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Thanks dude!
In reply to this comment by geo321:
So beautiful. *promote

>> ^stephenbracken:

Wats wrong with submitting it so soon after it was online? It was a new vid on vimeo so thought it would b a good one to start my videosift account with?


The issue is that it seems very likely this video was uploaded to Vimeo by yourself, as it's unlikely you just happened to come across it on Vimeo 30 minutes within after it was uploaded.

Is this your upload?

>> ^deathcow:

>> ^HugeJerk:
Nope, it's a sphere.>> ^MrFisk:
So the Earth is round?


gong!
it's an oblate spheroid, a rotationally symmetrical ellipsoid

The deviation in Earth's curvature is tiny - just 1 part in 300, according to Wikipedia, so it's functionally indistinguishable from a sphere. And if you were to inflate a billiard ball to the size of the Earth, the billiard ball would be less spherical than the planet.

Pluto lover.

>> ^TangledThorns:

I seriously think Tyson is a fraud. He just spews out pointless theories and people think he is brilliant for it. GG Tyson, GG.

>> ^TangledThorns:

I seriously think Tyson is a fraud. He just spews out pointless theories and people think he is brilliant for it. GG Tyson, GG.


Does this schmuck even know what the word "theory" really means?

>> ^Fletch:

Everything NDT says sounds like the most astounding fact he's ever heard, and that you should be astounded by it too. His meter - every enunciation, accentuation, and pause - sounds affected and I, for some reason, can't stand to listen to him. I've tried. He talks about things I'm interested in and I enjoy reading what he has written (I have "Pluto Files" and "Space Chronicles" on my Kindle), but when he starts talking, it just sounds like he's talking to five year-olds to me.
F ck it, upvote.


I know exactly what you're saying. There's a british version of this and he's called Brian Cox. Every single time he speaks, i feel my skin crawling that he knows that he has to try and manipulate the audience into feeling emotion that they just don't feel.

I subscribe to the principle as well. I agree, the connectedness of the universe is absolutely amazing. When you think about the familiar vs. the unfamiliar, the known vs. the unknown.... we know each other, we know the planet we live on and we feel safe here, but there's an infinite chasm in all directions around us. Sometimes when i consider this i can give myself vertigo.

If i were trapped in a cave with the most fundamental islamist ever, and we didn't know what lay on the other side of the collapsed wall, we'd eventually cooperate and work together to get out, to see what's there. Maybe we find something great out there, or maybe we have to build some defences to make ourselves safer in the cave.

Put us on earth, and we put bombs in each other's homes. The knowledge of how amazing the universe is really does lift you up, places you above all the stupid racism and general jingoism. But you can't fake it or inspire it, you either feel it or you don't.

Having said that, at least they're getting the field of physics more attention, and maybe they might influence some kids whilst they're influence-able.

>> ^quantumushroom:

"Made of 100% star-stuff" does not aid a résumé.


I put this in mine and they totally hired me at the dispensary.

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>> ^deathcow:

>> ^HugeJerk:
Nope, it's a sphere.>> ^MrFisk:
So the Earth is round?


gong!
it's an oblate spheroid, a rotationally symmetrical ellipsoid
I always thought it was more globe-shaped, like a basketball or a bowling ball, or a globe.

>> ^HugeJerk:

Nope, it's a sphere.>> ^MrFisk:
So the Earth is round?



gong!

it's an oblate spheroid, a rotationally symmetrical ellipsoid

>> ^messenger:

If I were gay, I'd marry NGT.


PFFT Like you could land him! Only Stephen Fry could land NGT.

NO. NO. NO. The most astounding fact is that the Death Star is orbiting Saturn at this very moment!! (2:22)