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  • fj

  • eat a fucking dick, you pompous ass

  • I've leant more in this 3 minutes than i did the pas 5 months :')

  • if you fold a paper 50 times it's the diameter of the sun

  • @haze656 what the hell! i wont beleive this 'till i see it lol, the world is a crazy place.

  • This is a very nihilistic song... I love it.

  • @haze656 how the fuck does that make sense, haha?

  • @bobbybudgie321

    The thickness doubles every time the paper is folded. Fold it 42 times and the growth is exponential. You can't fold a piece of paper more than 8 or 9 time though. Here's a real kicker, fold it in half about 94 times and it's the length of the entire visible universe!

  • i dont get the paper one?

  • @bobbybudgie321 if you fold a standard piece of paper 42 times it will reach the moon

  • what do you mean given enoguh time hidrogen will think about its self?

  • @Mich199999

    In the beginning of the universe, Hydrogen was the only element. Over time, with different forces acting on it, it became other elements, making up all matter in the universe, including sentient beings like you and me.

  • How can we see the edge of the universe if it is moving away faster than the speed of light.

  • @JenkoTV We can't - that's why we talk about the *observable* universe.

  • When I show this to people I'll stop it before the last 3.

  • the thing that astonished me the most was that duck hunt was 2 players!

    i cant believe it still.

  • Duck Hunt have two players!??!?!? Mind=Blown!

  • 13.7 billion light years observable, but 46.5 billion radius. Does this mean it travelled faster than the speed of light?

  • Fold a piece of paper 42 times and it will reach the moon? Someone please explain that to me.

  • @ReflexEight

    because it's thickness would double 42 times. Try doubling 0.1mm 42 times.

  • @ReflexEight

    * Distance to moon: 384,405Km

    * Thickness of a piece of paper: 0.1mm or 0.00000001Km (convert to kilometer to get same units as distance to moon)

    * Each fold of a paper will double its thickness. (1 paper + 1 paper on top = 2 papers of thickness)

    So: 0.00000001Km * 2^47 (that is 2*2*2*2*2..... 47 times) = 1,407,374 Km

  • love it man, so much knowledge!

  • How would the universe have a radius of 46.5 billion lightyears?  It began expanding from a singularity approximately 14 billion years ago, and presumably this expansion was at or below the speed of light.

    Unless it wasn't a singularity after all. Or it traveled at above the speed of light (and thus broke physics).

    I'm not posting this to be an overcritical douche, I'm actually curious.

  • @Extertainment

    Its spacetime that’s expanding, not matter racing away (which is constrained by the speed of light). Think of a surfer on a wave where the wave is spacetime and the surfer represents galaxies ect.

    Google ‘metric expansion of space’ for a proper explanation rather than my inarticulate ramble.

    Good question by the way.

  • @TheSkyHitler I love an intelligent response. And thanks for the link. I just ate that wikipedia page for breakfast.

  • @Extertainment I think space may have expanded with it, not real sure though, sounds suspicous, sounds like it did technically move faster than the speed of light, anyone know?

  • @rubnayr

    I heard that before the universe existed, time, space, physics, and the laws that govern these properties didn't exist, so when the universe first started expanding it was unrestrained. Something like that, I don't really remember. Google it for a real answer.

  • You have fucked my head up.

  • 1:40

    Duck Hunt is 2-pla.. FFFUUUUUUU

  • "you see your nose at all times"

    god damnit he's right!

  • 1:06

    Maturity got to me.

    Jizz face.

  • i sing this song out loud randdomly at school and people are like duh fuck are you singing about U.U

  • i love you. thanks for this song

  • I can't unsee my nose now.

  • @Ragsinski I was about to type this and when I saw you do it first, I SHIT BRICKS!!!

  • I just controlled the duck on duck hunt for the first time. It was awesome! Thank you.

  • nice ending thought 8D

  • It's true that Peter Cullen is the voice of both Optimus Prime and Eeyore. However, Frank Welker, voice of Megatron, isn't the original Scooby-Doo. That was the late Don Messick, whom Welker recently replaced. He is the original Fred, though!

  • i can't stop starring at my own nose every time i listened to this song

  • i like the part with the true facts

  • "54 million people alive right now will be dead within 12 months"

    .....Is that a threat or a fact? We will never know.

  • @ruffunitlm fact

  • @ninjaphile Thank you i hadn't thought of that

  • Magic. It's all miracles.

  • I wish I never heard the bit about the nose. I keep seeing my nose all the time now :[

  • Still my all-time favorite.

  • Anybody know the name of the illustration at 2:26?? I've been trying to figure that out for ages!!! :) Thanks!

  • This seriously has to be the Lemon Demon guy. I would recognize that voice anywhere ;)

  • If the age of the universe is 13.7 billion years old, but the radius is 46.5 billion lightyears...then does that mean that the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light?

  • @ninjaphile Very early on when the Universe was super "young", there was a period called "Inflation" where it expanded at an incredibly fast rate. You can find more info on the internet, of course...

  • @Ombortron That's true, but doesn't answer the question. The limit of the observable universe being 46.5 billion lightyears means that light we see from there was emitted 46.5 billion years ago in our frame of reference. So what we see as being 13.7 billion years old was actually 13.7 billion years old 46.5 billion years ago. The true age of the known universe is the sum of the two, 60.2 billion years, but it's likely the universe is much older than that in areas too far away for us to measure.

  • @ninjaphile

    well sort of... that guy who mentioned inflation was correct, but that effect is still happening on a smaller scale. Its not that the edges of the universe is moving away, but every point in the universe is getting further away from it's neighbour as the fabric of space itself stretches. If you look up cosmological red shift that may help explain somewhat.

  • little confused by the Hydrogen gas one... can anybody help?

  • @commandodude1265 "Given enough time, hydrogen gas will think about itself." He's refering to the fact that everything in the universe started out as hydrogen. Stars, through fusion, create heavier elements, and these elements are released when the star dies. Flash forward a few billion years, and here you are...made of elements like carbon, nitrogen, etc...which all started out as simple hydrogen, fusing inside of stars.

  • someone go dig out a NES asap

  • i love how you just flash a pic of jesus and everyone goes ape shit. this is why I'm atheist.

  • I <3 the abrupt ending (:

  • omg where can i gat the houston, we haz a problem pic. i rolf'd!

  • I don't get the "120 years from now" one. PLEASE EXPLAIN!

  • Fuckin' magnets!

  • @pearljelly how the fuck do they work?

  • Does anybody know what he says about cleopatra. I cant understand it.

  • @stuvenyen Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first moon landing

    than to the building of the Great Pyramid

  • @jzanjani Thank you. I couldn't catch what he said either.

  • I love that the thing that everyone pays most attention to out of this whole video is that Duck Hunt is 2 player.

  • make more songs just like this one, random facts are awesome

  • DUCK HUNT WAS TWO PLAYER?!?! FML

    FTW

  • ....holy fuck...

  • catchy, but being that sort of person, I just wonder how mant of these are checkable facts and not just stuff that made the rounds on the internet

  • the 54 million people part has doomed me eternally.

  • i thought i would only find this on stupidvideos YAY

  • Never knew duck hunt was 2 player!

  • "fold over a piece of paper 42 times and it will reach the moon"?

  • @thejoshcohenshow think about it, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, etc so it can go far from 1 to 42 and it will reach the moon if you think think about it enough :)

  • I know that a good chunk of this isn't true (e.g. the universe isn't spherical), but I also know a good chunk of it is. Now the big question in my mind is:

    Is Duck Hunt really 2 player?!

  • We need a MP3 version :D

  • @raph6558 Just posted it.

  • @therockcookiebottom We need a iTunes version :D

  • Holy crap, 2 player Duck Hunt?! How could I not have known this?

  • Science is so fun!

  • I still dont get the comparation betweeen the observable universe age and it's radio.

    The universe borders move faster than light??

    does anyone know something about this. or Im just getting it wrong??

  • @juanito3210, From what I remember from my Big Questions course at 13.7 billion light years away the universe is made up of an opaque soup of mater that light cannot penetrate, we can see some infrared radiation which is how we know that it doesn't just end there, the visible edge is limited by the speed of light but the other outer boundary is not actually moving but the space is expanding faster than the speed of light (theoretically)

  • @walshs4 right so you are saying that the simple fact we cannot see it, makes it able to travel faster than the speed of light??

    

  • @juanito3210 I am not talking about any discreet matter, just the fabric of space its self

  • @walshs4 what about radio waves, those arent matter and still they travel at the speed of light

  • @juanito3210 The form radiowaves take is debatable. Radio waves are a form of light, which sometimes acts like it's comprised of particles, and other times acts like a wave.

  • @PapaTango104 okay guys, just take it into private messages. Run along now, nothing to see here, there is no flame war, its all cool.

  • @walshs4 That's just horribly wrong. We can't see it because the light that far away hasn't reached us yet. When you even try to go close to the speed of light, time slows down (or dilates) (t=t0/sqrt(1-u^2/c^2)) and length contracts (l=l0*sqrt(1-u^2/c^2))

    Tachyons are the only thing that can theoretically move faster than c (unless you count entanglement as some kind of data transfer), and we don't know they exist. Whoever told you that stuff is bullshitting you.

  • @Alexrose12345678910 Your right, i should definitely believe some random guy on the internet instead of a prof with a Ph.D in astronomy, what you said about the speed of light does apply to matter but not the fabric of space its self, this phenomenon took place for the briefest of instants after the big bang, all of this is theoretical and clearly is up for debate but it is a valid theory that explains why our observable universe is smaller than what we know it to be.

  • This song made me feel better about life

  • 6 people has imperforate anus...

  • i can't quite understand him when he sings the thing about Cleopatra ....anybody know what he's saying?

  • @clawhammerable He says that Cleopatra lived closer in time to the moon landing then the building of the first pyramids.

  • It's not pronounced "im-per-for-ah-tay," but rather "im-per-fer-it." I realize the correct pronunciation wouldn't have worked in the song, but I had to mention it.

  • Praise the Flying Spaghetti Monster!

  • lol the concept of reality exists only in our minds...so deep and yet so catchy

  • Did this go viral or was it featured somewhere?

  • @MrStrusz

    It was on Gizmodo.com

  • @MrStrusz on collegehumor that's where I saw it, now I can't stop clicking the "play" button at the end of the song

  • @MrStrusz yea it was on todaysbigthing

  • you cant fold a peice of paper more than 8 times though... but 42 and to the moon? wow

  • @abarreloflols Yes, obviously it's completely impossible, but if you take the standard thickness of 20-pound paper as .0038 inches, folded 42 times that becomes 16,712,576,742 inches, which is about 263,772 miles. The distance from Earth to the Moon is averaged at 238,857 miles. So in theory, it would reach the Moon, but in reality it could never happen.

  • @embrezar you guys are speaking preety heavy stuff, big ideas have come from this kind of arguments, you are talking about converting a finite 2D (3D actually, but that will drift me away from my point) sheet of paper into a 1D line, by infinitely folding it.

    Ad infinitum you'll eventually achieve an infinite greater thickness and an infinite smaller surface, in other words a 1D line

    so, how about the universe (3D) being an infinite folding of a finite 4D hiperplane??

  • It should be noted that its the voice actors for the transformers tv series, not movies, who also did Eeyore and Scooby Doo

  • @Dogdrule There not the same Scooby and Megatron are.

  • anyone mind explaining how optimus prime and eeyor (sp?) were the same? The voice actor i take it?

  • no shit sherlock

  • Jonathan,just ot let you know this song appears on Gizmodo.

    gizmodo.com/5671027/the-univer­se-is-even-stranger-than-you-r­ealize

  • oh and btw.: it's not possible to swim through the arteries of a blue whale. first because I guess it won't let you do it and second it's not big enough, the aorta is 20cm diameter, wanna see how you want to swim through that...

  • why is there no refrain again at the end? :(

    what a mad mad world. what a wonderful nutty universe...*humming*

  • Yeah, but fucking magnets... you didn't say how they worked. FAIL!

  • @Bikerdude69 Everything is magic. Question answered.

  • "fold over a piece of paper 42 times and it will reach the moon"

    this is a horrible failure in grammar, in this phrasing the supposed fact he states is obviously impossible folding a piece of paper can not cause it to reach moon

    a better way to phrase it is that a paper that COULD be folded IN HALF 42 times theoretically would be long enough to reach the moon, based on certain mathematical models and presumptions about the paper and its packing density

    he should put in an annotation

  • @iknowmy3table It doesn't really matter because anyone with a brain already knows you can't fold a piece of paper 42 times.

  • @Niallissoawesome it's posible to fold a paper in half any amount of times assuming the paper is large enough the idea that you can not only fold a paper more than X amount of times is a myth,

  • @iknowmy3table That doesn't matter. If you fold it, it gets always half the size and double the thickness. If the paper is superbig it will get smaller and higher much faster. So size does not matter in this case. Some say 8 or 9 times is the max. But don't think you can fold it a 50 times with a clean fold.

  • @iknowmy3table

    well assuming the paper is infinitely big then sure, fold it as many times as you want but if you confine it's dimensions to a real size then there IS a limit as to how many times it can be folded. Some teenage girl somewhere derived a formula which factors in size width etc that calculates how many times it can be folded. Not a myth. If you think a piece of paper can be folded indefinitely then show me a sheet that's infinitly big.

  • @Qw3rtypop infinity is not a number, the conventional myth never specified how big the paper could be and specifies a specific number which people have disproved

  • @iknowmy3table

    You know you should make a song with that in and see if it sounds as good as this one.

    Seriously... don't be a freaking killjoy. The only 2 douchebaggery comments I can see both come from you. You better way to phrase it doesn't make sense anyway, as you have mentioned nothing about it being folded, merely stated that it was capable of being folded; there is no "if" in your sentence.

    If you're going to be a killjoy at least be a correct killjoy.

  • @Qw3rtypop I was giving an example that would be more clear, and there doesn't have to be an if in the statement for it to make sense, the phrasing he used didn't make sense and was very confusing for a lot of people, there are other ways he could have phrased it that would have made more sense

    why are you accusing me of being an snob in correctness while accusing me of not using an "if" in my example? doesn't that seam rather hypocritical

  • @iknowmy3table you are getting it wrong. It doesn't matter, and you dont need a mathematical model for it.

    folding the paper will increase it's thickness and decrease it's surface, so the paper will eventually become preety much a 1D string (a square with 2^42 less the surface of the original paper) therefore its lenght would be 2^21 times smaller than the original paper, so thin you woldnt be able to see it, but long enough to reach the moon

  • @juanito3210 there are some assumptions that have to be made but I can agree on that

  • @iknowmy3table

    you are a tool

  • @arlixGod really if I am a tool, who am a tool for?

  • @iknowmy3table Ehm no. Even though folding paper 8-9 times is the absolute maximum that can be reached with machinery we currently have, it does not change the fact that IF you do fold paper 42 times (no matter how or when), it would reach ze moon.

  • Sorry Sheldon...

  • @iknowmy3table this guy takes the song way to seriously.. probably one of thoughs guys who are now going to bitch about what i just said with something half witty.

  • @Smokeahdabuddha *tough

    At least leave your opinion correctly, rather than making yourself look like a dumb ass. Yeah he's taken it a little too literally.. But maybe he was a troll that you just fed.

  • @DeadEnd64 ur just trollin dawg... chill

  • @iknowmy3table

    chill

  • @iknowmy3table Don't blame him. He's quoting directly from reddit, not the most reliable place on the internet. Here's the math in case anyone was curious:

    The distance from the earth to the moon is approximately 363,104,000 meters at its closest. Using regular paper with average thickmess of 0.1mm, you would need 3,631,040,000,000 layers minimum to reach the moon. 2^42 is 4,398,046,511,104, well above that. In fact, it's enough to reach from the farthest point, 405,696,000 meters away.

  • @iknowmy3table just shut up and enjoy the video, you buzkill

  • @iknowmy3table God, you seem to be an unbearable smart arse. You try fitting "paper that COULD be folded IN HALF 42 times theoretically would be long enough to reach the moon, based on certain mathematical models and presumptions about the paper and its packing density" into a catchy song.

  • Or look at this way: The two opposite corners of the paper (going diagonally across) are some distance apart, and folding will only bring them closer together. You can't move them further part by folding, because the path connecting them along the surface of the paper will stay the same length, and will just become bent instead of straight as you fold the paper.

    The only way to get the opposite corners farther apart is to cut the paper.

  • The folding a piece of paper 42 times won't really work. You would have to cut the stack of paper in half and then restack the two halves to get it work. If you try folding, the part of the stack near the crease is curved, and the size of the curved region would quickly increase and take over the whole stack after a few folds.

    And even if do cut instead of fold, you would have to cut VERY precisely, and somehow keep the stack from falling apart into lots of tiny pieces of paper.

  • I don't get how the universe can be that big if it's that young. Wouldn't that mean that matter was moving faster than light, which is impossible?

  • @brothershrike94 watch the series the universe from discorvery channel, they explain it there, it's young in terms of the universe scale, which is huge.

  • @brothershrike94: it may sound strange, but space itself is expanding (and did very rapidly after the big bang). So objects become more distant not by moving through space (which indeed can't happen faster than light) but by having the space between them stretch out.

  • @avlisk

    You... walk to it...

  • can someone explain the hydrogen thing? how can it think?

  • @Cohemotgus We're made of Carbon and Hydrogen. And a bunch of other stuff. But mostly carbon and hydrogen.

  • @brothershrike94 we're star stuff!

  • @brothershrike94 And since hydrogen is just a proton (plus an electron, but whatever), all elements are essentially fused hydrogen, so yes, hydrogen does eventually think of itself. :)

  • I don't understand how a piece of paper can reach the moon after being folded 42 times... Wouldn't it just be a few feet tall?

  • @ninjamitcherz

    Google: "fold a piece of paper 42 times and it will reach the moon", gives a good explanation.

  • @ninjamitcherz You're thinking of stacking 42 pieces of paper together. The lyrics are referring to a piece of paper folded in half 42 times. Folding a piece of paper doubles it's thickness. It's classic exponential growth. The thickness of paper * 2^42 is more than the distance to the moon. If it helps, folding a piece of paper 43 times would go to the moon and back.

  • HEIL REDDIT

  • If I can divide any space by 2, and therefore can always move half the distance towards a wall, doesn't that mean the distance to the wall is infinite? After all, it's an infinite number of half-distances. So, if the distance to the wall is infinite, how can I ever reach the wall, which is an infinite distance away? Maybe the next song will explain it.

  • @avlisk you should pay more atention to your math teacher.

  • Can anybody tell me what the Cleopatra lyric is? All I hear is "Cleopatra lived a sirin' (?) time"

  • @TheGrouchDnD The lyrics are posted in the description.

  • @TheGrouchDnD The lyrics are in the description. :P

  • @TheGrouchDnD "Cleopatra lived closer in time of the first moon landing then to the building of the great piramyds..."

    The age of the pyramids reached its zenith at Giza 2575-2150 B.C

    Cleopatra (Late 69 BC – August 12, 30 BC)

    Moon landing July 20, 1969

  • @TheGrouchDnD she lived closer in time to the moon landings than to the pyramids.

  • 54 million people will die in 12 months....... that is so very depressing to think about!!

  • This video would be 1 million times better without the picture of Jesus!

  • @polishfreak36 It's a Fucking picture, not a statement idiot

  • @polishfreak36 True - but it would be 1 million times worse without the FSM. So it all just balances out, I suppose.

  • @polishfreak36 Yes, but remember that they also showed our Lord and Creator, The Flying Spaghetti Monster...

  • @polishfreak36 i don't think it makes any difference.

  • @polishfreak36 No... Considering Jesus was a blessing from God, it makes perfect sense. It also is a reminder of who you are to be living for. If you want me to get into it all, I can message you.

  • @2b2a Jesus was a cult leader

  • @polishfreak36 The Messiah.

  • @polishfreak36 How come? Would it be better if it were Muhammad? Or does it just not fit in with the others? I don't understand.

  • @TheDiscoBatman It would be best with no religion at all

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