Theory about the formation of the Universe, was first Coined in 1949, as a Joke, mocking the idea of an expanding Universe beginning via such methods (the alliteration mimicking of the then accepted "Steady State" Theory)

[@ralphgoreham3516]

NASA have had doubts about the nebula hypothesis for at least 5 years but wont broadcast that because there is no other idea (hypothesis is an idea), how the solar SYSTEM originated Dont forget the 80 or so moons in the mix. . Face it Genesis 1:1 has the answer and all the evos of course will have none of that. There are way more facts that confound its evo. Richard Lewontin: "We cannot allow a divine foot in the door".

[@ralphgoreham3516]

@@OfMiceAndMegabytes The formation of the star system of course is not the same as the "solar system". I am satisfied the universe may be 13 billion years old and the earth may be 4 and a half billion years old. But there are a multitude of discrepancies that rule out the Nebula theory (idea). Examples of the latter are the differing elements of the planets, the lack of craters on some, especially the ice planets that I believe were created later by the creator to protect our home, the revolving of Venus and neptune, and the "acretion"of the planets. Acretion has never been demonstrated as possible. I can accept a big expansion of the universe as the work of the creator but utterly reject the "big bang", ie that the universe manifested itself from a mass no bigger than a pinhead. Only a fool would believe that.

[@markoerakovic9899]

@@ralphgoreham3516 plus, you have to know what action caused it in the first place. You cant have anything without action to reaction models going throught to infinity, so the question is why did big bang happen in first place? What caused it and why? Some primordial action would have happened to be sure, but what cause it? And when does it end? Also why didnt matter/anti matter cancel themselves out? How did Higgs boson give mass, when it by itself breaks down, wouldnt the results also break down? Whats the bloody gravity or EM field. ,not what they do but what are they specifically (truth is nobody knows what these fields are...)? We have soooo much questions unanswered, that going further in only increases the chance that we got it all wrong in the first place...Hell we are getting good results for Standard Model, but some fundamental answers are missing which can cause us to believe it is correct when it might be wrong all along, and we are none the wiser about it.

[@webbkt15]

Seems like there is a lot of reliance on computer models in research involving space. (Makes sense) A video talking about how astronomers create, compute, use, and interpret these models would be greatly appreciated!

[@nallid7357]

Probably a lot of involving computer science honestly. Computer scientists are usually pretty good mathematicians.

[@ShakaZ3D]

I'm starting to think they dont know anything about how the universe was formed and just bullshitting us

[@cale0320]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/goCtYoujl7h-nq8 an amazing video from the american museum of natural history about the future of data visualization/computer models based on data taken from the Gaia space telescope and what it means as far as how stars move and behave and interact with each other and where they came from and where they're going in our galaxy

[@webbkt15]

@@nallid7357 I'm on my last semester at college for 2 computer engineering degrees (one of which is in simulations), so that's actually why I asked! :)

[@webbkt15]

@@ShakaZ3D I think we have some good science being done in Astronomy, but it is very hard to be accurate. This is a field were your estimations can be off by powers of 10 and still be considered accurate. Humans determine causes and effects by repeated observations, but the universe moves super slowly compared to us. Our lifespans are blips compared to the universe. This can make cause and effect hard to see sometimes, but I think we do a good job given what we have.

[@SoulTalesAC]

„To make a 4.6 billion year story short” I don’t know why, but this sequence really made me rethink life.

[@Dracossaint]

Because it's a way of saying how little time we actually have maybe?

[@squarehead6452]

2:07 little Mercury to giant Jupiter *cries in Pluto*

[@aronious291]

I didnt know Uranus and Neptune were *that* big compared to earth

[@availanila]

@@aronious291 I always thought they were almost as big as Saturn but then I always thought earth was as big as Neptune/Uranus; in a similar scale.

[@TheRogueWolf]

A planet gets a little hungry, heads to the neighbor's place for a snack, and people get all whiny about it!

[@macnutz4206]

yeah, but it ate part of the neighbour. Kinda rude, you know.

[@thecococquartz1095]

Y’all ever so hungry you eat half the food from you neighbor’s house

[@Phychologik]

Vanessa L Can I tell you a groundbreaking revolution that will change the way you perceive reality as a whole? The earth... it’s... it’s round. I know, crazy right?

[@alexwang982]

Vanessa L What airline? United? Delta?

[@comandercarnis]

@@alexwang982 the earth is round? Hahaha surely you jest as that's one of the most absurd things I've ever heard. Next you'll tell me the moon isn't made of cheese and that babies don't come from storks

[@UniverseKeeper2]

"we could be special after all!" Yeah, because being in existence doesn't cut it

[@damystery123]

I mean, its very likely there is life elsewhere

[@GraveUypo]

@@damystery123 doesn't make life on earth any less special

[@damystery123]

@@GraveUypo I just personally think humans consider ourselves a little too special. Why do we need to be special?

[@GraveUypo]

@@damystery123 i'm not talking about humans, i'm talking about life in general. Also we're special because we're a spacebound civilization. that has to be rare proportionally to the size of the universe.

[@JamesTheFoxeArt]

GraveUypo but how do you know that space civilizations aren’t common in the universe, we haven’t seen proof of life outside earth but we still think there is.

[@zhubajie6940]

I think the data we can derive from exoplanets now is extremely biased because of our technology. Large planets close to small stars are the easiest to detect and may be the oddballs that are just easier to find. Sun-like solar systems are difficult to find now and tend to shift the investigation. We need much more studies of g type stars with technologies to detect Mars and Mercury-size planets if we are going to do more than hypothesize.

[@LordRunty]

I was going to say much the same thing. It's like looking at a bunch of aerial photographs of Africa to find out what lives there. After counting, you'll find a whole lot of large animals. But the smaller the animal, the less likely you'll spot it, so depending on your resolution you might only be able to reliably detect something at least the size of a lion, and only spot every second or third hyena, and maybe 1 in a hundred warthogs. If you then presume that's an accurate representation of the relative distribution of animals of Africa, you'd be incredibly wrong. But that's exactly what we're doing with exoplanet hunting.

[@limiv5272]

I think they are aware of this. Nevertheless, even with this limitation, you can still be pretty certain that there ARE lions and giraffes in Africa, and work with that info

[@deidryt9944]

Thanks for saying this first. This video seemed like it was sensationalizing something unnecessarily, and basing a lot of discussion points on "facts/observable probability distributions" without even bringing up the limitations of current technologies providing us with those facts.

[@abdullaiamir9642]

Limi V but you can’t say lions, giraffes and elephants are the most common because there not, the small animals are more common but are unable to be seen

[@furious_gaming14furious_ga91]

They could be using the model based on the mass of the disk being evenly distributed so any planets would form in more equal proportions. The problem here is the model does not predict outlier behaviours such as Jupiter tossing everything aside.

[@ripnecco5477]

Crazy how Earth is the only flat planet in the solar system

[@unclecreepy7025]

When will NASA release the phots of exo-flat planets!

[@il-dottore]

You still believe in the Earth? #NoEarthSociety

[@ogr8bearded175]

Don't forget our flat Moon. Can't believe they keep trying to tell us it is a round ball too.

[@pioaouad6719]

Pleasee tell me you are joking 😭

[@manglemwha]

Smh people have no idea. My dog fell off the side of the Earth. That proves the Earth is flat. 😭 Rip my dog, Karan.

[@Atomicusbombasticus]

I love how you have personalized the planets...”Jupiter was robbing Mars of its material” like it was intentional 🤣

[@Pacbandit13]

Jupiter bullied Mercury out of its lunch money

[@No1_Planet]

@@Pacbandit13 It’s true 😢

[@luizfernando4497]

Sun: "ah, finally everything organized" Jupiter: "im gonna do what's called a pro gamer move"

[@Abdega]

So the reason why Mars is too small to have an active core is Jupiter’s fault? Jupiter is a literal homewrecker

[@xovotv5906]

Abdega no. Jupiter is earths hero. Without it’s huge body, scientists agree that earth would have been pulverized my comets and asteroids making life unable to survive. Jupiter is a hero

[@osmosisjones4912]

@@xovotv5906 Mars lost a lot matterials. If remove 80% of water of earth

[@xovotv5906]

Osmosis Jones what? So what, mars lost materials. Earth is what matters. With out Jupiter earth would have been fucked. This video doesn’t paint a good representation of Jupiter’s affect on the solar system. And your last sentence is a fragment so idk what you were trying to say.

[@sambradley9091]

@@xovotv5906 Doesn't paint a good representation? This video was talking about the formation of the Solar System and why Mars is the way it is. Stating Jupiter is why doesn't paint a bad picture, it's just a fact. It's the fault of people tying human traits that find it negative, but most people who have done so are joking. Lighten up a little.

[@xovotv5906]

Sam Bradley I know, but what’s the point of showing how Jupiter’s gravity affected mars and made it smaller, but not show how it could’ve possibly helped make the most unique thing in the known universe possible. LIFE! BABY! Why did it single in on mars? That’s all I’m asking

[@JonahGhost]

its crazy how so many civilizations emphasize the orion constellation

[@breimalislobodnoime]

ooooh shiny

[@alisoncircus]

Ya, crazy how so many civilizations noticed the brightest and most visible stars and decided to pay more attention to them than the less bright and less visible ones.

[@silvervortex8532]

Jupiter launches the meteors in the asteroid belt away from Earth, so you can thank it too.

[@garko2958]

It also launches them towards us too though

[@idontknowwhatimdoing8095]

@@garko2958 that's mars

[@NxMaGiiCz]

So you’re telling me that the sun grew up with other members of its family, then as it got older it decided to leave home and make its own way in the universe. Now the Sun has made it. Also Jupiter wrecking everything is just brilliant still it is a lovely planet, we all love you big guy #JupiterhasFeelings

[@ralphgoreham3516]

One of many of scientists contenders for "Ripleys believe it or NOT).

[@mitsukiiee4548]

Since when do planets have feelings?-

[@3100620842]

"Sol wept as it said goodbye to its friends and family to make it big out on its own. It's best friend Sol-A58392 decided to stop by just before it left to give it a good send-off. Sol-A58392 had never been the most co-ordinated, and stirred up some dirt as it left, and Sol held onto it for safekeeping. Flash forward to Sol's first child. It was very similar to Sol. In fact, had it more energy it could have been much like its parent. It was a rebellious child, coming and going as it saw fit, never cleaning up after itself. That is, until it's vain younger sibling was born. They constantly bickered. As a result, Sol came to have a rather peculiar brood of children close to itself.

[@nonso1078]

@@mitsukiiee4548 complete idiot you are a complete idiot

[@VoxTenebrae]

Solar system: I'm weird because of all the early drama Systems with hot jupiters: Cute

[@baussier134]

Systems with excentric Jupiters:

[@TheCrappyZipper]

In this context, drama isnt necessarily insane things that exist out there due to science which would be considered normal, but abnormailitys in the way the mechanics should normmaly pan out. I know you're making a joke though, and in a noncontextual way, it is funny.

[@kittenmitten2948]

Systems with cthonian planets: lmao

[@lyreparadox]

Could you do an episode on the two moons of Saturn that swap orbital positions?

[@ark4849]

wow really? never heard of it before. amazing

[@thescarlethunter2160]

Interesting

[@ccdimage]

Saturn has many moons (more than 50). I doubt any of them "swap orbital positions." That would be unstable. *Citation Required.*

[@saiajin82]

@@ccdimage Maybe he's talking about Shepard moons? (just guess, not sure)

[@betelguese18]

There are 2 moons inside the rings Saturn that swap positions, Prometheus and Pandora

[@DiamondYoshi101]

Mars: Jupiter back off this is my area! Jupiter: No. Saturn: Don’t make me hit you! Jupiter: ok fine.

[@joshuagomez6123]

Different solar system to Jupiter: Bet you can’t make that solar system any weirder. Jupiter: Hold my beer.

[@saminates2002]

It’s so crazy how lucky we are to even exist/have consciousness

[@jonpowers4318]

The chances may be slim, but if life doesn't develop then there's nothing existing that can observe the outcome where life doesn't form. It doesn't matter if the dice roll fails because the only time it's observed is when it succeeds and creates consciousness. So from our perception, the "probability of us existing" is effectively 100%. Just something to think about

[@truu-dl8rp]

Not for everybody.

[@truu-dl8rp]

@@jonpowers4318 Please teach me how to create a winning mega million ticket brother. lol

[@mikhailiagacesa3406]

Statistically, not crazy at all. Look at the base numbers.

[@Budjarn]

Or unlucky I would much rather have been an unfeeling rock

[@Lady.Kianna]

I wonder if a lot of Jupider's drama has to do with it aaaaaaalmost being a star itself.

[@ralphgoreham3516]

Many of the above commenters have said why its there and what it does as does the other 3 ice planets. They are our big brothers.

[@mikebronicki6978]

@@J.G.H. but Jupiter only needs 13 times more mass to make it to Brown Dwarf status.

[@GraveUypo]

@@mikebronicki6978 "Only" an order of magnitude larger.

[@RutraNickers]

can this be the result of just a lack of data? Maybe we seen to be strange because we don't heve the tecnology to see solar systems similars to our.

[@Bow-to-the-absurd]

exactly this video is pure conjecture all the way down.

[@Ferroes]

Well, considering we've discovered tens of thousands of exo-planets in thousands of galaxies and comparing that amount to our own solar system, I can confidently say that's probably untrue especially with the data that has yet to be sifted through by recently defunct satellites

[@Andrey.Balandin]

@@Ferroes all planets we have found are in our own Galaxy, there is no technology to see other galaxies in such detail as to be able to see planets around their stars.

[@Ferroes]

Andrey Balandin Andromeda Galaxy, Bode's Galaxy, Cartwheel Galaxy, Cigar galaxy, Comet Galaxy, Andromeda Galaxy, Large Megallenic Cloud, Hoag's Object, Cosmos Redshift, etc (list of galaxies outside of the milky way galaxy i.e. Our galaxy)

[@Bow-to-the-absurd]

@@Ferroes we can only detect very large planets in our own galaxy. taking a snapshot of large planets simply doesn't tell us everything in fact , it only tells us where big planets are at that moment in time it explains nothing.

[@leminjapan]

I need a "Thanks, Jupiter" shirt!

[@CG-yj7kx]

Litterally no one: Milkyway: "im so quirky"

[@amberhawksong]

True

[@hayden3774]

The milky way is our galaxy, not our solar system

[@solium3114]

It’s funny we have a sun named sun, a solar system named solar system, and a moon named moon

[@TheRABIDdude]

The "literally no one" memes make me want to cry they're so unoriginal, and this one gets brownie points because you haven't even got the solar system's name right. Are you a 5 year old who posts one of these memes on every video you watch?

[@maximany9506]

@@TheRABIDdude fact

[@bruhhh5557]

Jupiter is like a big brother, He protects us from others But every so often throws an asteroid at us cuz he's angry

[@exoplanets]

Great video. Earth 2.0 hasn't been found yet, but Kepler 442-b might be even more habitable than our planet.

[@aniketbiswas7660]

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan not necessary it will be more geological active which could make it more mineral rich

[@InTenZeGamingHD]

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Nope, earth is pretty much only iron and nickle, and from what we know, most other rocky planets are less dense. As explained in the video, masses should be more similar for most planets meaning that it would be likely for a planet to be more of a mix between what our planets have, and considering mars has much less iron, and more lighter elements (same goes for most of the solar systems moons and small bodies) it would likely be much lighter . Oh and alot of the planets we find could have way more water than earth has and water is again lighter than iron and nickle. So an Earth size planet would probably weigh 2/3 of what earth does and thus have a weaker gravity. If its more than 10-15% water, then it might even weigh less than 2/3rds of earth.

[@karlhans8304]

Nothing could be by definition more habatable than earth

[@Colaglass]

​@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Gravity is different based on where you are on earth too. Just like dicks, it's about density, not volume.

[@RareEpicness]

The Exoplanets Channel I love you, every space video i go to has a comment of you hidden somewhere.

[@whitulf]

Pretty cool collection of special aspects of our solar system and it having the preferences for life on Earth, just one main mad aspect was missing: The ProtoEarth-Theia-Collision which a) formed the unusual huge Moon that stabilized and slowed down Earth's rotation and b) by fusing Theia's radioactive dense iron core with the one of ProtoEarth to Earth's core, that probably became a mandatory initiator and drive for Continental Drift which as well can be mandatory for (higher developing) life...

[@ralphgoreham3516]

you really believe that?? I dont know what else to say without being blunt.

[@whitulf]

@@ralphgoreham3516 All scientific evidence (including moon rocks examinations) tells you so - and trying to claim something completely different - even blunt speech won't make it happen to become scientifically true/not false...

[@Harsh-23]

Scince: You are weird. SolarSystem: Why? :( Scince: Coz i can't understand you.

[@kixtten]

Harshit Peshavariya omg so true

[@kixtten]

EyeZor ?

[@Harsh-23]

@EyeZor my apologies for typo

[@thexplosifbrosif8031]

My brain: Why does he sound like a white Neil Degrasse Tyson?

[@theironsword1954]

Oh my God you're right!

[@joshdontforgettheintroosbo2373]

Was hoping I wasn’t the only one

[@ToutCQJM]

Neil Degrasse Tyson doesn’t sound very Black.

[@ShyCrime]

@@ToutCQJM nice one

[@colormesarge]

@@ToutCQJM strange. He sounds completely human and native English speaking to me, but ok.

[@ananimator6830]

Saturn: are you going to have another one? Earth: nope Saturn: why? Earth: don’t want to end up like Jupiter Jupiter: *INTENSE PARENTING* Get it? Earth: 1 moon Saturn: 2 moons * in the comic * Jupiter: infinite moons

[@FewVidsJustComments]

Saturn has 2 more moons than Jupiter does actully

[@bjarnes.4423]

I see quite a few problems in the data analysis of this issue. Most importantly, survivor bias: For this point I will only look at the Transit method. In order to find a planet, they have to pass in front of the sun at least trice. The rest would be very hard to distinguish from noise (or they are very huge), otherwise it could be a rouge planet or other thinks that dim a star like sun spots or so. Lets look at the Kepler Space Telescope. It looked at 530,506 star systems and found 2,662 planets. by calculating [found planets]/[observed stars], we get ~0.5%. This number is actually even lower, because many systems have multiple planets, but lets stick with it. Due to the inclination (tilt) of the orbital plane, we can't detect any planets in 99.5% of systems. The other systems have still trouble. We are great at finding close planets to their host star (Mainly Hot Jupiters), that also is the group that Kepler mostly found, not because they are common, but because they are easy to detect. Comparing this Data with our System, there are obliviously differences, because we miss lots of data. The further away a planet is from its host star, the lower is the probability of it passing in front of its star, but even if it does, far away objects have a long orbital period, and in order to confirm a planet it needs to pass in front of its star at least three times, so in the nine years of Keplers operation it could have confirmed any planet with an orbital period of ~3 years, it could have found a planet like Mars (2.1 yrs), but nothing beyond it like Jupiter(11.9 yrs). In other words, if Kepler looked at our solar system it would only have found the first four planets (at best), which are similar in size. You state our solar system as being weird, but under the same restrictions, it isn't. Another problem of systems like ours is, that the further a planet orbits, the higher is its inclination relative to the orbital plane, this way we find tons of planets around red dwarfs, but rarely more than two on yellow dwarfs (sunlike stars) and if, they are probably low hanging fruits like Hot Jupiters. In conclusion, we don't have enough data to say how different our Solar system actually is.

[@David_T]

I totally agree. They are assuming that they can detect all planets in a system which they cannot.

[@saaddagoat]

Plus, there is no reason to believe our solar system is truly special. Hell, they have found planets in other solar systems that retain over 90% of light or have literal rains of diamonds. We've found burning hells and frozen tundras. Why aren't those systems special and/or weird? We definitely don't see many things like that in our system. All of this implies heavy bias and besides, we can barely see outside our own solar system, so what's to say other systems don't have similar things? I love science but I do find that scientists for some reason tend to be really biased despite their claims of adhering to being impartial.

[@uss_04]

In summary, we need a greater sample size. Time to invest in our space programs. We are destined to walk in the light of other stars.

[@michaelbuckers]

This rests on assumption that none of 0.5% exoplanetary systems it could detect are the same as exoplanetary systems in the other 99.5%, which is asinine.

[@wolftamerwolfcorp7465]

@@saaddagoat I can't say if this applies to all scientists, this is the first one from my experience to not acknowledge the limitations of our exoplanet detection when talking about this subject, now I could say "oh no, it's just him" but I wouldn't know since I've only interacted with a small number of people addressing this topic, and on other topics I've interacted with scientists on I've yet to find anyone with a notable degree of bias, so I'll ask how large is the sample you use to draw the conclusion that scientists are actually biased when they claim impartiality and are you doing just the same as he is? Edit: realized that there are also scientists that are funded to do research into topics by groups that profit from a bias and I am aware of some of those people's existence and shouldn't neglect them but they are also a relatively small amount comparatively and don't shift my experience all too far

[@Jay-qb9gi]

Not only that, the Solar Sytem is just so unique. An even amount of known modern planets (4 rocky and 4 gas giant) and it's perfect for life and two massive defenders to protect us

[@octodionis]

Calling the Solar Sistem "perfect for life" is kind of pleonastic, don't you think?

[@Black_Corey]

What interest me most is near future space exploration. Perhaps more videos on discoveries being made within the last 5 years would be cool. I particularly like videos on potential places humanity can colonize like the trapist system.

[@dandresco]

Jupiter is broken... Next patch they're banning him

[@kalthupili2298]

r/Outside

[@drchicho9165]

But most of the time its in our team :b

[@kode5030]

bruh if they ban jupiter they're legit just gonna ruin the game. you know how many meteors jupiter takes for us? earth would be hell without it and we wouldn't even be able to leave. This is insane. If devs end up doing this they need to do a rollback

[@Dumb-Comment]

Already knew this years ago but everyone around me have been laughing at me when discussing this topic.

[@_WOR]

How insane would our tides be if the sun actually had a face like the thumbnail? 😂

[@Helperbot-2000]

What?

[@_WOR]

helperbot 2000 Assuming those are holes in the sun that make the face they’re depicted as being larger than Jupiter. That irregularity would probably wreck the magnetic pull and mess with our tides from 90M miles away. Basically

[@Helperbot-2000]

@@_WOR well considering the moon is the reason for our tides i dont really think it would change much, maybe by a few meters

[@_WOR]

helperbot 2000 The moon has the majority of the effect on our tides correct. I think you greatly underestimate the sun’s effect though.

[@Helperbot-2000]

@@_WOR ah i guess so

[@centauria9122]

Meanwhile in another solar system that only has one planet: What would it be like to live on other planets. Them: BUT IT'S LIGHT YEARS AWAY!

[@FewVidsJustComments]

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[@JeremyKolassa]

Have you done a video yet on potential alternative biochemistries? That topic always fascinates me. Oh, and if life could exist around brown dwarfs. Or just about anything brown dwarfs, they fascinate me too.

[@Lutrian]

I suspect we still can't characterize other star systems, yet. There is still some major sampling biases, such as larger planets being easier to detect, and smaller stars are easier to detect planets near them. Most stars we've found planets, we only see about 2-4 planets, when such stars probably have far more. Also, a system like ours, a system with relatively small planets close to the star, and the big ones further out, might be very difficult to detect, especially when they orbit a much more massive G2 star, rather then the M dwarfs we typically see planets around, because such systems are much easier to observe.

[@jordanolsen9373]

I'm here for the celestial personification jokes

[@Starfals]

And heres hoping for 500 more videos to come :)

[@chi-weishen6740]

The playlist "All Videos - SciShow Space" says there are only 447 videos, not more than 500.

[@stephenmiller9009]

False copyright claims , perhaps?

[@jbielic4067]

@@chi-weishen6740 Good, didn't feel like I've watched that many yet.

[@Pile_of_carbon]

Why did no one like Emanuel? He was a total Kant.

[@bredrick677]

@@ChosenSquirrel Kant you read? It's in the (Em)manuel

[@RavenGhostwisperer]

Fun fact, that would be the correct pronunciation, not "Kaent"

[@seanwaddell2659]

You cheeky Kant.

[@danieljensen2626]

I think it's actually still too early to tell. Our current methods of detecting exoplanets are heavily, heavily biased towards detecting planets in solar system that are nothing like ours. If you looked from more than a couple light years away we probably wouldn't be able to detect any of the planets in our solar system with the methods and telescopes we've used so far. Right now it looks like there are a ton of Jupiter sized planets that are super close to their stars, but that's probably just because that's the easiest thing to detect, not because they're actually the most common.

[@Raylen_Fa-ield]

Was thinking along the same lines. Glad others share the point of view.

[@EugeneParallax]

I personally don't see much mystery here. Types and sizes of planets simply depend on the balance and distribution of the nebular materials. For me Solar system isn't that weird, just likely to be rather uncommon.

[@Black_Corey]

How do you think the james webb space telescope will affect what we know about exoplanets?

[@funkyflames7430]

Daniel Jensen I don’t think it is heavily biased in any way what so ever, but I do think making assumptions about the lack of smaller objects would be biased. Specifically, the survivor bias.

[@МихайлоСєльський]

I'd agree completely. The whole idea of comparing our system with others and making some big conclusions is rather antiscientific at this point because of selectiveness of extrasolar detection methods.

[@Adam_Dot_Com]

IMO, I think that a reason for why our solar system appears weird/different is simply we don't have the technology yet to detect exoplanets smaller planets and/or exoplanets further away from their star. That could be a reason why the majority of systems we observe have gas giants with close orbits to their star. Detecting plants through transit or measuring wobble has it's limits. Mind you that at one point in history we thought our solar system was the universe (and only galaxy after that).

[@obviouslymatt6452]

Maybe it’s because of jupiter’s size that we are here: it pulls away all the asteroids that would have hit us, allowing life to form.

[@MrSlitzer]

Great job guys, you should do a The Expanse special!

[@ProfezorSnayp]

The Universe is my favorite place to live. ❤️

[@heretic124]

**admin of this simulation likes your comment**

[@christelheadington1136]

How many other places have you tried?

[@TheMikernet]

@@christelheadington1136 Ever try DMT? :P

[@christelheadington1136]

@@TheMikernet -The Demilitarized Zone?

[@TheMikernet]

@@christelheadington1136 Can't tell if that's sarcasm or not haha...but no, N,N-Dimethyltryptamine :)

[@aaronpearlmutter4877]

"In case you haven’t noticed, I'm weird. I’m a weirdo. I don't fit in. And I don't want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this JUPITER ? That's weird."

[@TrainerAQ]

It also makes me feel more grateful that we get to live in this unique world. :)

[@overcookedwater1947]

I knew it. If Jupiter hadn't been too greedy Mars could have had more mass and humans could also have had martian neighbours! 👾👽

[@Nachoto]

If Jupiter hadn't been so greedy life would have never spawned on Earth

[@swag9374]

The clown fish You realize Jupiter blocked or redirected space objects from hitting Earth right? We wouldn't be here without Jupiter.

[@someperson2287]

Uhm Jupiter wasn’t greedy. It wasn’t Jupiter’s fault it formed too soon. I believe another star is to blame for it anyway. Some of the planets in our solar system (I think mainly Jupiter given how early it formed) might not even have been born here.

[@rtendotapiwa306]

Wait for planet X or 9 to be spotted then we'll all know that Jupiter was patrol officers. One of those would be the sheriff! 😄

[@YellowvzzGaming]

Sun: wassup homie Jupiter: top of da mornings to ya! Sun: I love you! Jupiter: Me to Jupiter: *turns into Doubting Thomas*

[@Blockistium]

I strongly believe that Jupiter is in many ways the guardian of humanity. I believe perhaps life might not have had a chance without Jupiter A shepherd of the solar system, if you will

[@RangerRuby]

Is it just me or is the thumbnail really cute?

[@Roberto-REME]

Excellent video and very well narrated.

[@michaelazarov2065]

Thanks! You are my favorite from SciShow cast :)

[@devonex]

Sun : Jupiter : Im about to end this whole mans career

[@dr.ofdubiouswisdom4189]

...aaaaannnd, on the other hand - Under closer scrutiny - EVERYTHING is a lot weirder than you think.

[@ralphgoreham3516]

Doctor you use the word weirder but what you really should be saying the whole nebula hypothesis is a myth. The idea posits that at least half the planets supposedly resulted from large asteriod explosions. Yeah right. The biggest nonsense is how our extra large moon came about. An asteroid the size of mars smashed into earth (named thea) took some of earth and some of thea. and hey presto a near perfect sphere results, goes into orbit around earth, has no rotation, we only see one side of it. And nicely gives us tides and ocean currents to mineralizes it to feed plankton and provides the marine food chain. For those of you who think the solar system evolved I suggest you have a read up on this hypothesis and you will see how wildly stupid it all is. The SYSTEM was created by a systemer, a creator.

[@RAFMnBgaming]

@@ralphgoreham3516 I mean... it was a lot more complicated than that. Theia hits proto-earth, resulting in a huge cloud of earth-theia debris, lots of which end up back on the earth, and the rest of which ends up as a dust and debris ring around the earth. Some is ejected, some falls back to earth, and the rest coalesces through gravity over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. This coalescing causes heat which causes pressure which leads to tectonics on the moon, just like with earth, which smooths things out from a ball of rocks to a rock ball, but has since cooled down. As for the rotation, the moon originally spun much faster and so did the earth, but slowly, over the course of the last 4.5 billion years the tidal forces they've had on each other has pulled on their rock and slowed the rotations of each down down. It's absurd to say that another planet hit the earth and turned into the moon, like it's absurd to say that a complex organ like the eye could have just evolved, but once you start looking at the intermediate states of the process it becomes not so absurd after all.

[@ralphgoreham3516]

@@RAFMnBgaming Yes I kept it brief and am aware there was more to the story than my brief narrative. But it is just a story; as so much of that is alleged to have happened over billions of years. you may choose to believe it but many dont, even in the western/ scientific world. I dont and many in the relevant scientic fields too. BTW I didnt say "thea" was a planet, but a "large asteroid". Also I dont believe the human eye had intermediate states and i cast that into the same nonsensical, non evidencial nonsense basket.

[@RAFMnBgaming]

Ralph Goreham well, the composition and isotope levels of rock on the moon and rock on the earth is similar, but that's not the case with rocks analysed from other planets, so you tell me what that suggests. As for the eye. Well... Again, it's an absurd notion but one that makes increasing amounts of sense when you start paying attention to the mechanics and examples of the world around you. To quote the man himself: "Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certainly the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, though insuperable by our imagination, should not be considered as subversive of the theory" Hell, the whole passage on the the evolution of the eye is fascinating, and quite thorough. I suggest you read it even if just to sharpen your refutations. www.bartleby.com/11/6004.html

[@ralphgoreham3516]

@@RAFMnBgaming The so called gradations re the cosmos or the eye or all life are just so guesswork, or less politely nonsense as I already told you.

[@TheCimbrianBull]

Nebular hypothesis? You, yes you, can explain it to us but Immanuel Kant!

[@osmosisjones4912]

Mars lost a lot of matterials

[@ralphgoreham3516]

Its origin, science CANT explain it. Oh yes they can describe it more and more but the questions of origin mount and mount.

[@leroy20493]

A small tip from my side, you can use a bid of sound affect when you jump from one scene to another.

[@FlatlandsSurvivor]

The selection bias of what exoplanets we are able to detect may be sharply influencing our understanding of what is typical. Are planets significantly smaller then others in the same system harder to detect? That seems reasonable and would explain why planets seem to be similar sizes within a system.

[@SilverHand-fu1jn]

"We could be special after all " Me : Did you find life in those system?

[@Photon210]

Saturn: Look Jupiter, I know you're not a drunken mess anymore, but Pluto's still tripping on your stardust supreme.

[@bubbabluehorn]

Jupiter is also the reason why asteroids haven’t caused more mass extinctions

[@matta5498]

my bodyguard

[@emanuel2cool1]

No questions. Just a thanks! Love all the videos and the great presentations. Keep. It. Up!

[@emperorpaws8447]

I like this guys voice..its soothing and fits a science show...

[@priscillajimenez27]

4:30 Our solar system has a lot more drama than others... Genesis 1:1-2 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void: Revelation 12:7 And there was war in heaven...

[@patrickmalone1373]

Hank really doing a great job with these channels. We should all support him in all these efforts.

[@patrickmalone1373]

@Andrea i wasnt trying to belittle the team. Love them all. Was just identifying hank as the creator of all this. As an avid tangents fan i can assure you i appreciate the whole crew.

[@patrickmalone1373]

@Andrea you might be looking too deeply into this topic.

[@ZRazehLoL]

So what i learned from this video was: Blame Jupiter

[@scottgray4623]

I love you guys! Congratulations and thanks again!

[@AshenDruid]

Solar System: Begins forming. AND THEN ALONG CAME ZEUS

[@danfg7215]

I like how this guy is not some skinny trendy hipster and has the voice of a grown man.

[@ViolentKisses87]

Damn straight.

[@spacecanuk8316]

Could the limits of the transit method just be skewing our idea of 'normal' star systems? I mean, finding something like a hot Jupiter that's large and closely orbiting its star is much easier than finding a smaller planet or even a moon further out so the data we have could biased due to the nature of how its obtained. I mean the first exo-planet was only discovered a couple of decades or so ago so its hard to argue that we have enough clear data to make such broad assumptions.Not to say that Sol isn't necessarily an unusual system, it's just as a curious layman I don't understand why so many assumptions are being made when there's still so many considerable unknowns about the make up of star systems.

[@Welverin]

Could? How could it not? Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have orbital periods longer than we've been detecting planets. Then you have things like Pluto that are so small and far away from their stars they're extremely unlikely to be detected, you have one chance every ~250 years to detect a tiny blip! Of course the transit method requires the stellar system being on edge relative to us, so there are a vast swath of systems we won't be able to detect anything with by this method.

[@spacecanuk8316]

@@Welverin Not just me being too skeptical then :)

[@Welverin]

@@spacecanuk8316 I certainly don't think so.

[@HRDRZ]

If it wasn't for Jupiter, we'd look a lot stupider 😝✌

[@Ferroes]

Jesse Sobella, "stupider"

[@Novice0825]

iron saad Whoosh

[@KitsugaVT]

r/woooosh

[@Kat9_123]

Ooooof

[@thearmyofiron]

How

[@AsmodeusMictian]

Awesome video, as always!! And this time around, even the comments section is a riot! (A rarity on this website, although not necessarily for this particular channel :) )

[@AlonzoHarris2013]

I would like a video on Orion's Belt. Keep up the good work.

[@Karabetter]

Logically, if the our sun/solar system was part of a star cluster, it would not be unreasonable to expect that one or more of the other stars had rings and planets. So not only would a close encounter with one of these other stars have messed with our ring + planets, that other star's ring + planets would interact with ours as well.

[@RAFMnBgaming]

Steal All The Planets!

[@Karabetter]

Or at least the two stars play a game of pool with the planets. lol !

[@RAFMnBgaming]

@@Karabetter So what is it?

[@SalatGurke9440]

I thought I was going to watch a Kurtzgesagt video

[@NicolaiVE]

I don't think there is a "Normal" when it comes to the universe... It is so infinte that almost annything can happen, even if our understanding of physics would deem it impossible - Btw we should use improbable more then impossible... ;)

[@ralphgoreham3516]

Ecclesiastes 3:11b "He has put eternity in the heart of (" =the desire not to die ")yet mankind will never find out the work of the true God has made from the start to finish"

[@SuperManning11]

Great host! Really enjoyed the presentation.

[@FransJSuper]

Very nice episode, SciShow!!

[@TMWriting]

Isn't it more likely we keep finding super-earths because they're much easier to find than normal earths?

[@Pone.Malone]

Reid...that haircut... Is everything okay at home?

[@siennamontana202]

Immediately had to shut this off, was completely turned off when Pluto was missing from the lineup how dare you.

[@PaulSmith-pe1kh]

Praise Christ for such wonderful and intimate care over our particular place in such a particular universe that’s so wonderfully and particularly formed, developed and understood! Great work guys! Thank you!

[@jigglemcswiggle7186]

@bic boi I don't get why you have to question his beliefs and not leave him be

[@jigglemcswiggle7186]

@bic boi probably because you provoked him first?

[@celticlass8573]

When scientists are considering things like how many habitable planets there might be in our galaxy and universe, I understand that they're considering "habitable" to mean "habitable by creatures like us". My question is, if the universe is possibly almost entirely dark matter and dark energy (and therefore we're the weird ones), what is the likelihood that our universe, galaxy and even our own solar system is actually teeming with life, we just don't currently have a way to perceive it?

[@TinaKins87]

And without all this drama, we wouldn't be here today. Thank you for all that drama!

[@herculean616]

Guys lessen the bullying of Jupiter, Jupiter still catches all the asteroids that could've hit us. Most of the time those asteroids get slingedshot to Mars tho... Don't worry Jupiter is just giving Mars some moons.

[@joxerd]

I thanks you for this knowledge, but I don't need science to tell me how weird is our Solar System, if I can see it when I look to a mirror.

[@JohnyDeeeepp]

am i too dumb to understand or what is the joke in this

[@joxerd]

@@JohnyDeeeepp I'm the joke.

[@tinamclaughlin1991]

Don't stop making my brain bigger! 500 videos? More please! 🤗♥️

[@garchompy_1561]

would explain the asteroid belt I suppose like thats a LOT of material just hanging around