Space Is Bigger Than Your Brain Can Handle | Epic Spaceman
5/12/20261 hr 19 min
Dr. Dakotah Tyler and Justin Shaifer sit down with Toby from Epic Spaceman, the YouTube creator known for using cinematic animations to make the scale of the universe easier to understand.
They talk about cosmic scale, visual storytelling, interstellar travel, whether future humans would still be human, what telescopes actually see when we look at stars, Betelgeuse going supernova, why UFOs are probably not alien spacecraft, and where microbial life might exist in our own solar system.
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First 90 secondsToby· Guest0:00
The galaxy is ridiculously huge, and stars are incomprehensibly far apart.
Dakotah Tyler· Host0:07
If you shrink down the sun to the size of a softball- Yeah ... and you were in Los Angeles, where would the closest star be to the sun?
Toby· Guest0:17
It's gonna be a while away.
Dakotah Tyler· Host0:18
[laughs] The closest star would be in Chicago.
Justin Shaifer· Host0:21
Yeah.
Dakotah Tyler· Host0:21
And it, it just, like, gives you an idea of how vast and empty space is.
Toby· Guest0:25
I don't think humans will ever leave the solar system. By the time we would be able to do interstellar travel, I don't think you'd be able to call us humans anymore. We would be completely technological. We never actually see stars. When we look at the night sky, we're looking at points of light from those stars. We're gonna collide with Andromeda at some point in the distant future, and no star will crash into each other because the stars are so far apart.
Justin Shaifer· Host0:55
When you say you've been able to fully resolve 10 stars- Or fully resolve ... what does that mean exactly? [dramatic music] What's going on, everybody? Justin Shafer, also known as MrFascinate, one half of Curiosity Theory, joined here with...
Dakotah Tyler· Host1:17
Dr. Dakota Tyler, astrophysicist and science communicator. We have a super special guest today, a n- fellow content creator, Toby from Epic Spaceman, the YouTube channel.