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

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This is a breaking episode. It's going to be a solo cast, solo cast, Astra, and obviously I have Nate here. But Shane's way Netflix is a joke festival, which is a little 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. I like when the streaming giants get silly in the comedy space. You know, they start, they start battling.

I mean, yeah, they're all, the streaming giants are battling. That's all they do is battling each other. I don't know, we're battling for stand-up rights now. Well, yeah, I guess Hulu's doing the most specials. Hulu does Hulu's hilarious or Hulu's laughing now.

Those are both terrible names. Hulu's laughing now. You don't like Hulu's laughing now? I hate that I hate Hulu.

“I think the streaming giants are just on the next level of branding.”

They might just be getting, I'm a dumb ass. They don't do it. I hate Hulu's laughing now. Dude, that's, I saw that. I literally cracked up.

I say, these guys, no comment, like none other.

Wow. Also, Amazon does not have comedy-specific branding. Hmm. I would like to propose to Amazon, Amazon. (laughs)

Hey, come on. (laughs) Come on. Let me know if you guys think in the comments, like subscribe.

(laughs) Yeah, so, yeah, this week I was sitting here, I was going, the hell should we talk about, man. You know, it's like political stuff, no, the war. Pretty much political stuff, no.

I don't want to talk about that. - Bombers, big bombers. - Yeah, you know what I was like, you know what would be sick to actually get into? At nobody, I haven't heard anyone talking about it all.

It's the solar system. You know what I'm saying? - Can't beat space. - It's dude, the planets. Here's the thing.

“We learned about the planets when we were little boys.”

We, we'd let it last start about the planets when we still had an extra planet. Let me get it, let me get a camera. We still had an extra planet at the last time we learned about planets.

- We were talking, you're talking Pluto. - I'm talking Pluto. - Yeah, I'm so, I haven't got to Pluto yet, but I'm kind of, I was, I'm a little salty. We even next to Pluto.

It's like, what it was, it's not hurting anybody. It was like a coalition of fat science teachers who were like, we don't feel like covering Pluto. Like, why would they drive it? You literally just didn't fit into the curriculum.

They were like, we can't get this all in the way through the year. We got a knock on off. I mean, what a dick, that was definitely some astra, whatever they're called, astra, not an astra physicist, but like just like a space,

a space scientist, whatever they're called. Definitely just being like, you know, technically, it doesn't count. It's like, dude, what the fuck, it's a big ball and everything around the sun.

Let it be a planet. - Yeah, what's your fucking problem? - Big, you would stand clean, just like an XN over. - It's like, dude, it's a fucking planet. - My theory is, Saturn's not a planet.

- I mean, what's your problem with gas giants? - It's a gas giant. You can't, there's several gas giants,

“but is it, you know where Saturn's rings come from?”

- I want to say you're ages, but, oh, just be it. - Oh, just me be it. - If you're going to bring that attitude to fucking solar system discussion, you're going to get it checked with you.

- Dude, Phil, when you're like, he makes me want to call the cops on you so bad. Excuse me, you can't do that, you can't sit there. - Karen, can't, excuse me. - We'll see.

- Might I call the cops on eight by the end of the solar system? We'll see, all right? - Is there a direction we're going, or did you just sit there? - Yeah, if it, oh, inside out.

- It's an up, starting from the sun. - Start from the sun on. - Almost, I almost skipped the sun. That's the craziest part. I was, I was going to do this.

Stop from the shawn about it. I was a shawn, what do you think about this? - And I was like, you know what, dude? I get to cover, I'll start from the sun and move on, but I'm like, I got to cover this sun.

Every crazy to do the solar system and not cover the fucking thing it's named after. - I tell y'all, oh, think 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'm not lying. I had a panic attack in our office. - Researching about how the sun works.

I got into like 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. - Yeah.

- Because the sun, I mean, it gets, it cuts you down to the base, the bare fundamentals. - Yeah. - To where you're like, what even what, okay, so this is where light comes from and it's like, I'm just, I hope I'm not jumping the gum,

but the fact that it could like blow up at any time. - Well, I'm not like close. - The sun is maintained equilibrium

for four and a half billion years and it's pretty much,

it will continue to maintain equilibrium, the problem solar flares. - Yeah. - Solar flares. - 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. (laughing) We've gone a full dangerous minds arc

in 30 seconds, this is amazing. But I will say this, it's like, here's why I wanted to do solar system 'cause like, we learned about it as boys,

has come out about the plan. It's like, all the shit you learned about the plan is, I'm not gonna say it's wrong, but a lot of new details have come out. - Yeah, yeah.

- So the average adult is kicking around. I'm not coming for people, but a total fucking ignorance in terms of the solar system. People don't know shit about how all these plan is working, including myself.

So, you know, while we were out here just kind of messing around in high school, drinking, college, people were, a lot of girl scientists too, by the way. We're working hard.

- That kind of seems like girl science, actually. - Yeah, it kind of dude, it's dominated. There's a lot of guy scientists, obviously, but there's a ton. A lot of these discoveries are girl scientists.

- The astrology, then the solar system was like a clear pat. - Yeah. - Yeah, they were the horoscopes. Like, you gotta go all the way in. - Yeah.

“- You need to know what's up with the fucking cloud layer of Venus,”

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- That's good for all the, to all the price. - Now, it's in a filiala. - All the, good for all the. - This is nice. - That's crazy 'cause right now on YouTube,

people are trying to take, there's a decent argument. People are making to take voting rights away from women. People wanna remove women's stuff real. - I watched a whole debate on it the other day. And the whole line of thinking is if women,

we'll get to the outer space in a second, but this is important,

“as I'm protecting girl scientists, girl space scientists,”

right to vote. But 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.

Essentially, it's not fair. You shouldn't be able to wield political power in a system that like asks more of men, that 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, yeah. - Only girl cares about if it's not fair. - It's not fair.

- Yeah, that's a girl. - As a guy, you can't be like, there's not fair. - It's like, well now I'm taking your vote too, 'cause you're being a girl.

You're being, if you wanna, that's the thing, it's just a vicious cycle. You can't be like, it's not fair. - If you act like a girl, you'll also take your right the vote.

- I mean, it has to be across the board 'cause why you know why I can't girls vote, 'cause they act like girls,

“but you act like a girl to take the vote.”

Also, when I see the debate, it's like, okay, you can make as clear, concise point about it. No one's ever going to do, it's not gonna happen. - He's gonna stay on that platform for real, for real. - I mean, you can stand on it all every way.

- Get pussy again, like. - Yeah, well, then on the one guy that I've watched has his wife piled on the no vote for women. - She's fully with it, and it's like, do it again, do your thing, live your life, I don't care.

But let's be honest, it's never going to fucking hat.

They're never going to do it. Is he a politician or is he like a, - He's like a debateer. - He's a good debateer, too. He's a very, very solid debateer.

Forget his name, but he, yeah, was watching the whole thing. And like, it's just one of those things, or it's like, it sounds sick, obviously. You're on your channel, you're like, here are the reasons. You're watching, you're like,

you're gonna fucking do it, you're gonna fucking do it. You're like, they're fucked with it. - They're fucked with it, not into. - I mean, dude, it's, it's just never going to fucking happen. It's like, it's, it's, it's, it's just, it won't do it. - No one, nobody, the country, no country can possibly

withstand that amount of, the nagging would be crazy dude. - Like, let's be honest. - The worst rates will go through the roof. - If you're on a dude who goes, I agree with this. You, you're done, you're not getting pussy, you're living.

- A lot of, again, this guy's got his babe, if she's on board, that is a fucking rarity. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's got the, like, the, the 1% of, of babes. - Hey, no one 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 fucking vote. - Sooners are appearing. - Dude, you said it was fine. We watched the YouTube debate with both the greed that guy was right.

They're never gonna go along with it.

It's, it's just one of those things where it's like, dude, like, you can, you're kind of chasing your tail. You can, you know, whatever, but that's, and then after doing all this outer space research, I'm going, dude, women are dominating.

- We need some babes. - We need these babes to fucking, look, tell us about outer space. Again, I don't know if it's all of them, but a lot of these discoveries are from babes scientists, while we've been just absolutely fucking around the entire time.

- We will, if we take away the right to vote, they're gonna stop focusing on science. We're gonna try to get the right to vote back. We can't do it. - I don't know, could though.

(laughing) - Did take the vote, we could get. They might be some humble babes action.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Could be best behavior, right? - Could have best behavior. - I do like the idea of what would be the act of right. (laughing)

- I would just vote, I'd just tell me, I'll vote however you want, I don't even care. - We do double votes, they tell me, babe, I'll vote for whatever you want, I'm fucking care. And also, too, like, the nuts and bolts of blocking the vote,

I mean, it's like, the only option, you'd have to physically hold, but 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 go down that ramp and hold it, it'd be a whole different thing, 'cause they would definitely spike trans. I know, we'd have to have, you know,

you'd have to have the FBI female body inspections. (laughing) That'd be the only way. (laughing) But either way, I don't want to get in my or down in politics.

I want to talk out of space. 'Cause it would be dude, I'm saying it'd be a sad sight, if like, you know, you're there, they actually pass the law on this fucking handmaid and tell bullshit world.

(laughing)

“The only way you could stop women was by,”

you'd have to have a security force, like, scrappy dude holding their heads while they thought of you. (laughing) And that would bomb me out. I'm trying to cast my vote for the Republican.

I'm seeing women get scrappy dude, just nods. (laughing) That would be, that would fucking piss me off. Some of them, good girl scientists, that are fucking enlightening us about space.

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(laughing) So, okay, okay, so we got everything out of the way. Again, the plan was start closest to the sun and work out and work and then it was like, dude, let me hit the fucking sun.

And then actually this was Sean's idea in while we're doing the planets, we're gonna do kind of a mini-deep dive into why they have that name. What the name says about the planet

doesn't actually match up with the physical characteristics. 'Cause like, all of them are named after basically Greco Roman gods. - Oh, except for Earth. - Except for Earth.

- Yeah, we're talking a little bit. Except for Earth weirdly enough. Why? Why did Earth think it? I mean, I mean, it's probably 'cause we're standing on it.

You know, it doesn't get a cool, we got name. - We've been might have already had it named, you know, might have art have been calling it Earth. - Just Earth, just Earth, just Earth. - All you could name Earth after we got it.

- Really? 'Cause it was like, the gods were supposed to be in the heavens and whatever, unless you believe in like Gaia. - So, okay, before we talk planet, 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, from Triumph, it's literally in the song. Which is kind of crazy, that's like some dude, smoking Sherman, the projects would have, literally been teaching a Primass white boy like myself

“up 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 'cause I've actually smoked Sherman on accident before. - Yeah. - So that's the only...

- How do you get it? - It's just PCP. - Okay, okay. - It's just what, yeah, just I actually only smoked Sherman myself. So that's how I've just following a great lineage of teachers,

smoking Sherman. - That's right. - It's like, weird. - Yeah. - Doring it was sick.

- Yeah. - I really literally flew up a staircase. 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. - I could have kissed him. - Oh. - That was too shroomed out.

- Yeah. - But that's the life of a fucking astronomer, like myself. - So, okay, let's go science in the sun. - Right off the bat, how big is the sun

in relative terms?

- 1.3 million earths could fit inside the sun.

- Yeah, that's crazy. - It's fucking, dude, it's massive. - It's 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 fucked up how big this the sun is like, just to get a glimpse, you see it every day.

- Yeah. - You're just going to even think about it though, it's on. - 1.3 million earths could fit inside the sun. - How hot is the sun exactly? Depends on where you measure?

At the core, the sun is 15 million degrees Celsius. It's fucking hot to shit. So we'll get into exactly what that means.

The surface of the sun is only air quotes about 5,500 degrees Celsius. - John, we get some conversions, I like the surface. - The surface of the sun. - There's the core, there's the inner core.

- We're 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. - That's only 5,500 degrees,

which is like pretty low compared to the core. Kind of weird, how many degrees?

“10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, what's the surface in Fahrenheit?”

If it's 15 million degrees Celsius, that's gotta be,

I don't know, Celsius throws me off 'cause it's close to some points and super. - 38 probably is, I think it's probably 40, 40 million degrees, 30 million degrees, dude. Let's, well, wait for the official numbers to come in.

Here's the weird part. So the surface, the core is 15 million degrees. Surface is 5,500, 500 degrees Celsius. Okay, so it's 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. Whatever, we'll stick to Celsius,

that's what the fucking scientists, it loves, loves Celsius, obviously. So the outer atmosphere, so there's, there's a core of the sun, there's its surface. And then there's an outer atmosphere of the sun

called the corona, which paradoxically reaches over 1 million degrees Celsius, which is violates, it's hotter than the body of the sun. Not hotter than the core, but according to, I believe the law of thermodynamics,

it's supposed to get colder the further you move away from hot thing. The corona violates the basic, basic physics. People still don't know why. - Yeah, that's pretty wild.

- And the corona, this is kind of weird, it actually extends, 'cause it's like a, you know, it's the core, there's the body. The corona is like the, what you see when there's any clips, 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.

And then it actually peeders out into the solar winds that basically go through the entire solar system. And then they stop after Pluto, plant a formula known as Pluto. So when we're getting heat in 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, but, well, yeah, we'll get to that.

It's not technically the corona, but the light coming out of the sun, which is kind of a bug out in and of itself. But that's where interstellar space starts. It's when the sun solar wind finally stops,

somewhere after Pluto, the solar wind stops, and you're in interstellar space properly. Which again, it's kind of like weird to think about. So yeah, there's the thing called the corona paradox, we'll get into kind of theories

and to why that might be. But again, it's like, it's completely wrong. It's 15 million degrees. And it's like, 5,500 degrees. And then it goes to 1 million again,

“outside away further from, you're like, what the hell?”

So, now, I'm sure you've 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.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- But here's the thing, we have,

'cause we, 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. So they do a thing where 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, 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 a Parker solar probe and they got within, in 2024, about 6.1 million kilometers to the sun's 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. - Okay, I'm assuming there was no camera enough, no pictures that I said that.

- I don't think so. - I think this thing was a, I mean, it was basically a bullet, it traveled about 692,000 kilometers an hour, fast as any human made objects ever moved.

So they just fucking hit a carbon heat shield about four and a half inches thick that kept everything inside it room temperature, even as it like hit temperatures at like 1400 degrees Celsius.

“So now I'm going like, oh, that's why two of the corona”

is kind of thinned out. So like, it is technically a million degrees, but the particles are, 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 of that little confusing. But it's still like, the other thing my brain can even like to compare it at too is like what humidity makes things feel hotter than it is.

- It's, you know, you really feel pretty fucking dumb. - Yeah. - You try to think about this shit. But it's like, you know, if you try to really comprehend how hot these temperatures are,

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 it's like it's almost abstract.

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 he changes, literally like when you go, when he gets to the sun's core, it turns into plasma, which is a whole different state of matter. - Yeah.

- Solid gas, liquid, plasma is just like a super particle. So everything just breaks down. Is that kind of a blaze of being? - I don't know. (laughing)

- I'm gonna be your game, I'm gonna be your game. I'm gonna be your game, 'cause you've got a plan. I'm a good solid. (laughing) - So, let's just like,

so again, like the whole idea of imagining 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, your dead, unprotected human tissue would be destroyed

long, long, long before getting anywhere near the surface. Obviously, if you could even preserve yourself. Parker Solar Probe, like we said, you got the closest. 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 in the sun. So yeah, with the general scientific, like, senses that without shielding,

you would not survive much closer than Mercury's orbit, do so. And here's the scale for reference to term temperatures. Zero degree Celsius, water freezes, 100 degree Celsius, water boils, 1000 degree Celsius, lava, molten rock.

That's what lava is. 1500 degrees, steel melts, 3500 degrees, tungsten melts. This is the highest melting point of any metal. It's using light bulb filaments. 55 degree 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 current temperature.

15 million degrees is the core of the sun. She, 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 we already talked about that.

But again, this is a big paradox. Physicists are like, they have no idea. 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, disecluting the core, which is just literally nuclear. They think that the mass of heat shift around the corona is due to electromagnetic fields snapping together. And like, in tiny, tiny increments,

in each of the real linemen's generates heat and like microflare. So it's similar to a big solar flare that originates on the sun surface, but in the corona, they're thinking, this is happening on a tiny level,

but just like billions of them every single second.

So it turns into a big acid kind of-- yeah, it's like a kind of collectively heat. It's more so like a retro magnetic heat than technically heat from the sun, but it is coming from the sun, because the sun's core

does generate electromagnetic-- or does dictate the movement of electromagnetic lines. It's due to electromagnetic shit is so fucking weird. So it's like think of like, we talked about solar flares, obviously.

So solar flares, I think, originate because there's like the core is doing all of its crazy shit. It gets so hot that the electromagnetic fields get all like whacked out. So they're getting all whacked out, coming from 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, twirl and rubber band together. And eventually, they just snap and just fire off like a massive thing of heat and energy.

And 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. So there's old Morse code lines, we're all connected by copper wires. So the evidence is working on them and out of nowhere.

People got shocked. And some of them burst in flames. I'm going to go all over the country. It's just that energy you got absorbed by those copper wiring, connecting them all together.

So that some of them burst into flames, other operators, we're just like, ow, just got shocked. Did it hit the whole planet or anything? Whole planet because chunked up like that. I think it hit the whole--

I think it fucked up like the--

“I think it fucked up anywhere that had that.”

Yeah, okay. OK. Also, the weird thing was the energy from the solar flare. After they had unplug some of the machines, like what the fuck's going on with these?

And they were still powered, no plug-in. The energy from the solar flare actually powered the machines for a time being afterwards. But they were just fucked. It was off, they were off, but they were off.

But they were only-- Couldn't turn them off. They had too much juice. So the cool thing, too, was the solar flare was so intense that the Aurora borealis, you can see them like the poles.

You can see that in Cuba. It just lit up whatever that is, hits the sky, it bounces colors, bounce off of the atmosphere, and it just-- there was an Aurora borealis visible. Something like it visible all the way down to the ceiling.

Because Aurora borealis is like,

“one of my bucket list, see that in person, things.”

It'll be sick. Although the weirdest part was, it was so bright that it happened in the middle of the night. So people woke up in the middle of the night, thinking it was daytime.

So they kind of popped up, like, oh, man, birds. Birds even got tricked. Birds started singing, like, it was nighttime. They came out being like, what the fuck? It's three in the morning, why is it so bright?

Yeah, it's completely fucked up. The weirdest thing is, if such a solar flare happened today, it would destroy the infrastructure of the entire internet. Truly, it would cause trillions of dollars in damage. The internet would go down as far as I know.

It's terrifying. Plus I'd search history destroyed. Everyone clean slate. That'd be so bad. We're talking if we get a big enough solar flare.

It could destroy now, would destroy the entire internet. Clean break. But what about my bookmarked favorites? Bro, you got to let them go. You can find them again.

You'd have to create the recreates. Yeah, that would be the real thing. Because they would be gone. They would exist in your heart. And you would have to write them down.

Like one of those ancient creaks story. It's a little cool. It's just a lady with a cup of her face, no ball.

Who's the lady that's always getting, like having sex in the shower with like wet makeup

on her face? I don't know. Michaels. G-G, I don't Michael? Yeah.

I have to write about it. You have to sing her song. You make the bars. I would definitely sing. This is a story of Miss Michael.

You had a Michael's and pinky with, I'd sing to the heavens. Yeah, they'd have to live on through you. So, and this is why we're talking solar flares. That has to do with the leading theory on why the coronavirus so much hotter is like, you know, that that's how massive flare works of like just the twisting and breaking of electric

magnetic 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. Electric magnetic fields. Actually, a very, very spooky subject in one of themselves, there are, I mean, fields are non-physical in it, 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 kilometers, which if you were to take a radius of that half the circle, yes, I'll big it would be 43,000 kilometers anyway, if you say, the corona starting at the end of the sun's surface extends

for like we said, three to five million miles raging at roughly a million degrees, which

again, asterisk that because apparently they were able to probe it and it was only 1400 degrees Celsius. So, maybe that was like the outer outer reaches, I don't, oh, yeah, you know what it probably was because they weren't even, yeah, they had got to like the outer reaches of that. Uh, maybe they're in solid, because the corona of the sun that goes off the body extends

for 3.5 million miles at a million degrees and then thins out of 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 as I'm going to say, dude, that's the fuck you can't include

the fucking solar winds was like, amen, I didn't write the rules. Oh. The girls. You're all rules, sorry, I didn't make them, actually, you still have a snow. Now if you really want to take away their vote, you can amend the solar winds.

No, it does not extend all the thing. All right, so we covered the surface in the corona, I think pretty well. What about the core, the churning powerhouse of the sun, the core is where, I mean, dude, like the surface is going all the corona's pretty cold, you know, paradox, go whatever, the core, I don't think I've ever heard shit about the core.

“If you want to cover your ears, I don't blame you, you'll never look at the sun again.”

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.

It's massive ball, it's 15 million degrees Celsius, and again, we've already established

the corona's 1.3 million degrees. The core is five 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 beyond

what any physical matter on earth is basically, you're, you're turning to plasma. And the pressure, this is fucked up, you think about it. The pressure of the core, it's 250 billion times Earth's atmospheric pressure. And pressure is 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 submarine, you get crushed.

Yeah. Dude, like, if you did like a couple hundred thousand times bigger, you're crushed.

It's 250 billion times atmospheric pressure would be like being like 10 billion feet underwater.

Like it's, it's unfathomable, how much it grows. 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. Yeah.

Already for four billion years, slated for another roughly 4.5 billion years more. Well, every second, every second, you look at the sun is 90 trillion nuclear warheads. Just go on. We're just looking at it like they, it was a pretty day up there. Dude, it's so, it's insane.

So, okay, 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 don't really know that's how gravity works.”

So if you have a big ball like Earth of the Sun, all, it's like the weight. So you have like your standing on France, all of France from the surface down to like all the shit underneath it is pressing on the core. The knee of China, that's also somehow pressing into the core as well. And every place is just crunching down on the core.

So the core of the sun is just fucking 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 top of the layer below it. I mean, it's the most extreme pile on average, just all the way down to the core, like you say. And the temperature, so it's the temperature, by the way. So we're saying about like the, you know, 1515 million degrees, changing what matter fundamentally

is. It's from two things. It's from the temperature and it's from the pressure. So the temperature gets the particles moving fast enough to overcome the repulsion. Because you have like say, you have hydrogen, a hydrogen nucleus, seems another hydrogen

nucleus. So it's just sitting there like this. They're repelled like magnets.

“I think about two magnets, you can't get them to touch each other.”

You're sitting there like, you know, you can do it. 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 then 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 low. If you think if you threw a magnet so fast, it is love.

It's like if you threw the magnet so fast, which I actually seen one of my boys do this one time, you throw the magnet fast enough, it would just go and it would actually connect. However, the connection is nuclear, it's like particle fusion. So it's what powers nuclear bombs and the pressure, so it's like the temperature gets 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 hard to sing the power in stars. Yeah.

That's crazy. It's the power of the stars. Yeah. And the cool part is the same gravity. That's kind of bad ass that it's here, we're just harnessing the power of the stars

on the planet. It's cool. It's terrifying. It's terrifying. It's really scary.

I think kind of do that though. I know. I mean, shout out to us, obviously. 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, this 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 at 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 fucking crunch it all

in. I wonder if it'll be like signs. I mean, obviously, we won't be here for, but, you know, 400 billion years from now with a sun, like, feel or look different, you know what I mean? Because we've lived, we've experienced it for such a short period of time.

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the date for that that is gonna be May 16th I believe I don't know so that yeah May 16th it's being my phone's being a piece of shit so come on come on come on we'll get it we'll get into fusion because again 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 are 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 because it's like you have member of the science thing you have a nucleus which is like I think a proton and a neutron and then it's circled by electrons and luckily

hydrogen has no proton no hydrogen has no neutrons or something so it's just a

“proton that's what they have like the proton collider thing that's what they're”

trying to replicate they're here 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 that's scary sit at this point around with it's just about a control right yeah it's actually pretty freaky but at

10,000 degrees 10,000 degrees Celsius matter or stuff becoming matter in any recognizable sense that we know and becomes plasma which we set as a soup of free electrons and bear atomic nuclei so it's like the nucleus not surrounded by their revol you know the electrons that are spinning around it again this is a force state of matter between solid liquid and gas so that's at 10,000

degrees Celsius the cores 15 million degrees so you're so far past plasma at the

nuclei the proton and neutron the case hydrogen just the 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 being possibly charged with still to repel each other like magnets the repulsion between these protons is called the collume barrier in

case you're wondering so that's 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 fucking 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

yeah transforming to form helium in the process so that you have a hydrogen

“hydrogen which by the way two hydrogen one hydrogen I think is heavier than a”

helium but when the two come together which you would think oh the helium is going to be heavier the helium's lighter than these two guys that just crash

right so you have a sea of hydrogen ways one pound with it they don't but they'll save for the second numbers two hydrogen nucleus is way one pound each they slam now they weigh like collectively I don't know whatever the fuck it is they've lost 0.7% of them smaller the other they're lighter than those are so you start off with two things weighing something they collide you left you have the

left over 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 in the core in the core is

what generates the sun's light but it's happening over and over and over and over just blah blah blah every second it's light blinding flashes of gamma rays which you don't want to fucking know I know you think you're tough but you do not want to gamma rays 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 really weird to think like if you took a tiny bit of weight of this thing single you know I don't know what it was probably fucking not even like 0.1 pounds that would become a intense burst of light energy this is what you know it's

trying to think of how to explain this so so the fusion of two particles again which is because of heat and pressure transmutes the hydrogen and helium 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 reactions a massive explosion of energy relative to the size of the tiny bit of

“weight that was lost so I think of it this way if you multiply something's mass right”

this is how 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 whoa oh dude that's crazy that's i size theory actually but that's what yeah

I had no idea that's what E equals MC square it is you know it's just accounting for how much how much how much mass converts how much the tiny amount of mass converts to like light

energy basically okay it's Einstein's theory of special relativity it's crazy case of parallel

thinking honestly but I just thought it was like oh yeah that's all that works so going back to the sun you'll do it sitting there by yourself and just figure that all out for a first time yeah he just be like I'll be here he's definitely him yeah I think though there was a guy who figured out what is it magnetism and electricity or part of the same thing yeah and that came first

“which was also like what the fuck 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 group aliubed Einstein was that that's not Tesla right no no if you're the guy's name be the guy 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 it's a self-sustaining field a thing that I've this is a little side-track but like we're talking you talking this I because we're talking about how beast these guys are I've kind of I don't know

that it's Instagram or what it is I always pictures like smart dudes is I didn't even see you doing

and I was but just smart dudes is 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 it's like I see stuff that he's seen like he was kind of him back in the day like he was him like oh you know what it was though those early um physicists and those type of guys they would look at this outer spaceship 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 yeah they lost all their swag let's 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 in personal and cold and they're in the turn on the guy who who try to to the other shit they go like no that's not what we do now we can't write peer repeat papers on that

“I know how can you quantify that it's like you shut the fuck up dude that's why I'm saying”

I'm pussy and you did it so my one of Michael fair today the hell huh I think it's Ernest Mark

figure that out so going back to the sun that is a good point like Einstein was the man I do

“think they just lost their respect for you know yeah they took they stopped taking a poetic view”

towards nature they just started being like yeah it's faking bunch of math 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 left over helium body 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 in it's like it's light this is physically converting mass into like traveling light beams you know a fire just kind of like a candle just kind of hovers that's more of a chemical reaction yeah this is fundamentally taking mass and going flying out so in 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

“because if they did we be fucked like we would be gamma rays are in terms of energy rays like”

gamma x rays you're all that shit 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 and you think okay what's the

fuck's the big deal about that so okay so let's just get into this thing first the gamma ray

if well let's just say if it hit you you're fucked like a gamma ray goes UV ray hits your skin and it gets trapped 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 to be a whole of my body wouldn't be a whole but it would pass through you but it would sever anything attached 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 so anything huh do vapor you don't vaporize you're just you're just be there like nothing happened but all of a sudden you'd be like ugh like you're by 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 like like two minutes because your body all your bodily processes are just like what the

fuck was that they just thought we're lines of DNA to shred it's that your DNA is what's telling all your cells what to do yeah that just goes down and then you go ugh I don't feel so good two

“minutes later fucking toast so that's what's happening in the sun's core now here's the cool”

part of this kind of weapons the gamma would fuck do that would suck it and hit with you so the core you would think like okay so that light hits the core the hydrogen you know or hydrogen hits each other turns into gamma the hydrogen turns into helium 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 it just it can't get out it goes bounces around

gets out long it bounces around four I guess billion years 17,000 okay 17,000 should

I love for that for a record just go low next time that's better but no but so if those escaped we'd be toast yeah somehow and the sun's already kind of nuts right now but the gap 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 as soon as it escapes the core and hits the you know basically surface of the sun it takes eight seconds to get to earth so it bounces around for let's say 17,000 years and then it gets the the sun's surface and it's eight seconds hits you right in your fucking face it'll take as UV and you get a little tan you know white boys like me get a little crispy so yeah it's pretty it's pretty crazy man 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 but it was it's kind of just like held in the sun and then shot out at like the perfect shit that we need for here for blinds and people and you know all that other stuff that's funer pretty beautiful pretty beautiful pure gamma dude she don't look like that you don't want that dude you just you just don't you don't want anything literally

like we said just mouth functions everything gets you fucked up so cute but yeah dude and then like we said before the sun this is actually kind of cool too the sun somehow a sun basically

trying to explode the sun just out into the in the solar system but the size of the sun itself

“is kind of crunching it down in on itself you so here's the thing when fusion speeds up”

the sun expands so 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 yeah so in the core expands the particles slow down ever so slightly so fusion slows down so the sun contracts again because everything cools down goes like breathing it's it's literally self regulates yeah so it's just it's expanding it's been

doing this every for four billion years keeping itself in perfect balance making the light just

perfect for us pretty fucking wild however so it's doing this all the time but then within that kind of like breathing kind of thing every eleven years it's on it it's on it it's been on a cycle like this forever every eleven years it has solar flare cycle so we're in a period of high solar flare fliers right now so every eleven like we said that's from just electromagnetic fields just twisting

“twisting twisting it's snap and they go and shoot out so it's like you have there it's always solar”

flare and but every eleven years it's like high solar flares and then every eleven years next eleven years it's like low solar flares okay so we're in high times right now we're not we're in high solar one is supposed to longer than supposed to last the high times like I don't know which we're we're at it but you know we're probably just say we're the middle we got like five 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 again like he can get you there might be my ever all little crazy right now we're in heavy solar flare hopefully you know we're all in time for in I've said it before I think twenty thirty onwards going to be chill that's my prediction now yeah I've I checked solar flares right now and it lines up with that I'm just going to run with that so yeah that's another mystery it's like okay the sun is a self-regulating

it's it has like rhythms and stuff that it does and also like we said obviously it's held

a perfect balance for 4.6 billion years 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 fucking toast so it's like it doesn't have a huge window of error if the sun goes off is a little bit we're fucked we're cooked so brings me to the next question is the sun conscious I was thrilled I was sitting here whole and then I was sitting here whole and then saying something about that because I was literally I have that awesome times whether or not like planets and like sitting the solar system is a higher form of

“life that we just don't understand yet I don't know if life is exist on earth and grows out of earth”

what the fuck is earth that's upsetting what's the sun dude I don't know dude here my thing is that so if you if you're if you're brain produces consciousness your brain is just a bunch of like electrical sparks flying around in like water and tissue I 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 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 then the people there's people that say that consciousness this is like the idealist or like pan psychics 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 sun the sun could be conscious I don't know however I think regardless of how you feel

about it something like religious reverence is due for the sun after I learned about it I was like we do the back of the sun god dude or at least just look at it and get stoked I was ever since I look at 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 our eyes weren't designed we couldn't pick up on light basically we have like light sensors in our eyes and I was 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 about my computer it was like dude stop just chill go outside this fucked up there's a dumb this is dumb shit but it's a cart in the show invincible there's a whole scene where they go into this room you can't see anything because of because because they there was exactly what you're talking about they it's like a

certainly had a certain kind of light on in the room that our eyes aren't made really to be able to pick up or walk and then they had they like they like give them a needle that injects in the show that give them a needle that injects something that makes his eyes be able to see this new type of light it's not what you're saying it's not exactly yeah well there's also a ton there's also a ton of yeah like infrared wavelengths that we can't see yeah so there could be shit like going on

we just we'll never be able to see it and it was spugging me out here but here's the thing too it's like

solar system look up the sun and all the planets and just be like dude these are God's they

“like really truly thought they're like oh shit they'd be like just kicking around the morning”

and they just see like Venus and like shit there's the fucking horny god yeah so there's my babe there's my baby horny guys in the sky so even the the terms so we're gonna get into kind of the try to get into this somewhat into the etymology of the planets so the terms sun 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 so they're 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 actually it does actually”

so it's like so if it's the terms sun in English can be traced back through the proto Indo-European language family to a relation with the Norse deity soul which is actually Latin for the so that they'd have a sun god in the room actually became the official god of like it was

some of the late Roman empires it was like the it was called the undefeated sun yeah there was a

minor god in the Roman pantheon and during the fall of Rome some people were like we call sun god is our god because actually joyous Caesar called Venus the horny god to be he claimed to be descended from the horny god which is pretty sick and ever had to be like yeah did for sure it's okay the horny is okay so the the actual terms sun in English it can be traced back to the Norse deity soul also called also called Sula soul back then was a goddess literally the sun itself which

would race across the sky being chased by a hungry wolf near the hungry wolf's name skull skull and a race in the the hungry wolf was trying to eat the sun which is why they thought the sun went across and at raggedam rock the apocalypse skull would catch a neat soul and during it clips is it was thought that skull got himself a little bite of her but the chase continued and actually sunday believe it or not is actually named after the sage and sun babe

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 yeah almost skipped over the sun but oh man just think all the nuclear fusion going on in there the perfect balance of light being trapped home to perfection released it's yeah I just thought it was fucking sick it's us it feels good when it feels fucking awesome it powers your body do you know get enough sun you don't produce

“test that's why I fucking do ride my blanket a tank top all the time so from the sun now we move on to”

mercury and you know mercury is the actually should we go slide in the patreon let's slide in the page yeah let's slide in the page we're right at an hour oh yeah we're good guys thank you for joining me for the uh series into the planets but we have this side of the patreon we have to be a place as a baby that primary promise yeah wasn't planned I just got down those you know what the hell I've been doing this for a while exactly an hour on the sun who would have thought

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