Ep 613 - Solar System Part 1 (feat. Nate Marshall)

The wild wild west. >> Hey, what's up everybody? We're here. This is a breaking episode. It's going. to be a solo cast. Solo cast after this. I have Nate here. But Shane's away Netflix is a joke. festival which is that'll be fun. So. It'll be pretty much wrapping up by the. time you guys see this. However I don't. know. Maybe Hulu will do one too. >> Oh. >> I like when the the streaming giants get. silly in the comedy space. You know Hulu. huh? >> They start start battling? >> I mean yeah, they're all the streaming. giants are battling. That's all they do.

is battle each other. >> I didn't know they were battling for. stand up rights now. >> Oh yeah, I guess who's doing those. specials. >> Hulu does Hularious. Or Hulu's laughing now. >> Those are both terrible names. >> Hulu's laughing now? [laughter] You. don't like Hulu's laughing now? >> I hate that. I hate Hulu Hulu laughing. now. >> giants are just on the next level with. the branding. >> They might just be getting it. I'm a. dumb ass. They know what they're doing. >> They. Hulu's laughing now. Dude, that's I saw. that and I literally cracked up. I said these guys know comedy like none.

[laughter] other. >> Wow. Also Amazon does not have comedy. specific branding. I'm I would like to propose to Amazon ah. ha ha Amazon. >> [laughter]. >> Hey, come on. Come on. >> Let me let me know what you guys think. in the comments. Like, subscribe. Yeah, so yeah, this week I was sitting. here I was going. the hell should we talk about man? You. know, it's like. the political stuff? No. The war? Pretty.

much political stuff? No. I don't want. to talk about that. >> Bummers. Big bummers. >> Yeah, you know what I was I was like you. know what would be sick to actually get. into and nobody I haven't heard anyone. talking about at all. It's the solar. system. You know what I'm saying? >> Can't beat space. >> This dude, the planets. Here's the. thing. We learned about the planets when. we were little boys. We learned last. learned about the planets when we still. had an extra planet. >> let me get it. Let me get a camera here. >> [laughter]. >> We still had an had an extra planet at. last time we learned about planets. >> Which you're talking Pluto.

>> I'm talking Pluto. >> Yeah, I'm still I haven't got I haven't. got to Pluto yet, but I'm kind of. I was I'm a little salty we've nixed. Pluto. It's like what what was it It's. not hurting anybody. Was that What was. that like a coalition of fat science. teachers who were like we don't feel. like covering Pluto. Like why would they. drop it? >> literally just didn't fit into the. curriculum. They were like we can't get. this all [laughter] the way through the. year. We got to knock one off. >> I mean what what a dick. That was. definitely some astro whatever they're. called astro not an astrophysicist, but. like just like a space scientist.

whatever they're called. Definitely just being like you know. technically it doesn't count. It's just. like dude what the [ __ ]. >> It's it's a it's a big ball and it. rotates around the sun. Let it be a. planet. >> Yeah, what's your what's your [ __ ]. problem? They don't technically just. like an external but it's like dude it's. a [ __ ] planet man. >> My my theory is Saturn's not a planet. >> [laughter]. >> What's your problem with gas giants? >> It's a gas giant. You can't touch it. >> There's several. >> gas giants. But is it I guess you know. where Saturn's rings come from? >> I want to say Uranus, but that was just.

me being. >> [laughter]. >> That was just me being. >> If you're going to bring that attitude. to the [ __ ] solar system discussion, you're going to get ejected, dude. >> [laughter]. >> Dude, feeling you like this makes me. want to call the cops on you so badly. Um excuse me. You can't do that. You. [laughter] can't sit there. Karen cam. Um excuse me. >> [laughter]. >> We'll see. Might I call the cops on me by the end. of the solar system discussion. We'll. see, all right? >> Are we Is there a direction we're going. or did you just pick your favorite?

Inside out? >> Nope, starting from the sun. >> Starting from the sun, huh? >> I almost I almost skipped the sun. That. That's the craziest part. I was I was. going to do this. Was talking to Shawn. about it. I was like Shawn, what do you. think about this? And I was like, you know what dude? I. got to I got to cover I'll start from. the sun and move on, but I'm like I got. to cover the sun. That'd be crazy to do. the solar system and not cover the. [ __ ] thing it's named after. >> Can I tell y'all a thing I don't talk. about much? The sun freaks me out. >> Bro, I'm not going to lie. >> Yeah. >> I didn't know much about it. The more I.

learned about it, I I'm not lying. I had. a panic attack in your office. >> Yeah. >> Researching about how the sun works and. I got into like the the nitty-gritty of. it. >> Yeah. >> I for real at one point had to like stop. and just like sit down and take some. breaths cuz the sun I mean it it's. it cuts you down to the base the bare. fundamentals to where you're like, "What. do you even What the Okay, so this is. where light comes from?" And it's like. >> I don't know. I hope I'm not jumping the. gun, but the fact that it could like. blow up at any time.

>> Well, we'll see. >> it's not like close. >> The the sun has maintained equilibrium. for 4 and 1/2 billion years and it's. pretty much it'll it will continue to. maintain it equilibrium. The problem. solar flares. >> Oh, yeah. >> A solar flare. >> Another scary thing. >> We'll get into solar flares as well. No, no, no, no, you're eager. You're eager. Before you're disruptive, now you're. eager. >> [laughter]. >> We it's we've gone a full Dangerous. Minds arc in 30 seconds. This is. amazing. >> [laughter]. [snorts]. >> But I will say this, it's like here's. why I wanted to do the solar system.

cuz like we learned about it as boys. But that was so long ago and so much. stuff has come out about the planets. Like all the [ __ ] you learned about the. planets planets I'm not going to say is. wrong, but a lot of new details have. come out. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> So every the average adult is kicking. around. I'm not I'm not coming for people, but a. total [ __ ] ignoramus in terms of the. solar system. People that have like no. one knows [ __ ] about how all these. planets work including myself. So, you know, I uh. while you know, while we were out here. just kind of messing around in high.

school drinking college, people were. >> Yeah. >> A lot of girl scientists too, by the. way, were working hard. >> That kind of seems like girl science. actually. >> Yeah, it kind of Dude, it's it's. dominated by There's a lot of guy. scientists obviously, but there's a ton. A A of these discoveries. are girl scientists. >> Astrology then the then the solar. system. It's like a clear path pipeline. >> Yeah, they the horoscopes like you got. to go all the way in. >> Yeah, I got to absolutely go all the way. >> what's up with the [ __ ] cloud layer. of Venus which actually there was a. discovery by a girl scientist, big.

discovery by a girl scientist. >> Nice. >> That's crazy cuz right now on YouTube. people are trying to take. There there's a decent argument people. are making to take voting rights away. from women. People want to remove women's suffrage. >> Really? >> I watched a whole debate on it the other. day. And the the the line of thinking is if. if women we'll get to the outer space in. a second. But this is important cuz I'm. protecting girl scientists, girl space. scientists right to vote. But they're. they're trying to say that since women. can't be drafted into the war. then they have no right to be able to.

vote which could essentially send men. who have no choice to go fight in the. war that they're exempt from. The. essentially it's not fair. >> Yeah, yeah. >> You shouldn't be able to wield political. power in a system that like asks more of. men. Men should have more political. power. Which I say obviously is a fair. position. But. I think you would be stripping the. women's vote via girl logic which is. it's not fair. >> Yeah, yeah. >> Only a girl cares about if something's. fair. That's girl logic. As a guy you.

can't be like "Dude, it's not fair.". It's like well now I'm taking your vote. too cuz you're being a girl. >> You're being. >> If if you want to keep That's the thing. it's just a vicious cycle. You can't be. like "Dude, it's not fair.". >> If you act like a girl we'll also take. your right to vote. >> I mean it has to be a girl supporter cuz. why why can't girls vote? Cuz they act. like girls but you're acting like a girl. to take the vote. >> [laughter]. >> Also it's it's when I see the debate. it's like okay you can make as clear, concise point about it. No one's it's like no one's ever going. to do It's not going to happen.

>> This dude's going to get on that. platform for real for real? >> I mean you could stand on it all you. want. >> get [ __ ] again. >> Like. >> The yeah, well one guy that I've watched. has his wife pill on the no vote for. women. She's fully with it. And it's. like. Dude, again, do your thing, live your. life. I don't care. But let's be honest, it's never going to [ __ ] happen. They're never going to do it. >> Is he a politician or is he like uh. >> He's like a debater. He's a good. debater, too. He's He's a He's a very. very solid debater. Forget his name, but. he uh Yeah, I was watching the whole.

thing and like. it's just one of those things where it's. like it sounds sick, obviously. You're. on your channel, you're like you're the. reason. >> [laughter]. >> you're watching. You're like yeah, we're. going to [ __ ] do it. We're going to. take their vote. >> See not into. >> [laughter]. >> I mean, dude, it's it's just never going. to [ __ ] happen. It's like it's. It's never It's just It won't, dude. No. one Nobody The country No country can. possibly withstand that amount of na-. The nagging would be crazy, dude. Like. let's be honest, dude. >> The divorce rates would go through the. roof. If any If you're a dude who goes I.

agree with this, you're you're done. You're not getting [ __ ] Your ladies. >> of babe Again, this guy has got his. babe. She's on board. They had is a. [ __ ] rarity. >> Yeah, yeah. He's got the like the the. one percenter of a of babes. >> I know when babes Your babe might be. like, yeah, I could see that. And then. just like on a random Tuesday be like, can't believe I can't [ __ ] vote. You're like, dude, you said it was fine. We watched the. YouTube debate. We both agreed that guy. was right. They're never going to go along with it. It's It's just one of those things where. it's like, dude, like. you can you you're kind of chasing your.

tail. You can you know, whatever. But. that's And then the after doing all this. outer space research, I'm going, dude, women are dominating. >> some babes. >> We need these babes to [ __ ] look at. tell us about outer space. Again, I. don't know if it's all of them, but a. lot of these discoveries are from babe. scientists while we've been just. absolutely [ __ ] around the entire. time. >> We will if if if we take away their. right to vote, they're going to stop. focusing on science. They're going to. try to get their right to vote back. We. can't do it. >> I don't know. Could though. If. [laughter] we did take the vote, we.

could get There might be some humble. babe action. >> I do like. >> like like reuniting right after a. breakup. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> Could be best behavior. We could have. best behavior. >> I do like the idea of women acting. right. >> [laughter]. >> I would just vote I'd be like just tell. me I'll vote however you want. I don't. even care. >> [laughter]. >> We get double votes? >> You. tell me. You tell me. Babe, I'll vote. for whatever you want. I don't [ __ ]. care. And also too like the this the. nuts and bolts. of blocking the vote, I mean it's like.

the only option would you'd have to. physically. hold the you'd have to literally. physically hold them back. They would. flood the voting booths. >> We would also have so many trans women. Like women I just thought about that. Or. we'd have to we'd have to we'd have to. go down that rabbit hole then. It'd be a. whole different thing. Cuz they they. would they would definitely spite trans. I know women would spite trans. >> you'd have to have the FBI female body. inspectors. >> [laughter]. >> That'd be the only way. But either way, I don't want to get.

mired down in politics. I want to talk. outer space. Cuz it would be dude, I'm. saying it'd be a sad sight if like, you. know, you're there they actually passed. a law in this [ __ ] Handmaid's Tale. [ __ ] world. >> [laughter]. >> The only way you could stop women is by. you'd have to have like a security force. like Scrappy-Doo holding their heads. while they [ __ ]. >> [laughter]. >> And that would bum me out. I'm trying to. cast my vote for the Republic. I'm. seeing women get Scrappy-Doo'd. Just. nonsense. >> [laughter]. >> That would be that would [ __ ] piss me. off. Some of them good girl scientists. that are [ __ ]. enlightening us about space.

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and work. Um. But then it was like, dude, let me hit the [ __ ] sun. And then. actually this was Shawn's idea. And while we're doing the planets, we're. going to do kind of a a mini deep dive. into why they have that name, what the. name says about the planet, does that. actually match up with the physical. characteristics? Cuz [snorts] like all. of them are named after basically. Greco-Roman gods. >> Oh, that's interesting. >> Except for Earth. Yeah, I'm talking. Roman a little bit. Except for Earth, weirdly enough. Why? Why did Earth not get I mean, it gets.

Probably cuz we're standing on it, you. know? It doesn't get a cool god name. >> We may might have already had it named. You know, we might have already been. calling it Earth. >> Just Earth. Just Earth. Or you could name Earth after a god, really, cuz it was like, they you know, the gods were supposed to be in the. heavens and. whatever. Unless you believe in like. Gaia. So, okay, before we talk planets, let's talk. sun, okay, and basic facts. This is the. stuff I already knew before I. researched. Sun is 93 million miles away. from Earth. I know that one. That was I. learned that from a Wu-Tang song.

It's from Triumph. It's literally in the. song. Which is kind of crazy. That's. like some dude smoking sherm in the. projects would have. >> Yeah, yeah. >> literally been teaching a prim ass white. boy like myself. about the solar system. And that's what. happened. That's how I started my love. for outer space. And now I've joined the lineage of great. teachers, cuz I've actually smoked sherm. on accident before. So, that's the only. >> mix with How do you get. >> It's just PCP. >> PCP. Okay, okay. >> It's just wet. Yeah, it's just I. accidentally smoked sherm myself. So, that's how I've just following a great. lineage of teachers, just smoking sherm.

once or twice. >> like? >> Weird. During it was sick. >> Yeah, yeah. >> Flew I like literally flew up a. staircase. >> Huh. >> It's awesome. I could breathe flames out. of my mouth. But then I got like deeply. paranoid that these babes are trying to. poison me. >> Yeah, okay. >> And I could have kissed them. >> Oh. >> I was too shermed out. But that's that's. the life of a [ __ ] astronomer like. myself. >> [laughter]. >> So, okay, so let's go size of the sun. Right off the bat, how big is the sun in. relative terms? 1.3 million Earths could.

fit inside the sun. >> Eesh. >> That's crazy. It's It's [ __ ] dude, it's massive. If the sun If the sun were. a hollow ball, you could fit every. planet in the solar system inside of it. and still have room. >> Like a lot of room, right? >> Yeah. It's [ __ ] up how big this The. sun is like just to get a glimpse. You. see it every day. You just don't need to. think about it. Oh, [ __ ] sun. 1.3 million Earths could fit inside of. the sun. How hot is the sun exactly? Depends on where you measure. At the core, the sun is 15 million.

degrees Celsius. >> Damn. >> It's [ __ ] hot as [ __ ] So, we'll get. into exactly what that means. Cuz like. you hear that, it's almost abstract. The. surface of the sun is only air quotes. about 5,500 degrees Celsius. Sean, can. we get some conversion? I like that. >> The surface of the sun. So, there's a. core, there's the inner core where like. the you know, we'll get into what's. happening in there. And then there's. like an actual body of the sun. >> Okay. >> 5,500 degrees, which is like pretty low. compared to the core.

Kind of weird. >> Let me Google what 7,000 is. >> 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. How What's. the surface in Fahrenheit? If it's 15. million degrees Celsius, that's got to. be. I don't know. Celsius throws me off cuz. it's close at some points and super. 30 probably is. I think it's probably 30. 30 million degrees. >> Hm. >> 30 million degrees, dude. Let's We'll. we'll wait for the official numbers to. come in. Here's the weird part. So, the surface. core is 15 million degrees, surface is.

5,500 million 5,500 degrees Celsius. Okay, so it's 27 million degrees. Fahrenheit. You know, whatever. We'll. stick to Celsius. That's what the. [ __ ] scientists they. they love libs, they love Celsius, obviously. So, the [clears throat] outer atmosphere. So, there's there's a core of the sun, there's its surface, then there's an. outer atmosphere of the sun called the. corona, which paradoxically reaches over. 1 million degrees Celsius, which violates. >> It's hotter than the. >> hotter than the body of the sun. Not. hotter than the core. >> Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. >> But, according to I believe the law of.

thermodynamics, it's supposed to get. colder the further you move away from a. hot thing. The corona violates the law basic basic. physics. People still don't know why. >> Yeah. >> That's pretty wild. And the corona, this. is kind of a weird it actually extends. cuz it's like a um. There's you know, there's the core, there's the body. The corona is like the. what you see when there's an eclipse. There's that like light around the moon. That's the corona. It goes on for. millions of miles. And it's a million degrees for millions.

of miles. >> Damn. >> And then it actually peters out into the. solar winds that basically go through. the entire solar system. And then they. stop after. Pluto for planet formerly known as. Pluto. >> So, when we're getting heat hitting our. planet, it's corona that's gotten here. Is that what kind of? >> We'll get to that. >> Okay. Okay. Okay. >> We'll get to that. Luckily, our. atmosphere well, yeah. We'll get to. that. It's not technically the corona, but the light coming out of the sun, which you know, is kind of a bug out in. and of itself. But, that's the that's. where interstellar space starts is when. the sun's solar wind finally stops.

somewhere after Pluto. >> Yeah. >> The solar wind stops and you're in. interstellar space properly. Which again is kind of like weird to. think about. So, yeah, there's a thing called the. corona paradox. We'll get into kind of. theories into why that might be, but. again, it's like it's it's completely. wrong. It's 50 million degrees and it's. like 5,500 degrees and then it goes to 1. million again outside away further from. and you're like, "What the hell?". So, now. I'm sure you thought about this like. what would happen to you if you like. just try to get towards the sun?

>> Yeah. >> And in reality you would just burn up so. fast. Like you you would hit that. But [clears throat] here's the thing, we. have. cuz we like you know, how do you think. how do they know the sun's core is 15. million degrees? We can't get close. enough to measure it. >> Mhm. >> So they do a thing where they there's a. couple of methods I don't really. understand them but there's like ways. you can look at light signatures and the. certain colors coming off give you like. you know, this is how hot this is, this. is how hot this is. There's also uh. they like the neutrinos that bounce out. of the sun hit the ground and they. somehow like collect those and measure.

those. But still I'm like I don't know, I'm taking it with a grain of salt. There's no way you can actually measure. without the direct probe. NASA in 2018. launched the Parker Solar Probe and uh. they got within in 2024. about 6.1 million kilometers to the sun. surface. It's close. So they're in the. corona. So they were able to theorize. how hot it would be and then they. actually sent this probe into the corona. that could verify like, "Okay, our. models were correct.". >> No camera I'm assuming there was no.

camera or nothing. No pictures that got. sent back. >> think so. I think this thing was a I. mean it was basically a bullet. It. traveled about 692,000. kilometers an hour. Fastest any human. made object has ever moved. So they just. [ __ ] It had a carbon heat shield. about 4 and 1/2 inches thick that kept. everything inside it room temperature. even as it like hit temperatures at like. 1,400 degrees Celsius. So now I'm going like, "Oh, that's why. too. The corona is it's kind of thinned. out so like it is technically a million. degrees but the particles I think are so.

thinned out that like it doesn't feel as. hot. That's why they're able to get in. there." So I don't know. That That's a. little confusion a little confusing. But it's still like. >> The only thing my brain could even like. can compare that to is like when. humidity makes things feel hotter than. it is. It's like. >> It's you You know you really feel pretty. [ __ ] dumb. when you try to think about this [ __ ]. But it's like, you know, if you try to. really comprehend how hot these. temperatures are, there's there's nothing, you know, like. molten metal is thousands of times.

cooler than the sun's coolest part, which is the surface. >> Yeah. >> So you It's like it's almost abstract. So it's like and the way to think about. this is like. is you go up the temperature ladder, you. don't just get more hot as you get to. like, you know, things like 15 million. degrees, it literally alters what the. matter fundamentally is. So it changes literally like when you go. when you get to the sun's core, it it turns into plasma, which is a. whole different state of matter. >> Yeah. >> It's like solid, gas, liquid, plasma is.

just like a soup of particles cuz. everything just breaks down. >> Is that kind of a laser beam? I don't. know. Does it. >> [laughter]. >> I feel I'm going I'm going video games. I'm going video games cuz you got plasma. guns all [laughter] the time. >> So. let's just like. >> [laughter]. >> So again, like the whole idea of imagine. yourself floating towards the sun, how. close can you get before you're. destroyed? I mean, in terms of in terms of pure. radiation and heat, you're dead. Unprotected human tissue will be.

destroyed long, long, long before. getting anywhere near the surface, obviously, if you could even preserve. yourself. Um [snorts]. Parker Solar Probe, like we said, you. got the closest. Um for context, Mercury, which we'll get. to, the closest planet, is still about. 46 million kilometers from the sun at. its nearest point. So it's like halfway. between Earth and Mercury is like the. halfway point between here and the sun. Um so yeah, with the general scientific. like consensus is that without. shielding, you would not survive much. closer than Mercury's orbit. Damn.

>> So. And here here's the scale for. reference in terms of temperatures. 0°. C, water freezes. 100° Celsius, water. boils. 1,000° Celsius, lava, molten. rock. That's That's what lava is. 1,500°. steel melts. 3,500° tungsten melts. This. is the highest melting point of any. metal. It's used in lightbulb filaments. 55°. Cel- 5,500° Celsius, the surface of the. sun. And anything that exists as a solid. or liquid is already just long gone. 1.1. to 3 million is the corona temperature.

15 million degrees is the core of the. sun. >> [ __ ]. >> Yeah, which is kind of nuts. And then. here's So, like we said, the surface of. the sun is cooler than the area outside. the corona, which, you know, we already. did We already talked about that. Um. But again, this is a big paradox. Sci-. Physicists are like. >> They have no idea why. >> They don't really know. However, the. leading theory on the corona paradox, why the outside area of the sun is. hotter than the body of the sun, again, discluding the core, which is. just.

literally nuclear. Um they think that. the massive heat shift around the corona. is due to electromagnetic fields. snapping together in like, you know, in. tiny tiny increments. And each of the. realignments generates heat in like. microflares. So, it's similar to a big. solar flare. >> Yeah. >> Um that originates on the sun's surface. But in the corona, they're thinking like. this is happening on a tiny level, but. just like billions of them every single. second. >> So, it turns into a big ass thing kind. of. >> Yeah, so like it kind of collectively. heats. It's more so like electromagnetic.

heat than technically heat from the sun, but it is coming from the sun because. the sun's core does generate electromag-. or does like dictate the movement of. electromagnetic lines. It's dude, electromagnetic [ __ ] is so so [ __ ]. weird. So, it's like think of like, you. know, we talked about solar flares, obviously. So, solar flares, I think, originate cuz. there's like, um you know, the core is. doing all of its crazy [ __ ] It gets so. hot that the electromagnetic fields get. all like whacked out. So, then like.

they're getting all whacked out coming. from, you know, the core of the sun. They hit the sun's body and as the sun's. rotating the electromagnetic lines just. twirl together and they get so tense. like twirling a rubber band together and. eventually they just snap and just fire. off like a massive thing of heat and. energy. And the the biggest solar storm. that hit Earth that we know of was the. Carrington Event 1859. It was so strong. that it set telegraph machines on fire. >> Yeah. >> So there's old Morse code lines were all. were all connected by copper wires. So.

then everyone was just working on them. and out of nowhere they people got like. shocked. >> Yeah. >> And like some of them burst in flames. >> I think it was all over the country. >> It just that energy got absorbed by. those copper wires and connecting them. all together. So they some of them burst. into flames, other operators were just. like ow, just got shocked. >> Did it hit the whole planet or did it. hit like a chunk of the like one side? >> I think it hit the whole I think it. [ __ ] up like the. I I think it [ __ ] up anywhere that had. that stuff. Like that makes sense. >> Yeah. Um also the weird thing was the.

the energy from the solar flare after. they they had unplugged some of the. machines like what the [ __ ] going on. with these and they were still powered. no plug in. The energy from the solar. player flare actually powered the. machines for a time being afterwards. >> were just [ __ ]. >> They were just off. They were off but. they were on. >> But they were on, yeah. >> You couldn't turn them off. They had too. much juice. >> Yeah. >> So and here the cool thing too was the. the solar flare was so intense. that the you know like the aurora. borealis you can see from like the. poles. >> Yeah. >> You can see that in like Cuba. >> That's crazy. >> up the electric whatever that is like.

hits the sky and bounces colors bounce. off of the atmosphere and it just there. was like an aurora borealis visible or. something like it visible all the way. down south. >> There's a silver lining to that chaos. I. cuz aurora borealis is like one of my. bucket list see that in person thing. >> It'll be sick. Although the weirdest. part was it was so bright that that it. it happened in the middle of the night. >> Mhm. >> So people woke up in the middle of the. night thinking it was daytime. >> Oh. >> So they kind of popped up like oh man. birds it would birds even got tricked. Birds started singing like it was. nighttime. They came out being like,

"What the [ __ ] It's 3:00 in the. morning. Why is it so bright?" Yeah, it. just looked completely [ __ ] up. The. weirdest thing is if such a solar flare. happened today, it would destroy the. infrastructure of the entire internet. >> Yeah. >> Trillion It would have caused trillions. of dollars in damage. The internet would. go down as far as I know. >> That's terrifying. >> Plus side, search history. Destroyed. [laughter] Destroyed. Everyone clean slate. >> That'd be so bad. >> We're talking if we get a big enough. solar flare, it could destroy Now it. would destroy the entire internet, dude.

Clean break. >> But what about my bookmarked favorites? >> Bro, you got to let them go. >> to. >> [laughter]. >> You could find them again. You'd have to. create recreate them. Yeah, that'll be. the real thing. >> Cuz they would they would be gone. They'd just be gone. >> They would exist in your heart. And you. you would have to write them down like. [ __ ] like one of those ancient Greeks. historians. >> [laughter]. >> Just a lady with [ __ ] on her face on the. wall. >> [laughter]. >> Who's the lady that's always getting. like having sex in the shower with like. wet makeup on her face? >> Uh I don't know. >> Michaels?

>> Gigi Hadid Michaels? >> Yeah. >> Oh. >> You'd have to write about You'd have to. sing her song. You'd be like the bards. >> I would definitely. >> This is a story of Miss Michaels. >> [laughter]. >> Gigi Hadid Michaels and Pinky with I'd. I'd sing to the heavens. >> Yeah, they'd have to live on through. you. So, And this is this is why we're talking. solar flares. That has to do with the. leading theory on why the corona is so. much hotter is like, you know, that. that's how a massive flare works of like. just the twisting and breaking of. electromagnetic fields. When they.

reconnect, it like generates a ton of. heat and energy that that I think that's. what powers a solar flare. But again, who knows? We don't know. Electromagnetic fields are They're. actually a very very spooky subject in. and of themselves. They're They're I. mean, fields are non-physical like. objects that somehow affect physical. objects. >> Yeah. >> Very very spooky, man. Very spooky. So, also, too, just how big We talked a little bit. about just how big the sun's corona is. So, it's like, all right, the diameter.

of the sun's visible surface is about. 864,000. km, which if you were to take a radius. of that, half the circle, yeah, guess. how big it would be? 432,000 km. Anyway, pretty sick. The. corona, starting at the end of the sun's. surface, extends for, like we said, 3 to. 5 million miles, raging at roughly a. million degrees, which again, asterisk. that because. apparently they're able to probe it and. it was only 14 hot Well, you know, only. 1,400° C. So, I maybe that was like the.

outer outer reaches. I I don't Oh, yeah, you know what? It probably was cuz they. weren't even. Yeah, they they had got to like the. outer reaches of that. Uh maybe they're. in salt that they cuz the corona of the. sun that goes off the body extends for. 3.5 million miles at a million degrees, and then thins out into the solar wind. that we talked extends all the way out. to Pluto and beyond. So, this the. technically speaking, the whole solar. system is located inside of the sun. >> Yeah. >> And I'm going to get pushed back cuz. they're going to say, "Dude, that's the. [ __ ] you can't include [ __ ] solar.

winds." It was like, "Hey, man, I didn't. write the rules.". >> Huh. >> The girls did. It's just [laughter] girl. rules. Girl rules, sorry. I didn't make them. >> Actually, you still have a bunch of. space. >> Now, if you really want to take away. their vote, you can amend the solar. winds and be like, "No, it does not. extend all thing.". All right, so we covered the surface and. the corona. >> I think pretty well. >> What about the core, the churning. powerhouse of the sun? The core is where. >> Yeah. >> I mean, dude, like the surface is cool. and all, the corona's pretty cool, you. know, paradox cool, whatever.

>> The core, I don't think I've ever heard. [ __ ] about the core. >> Bro, you I I'm If you want to cover your. ears, I don't blame you. It's freaky. You'll never look at the. sun again the same way. So, the core. makes up the innermost 25% of the sun's. radius. So, 25% of the sun's size is the. radius, not obviously including solar. winds and all that stuff. But, don't let that fool you. 25% of the. sun is still enormous. The core alone is. roughly twice the diameter of Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. So, it's massive. >> Yeah. >> So, you have this massive ball. It's 15.

million degrees Celsius. And again, we've already just established the. corona's 1.3 million degrees. The core. is 5 to 15 times hotter than that. And. like we said, every step up the. temperature ladder. changes what matter fundamentally is. So, once you get into the core, you're you're like you're just complete. you're you're beyond what any physical. matter on Earth is, basically. You're. you turn into plasma. And the pressure, this is [ __ ] up if you think about it. The pressure of the core, it's 250.

billion times Earth's atmospheric. pressure. And pressure's not gravity. It. doesn't mean you weigh like 250 billion. times more. It's like if you were You. know when you're underwater when like. submarines go thousands of feet and they. get crushed? >> Dude, like. if you did like a couple hundred. thousand times bigger, you're crushed. ins- 250 billion times atmospheric. pressure would be like being like. 10 billion feet underwater. Like it's. it's unfathomable how much it crushes. It's it's crushing It's containing an. explosion, which the core essentially.

is. >> Yeah. >> The core's explosion is equivalent to 90. trillion nuclear warheads going off. every second. Already for 4 billion years, slated for. another roughly 4.5 billion years more. >> Well, that's terrifying. >> Every second you look at the sun, it's. 90 trillion nuclear warheads just. >> We're just looking at it like, "Damn, it's a pretty day out there.". >> Dude, it's so It's it's insane. So, okay. 20 250 billion times Earth's.

atmospheric pressure. And again, it's being crunched down by. gravity. The sun contains 333,000. times the mass of Earth. And all of that mass is gravitationally. attracted to its own center. I didn't. really know that's how gravity works. So, if you have a. a big ball like Earth or the Sun, all like it's like the weight. So, you. have like you're standing on France, all. of France from the surface. down to like all the [ __ ] underneath it. is pressing on the core. Then you have. China, that's also somehow pressing into.

the core as well. And every place is. just crunching down on the core. So, [snorts] the the core of the the Sun. is just [ __ ] massive amounts of. gravity containing this never-ending. explosion that just kind of repowers. itself over and over. So, every layer of. the Sun is sitting top on the on top of. the layer below it. It's I mean it's the. most extreme pile-on ever, just all the. way down to the core like we say. And the temperature, so it's the. temperature by the way. So, when we're. saying about like the the, you know, 1,500 15 million degrees changing what.

matter fundamentally is, it it's from. two things. It's from the temperature. and it's from the pressure. >> Yeah. >> So, the temperature gets the particles. mass moving fast enough to overcome the. repulsion. Because you have like say. you have hydrogen a hydrogen nucleus. sends another hydrogen nucleus. So, it's. just sitting there like this. They're. repelled like magnets. Like think about. two magnets, you can't get them to touch. each other. You're sitting there like, "Yeah, I can't do it.". >> Yeah. >> So, the heat gets the particles moving. so fast that the electrons, since it's plasma, the electrons fall.

away. Now we have the soup. The. electrons are just floating here and. there. There's no order to any of these. things. And the neutrons are just going. like this. And then they get hot enough, they get fast enough and they get close. enough to each other to overcome the. repulsion. >> That's love. >> So, like dude, if like if you threw a. magnet so fast, it is love. >> It's true love. >> It's like if you threw the magnet so. fast, which I've I actually seen one of. my boys do this one time. You throw the. magnet fast enough, it it would just go. and would actually connect. >> Uh-huh. >> However, the connection is nuclear it's.

like particle fusion. >> Mhm. >> So, it's it's what powers nuclear bombs. >> Yeah. >> And the pressure, so it's like the. temperature gets them moving fast enough. to overcome the repulsion, but then the. pressure gets them close enough for the. strong nuclear force to grab them. together. So, and this is the core is the only. place in the solar system where both. conditions are met at once, which is why. fusion only happens in the center of. stars and nowhere else. It really is. When people do atomic. bombs, it's they're harnessing the power. of the stars. >> Yeah. >> That's crazy. >> It's the power of the stars.

>> Yeah. >> And here Yeah, so And the cool part is. the same gravity. >> It's kind of badass that people We're. just harnessing the power of stars on. the planet. I didn't mean to cut you. off. >> It's cool. It's certainly It's. terrifying when you get into it. It's. really scary actually. >> We did kind of do that, though. >> [laughter]. >> I know. I mean, shout out to us, obviously. >> [clears throat]. >> But yeah, the same crushing gravity is. what keeps the whole system stable. The. fusion at the core, and we'll get into. exactly what fusion is is nuclear fusion. is constantly trying to blow the sun. apart. So, and again, like we said, 90 trillion.

nuclear bombs per second exploding, gravity is just hugging around it. Just, "No, brother." Just holding it all. together. And these two forces these two. massive forces have been pretty much. perfectly balanced for 4.6 billion. years, like we said. Turns out we get. another 5 billion in the bank. So, we're. chilling on the sun for 5 billion more. years. The sun's a controlled explosion. that gravity won't let escape and fusion. won't let collapse in on itself. So, the. fusion also is pushing out against. gravity wanting to just [ __ ] crunch.

it all in. >> I wonder [snorts] if it'll be like. signs. I mean, obviously we won't be. here for, but, you know, 400 billion. years from now, would the sun like feel. or look different? You know what I mean? Cuz we've lived in We've experienced it. for such a short period of time. We. don't even. >> I don't know. >> Yeah. >> I don't know. They claim they claim that. it's been relatively stable, but it's. like, you know, again, I I I'm like, "Okay, we'll see." Okay, girl scientist, we'll see. This episode is brought to you by Aura. Frames. Moms are no stranger to chaos, and some of your craziest moments. together pure comedy in hindsight.

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pretty much winter. Uh, pretty cool. Pretty cool. But, the big one right now, uh, Toronto. sold out. Thank you guys. Canada, you. guys rule. Uh, and then the Riviera Theatre, Chicago, Illinois. I'm going to check. right now, guys. I think. Yeah, I I think tickets are almost gone. I'm not just saying that, but we have. about we're a week out and I I believe. last time I checked I was at like 90%. sold, so. Yeah, so I'm looking right now. It's. making me click to make sure I'm not a. robot. Whatever. There's not a lot of. tickets left, guys. I can say that for a. fact. So, get them if you want to come.

It's going to be a close one, so that's. it. Chicago, and that is Sorry, I should. say the date for that. That is going to. be May 16th, I believe. I don't know. So, that Yeah, May 16th. It's being My phone's being a piece of. [ __ ] So, come one, come all. We'll get it We'll get into fusion cuz. like again, we we kind of touched on it, but how it happens is really cool. So, like you know, what actually happens to. these, you know, molecules or like. hydrogen particles at 15 million. degrees. So, again, at a few thousand. degrees, molecules break apart into.

atoms. At around 10,000 degrees Celsius, atoms This is when it becomes plasma. Atoms themselves start to break down. Like we said, electrons get stripped. away cuz it's like You have Remember the. science thing? You have a nucleus, which. is like a I think a proton and a. neutron, and then it's circled by. electrons. >> Okay. >> And luckily, hydrogen has no proton No, hydrogen has no neutrons or something. So, it's just a proton. That's why they. have like the proton collider thing. That's what they're trying to replicate. Did you ever hear of the Higgs boson. particle collider? >> No. >> They have these things underground and.

they're trying to get particle fusion. They try to shoot them at such speeds. that they can overcome that natural. resistance and actually collide and, you. know, >> scary [ __ ] they just [ __ ] around. with. >> These girls are out of control right. now. >> Listen, man. This girl blows up. >> [laughter]. >> Oh my god. >> Yeah, it's actually pretty freaky. But, at 10,000 degrees Cel- at 10,000 degrees. Celsius, matter stops becoming matter in. any recognizable sense that we know and. becomes plasma, which we said is a soup. of free electrons and bare atomic. nuclei. So, it's like the nucleus not.

surrounded by their revolve, you know, the the electrons that are spinning. around it. Again, this is a fourth state. of matter between solid, liquid, and. gas. So, that's at 10,000 degrees Celsius. The. core is 15 million degrees. So, you're. so far past plasma that the nuclei, the. proton and neutron, uh in the case of. hydrogen just a proton like we said, themselves are being slammed into each. other hard enough to fuse. And like we. said, it's because the electrons are. stripped away from the heat, leaving the. protons. Again, not being positively charged, which still do repel each other like. magnets. Uh the repulsion between these.

protons is called the Coulomb barrier, in case you're wondering. So, that's the. the barrier that keeps protons from kind. of slamming. But, now like we said, the. heat has the protons going so fast, they. overcome the repulsion, and so then as. they do this, they just [ __ ] boom, slam into each other. These are two. hydrogen nuclei colliding and merging, transforming. in a flash in a nuclear, you know, a. miniature nuclear explosion, transforming to form helium in the. process. So, the you have a hydrogen, a.

hydrogen, which by the way, two. hydrogen, one hydrogen I think is. heavier than a helium. >> Okay. >> But, when the two come together, which. you would think, oh, the helium's going. to be heavier, the helium's lighter than these two guys. that just crashed together. So, cuz the helium's is fundamentally. lighter, and the loss of weight, right? So, you. have a So, a hydrogen weighs 1 lb. They. they don't, but let's say for the sake. of numbers, two hydrogen nucleus's weigh. 1 lb each. They slam. Now, they weigh. like collectively, I don't know, whatever the [ __ ] it is. They've lost.

0.7% of the mass. >> smaller, though. >> Yeah, they're they're they're lighter. than those. So, you start off with two. things weighing something, they collide, you're left You have the leftover. The. helium's like the ash of a cigarette. It's like a leftover component of this. reaction that had nuclear reaction. That. tiny little bit of weight that's lost is. then transferred into the energy that. basically becomes light. So those. particles colliding in the 15 million. degrees. >> In the core is what generates the sun's. light. But it's happening over and over.

and over and over and over and over just. boom boom boom boom every second it's. and there's this [snorts] light blinding. flashes of gamma rays which. You don't want to [ __ ]. You know, I know you think you're tough. but you do not want a gamma ray at all. >> me on the gamma ray. >> You do not want a gamma It's It's That. That little the hydrogen nuclei, this is. important, colliding and merging. transform into helium which is like kind. of the body of the sun. >> Yeah. >> Boom, white flash but that just. like infinitesimal part of the mass.

that's lost becomes a force that becomes. a gamma ray which is like it's really. weird to think like if you took a tiny. bit of weight of this thing, this thing. would you know, I don't know what it. weighs, probably [ __ ]. not even like 0.1 lb. That would become an intense burst of. light energy. This is what you know, it's. I'm trying to think of how to explain. this. So. So the the fusion of two particles again. which is because of heat and pressure. transmutes the hydrogen into helium. We. We already We already said that and it.

loses that little bit of weight that. just becomes light, pure energy. And. here's how I try to think of it. So it's. like when the protons collide in nuclear. fusion, they turn into helium which we. said is the byproduct of the reaction. and the reaction's a massive explosion. of energy relative to the size of the. tiny bit of weight that was lost. So. like think of it this way. If you multiply something's mass, right? I'm just This is how I I kind of figured. it out. If you multiply something's mass. by the speed of light and then multiply. that number by the speed of light again.

you'll see how much energy has been. converted in the process. So this is. just think like you know, E for energy, M for mass and let's do C for the speed. of light and square that. You get I. think it's like E equals MC squared. Well, Oh, dude, that's crazy. That's. Einstein's theory actually. >> [laughter]. >> But that's what I. I had no idea that's what E equals MC. squared is. >> Yeah, yeah, that was. >> It's just accounting for how much how. much mass converts how much the tiniest. amount of mass converts to like light. energy basically. >> Okay.

>> It's Einstein's theory of special. relativity. It's a crazy case of. parallel thinking honestly, but. >> [laughter]. >> I just saw I was like, oh yeah, that's. how that works. So going back to the sun, >> you know, dude sitting there by himself. and just figuring it all out for the. first time. Yo, he just be like, I'm him. >> He's definitely him. I think though. there was a guy who figured out um. uh what is it? Magnetism and electricity. are part of the same thing. >> Yeah. >> And that came first, which was also.

like, what the [ __ ]. >> Yeah, yeah. >> And I think that they say that's what. kind of like helped Einstein be like, oh. okay, and he kind of piggybacked off. that. He basically alley-ooped Einstein. >> Was that that's not Tesla, right? Who. was the first person to do that? >> forget the guy's name. Um. Yeah, the guy who discovered. electromagnetism. Another beast. That. was a big one, dude. That was crazy to. somehow be like, no, they're the same. thing because it's like. electricity and magnetism, you can't. have one without the other. The one. produces electricity and the other one. produces magnetism and they're it's it's. a self-sustaining field.

>> A thing that I've this is a little side. track, but like we're talking you're. talking this. I cuz we're talking about. how beast these guys are. I've kind of I. don't know if the is Instagram or the. internet has I always picture it's like. smart dudes as. I didn't even [laughter] see you doing. it. I always picture smart dudes as. dorks and like now you're starting to. see like sometimes like nerds are kind. of just cool, you know, smart people. >> They used to be cool. Einstein was cool. >> Yeah, he used to like I see stuff that. he seen like he was kind of him back in. the day. >> He was in Oh, you know what it was.

though? Those early um physicists and. those type of guys, they would look at this outer space [ __ ]. and be like. They took almost like a religious. perspective. They'd be like, "God, God's. mysteries are so tight." Now scientists. are like cold and objective and they're. like They talk like robots. They lost. all their swag. >> I see. >> They lost their swag when they stopped. being like, "This is so beautiful, dude. How do I fit into this beautiful. tapestry?" Now they're like, "Well, the. forces are impersonal and cold and. dark.". >> And and they turn on the guy who who who. tries to go back to to that other [ __ ].

They go like, "No, that's not what we do. now. We can't write peer-review papers. on that.". >> I know. How can you quantify that? It's. like, "Dude, shut the [ __ ] up, dude. That's why Einstein got [ __ ] and you. didn't.". >> [laughter]. >> So. May I want to Michael Faraday? What the. hell? Huh? I think it's Ernest Mach. What? >> Lorentz is who Einstein built directly. off. >> Did he? Maybe it was. I don't know. But. either way, we'll leave that Like, comment below. Figure that out.

So going back to the sun, that is a good. point why Einstein was the man. I I do. think they just lost their respect for, you know, They took it They stopped. taking a poetic view towards nature. They just started being like, "It's [ __ ] bunch of math.". >> [laughter]. >> It's just math. Going back to the sun, so nuclear nuclear fusion is constantly. happening at the core. Hydrogen nuclei. slamming, fusing, gamma burst, and this. is what sunlight is and then leftover. helium body of the sun. So.

the sun, by the way, through fusion is. converting 4 million tons of mass into. energy gamma rays every single second. And this isn't like burning a log. This. is physically like, you know, that's. like you burn it and it's like it's. light. This is physically converting. mass. into like. traveling light beams. You know, a fire. is just kind of like it's like a candle. It just kind of hovers. That's more of a. chemical reaction. This is fundamentally. taking mass and going. light beam flying out.

So and gamma rays, too, by the way. here's a cool thing, too. The gamma rays. don't just blast out of the reaction and. hit us. Cuz if they did, we'd be [ __ ]. Like we would be. Gamma rays are in terms of energy rays, like gamma, x-rays, all that [ __ ]. they're the king daddy of energy rays. They have no mass, no charge. It's just. pure energy moving at the speed of. light. So, then you think, okay, what's the. [ __ ] the big deal about that? So, Okay, so here let's just get into this. thing first. The gamma ray cuz if well.

let's just say if it hit you, you're. [ __ ] Like a gamma ray goes UV ray. hits your skin and it gets trapped and. you get a little sunburn, maybe. But. your body is like, okay, let's kind of. repair that. A gamma ray would go right. through you. >> Like it'd leave a hole in my body? >> Wouldn't be a hole, but it would pass. through you. But it would sever anything. it touched in terms of like your DNA. cells. So, it goes through you and just. severs your DNA. So, if you got hit with. a full body dose of gamma, all your all your DNA strands would just. be severed. Instant like like that.

>> Do you vaporize? >> Huh? >> Do you vape? That seems like you. vaporize. >> vaporize. You're just You would just be. there like nothing happened, but all of. a sudden you'd be like, ugh. Like your bo- all your body's. natural intelligence just goes offline. and you become what's called a walking. ghost and you just slowly die. Like you. die in like 2 minutes. >> Damn. >> Cuz your body all your bodily processes. are just like, what the [ __ ] was that? They just stop working. Your lines of. DNA just shred. So, then your DNA's. what's telling all your cells what to. do. That just goes down and then you go, "Oh, I don't feel so good." And 2. minutes later, you're [ __ ] toast.

So, that's what's happening in the sun's. core. Now, here's the cool part. >> have those kind of weapons. >> The gamma would [ __ ] dude, that would. suck getting hit with gamma. >> Yeah. >> So, the core. you would think like, okay, so that. light hits the core, the hydrogen, you. know, or the hydrogen hits each other, turns into gamma, the hydrogen turns. into helium, kind of that's like the. energy process, the energy exchange or. whatever. That gamma those gamma rays produced by. the particle fusion.

it gets trapped in the sun's core. >> Mhm. >> It just it can't get out. It goes. bounces around. Guess how long it. bounces around for? >> My guess, million years. >> 17,000. >> 7000, okay. >> 17,000. You should have went lower. For. the for the record, just go lower next. time. Next better by the [laughter]. No, but so they if those escaped, we'd. be toast. >> Yeah. >> Somehow and the sun's already kind of. nuts right now, but the gamma the energy. it produces, it holds it inside of. itself and just kind of it bounces. around on a weird 10 to 17,000 year. journey inside of the core where it's.

slowly degraded into like lesser and. lesser forms of energy basically. So. it's like gamma. all the way to where it's like bang bang. bang bang bang. Now it comes out as UV. light. Soon as it escapes the core and. hits the you know, basically surface of. the sun. >> Yeah. >> it takes 8 seconds to get to Earth. So. it bounces around for let's say 17,000. years and then it gets to the the sun's. surface and it's 8 seconds, hits you. right in your [ __ ] face. >> Get a little tan. >> As UV and you get a little tan.

You know, white boys like me get a. little crispy, but. So yeah, it's pretty. it's pretty crazy, man. How it's like. every every time you stand in the. sunlight, the light hitting you 17,000. years old. And has been stepped down. It kind of is set up for black people. originally, so white people might be. from Yakub. >> [laughter]. >> But it it was it's kind of just like. held in the sun and then shot out at. like. the perfect [ __ ] that we need for here. for plants and people and you know, all. that other stuff. >> That's fire. >> Pretty beautiful.

>> Yeah. >> Pretty beautiful. Pure gamma, dude. >> Don't want no parts of that. >> You don't want that, dude. You just you. just don't you don't want anything. It. literally like we said, just. malfunctions everything, gets you [ __ ]. up. >> So curious. >> But yeah, dude. And then that like we. said before the sun this is actually. kind of cool, too. Um the sun somehow the sun basically. self-regulates. So like we said before, the you know, the outward pressure of a fusion is kind. of trying to explode the sun just out. into the into the solar system, but the.

size of the sun itself is kind of. crunching it down in on itself. So, here's the thing, when fusion speeds up, the sun expands. So, at the sun, it's. like, "Okay, the thing is starting to. explode." But, the sun expanding expands. the core, too, which then naturally. cools the core down. And so, like we. said, the heat is what gets the. particles moving faster. So, when the. core expands, the particles slow down. ever so slightly, so fusion slows down. So, then the sun contracts again cuz. everything cools down.

>> breathing. >> It's It's literally self-regulating. >> Yeah. >> So, it's just It's expanding. It's been. doing this every for 4 billion years, keeping itself in perfect balance, making the light just perfect for us. Pretty [ __ ] wild. However, so, it's doing this all the time, but. then within that kind of like breathing. kind of thing, every 11 years, it's on a. It's on a It's a cycle like this. forever. Every 11 years, it has solar. flares cycle. So, we're in a period of. high solar flare flares right now. >> Really?

>> So, every 11 Like we said, that's from. just electromagnetic fields just. twisting, twisting, twisting, and. snapping. They go and shoot out. So, it's like you have They're It's always. solar flaring, but every 11 years, it's. like high solar flares, and then every. 11 year next 11 years is like low solar. flares. >> Okay, so we're in high times right now. >> We're in high We're in high solar. flares. >> is it supposed to longer than it's. supposed to last? The high times. Like. >> Uh I don't know which where we're at in. it, but either you know, we're probably. just say we're in the middle. We got. like 5 more years of solar flares. And. apparently, the flares do have I should. have researched this. I did not, but. they do have like a measurable effect on.

like people's like thinking and stuff. like that. So, they can like. They can get you. That might be why. we're all a little crazy right now. We're in heavy We're in heavy solar. flare. Hopefully, you know, we're on. time for in. I've said it before, I think 2030. onwards going to be chill. That's my. prediction now. If that If I check solar. flares right now and it lines up with. that, I'm just going to run with that. >> [laughter]. >> So, yeah, that's another mystery. It's. like, okay, the sun is a self-regulating. It's It's It has like rhythms and stuff. that it does. Um and also, like we said, obviously, it's it's held a perfect.

balance for 4.6 billion years. Um with. like really no room to mess up. Like if. it if it got like. just a few degrees cooler or hotter, I mean, life on Earth is [ __ ] toast. So, it's like it doesn't have a huge. window of error. If the sun goes off. just a little bit, we're [ __ ]. >> We're cooked. >> So, brings me to my next question, is. the sun conscious? >> I was for real, I was sitting here. holding and then I was sitting here. holding and then saying something about. that cuz I was literally I have that. thought sometimes whether or not like.

planets and like [ __ ] in the solar. system is a higher form of life that we. just don't understand yet. >> I don't know. That means. >> If life is exist on Earth and grows out. of Earth, what the [ __ ] is Earth? >> That's what I'm saying. What's the sun, dude? I don't know. >> Dude, here My thing is that So, you if. you have if you're if your brain. produces consciousness, your brain is. just a bunch of like electrical sparks. flying around in like water and tissue, why can't the sun, dude? You have. electromagnetic fields, you have water, you have heat. I mean, the sun doesn't.

have water, but you know what I'm. saying. There's There's like water on. the planets, you have heat, you have. electromagnetic fields. I mean, dude, why not, dude? I don't. know. I don't know. So, the the people. There's people that say that. consciousness is like the idealists or. like panpsychics. They They say that. consciousness is like a field, just like. gravity or electromagnetism. It's just. present and then we just, you know, pick. up on it. Just like gravity crushes us, there's like a field for consciousness. You have the right stuff, you tap into. the field. I. Could be. The sun The sun could be. conscious. I don't know. However, I.

think, regardless of how you feel about. it, something like a religious reverence. is due for the sun. After I learned. about it, I was like, >> We need to go back to sun gods. >> Dude, or at least just look at it and. get stoked. I Ever since I look at it. like dude, I got into. just how like the sun puts out these. like. whatever it is radiation and our eyes. are designed to actually see radiation. Like if if our eyes weren't designed, we. couldn't pick up on light basically. We. have like light sensors in our eyes and. I just like.

I was here typing and I was like, wait, so do we see light or does light let us. see? And I was just like getting all. wrapped up on if we even see light in. the first place and I had it I took a. knee by my computer and was like, dude, shut up. Just chill. Go outside, dude. This is. [ __ ] up. >> There's a it's a dumb this is dumb as. [ __ ] but it's a cart in the show. Invincible. There's a whole scene where. they go into this room and you can't see. anything because of. because because they they what exactly. you're talking about. They they it's. like a certain they have a certain kind. of light on in the room that our eyes.

aren't made. >> Really? >> to be able to pick up on. And then they. had they like they like give them a. needle that injects In the show they. give [clears throat] them a needle that. injects them in the hand that makes his. eyes be able to see this new type of. light. It's kind of what you're saying. >> No, exactly. Well, there's also a ton There's also a. ton of yeah, like infrared wavelengths. that we can't see. So, there could be. [ __ ] like going on and we we just we. won't never be able to see it. And it. was. It was bugging me out, dude. But here's. the thing too, it's like, you know, people people back in the day. would look up at the sun. This is this.

is, you know, the rest of the solar. system. Look at the sun and all the. planets. and just be like, dude, these are gods. They like really truly thought they're. like, oh [ __ ] They'd be like just. kicking around in the morning and they. just see like Venus and be like, oh. [ __ ]. There's the [ __ ] horny god. >> Yeah. >> [laughter]. >> They would just be like, where's my. babe? Where's my babe? >> Horny guys in the sky. >> So, even the the term So, we're going to. get into kind of the try to get into the. somewhat into the etymology of the. planets. So, the term sun. They they you know, there's like stuff. went back and forth being like, yeah,

actually the sun in the English language. has no connection to the gods. Like, you. know, Mercury, Venus, all those are like. easily traceable. >> Mhm. >> So, they were claiming the sun has no. connection in the English language. to the gods. But, then I you know, I. started doing a little digging. and it's it actually it does actually. So, it's like. So, if you this the term sun in English. can be traced back through the. Proto-Indo-European language family to a. relation with the Norse deity Sol, which.

is actually Latin for the sun that they. had a sun god in Rome. Actually became. the official god of a like it was some. of the late Roman empires. It was like. the it was called the undefeated sun. >> Yeah. >> It was a minor god in the Roman Pantheon. and during the fall of Rome some people. were like, we're called sun god is our. god. Cuz actually Julius Caesar called. Venus the horny god to be he claimed to. be descended from the horny god. Which [laughter] is pretty sick. And. everyone had to be like, yeah dude, for. sure you definitely are. You're the. horniest guy. So, the the actual term. sun in English. it can be traced back to the Norse deity.

Sol also called also called Suna. Sol back then was a goddess literally. the sun itself which would race across. the sky being chased by a hungry wolf. You know the hungry wolf's name? Skoll. Skoll. And they're racing that the. hungry wolf was trying to eat the sun. which is why they thought the sun went. across. And at Ragnarok the apocalypse. Skoll would catch and eat Sol. And. during eclipses it was thought that. Skoll got himself a little bite of her. but the chase continued. And actually. Sunday believe it or not is actually. named after this ancient sun babe.

>> Huh. >> So, pretty sick. Pretty sick. So, that you know, my. friends and haters is the deal with the. sun. And it would be crazy. I almost skipped. over the sun. I almost skipped over the. sun but. Oh man, just think of all the nuclear. fusion going on in there. The perfect. balance of light being trapped, honed to. perfection, released. It's I I just. thought it was [ __ ] sick. >> us, it feels good when it hits us. >> It feels [ __ ] awesome. It powers your. body, dude. If you don't get enough sun. you don't produce test. That's why I. [ __ ] do ride my bike in a tank top. all the time. Um so, from the sun now we move on to.

Mercury. And, you know, Mercury is the. Actually, so we'll slide to the Patreon. Let's slide to the page. Yeah, let's. slide to the page. We're right at an. hour. Oh, yeah, we're good. Guys, thank you for joining me for the. series into the the planets, but we have. to slide to the Patreon. We have to be. at places to be. probably promise you that wasn't. planned. I just god damn that was, you. know, what the hell I've been doing this. for a while. >> [laughter]. >> Exactly an hour on the Sun, who would. have thought? Nate, thank you. Sean, thank you. We're.

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