Light-speed Asteroids, Chicxulub Dinosaur Impact, Terraforming, and Hyper-giants | ASMR Whisper
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The video utilizes the physics-based game *Universe Sandbox* to simulate and visualize a wide array of cosmic phenomena, beginning with an educational look at realistic planetary mechanics such as gravity's effect on the Sun and Pluto's orbital tilt. A significant portion of the demonstration is dedicated to recreating the Chicxulub impact event that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs, where a six-mile-wide asteroid strikes Earth at high velocity to generate supersonic shockwaves, massive tsunamis, and global ejecta. The simulation vividly portrays the immediate devastation in regions like the Southeastern United States and Central America, followed by a sequence of global heating, atmospheric alteration, and eventual cooling that transforms the planet into a "Snowball Earth" state within simulated years.
Beyond historical events, the host explores theoretical scenarios including terraforming Mars by adjusting its rotation speed and axial tilt to create habitable conditions, as well as removing the Sun entirely to observe planets being ejected into linear motion. The simulation escalates dramatically with light-speed impact experiments, showing how a tiny object traveling at 6% of light speed can disintegrate the atmosphere, while a fifty-kilometer-wide asteroid moving at 90% light speed punches through the planet in nanoseconds, heating Earth to extreme temperatures. These high-velocity tests highlight the game's ability to handle vast energy scales and timeframes, ranging from seconds to billions of years, effectively illustrating the destructive potential of comets versus slower asteroids.
The narrative then shifts to the concept of stellar scale and the habitable zone, introducing "Beetle Juice," a red supergiant star 120 AU wide that places Earth in its habitable zone while making our current Sun appear as a mere dim amber point. This concept extends to real-world hypergiants like VY Canis Majoris, which is so massive and luminous that light takes six hours to cross it, rendering stable planetary orbits impossible due to stellar instability. The video concludes by demystifying constellations, explaining that they are merely two-dimensional projections of unrelated stars drifting apart over millennia, a concept visually demonstrated by a simulation showing the Orion constellation losing its recognizable shape within 350,000 years due to galactic dynamics.
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all right so again this is in real
time so the the
flood has now wiped out the entire
southeastern United
States that would be terrifying but yeah
there's lots of other things to be
terrified about so let's find out what
they
are let's see let's zoom
out to
fly all right flying into Uranus in 3 2
1 cue someone walking in your
room what did you guys just click on I'm
sorry all right that was just a that was
just a little Icebreaker to get us
started
here so for anybody who doesn't know the
Universe
Sandbox is an incredibly interesting
game because you can well a because
there's no plot to it but
B you can C gives you a very realistic
idea of the physics of the
cosmos and not just the physics but the
um you could see the gravity of the
planets pulling the Sun a little bit
which is exaggerated in this game of
course you can slow time down you can
manipulate things you can see the true
distances between the planets
as we zoom out here you see just how
tight the orbits of the inner planets
are relative to the outer
planets you can see the
incline I can get it right you can see
the incline the true incline of
Pluto that's this orange line
here and just how exaggerated it is off
the solar
plane relative to the other
planets is why Pluto is uh and all the
dwarf planets are no longer in that
category you can
see the distances between the planets
the size of the
planets um so there's lots of things to
do you can
uh simulate impacts you
and
well as I was trying to just fool around
to come up with some ideas for this
video I realized a good starting place
might be a
tutorial so that's what we're going to
do
today we are going to take a couple
tutorials and get used to get familiar
with
um it'll be a good rer pressure for me
and a way for you guys to get familiar
with the game itself if you aren't
already but before we do throw five
moons into Earth's orbit I want to take
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here and then we
can terraform some
planets
um replace our son with a black
hole see what the
dinosaur
Chul
impact would really uh fairly
realistically look
like
so I thought this tutorial was pretty
fun too so let's walk through it
together and uh we'll see exactly what
this game's all about
and hopefully learn some
things
and we'll blow some things up along the
way so this is
Earth in Carl San's voice home to
everything you know every sinner every
saint who has ever lived has lived on
this Earth carry down his or her life on
this
beautiful pale blue
dot in the cosmos
so naturally let's
launch uh the largest object series the
largest object in the asteroid build at
it and see what
happens all right let me zoom in a
little
more
okay uh oh I launched
to so what would you like to happen
let's explore what would happen but
there's other ways we can destroy Earth
too I guess I zoomed out too far for
that one let's
uh we didn't get quite to the impact
there so I love the the actual impact
physics we'll check it out in a second
here and it shows you what would
happen shows you how the
the propagation of energy and kinetic
energy uh
would wrap itself around the earth it's
really cool so let's check it
out let's put a moon really really
close look at that it's already
shredding apart from the title Forks
effects title effects
forces let's put a couple
you could
see just how devastating it would
be and now mind you I guess I gotta
mention the time steps of this game so
every second in real in real time is an
hour in the
game so this would be taking course over
days right
now there would be a few hours there
where some sections of the planet would
still be safe and just see
these these
uh you know 2,000 mile
wide molten
balls of metal and silica
whatever the moon's made of just
orbiting in its
sky that would be terrifying but yeah
there's lots of other things to be
terrified about so let's find out what
they are so we can pause the
game Let's choose a different object
ahead let's
choose tight
now let's give the Earth five
Titans let's put one here one out
here zoom out a little bit let's press
play so we are wreaking Celestial havoc
in the universe right
now so it's going to reset the game
and now we have a 100 moons colliding
with
Earth all
right you know what I'm going to go off
script here because that's never fun to
stay on script too much is
it let's
uh can zoom in and out
this is
cool yeah the reason I wanted to do to
do these was because uh it explains to
you some of the you know
more
the Lesser known features of the game I
guess you can make double all their
characteristics the
radius uh the mass the velocity the
temperature you can add different
elements to the planets to terraform
them something we're going to
do you can change the age of the Earth I
just that was the first time I ever
noticed that one that's funny okay so
let's make it two times
larger now all the moons are being
pulled into it
you can see instantly the Earth is
now obviously obviously it's heating up
it's gaining mass it's pulling
everything
in it can also the tutorial says teach
us about Earth's climate the importance
of our sun and lasers I wonder what that
means
let's check it
out let's explore the importance of what
that's PR of our
sun so the sun is the most important
it's the primary source of light energy
which Downstream of that in the chain
the cycle of life and other processes on
Earth is the um it's the the
fundamentally the only source of energy
other than
the geothermal
energy from our molden core so naturally
what if we got rid of it let's
just poop it out of
existence tools D hit the
sun there we go now look what happens
it's interesting that mercury is the
closest in orbits the fastest so it's
ejected the
fastest they all maintain their exact
velocity
just in a straight Direction
now with
no no more angular velocity it's
immediately translated I don't know the
actual physics of it but it is now
linear and you
see
Neptune Uranus
is they barely change much they're not
moving a whole lot because their angular
velocities are so much
slower than the interior inner
planets without the Sun our entire solar
system
is unstable unbalanced and lacks any
input of
energy look what would happen to our
Earth we got to snowball Earth right
now so we can check out Earth's
properties here let's check it
out a full list of editable
properties which I've been looking into
I want to do a
video um on the true expanse of time
from blank time all the way to the the
uh the age of the universe and future
projections of the age of the universe
of how far into the future
physics
um we can
project currently known physics to see
how the universe is going to evolve part
of that was understanding what we know
about the Earth and how it's evolved and
it's interesting how
many how many large temperature
fluctuations the Earth has been through
and that uh it's been a snowball like
this they think almost everything two
massive
glaciers aice C the north and south
southern
poles leaving essentially just the
equator without ice for millions of
years in the
past and uh it's just fascinating
how how remarkable it is how
how special um unique of a time we're
living in right now and the fact that
we're technically also in in in Ice
Age so
uh yeah
just food for
that so we can see how the temperature
is
changing across earth Earth's surface
here you can look at data views and
check out the surface temperature the
elevation gas pressure
depth ice
thickness all right see the surface
temperature is pretty low so it's going
to prompt us to bust out a laser see if
we can warm up Africa here
and remember this is one hour every
second so if we slowed it down to real
time you would see this
propagating on a much
more comprehensible scale I guess which
I think is pretty cool so we'll check
that out in a little
bit
okay but
look at that you can see exactly on the
surface temperature map over here where
I'm firing the
laser but the Earth is still cooling
because it has no
external heat Source from
its from its mother
stor so let's add another what is there
we going to add another St
let's
add we're g to add another
star let's check it
out rigel the blue super giant
rajel now I've let these
planets drift pretty far away let's see
what happens yeah you can see Earth is
all the way out
here and let's see how far Mercury went
it's pretty far away let's see what
happens if I get roughly right in the
middle rajel is 23 times more massive
than our sun so it's going to have that
much more
gravity what is let's see
gravitational
force okay
okay gravitational force
formula okay it changes inversely as the
distance squared
okay all
right but it is directly proportional to
the
Mass of the Sun so okay so it will be 23
times look at that so it's
already starting to make the planets to
a
U-turn it's gravitational force should
be enough to bring back and heat up the
earth now look how much further the
Earth is than it
was and now we're instead of an hour per
second run days per
second let's zoom into Earth
here let's see if it heats up oh
yeah looks like its atmosphere is
completely gashes
now so the planets are being sucked in
the Earth is much too
hot maybe
we so maybe we made some mistakes ruined
our solar system by deleting the Sun but
that's
okay there's always something to learn
from an
experiment even one that ends in
disaster so
and it reminds you you can not only
terraform existing planets but you can
create your own planet from scratch a
life sustaining world and watch it
evolve so here is going to walk us
through terraforming Mars let's check it
out let's see what happens
so we're going to add
water using the planet scaping
tool Planet Escape liquid water
oh chemical
water
um okay let's add it to the let's add it
to Olympus
Mons see if it gets gravity right
okay yeah it
does I guess the
waterers the water is uh pooling around
the base of it but it's also looks like
it's
evaporating the time scale here is 1
hour per second
so all right now we can increase the
amount of water per click that we're
adding to the planet so let check that
out let's check that
out quad the radius of the Dual by
selecting two times
multiplier okay let's
see select that
twice aim at the planet press the whole
all right so okay here we go lot more
water now that's add it
everywhere we definitely get
a a feel for where the con contents
would
be which is another aspect of this game
that's really cool you
can it has
real data about the elevation of the
planets so when you do mess around with
the atmospheres the climate
the the geology of it
you get a feel
for
just how they would look you know cuz we
have liquid water on Earth to give us a
baseline elevation
measurement even though it's a little
higher at the equator I believe
okay now let's sorry my chair's clicking
a
lot I promise it's the
chair all right let's see what what we
got
here we're gonna
increase and watch it evolve and watch
the water evolve over years one year per
second did anything happen
it wasn't enough water to cover to wrap
around the entire planet so it was just
uh stayed on one side of the
planet and the water we
added started to freeze because Mars of
where it is and
the relative to the
sun we can try to give Mars a shorter
days it
says so one side doesn't get too
hot or cold so we're going to make it
spin faster tools of
force so here we
go oh and you can change the Tilt too oh
okay
all right we're making it go way too
fast
now it's got too much we accelerated it
it's just ripping it
apart all right so that was
a a waste of
time this is a pretty cool aspect where
it tells you the habitable zones
this is obviously colorcoded where red
is hot blue is gold green is just
right 4 L years away trapist one is
actually a real star that jwsd has
looked at
and I think it's a brown dwarf or it's a
really dim small much smaller than the
Sun so all these planets the Cil lockone
the the orbital distance from the Sun
that uh or from trapist the
star that would be heal the corrected
the right amount of just the right
amount of energy to allow life to form
and water not to evaporate or
freeze uh is much closer to it than than
our our son's goldilock
so so we're going to select it open its
properties double the
mass so now we disrupted all the planets
it's a chaos
all right so now we have
galaxies can even fly beond the edge of
the Milky Way to watch what happens when
the Galaxies
Collide and we have two black holes that
simulate the center super massive black
holes of our
galaxies and they just merge
but you can see the time step here now
dramatically increased to 1 million
years per
second so let's
see all right so it says here we go it's
showing us how many different
simulations it it has pre-programmed
that we can open up
cool let's see what we got here Saturn
with rings yeah this one's pretty cool
when you can watch the simulation how
well this one's just more beautiful I
guess how a moon or a large body thrown
into Saturn's rings
would destabilize them and warp them
that's pretty neat let me see if I
can do it just right
here we go planets oh we're gonna add
Neptune that's pretty massive yeah we're
gonna add
Neptune okay let's check it out to find
out what Neptune
does it is hard to
tell all right
here we go
guys let's see what Neptune does
here that's hard to tell how far okay
there we go so I did get it close enough
now watch three
dimensionally what happens here
so Neptune
is throwing the Rings
out and pulling it in pulling it up and
down as it
uh as its orbit you know crosses the
plane of the the
uh
rings and now it's throwing you out
like that's pretty
cool sucking a lot of the particles into
itself it's just completely disrupting
the ring
system a lot like you
see galaxies in well in the pictures but
also the simulations to try to
understand the
physics of uh what goes on when galaxies
merge they they
fling entire tals of billions of stars
out which is that that fact
is that's hard to comprehend you know
thinking about one star is hard enough
the size the energy
the the the force the distance is
between stars and then you think about
billions of those Stars being flung out
into inner Galactic space when galaxies
start
merging I had something to think
about okay so one last note assist the
tutorial while we watch the results of
our experiment go home click the back
arrow click the back arrow the guys see
what
else if you ever want to learn more
about using Universe Sandbox just select
a topic from
here and then it sends us off with a
nice
farewell so I want to plan Escape let's
check it
out actually you know what let's let's
do some let's just do some fun stuff
we'll plan Escape in a minute
all right so we
got the Earth Moon
system and for
me let's take the trails off so don't
have that disrupting us although it's
useful to pinpoint where the moon's at I
just wanted to
look at just how far
just how far away the moon really
is maybe we'll try to superimpose it on
the Galaxy back
there all right
so just look at
this I will let it we'll put the moon on
the other side
just look at how far
away the moon really
is the moon was actually out this
morning she a little bit after sunrise
and when you look up you know you don't
you don't realize the
moon isn't
just floating you know about this far
away
it's to really
think about where that moon
is it just seems so large in the
sky it gives you an idea of how massive
how
large how large the diameter of the Moon
really is if it seems so large in the
sky yet is this far away
let's see let's look above it okay we're
zooming all the way into Earth and now
I'm going to slow zoom
out and watch how long it takes before
the moon comes into
frame right
there it's like you would normally think
I used I guess I won't speak for you but
I really used to think the moon was
maybe
here CU When you're
speaking on the scale of planets you
know a couple Earth diameter seems
pretty
uh pretty far away you know 50 100,000
miles but it's like
30 30 Earth diameters I
think it's still not in
frame there we go
that is how far the Apollo Astronauts
had to
travel it's
incredible all right so let's throw an
asteroid into the Earth here's what I
want to
do I want to
first I want to look
up the dinosaur
asteroid oh look at
that look at that would you look at that
guys you type in chulu been an
asteroid flies across the
screen that really happened it sure did
that's
funny
cute okay so Chul Loop was 120 mil in
diameter it's an impact crater buried
underneath the Yucatan Peninsula in
Mexico its Center is offshore but the
crater is named after the onshore
community of chulu
weblo 66 million years ago
10 kilm wait oh oh the craters 120 miles
so 10 km which would be
about 6 miles
wide the
uh was
it yeah 1 km is6 miles I think so all
right let's check it out now
if we
had let's
see minor
bodies it's surprising they wouldn't
have a Cho
Loop wonder if I searched for it could I
find it
there open
no okay that's weird you would think
they would have that all
right I'm going to have to write them a
letter then guys won't
I now I love this game this is plenty
cool because you can just create your
own if you really want so that's what
we're going to
do let's check it out we got
all right so let's check out our random
asteroid I think we're going to have to
custom make ch
R Rock particle asteroid I think
asteroids probably our best bet all
right so we're
gonna launch it we're going here come
over here launch
it launch it in
and there we go so it's stationary now
so let's X out of this
configuration oh where' it go there it
goes all
right wait what's going
on
oh hope we got
launched so we got days per second let's
scale that way
back
oh okay let's redo that
let's redo that all right
so okay maybe I launched it wa too
quick let's reset
that okay all right so we're
gonna We increase the time step to
something
like 10 minutes per
second let's go ahead and add our
asteroid random
asteroid we're g to launch
it launch
velocity let's see how fast
Kul Kul Loop Kul Loop hit hit the Earth
stru diameter age
coverage let's hit the dark reader mode
for you guys so I can show you this
without blinding
you okay
so 12 miles
depth six
miles across
wow the crater was 12 miles deep that's
a 12 miles
deep there's a really cool video that
I'd like to just
maybe maybe like comment on or something
like that one time in sometime
soon that is a
someone
made maybe a lot of you guys have seen
it but someone
made um of the impact of real time
impact it's a six hour video going over
a couple minutes leading up to it and
then the six hours around it after the
impact and just how you can see the the
wall that's a cool
video wow there's a lot of really cool
videos the sunam
me in real time is this is this
it maybe it
is um in real time
I got the sound turned way up
this this is amazing
um the air
pressure gives you a breakdown of the
air pressure the um you know the heat
the shock wave the the different types
of shock waves of uh the the ejector how
high into the sky they would have gone
How deep the impact
the Air Blast velocity
here so in the center we got mach five
Hypersonic
um you can see how deep it
went the eject of the tsunami effects of
course just taking out all of where I am
all of uh the land surrounding the
gulf let's see
okay
so Air Blast pressure Air flast Blast
velocity so just a couple minutes after
impact you
have what less than 10 less than 10
minutes nine minutes after
impact you have a category five
hurricane
radiating all it's already gone across
the entire United
States I mean this video is just awesome
I this isn't the one I I saw I think but
um yeah it's incredible what really
happened so anyways um yeah I'd like to
do a breakdown of this
itself it is
incredible you
have you
know regions that are just set on fire
thousands of miles
away so
yeah Mount Everest look at
the the bottom of the crater rebounds at
500 meters per
second 500 m/ second
the I mean it's got to be molten at that
point the rock is just moving it
impacted and then rebounding
up look at
that God
and there you go wow that's real time
look at
that what is what is that though seismic
wave FP wave is a prismic
noise so
God so you're already getting a pressure
W okay
anyways that's
fascinating let's create our own impact
now let's find what how fast it was
going almost lost track of what I was
what I was
doing um discover
is it
here this is definitely a question you
can look
up was it an asteroid
the only second largest impact structure
on Earth and the only one whose Peak
ring is intact
directly accessible for the scientific
for scientific
research
really Peak
ring is that
right so the Bak ring is on the
tip of the Yucatan Peninsula right on it
looks like it's right on the shore
it's literally right on the shore of you
that
ghost
Chu no way
and the time scale of that too
was at a relatively steep angle between
45 and
60° 20 kilomet per second
okay what was the speed of the CH this
is just turning into a chuu
episod and if it's pronounced a
different way let me know in the
comments just going I've never heard it
pronounced 1 m/
second 10 m
High it would have hit Europe and
Africa with a 10 meter high wave 100
foot wave
or no that's a 30 foot wave that's still
a massive wall of water traveling what
three four 5,000
miles that's
incredible
okay so oh we got to pause that all
right two km per second okay we got to
delete that
delete
that let's
see random
asteroid K second
okay let's add our own launch
velocity let's 10x
that
2x so here we go all right launch
it oh we got to launch it at a steep
angle that's right
okay so clearly we
gota start with
a empty
simulation we'll add an earth then we'll
enter Chul Loop and then we'll launch
that sucker and watch it
go so add
Planet there's our Earth
okay all right we got the
Yucatan ready to
go is there a sun no
just just got the lighting like there is
okay so now what we got to do is add our
asteroid let's check it
out let's make it
happen
random
asteroid okay
launch
um laun
right at
it I hope that uh that's an accurate
launch okay so let's select it change
the speed change the
diameter where are we okay
speed all
right change the diameter
5 km 10 km
okay I'll knock it down get precise with
it
okay see they're going to be
comically I'm either going to have
screwed up or not I don't know let's
find out if I screwed this up maybe and
look how small it looks when you back
out okay well there it is 3 hours per
second that's our time stamp so
let's Okay that's really fast let's
do a couple minutes per second that's
still really fast wow this thing is
moving with some
speed okay
well I guess it's way further away than
I I thought so it's we'll speed it
up look at that thing just
imagine thank God
we we're experimenting with Technologies
to
uh deflect asteroids man look at it
that's pretty pretty precise shot isn't
it all right that
suckers know what we got to do I just
remembered oh look at this thing the
gravity Earth's gravity is sucking it in
too all right we have to um rename this
we got to give it a proper name don't we
all
right
okay it is going to be
named here we go
why it still going the same
speed I guess it looked like it sped up
so maybe that makes sense if
it's falling into
Earth all
right actually that'd be curious that'd
be cool to see if it heats up would it
let's find out if it does
that let's find out how
much maybe maybe it's it loses Mass
maybe we can see the atmospheric effects
of
it all right that's six seconds per
second slow this way
down look at this sucker
going that was a direct
hit I'm pleasingly surprised I did not I
think it would be that direct of a
hit
okay look at that suck okay so it's
going it's temperature is still way up
so so we're going at half speed right
now4 seconds per real real time second
it temperature is
-273
C it's radius it's Mass isn't
changing just real time let's see what
it would look like in real time
okay let's get the best view
here I think a a wide angle view might
be
best oh
okay the game literally wouldn't let me
pause it that's
funny wow okay let's check out what
happens with
Earth let's see what happens with Earth
here so now we let's do real time here
let's slow it down Okay so we're roughly
in real time and we could see the shock
wave traveling out at an incredible
speed that is ridiculous how fast it's
going so it's already going
out it's already
traveled 500 miles in the first couple
seconds here
um is Earth's temperature going to
increase I mean that's its average
temperature
but let's
see the view of all these different
properties here you can see the gas
pressure liquid depth um surface
temperature we have one ridiculously hot
spot at the impact
site it looks like it beat it might have
already
beat at something like
1300° C
all right so let's speed it up a little
bit we G see what other effects so look
at the tsunami effects it's already
having it's going up Mexico Central
America's wiped
out the gulf the Southern United States
hasn't hit Florida yet given a couple
seconds Florida's going to get taken out
too I'm hanging on
hanging in there
guys we
see the gas pressure the bubble is
expanding oh there it goes yeah the
whole Southeast Eastern United States
okay that's 3
XP that's actually incredibly
fast this
is something else to witness this is on
pars is on 1 second per
second and it's
literally just 1 second per
second that's frightening how fast the
shock wave is traveling
up the
entire region around the
gulf the entire Southeastern or Southern
United States is underwater now
and now we have I mean what is this
debris oh yeah I haven't even got the 3D
view yet look at
that look at the three-dimensional view
of the
ejecta all the crust Earth's crust that
would have ejected into
space and all from from that little you
know
something six six miles
wide that's not even a third as wide as
Lake okobi
here with the energy it
had let's see if I can zoom in get a
better
see how do I do this now there we
go go look at
that oh there we go sorry I'm getting
used
to navigating with the keyboard
here you can tilt it B left right in and
out and then I can use the mouse to look
up actually kind of want to see
here I love I love the time manipulation
aspect let's reverse it real
quick all right I just want to see what
it looks
like after
impact wow
that for
all right let's go to one second per
second here let's check it out let's see
just how terrible this impact crator
was this asteroid impact was
it's fascinating that on this scale
right
here it's
so it's so
uh it seems like it's moving so slowly
and then once we get really close you're
going to see just how fast it
is and just how
devastating a little six mile wide
grater can be on a 10,000 mile wide
earth
planet so we'll speed it up to get a
little closer but um
to watch the effects yeah we
do we do like 3x or
2x some nice even numb so I can quickly
get back to where we're trying to
go at cosmically it's
like you can barely
if I take the trail
off you wouldn't even be able to see it
from this scale if the game didn't make
a point to enlarge objects
for for the sake of you know visualizing
it because it is a visual medium
here this is so
incredible yeah maybe that's a good
angle I have right there
all right we are approaching it in real
time
now it's not exactly where I wanted it
to hit but it's pretty darn close so
we're going to
see just how devastating this was just
imagine just
imagine imagine looking up and seeing
this thing
coming being on the North and the
Americas
oh we just lost
it we lost our
POV because we lost the
asteroid all we're going to zoom in
here you can just see how devastating it
is
instantly within seconds the shock
wave has already traveled hundreds of
miles let's
zoom out here here we
go the effects of the impact on
planets they for some reason keep
propagating even when you mess with the
time so trying my best
to to give us a good view
here all
right trying to give us a good
threedimensional
view of just how high these fragments
these what are called ejecta
fragments are
being
launched into the
air look at these
and I imagine that this
is similar to what it would be
like if God forbid an asteroid ever hit
earth again and we're not able to
deflect
it
um just look how high this is going it's
going hundreds if not thousands of
miles in the air beyond the air out of
the
atmosphere and the site is it's
propagating it's already swallowed up
all of South Central
America you could
see and the wave has already covered
Mexico Texas Louisiana
Florida and it's Rippling
oh there we go it's
better it's
Rippling it's fried I assume
the you know the heat wave the the gas
pressure
bubble
supersonic way faster than
sound gas
pressure shock wave in the ground I
guess the one in the ground would be f
than the one the atmospheric shock
wave but yeah look how devastating
Florida's
already already
about
70 now approaching 80% just wiped out um
Louisiana's
flooded Central America has been wiped
out I'm assuming that's
yeah the atmospheric shock wve right
there then the water is coming
right kind of in front of it obviously
this isn't super you know exact exact
and realistic but it's pretty darn
realistic all right
let's I just want to yeah try to get
threedimensional views of how high
these these fragments are shooting in
the air
because that's you got to
remember a huge part of the devastation
is the fragments that rain back down on
Earth I'm still I don't game I'm
definitely never gamed with the PC so
I'm still trying to figure
out how to manipulate the uh the
keyboard and the mouse controls at the
same time
all right so again this is in real
time the devastation
is so the the
flood has now wiped out the entire
southeastern United
States
um
it's working its way up into Mexico
which I understand a lot of central
Mexico was actually pretty high
elevation
so the right here the uh the Rockies and
that are going to take a while
to to actually be uh flooded
out let's look at Earth
and I don't know what's going on here
now but um let's open the properties of
Earth and check out the the Heat map see
what's going on with
that
composition let's check out the
layers oh we see Earth is already
heating
up the minimum temperature is rapidly
increasing the maximum
temperature is decreasing ing from I
think about 1300° at the impact
site
overview um the average temperature
is 12.9 that's going to be
increasing the impact site is
obviously you see the gas
pressure expanding
look at
that I'm not sure what that is if that's
fragments coming back down or what
what's going on with
that oh there we go I'm finally learning
how to use
this all
right and look at these these
are well earth's earth's radius is about
diameter is about with
8,000
um so Earth's diameter is about 8,000
miles so it's radius half of it is 4,000
miles
there and uh so that's about 2,000 miles
I'd say it's a qu of the diameter enter
the ejecta launched into the atmosphere
Beyond well beyond the atmosphere I
guess in
reality so let's check out the rest just
think about that that's
a that's so incredibly High into the air
that's so powerful that's there's
there's chunks hundreds of feet across
I'm sure we using Freedom Units by the
way guess I'll stick with Miles and feet
and
um being ejected you have stadiums of
material being ejected thousands of
miles into the into space and then
Earth's gravity will
pull it back
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down across the entire
planet so let's
see let's see how the planet's doing
here okay
so half of Mexico about half of the
United States is taking out it's
underwater right
now
and the average temperature of the
entire planet has raised a degree just
minutes after the
impact now let's increase it it's 2x the
speed
here now will 4X it just to get a real
understanding of it and you can watch
this watch this temperature
here you're going to see
you're going to see this temperature
increase
and that is so
incredible all right
so look at the the
fragments going to far here there
fragments
ejected are now you know 4,000 they're
doubling their
distance
and it looks like the
simulation's simulating the uh fragments
falling back down
onto the impact site and around
it I set this up so the impact happen to
brighten early in the
morning
so oh what did I just do
here I don't know what that
does c I just hit the letter c I don't
know what kind of shortcut that was
but the r right into the The
Fray yeah look at that you can see
everything oh that's awesome you can see
the whole planet now okay let me zoom
out how do I zoom out of
this there we go okay now I'm zooming
out to the whole
planet on these Maps here we can see
what is that one cold spot what is that
random cold spot
oh there we go that's kind of
cool 2D profile composition
composition oh I real I could do all
that that's pretty
neat see if the elevation got
changed is it
all right so it's wiped down I haven't
even been paying attention to what
what's actually going
on so is that is that
Alaska I didn't randomly get
out move over to the Pacific did
I yeah there's Newland Eastern Canada
there wow
um let's just look at the map okay the
entire North American continent is
underwater right now it doesn't look
like the elevation
changed so I'm assuming you know that
doesn't mean that I'm assuming that
means that you know the
land
Beyond you know whatever like 100 mile
radius of the impact isn't actually
affected it's just the atmosphere and
the water the water washing
over everything is
um is what's causing the uh the ocean to
increase that is
incredible and again
remember one thing that this isn't
showing is
the look how much it's I don't new
feeling sits pretty high up
too look at the water just it's still
coming
up all this is going to be burnt there's
going to be a massive wall of of hot
ionized gas essentially almost plasma I
guess that
is concentrically propagating out like
the world's you know the largest ever
nuclear
explosion
and it's just
devastating
Burns increases the
temperature
13.7 it burns the entire
planet and within
hours that's uh
all right we're doing 25x
now
so now we can see the Earth rotating in
real time or not you know we can
see look at that we can see the
fragments Landing the ejective fragments
landing on the other side of the Earth
China
Australia
Indonesia that is
nuts imagine that imagine being in
Australia or uh you know somewhere else
it's just the middle of the night and
you just see you don't have any sense of
an impact you have no tsunami maybe the
the atmosphere is lighting up with
auroras or something but uh you have no
other warning sign and you just started
getting Sky just starts lighting them up
with football field size
chunks raining
down
let's let's fast forward to see if
anything else happens
oh man surface temperature oh
no
okay I just want to see the impact site
let's see okay now look at
that we're already hitting Africa it's
getting swallowed up now
all the entirety of North and South
America is just
gone byebye that is
incredible to think about that let's 10x
that let's have that just 5
exit so if we watch our map up
here that uh that one little asid I did
all that and paved the way and killed
out such a huge
chunk let's lock on to Earth huge chunk
of the
uh what do you call it the
um the
biosphere surface lock there we
go all right
I wonder how long it would
take we jumped it up
to you know days per second I guess
it's still water is still eating away at
the planet I just wonder how long it
would take
to for the continents north for the
Americas to come
back you see the climate shifting it's
14 basically two weeks per second
now two weeks per
second okay let's just go
crazy how many years does it take look
at
that we have years where it's just the
green is just died out oh it became a
snowball what what happened
there okay I guess maybe that's just
because we don't have a
sun that's
funny okay fair
enough maybe we should add
one let's
it I think I already have there we go U
scy is the largest known
star and we are going to put it
we're going to put
it
100 120 Au that's the edge it's the
boundary
where our Sol wind stops it's the
boundary of our solar
systems basically our solar
bubble so to
speak let's put it there and see what
happens to Earth
days per
second let's go back down to minutes per
second all
right it's been 200 years since we
started the simulation I love
that here we
go all right let's see what
happens we're at basically a half hour
every second let's see what happens to
Earth as it orbits this massive
star now that sun right there this new
Sun you
scy oh okay it just jumped us right
there didn't
it is
was only nine times the mass of the
sun it's only nine times but its radius
is
eight times
the if we can do that in
Souls it's eight times the
distance 70 720 million miles miles wide
that that's baffling that poggles the
Mind 700 million miles
across
into
that's
2.4 2
million yeah two million
times
wider than the sun two million times
wider than the
sun I have a weird deck where I have to
type the word sometimes I have I'm I'm
compelled diam
versus so the sun is
um I'm I'm
confused that would mean you Good's like
a billion miles
across or more so the sun is 860,000
Miles that's you know over 3/4 of a
million miles across in diameter
I'm not the first one to look look this
up
obviously the U SC has a diameter of
2.38 billion kilomet I don't mind it not
being in Freedom Units because it's you
such a large number now but that would
be uh roughly four four billion miles
across
1700 times the size of the
sun
what 1700 times the size of the
sun I guess my MTH was way off I
thought yeah
it was e to the
six oh I let the simulation run over
here oh no it's not okay
cool we should see its temperature start
to increase
now but yeah anyways I guess my the
point of all that was who that
um let's get off Surface lock here
to just try to put in
perspective how massive this object is U
SC it's 120 times in this
simulation further than the Sun so from
this
perspective we would be inside UI scutty
right now if it were where the sun is if
it were the same distance if it's Center
point I guess it would be was at the
same distance as the from Earth as the
sun's
Center and
um but
instead it's 120 times further from
Earth than the sun
is and it still
looks I don't know what like 10 times
larger
which makes sense that's about multiply
those that's about 1,700 times it's on
the the same
magnitude as
it's how much larger it is it's
1700 fold
increase from the
Sun okay
so it's average temperature Let's uh
there we go we can see it start to
increase now so we're changing it
from let's do days per
second so one day every second and we
see that in that temperature increase
now look at that nice nice warm glow
that that light that star gives
off that's
amazing let's go back
down well maybe not so we have our poor
impacted
Earth Africa is just an ocean
now so is Western
Europe where's North America I don't
even know North and South America still
just they're just buried under ice nice
nice
ocean okay let's see if we surface lock
this although we miss out on that
beautiful UI scutty
glow but we can see there let's just
increase it let's go
crazy little strob of
here
okay there we
go and
now we see how rapidly so
it's I got to change
that Target Sim speed Auto there we go
I wish the units
would oh there we go okay thank
you literally was just asking for the
same the exact feature that
was available that was nice thanks
Universe hbox
developers okay so we're
at like 20x speed or something like
that no we're we're at like
500x
speed 5
minutes 8 minutes per second 60 seconds
time 8 480 yeah something like
that we can see the Earth
is it's still warming
up but I love the geologic time scales
on this too
how accurate it is because it would have
to be you know we have an accurate
distance we have accurate times accurate
energies um or sorry accurate distance
and
size accurate energies
accurate
um lots of accuracies I guess the point
I'm getting
that but we also have accurate geologic
time here it shows how long it would
actually
take for atmospheric changes to happen
if you were to replace our
sun and put
it or
replace our solar
system with
one U SC was at the center
of yeah that's actually that just
reminded me to check out the goldilock
Zone if you watch scy let's give it a
shot so let's Go ZO way way way way way
out there we
are VI
I forget how you do that habitable zone
maybe I think that's how you do
it oh look at
that that is so
incredible that gives you an idea of the
habitable zone so Earth is going to get
burnt inevitably it is well within the
uh within
the danger
zone see right there that's an example
of just how how much larger they they
they exaggerate the size of Earth from
larger distances so that you're able
to um you know still make it out you're
not just Flying Blind but in reality
Earth would still be even this far away
would be a pin pinpoint you wouldn't be
able to see
it
but let's see how it's doing how it's
starting to heat
up but to give you guys a perspective
again it's all about relativity
otherwise this just you know it's
meaningless
if we add a sun you can see it's h Zone
too so in just like it's actually
probably going to be a really great
perspective um what did I just what is
going on did I just add a bunch of
planets did I just add a solar
system okay just added a solar system on
accident that's
funny all right but yeah okay that's
that's a great name still a good uh
demonstration
here let's highlight the
sun
okay look at the Sun's habitable
zone which um
is would Jupiter get blown up or that's
okay it's
just
inaccurate all its
moods there that's
awesome those really all Jupiter's moons
no way I know it has like 60 moons but
that's is that
60 that's insane that is
so that just seems like a lot it's got
its four main Galilean moons the ones
that Galileo saw 500 years
ago I anim
jopa
and
kalista anyways
I should have named this channel I
digress okay so here's the
Sun and we zoom in oh I'm
sorry and we zoom in and we check
out we check out its habitable
zone
which Earth and Mars Earth is just in
the habitable zone Venus looks like it's
just out of
it and Mercury is well out of it and
Mars is actually looks like
it's perfectly in
it I'm G to go down here and add a
GD again to help us get perspective
here so Au is the distance 90 million
miles about between the Earth and the
Sun and on
distances on the level of the solar
system smaller than Interstellar and
Intergalactic distances Au is one of the
biggest
uh one of the primary units you count
in so for the distance from the Sun to
the
Earth is One
AU and then Mars is about 2
Au sun to Jupiter
is about seven or eight Au I think
something like
that so when you zoom out
there we have Mercury Venus Earth
Mars you keep going we have Jupiter
Saturn about 7 to 10
Au if we keep going out if it lets
us then we have Uranus and Neptune at
roughly 20 to 30
Au and just there's Pluto Neptune right
there so
that's Pluto marks the beginning of the
Kyper
belt the edge of the solar
system is
about as many edges but the end of the
solar bubble essentially the boundary at
which the interstellar forces start to
overcome the
winds that stabilize the interior
environment of our solar system and at
about three times the
distance of the sun to Neptune and Pluto
they're about the same distance from the
Sun and so that's 3 * 30 Au about 90 to
120 3 to four times the
distance and then here it's only at
about
the entire diameter or the diameter of
the entire solar
system that we can see uy
scy
becomes um that we start being able to
make out the habitable zone of UI
scutty it's funny
that our entire solar system seems to be
orbiting just
fine maybe I need to increase the time
steps here maybe that's my
issue
um seems to be doing just fine though
orbiting this
star so
yeah
the the entire solar bubble that we
opened our last episode about the birth
of the solar system with explaining can
fit won't even begin to break
the the minimal boundary for the
habitable zone of uy scy so that's
that's incredible
and we can see zooming out you can
hardly
even make
out as we zoom out and start seeing the
red green habitable
zones you can hardly make out our entire
solar
system
and looks like
668 Au is
roughly probably between five and 900 Au
here
800 Au is uh what's
habitable it's where we would have to
put
Earth to not
fry around you why scy
okay so we return to the solar system
now the
regular no no U wife scy
involved I wanted to mess around with
some more
impacts because
it's fun to blow stuff
up it's I think it's really fun to
imagine what would be
like to see an asteroid fall from from
the sky all
right it's in orbit now okay
that's an orbit I don't want
that
now La one right
here 3 km per second let's see I think
the average Earth is going 30 kilm per
second
17 to 20
so 30
50 17 to 25 kilm per second let's see
average
as asteroids the most common type of
impactor slam into the Earth that an
average velocity of
at an average velocity of 18 kilm per
second short period common impacts with
the Earth are less common but have
higher impact
velocities 30 kilm per
second look at this
there lter
impact long period comets are
up are up in the 50 to 70 kilometer per
second range that would
devastate
Earth even at what like a few hundred
feet
across so obviously it's
it's a high priority for us to figure
out exactly how to get to asteroids spot
them before getting to
them asteroids and and comets in
particular but uh I guess asteroids are
much more in our blind spots than comets
are because they
uh maybe because they they offcast more
so they're more phys
regardless the asteroids are
the what populate most of the
inner solar system
so way way more likely to get hit by an
asteroid I'd
imagine
um okay
so let's play this out here
we got two
asteroids coming to hit
Earth all right so we got this
one oh this one's ping a sneak attack
it's going to hit Earth at
night how I don't know how how large
these guys
oh that one's already about to
hit large this
guy 103 kilm
what it's
masses
kog 103 this is just a rock particle are
we not calling this an asteroid why not
okay
so Earth is about to get
destroyed by this quote unquote Rock
particle which is going to be
nuts look at this thing in real time
it's
it's about to destroy
Earth imagine looking up and seeing this
thing just go into the Sha Shadows like
that oh my
God imagine being you know oh look at
that 100 miles from it and just seeing
it
disappear get closer and closer until it
looks like it's obvious it's going to
hit Earth and then it just
disappears Over the
Horizon all right let's see what the
other one's doing has it hit
yet no it is not this one's way
behind let's see what this one does
I already cleared out the
atmosphere 15 minutes per
second and the impact site is just
witnessing
dawn it's a new day over
there where's the other
one so it hit what uh
where it
is just the middle of the Pacific I
guess did the other one already
hit I'm confused where the other
one all right let's let's
restart I'm going to send a massive
uh we're going to go five miles
across let's go ahead and zoom right
into
Earth all
right all right random asteroid you are
up let's
impact in the middle of the ocean
we're going to make
it let's see was six miles across let's
make it 100 miles across or 50 let's not
go too
crazy they don't have miles
okay okay
okay that's about 50 miles across that's
nuts
that's we're going to go to 20 kilm per
second 50 miles
across I want to do
this nice and
slow so that we
see all right let's bring it
down
twoes per
second all it's at half speed right
now this sucker is headed for the middle
of the
Atlantic let's go to one second real
time and just
again that's terrifying this is a
there's no angle of incident so it's a
direct maybe a 90° angle Bleak was the
word
orthogonal slightly off maybe 15°
off let's
see all right
so here we
go here's the impact in real
time 20,000 miles
hour in real
time and there it
goes couching out the
Earth this is a 116 kilometer
wide
asteroid impacting the Earth in the
middle of the Atlantic in real
time and its shock wave this
already 500 Miles
easily in
diameter okay let's see how it
impacts how quick just like you know
from from out here it doesn't look that
quick
definitely from out
here but when you zoom in and recognize
realize how large of an area that really
is how devastating that would
be all right
so all right I just want to see how it's
going to
affect Europe and Africa
here all right so we're going to do
exit and then you see
just in real time again
isn't like you
know um TV or you know any really good
quality I guess for 2024
but the graphics still get the the point
across I
think
okay you just see this massive so I
guess that's the rebound right there
it's going to
displace
just hundreds of thousands of
square well thousands of square
miles or at least hundreds of square
miles I guess
displacement it's forming a greater
ring and obviously the shock wave
it's just
devastating everything um the
entire Western Northern Hemisphere right
now all right so if we
so if we speed it up we can
see all
the ejected fragments now raining back
down on Earth there's one destroying the
Africa West
Africa one nearly missed Madagascar
there there's a couple raining down
right there that looks like it's a to
right for New
Zealand if we speed this
up we can see
just what that uh no doesn't look like
it's expanding it's going to say what
that shock waves doing
but look at it Glow just the black body
radiation of it it's just glowing as it
goes into night
oh that's
incredible all right let's go to the
uh surface lock oh I can just do it from
up there all right cool
okay well it didn't it's
not propagating like I expected it to so
we're going to have
to we're going to have to reset this and
do something
bigger I want to see true destruction
and watch how the planet
interacts all right so abandoned all um
attempts to try to impact the Earth with
small objects but then I thought all
right why don't I explore not just
increasing the size but increasing the
velocity so we increased it
from for the Chulo is it Chulo I feel
like that's the wrong pronunciation but
um
Chul Loop crater we increased it to six
miles wide increased the speed from like
two to 20 kilometers per
second but now I forgot that you can
increase you can play around with light
speed in this
game so that's what I want to
do I want to
take an idea that I got from great still
plays
he he's a really funny YouTuber who
messes around occasionally on Universe
Sandbox let's try
to Let's decrease the time make a tiny
tiny object but mess around with the
overall energy the kinetic energy it
delivers upon
impact by increasing its speed
so we're at two minutes per second here
I can launch
this slow it
down let's
see the perspective is hard to get
sometimes
because there it is okay cool
you forget how
uh all right let's make this little
guy a really little
guy a tiny
guy all right let's
go let's Zoom right on half a
kilometer let's go
75
m 3
m just a real tiny guy all right so
that's 10 feet across but even that's
still pretty big it's the size of a
car let's make it three CM all
right some of you out there would say
that's still pretty
big no that's a
that's what we're going with all right
so three almost four
CM um those are 2 and a half cm per
inch so it's like two Ines across
obviously it's not going to do
anything
but now if we
change
the where did the earth go What's
Happening Here
we're in darkness
now if we change the speed then we're
gonna start finding some
interesting
ideas okay so we're at 6% speed of light
let's find out what happens when we hit
play in real
time
so light goes around the earth I think
seven times per second that's you know
roughly what is it
300,000 meters per
second or kilometers per second I always
get that one mixed up a lot of you guys
know
that let's find out 6% speed of light
a three a two inch wide
meteor now in reality I'm curious
whether or not it would get
disintegrated in the atmosphere if it
was traveling and punctured punctured
through it going that
fast where did it hit
India I
guess I wasn't even paying attention to
where it at yeah India
oh oh my okay that was a lot of
fragments that got knocked off
there
okay
okay so now we're going to increase it
from six
two i' say We'll double it every
time 10% maybe we'll do
20% so if we increase
it 10 km
across increase the
speed 80% the speed of light decrease
our simulation speed what is it going to
do what is it going to do what are you
going to do okay let's find
out let's follow
we're going to follow you right into
Earth all right we are going
to go in out down there we go down and
out all right we're going to decrease
that simulation speed
there we go that's
better let's decrease it a little more I
want to see what we to be like a ground
zero getting hit by
a 50 kilometer wide asteroid traveling
at 90% the speed of life
let's find out
guys here we
go into the atmosphere we have entered
the atmosphere and the
planet there we
go oh it has ripped
all right let's zoom out a little bit
get some
perspective and remember this
is 05 milliseconds per second this is on
this order of Nan seconds it's like 50
50 NS per
second it's happening pretty
fast it's happening pretty
fast all right one
milliseconds 110,000 of a
second that has
happened on the order
of
1,000 of a second per
second let's see what happened on the
back side
oh it's
just the whole earth
okay I think we opened up a hole in the
earth
there and the earth looks pretty
devastated oh look at that that's
awesome that's pretty cool
oh nice you can make that bigger that's
awesome I didn't know you could do
that
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yeah okay
well all right that's about that we have
a 50,000 degree
Earth finally got some
results that was a little a little
disappointing uh having
to having to ramp up the parameters that
much okay last thing I want to do well
second to last thing is
uh yeah there we go look at that solar
system is something along the lines of
this I want to play around
with objects in disrupting the solar
system look at that
Jupiter Beetle Juice is so big that it
would essentially expand its surface
would be all the way out to
Jupiter oh so you just they just open
the simulate well I guess that's all you
could do
the red super Giant Beetle
Juice
see
Uranus like taco Tuesday like the the
night after Taco Tuesday Uranus is
heating up
guys all right
so Beetle Juice is a red super
giant Mercury Venus Earth and Mars all
have orbits smaller than Beetle juices
radius so they would have already
immediately been
inside and Jupiter soon
follows being swallowed up Beetle juices
higher gravity PS in the rest of the
solar system
planets where is it 11 times the Sun's
mass
but even Beetle Juice isn't as
large as you
scutty look at
that I really like the idea of
replicating like what it would be like
to live on a a
planet with
to
Suns especially dim Suns because
something like about dim Suns just seems
really you know appealing in a in a
fascinating sci-fi kind of
way so if
we we're g to put
Earth out
here way out here that's 78 you
well let's check out the habitable zone
that's we could attempt we could at
least attempt to have a habitable Earth
so habitable
zone okay the beetle juic is 120
a again that's about
the the extent of the actual solar
systems of the actual solar system
proper I guess before it start to get
swamped by
the interstellar winds so we're gonna
add we got Earth way out
here maybe in orbit it appears to be in
orbit let's
see well let's slow it down let's slow
things down a little
bit all right
so the red super Giants there something
yeah just so uh calm and fascinating and
comforting at the same time this weird
mix of I guess what I'm trying to do
with my
channel um about you know
orbiting really
far it's like you zoom in
and you look and you ban across although
them let me get rid of the
habitability the habitable gas over
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here and to look at Beetle
Juice that's so
incredible so if we were to put the
sun where Beetle Juice is it would look
like a star
it would be so far away it' be three no
four times
further from Earth than the Sun is from
Pluto
actually so let's do it let's see what
it would look
like so we got the sun right
there so 10
a 12
a and let's see the luminosity the sun
would give
Earth it's flying to
it wow almost
nothing that's really interesting let me
make sure the view is right so it's
realistic lighting yeah
realistic that's really interesting so
let's find out what the let's find out
how dim the sun actually
looks yeah look at
that it basically looks like a like a
really
bright
star all
right so I want to do
I want to put the sun where it would
actually
be where's the
Earth all
right okay there's F chip
okay the sun
is oh wow look at this
what what's going on here why does it
look so
close yeah that's that gives you an idea
of just how you know exaggerated the
planet sizes
are really cuz this one
Au is how close Sun actually is to
Earth and the Luminosity will be pretty
realistic
okay all right there we
go all right let's check it out look at
the difference though Beetle Juice has
to be 120 times further away than the
Earth is from from the
Sun for uh for the earth to be in its
habitable
zone all right and
now we see the true
Luminosity look at that that's like a an
Amber reading light it's kind of like
the the setting I have right now it's
wild to think
that being on an exoplanet or you know
Planet orbiting Beetle Juice in its
habitable
zone even though it's impossible because
Beetle Juice is a super giant and as a
short lifespan you would never you
wouldn't have time enough to evolve
intelligent life there
but if the planet happened to be
habitable then
maybe you could have you could colonize
the planet so
imagine living on a planet that
dim and
then look at the brightness that the
Earth has to really blasted with light
when you think about
it and check out the apparent brightness
from a distance of 1 Au about 90 million
miles away
it's way smaller but way
brighter relative to Beetle
Juice it's red super giant
now if we delete
this so we delete this
planet
delete or that
sun we put UI Scotty out
here or Canis
Major is even
larger it
12 we got put this one 800 a something
like
that probably out
here
200 I'll put it in
120 now look at
this be juice is
massive kenis
Majoris
is kis
maurus so
red that a hyper
giant it's only 1,400 light years from
Earth
wow that's awesome that's an actual
picture of canis maurus right there
Kess matures
that's on
the the star's been known since for over
3,000 years that's I love
that that we used
to humans
have
evolved staring at the
stars not only using them objectively as
guides in the
night but as
projections of
our our our stories out to the
sky one of the few things that
it's over the span of even hundreds of
generations of humans is
fixed in
nature RV y okay that was not I guess
the constellation's been known for 3,000
years VY Canis Major is the stars in
extreme oxygen rich red hyper
giant it's one of the most luminous and
massive red super
Giants it's one of the most luminous
stars in
the about 17 times the mass of the
Sun surrounded by a circumstellar
envelope it's part of a star that has a
roughly spherical shape and is not
gravitationally bound to the car star
core usually circumstellar envelopes are
formed from the dense Stellar
Wind and they are present before the
formation of the
star caused by its mass
loss was one of the first radio masers
ever
discovered it's embedded in a large
molecular
cloud so it seems like it's way too
chaotic to have any any
planets with any possibility of life
around those that star in that cloud
the radius is roughly 1,400 times that
of the sun which is close to the modeled
maximum the Hayashi limit a volume
nearly three billion times that of the
Sun a volume of three billion times the
sun wow
speed of light would take six hours to
go circumnavigate its
surface compared to 14 seconds for for
the
sun look at it's discover I wonder if he
had just quite to see it
that's funny all right if you didn't
know that was that was funny apparently
have to talk to my talk myself out
of out of crying at how bad my jokes are
all right what I did want to
see
was I look at the uh the
ball this immediately took when I put
that right there
the Earth's just GNA get sucked right
into
it oh whoa what an interesting
orbit
wow okay let's slow down here before
anything crazy
happens because this is exactly what I
wanted I didn't I didn't plan this I'm
not I'm not that
sophisticated
um oh yeah of course the Earth is a a
ball
of
300° gas but
whatever I wanted to look at its
sky just imagine being in a system like
that and looking up at the sky and
seeing two red hyper
Giants it's not exactly Tatooine
but I think it's still pretty
cool the magnitude of things out in the
universe always stunts
me what I wanted to finish up with
though there's a lot of cool little you
know simulations pre-made simulations
and a couple tutorials that we could do
but I did want
to now let's let's check out the one the
constellation tutorial I did want to do
that one
okay here we
go all right check it out
so the stars and constellations may look
like they are situated nested with you
know in proximity to each other
but
um this one here in which Beetle Juice
is actually a part
of is a is a
simulation but it's an accurate
depiction of
three-dimensional you know GD uh system
showing you the spatial
separation between the stars and a very
popular constellation and it's going to
show us how
evolves so there's beet
juice right
there here's a
hint constellations available visible in
both the northern and the southern
hemispheres and here it
is so rajel is a pretty big star in
Beetle Juice is the top left
corner top left shoulder I guess for you
guys it would be this one right of the
Orion Nebula
select
expand oh steings to turn on the
constellation labels now it says
o constellations
are
only symbols images created from stars
from the perspective
of the Earth or the Sun if you're you
know averaging distances there in the
cosmos so if we lived in a different
part of the Galaxy the tutorials
saying
we you know the constellations would be
viewed these stars and they're not star
groups they're just
groups us projecting three dimensions
onto a
are projecting a two I guess a
2d
surface on which from our perspective
all stars appear to lie on but in
reality they're really way further apart
than uh than I you know used to
guess and now it's going to re fast
forward and watch how these Stars given
their current known velocities which is
a
fascinating feat of human you know
intellect now they discovered velocities
of stars given that over any short span
of just even years the Stars
positions do not perceptibly change so
how the hell do we know what the
velocities are and
I think it has something to do with
Doppler
shifts
um has something to do with Statistics
but I don't know much more than that off
the cuff it's fascinating though other
they're able
to predict at
least what these star Stellar velocities
are so and
they project them extrapolate them into
the future when we get
this let's press
play and we see from our perspective
this is how the stars are going to
evolve it'll take about
350,000
years for oion to become unrecognizable
but even then the four main stars really
it still has roughly the same
shape and I know the sword down here is
a star forming region so maybe there'll
be maybe some of that gas will have
dispersed and cleared out and it'll seem
like it's brighter maybe or maybe dimmer
I don't know if the gas is not no longer
reflecting any of the
light but the
Stars aren't physically related to each
other just like one of you corrected me
on the birth of the solar system video I
know we formed within a constellation of
stars or you know a group of stars
the sun did the sun in our in US
ultimately formed you know five to 10
five to seven billion years ago I
guess
um but the orbits around the Galaxy
we've made
about 20 orbits around the Milky Way
core since then so all the stars since
then have as they go they've drifted
away dispers
so it's interesting how stars
do you know especially
uh the Dynamics the galactic Dynamics
how how it affects Stars how arms can
form and you have star forming regions
within galaxies
you have bright bands you have denser
cores denser regions of arms looser you
have more eccentric orbits more um
inclined
orbits That Vary off the plane but still
most of them are within the orbital
Galactic plan
even though constellations aren't
physically significant they're still
helpful for finding a way around the
sky try loading the complete set of
Western
constellations and watch how their
position their positions change over
thousands of years
oh there we go who let's back out
here where are we look at
that so if we Zoom all the way out
now we can see this guy's coming towards
us that's really interesting
look at
that oh okay we just I guess some are
going to
explode can we reverse
that all right we can cool
let's reverse
it give back into your normal shape
there there we go something like
that nice
okay oh there it is all
right that is really interesting oh
okay that's the
Sun and we can see slowly how the
position
of all the Orion stars are changing over
time over 10,000 years per
second
maybe we have visited some of those
Stars before they even reach their
positions right
now that's
cool in the threedimensional
you looks like
this this one's far
away for
so what do we are like your that's 100
light
years that's a thousand
possibility of interstellar
Travelers so uh it's really fascinating
I
like it's also something interesting to
think
about just what kind of new technologies
if we don't wipe ourselves out with AI
or nuclear
weapons what we will have achieved in
just just the next 100 years and then
and put that two three 400 years into
the
future I have no doubt in my mind that
we'll
have unlocked
fundamental patterns and
relations between matter and energy in
the universe to be able to manipulate
the space around us
to put humans in another
star system on
another star systems Planet I habitable
one
hopefully okay
well this has been fun I hope you guys
enjoyed this
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