QI: How Much of the Earth is Water?

[cbcbarzarz]

Watching this in America I have to sit through an Axe body spray commercial first. Gotta remind me where I live before you let me catch a glimpse of the outside, eh Youtube?

[normgood11]

I am progressively getting more and more late for work, I cannot get away from these QI clips

[TheReggaeMortis]

What a great idea. Let's colonize deep space with our microwave hot-dogs, fake dog shit, rubber vomit, cinnamon flavored dental floss, lemon scented toilet paper and those sneakers that have lights in the heels, and all the other great things we've done down here.

I'd rather not pollute space with our presence.

[MrGuvnah]

@TheReggaeMortis we're already IN space.

[TheReggaeMortis]

@MrGuvnah ..Good point.

Pedant :)

[ronocko]

@TheReggaeMortis who else is going to? Think about it the universe in x billion billion years is going to be uninhabitable and desolate why wouldn't we expand it's all going to go to shit anyway atleast humans might be able to fix it and failing that atleast we survive aslong as we can in the highly volatile unstable destructive thing we call a universe.

[Maddolis]

@TheReggaeMortis I'd say it's arrogant to think a small amount of human litter would have an effect on the incredible, incalculable vastness of space.

[Saerain]

@TheReggaeMortis Not the smartest thing Carlin has ever said.

[thewobblyorange1987]

00:30

[CullTheLivingFlower]

lol Jupitahhh

[taitfelix]

Procrastination level: QI.

[Leowen2]

Of course were bad, just look at how many creatures are no more because of humans.

[Etrajbe]

@Leowen2 We are not at all, most people are good, too bad we put the bad ones in charge.

[AceBobcat]

@Leowen2 What are of courses?

[tristbjorn]

@Leowen2 just look at how many creatures are not here because of other stuff. We're just another mass extinction event.

[weatherallc05]

those cards rubbing in the wrong answer, suck on that davies

[Cameroncars]

must... go... to bed...

[SpiritOfRadio1988]

what season and episode is this?

[RasputinTheWerewolf]

This and top gear.. only two shows worth paying the sodding license fee for.

Unless you like soaps and endless crime dramas (surprise surprise, the MURDERER did it) in which case you can french kiss an angle grinder.

[RarelyEvil]

Wait, wait... At 0:12 the oceans are less than 1/50th per cent of the earth mass (0.02%) then at 1:39 the mass of the land is 40 times greater than the mass of the oceans (2.5%)?

[UmiyuriPapaeyra]

@RarelyEvil 'Even on the apparently watery crust'. He's only talking about the surface of the planet.

[jukejuk]

@RarelyEvil its not just land and water

[jukejuk]

@RarelyEvil theres all that lava and molten rock

[tristbjorn]

@RarelyEvil Not all of earth is land. I don't think the description fits on magma and molten iron. The tectonic plates are only the upper crust of the earth.

[Falcrist]

Quite Interesting Fact:

Voyager 1 and 2 are the two fastest moving man made objects (outside of particle accelerators). Voyager 1 is traveling at over 38,500 mph (62,000 km/h).

Voyager 1 has now traveled over 14,000,000,000 miles.

[allyh2007]

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[DCdabest]

Well played, Carl Sagan, Well played....

[Eoaiyer21987rhei]

I 100% disagree with Alan on us not colonising other planets.

[TheJimmax]

@Eoaiyer21987rhei I have to say I agree with Alan, as a race we are just bad. We are destroying our own planet so fast we dont deserve the chance to destroy another one. We have a lot to learn, mabey we will grow up but I'm not sure we will make it.

[cskog001]

NickFromFulham has posted all episodes.

[thepopesmybitch]

@ChildrenOfTheDerp watch the country go to shit i believe weve seen this country go to shit he cant fuck it up more than it already has been

[Eamesam]

My three favourite men on one show, Fry, Bach and Shakespeare. Heaven. :)

[Eamesam]

OMG! Stephen Fry knows about Bach!!!

[charlotteBraillie]

@Eamesam

Do you know a lot of people who don't? FFS!

[Eamesam]

@charlotteBraillie No, I don't, but as Stephen Fry is my idol and I love Bach it was delightful to hear it.

[knurtel]

@Eamesam And he knows how to pronounce Bach. Many would say something like "bug".

[ElijahsImpact]

I love that at 0:48 Alan knows what's coming.

[seitenshow]

ᴸᴹᴬᴼ

[TaffTalk]

Clarkson for Prime Minister.

[spacecowboy5000]

Digitized music? No such thing in the 1970s. They attached to the plaque a vinyl record (gold coloured) along with instructions on how to build a record player. Who the hell researches Mr. Frye's facts?

[SleightOfHandFTW]

lol

[xJonnaax]

I understand English but it is going to fast to understand the jokes :(

[Shinganzer]

carl sagan is awesome :D

[paddywhacky]

I'm caught in some kind of QI black hole - I want to stop watching these clips but they're just so bloody funny!

[95Tezza95]

@paddywhacky it was 8pm when i began.... it's now 1am :'(

[funkyfranx]

@95Tezza95

Where are you from!?

[6267I7]

@Cybopath

..

[ICantBeFaged]

lool alan davis thinking hes clever because he outsmarted stephen

[dandomuir92]

'it's V bad' haha

[TheArtistOfKuroo]

Stephen Fry quoting Carl Sagan, as a nerd this makes me way too happy.

[1001000111]

...Dear BBC, you do know the majority of internet users use YouTube as a form of escape from actual TV? The fact that we're now bored of adverts and shoddy schedulling and would like to watch something in.... oh, I don't know, a click of a button?

Please tell me why I must sit through a 20-30 second advert before a 1:30 minute clip?

[mikethefoxhog]

@1001000111 Because something has to pay for YouTube as well. Why on Earth do you think the BBC has anything to do with YouTube's advertising?

[jazzx251]

@1001000111

YAWN - CHANGE YOUR BROWSER.

Get Firefox - then get the AdBlock add-on.

Should cure your problem and result in no more "Points of View" nonsense.

But there's also the advertless and superior BBC iPlayer, if you can be bothered to watch the show within a few weeks of airing.

[1001000111]

@jazzx251 : Do you care to read? Or do you just like pulling things out from your arsehole at any given chance?

I. DON'T. UNDERSTAND. WHY. I. MUST. SIT. THROUGH. AN. ADVERT. FOR. A. 1 MINUTE. CLIP.

FUCK. SAKE =)

[jazzx251]

@1001000111

You must sit through the adverts because you are a stupid prick who doesn't listen to advice.

[felixbuller]

:D They are genious!

[MrLittletomdj]

@felixbuller [Genius]!!!.. I don't normally police language or spelling over Youtube, but for you I made an ironic exception. =)

[notearsnoguilt]

One of my friends thinks this is called IQ..lets just say she wasn't please when i made her watch it on a Dave marathon

[cimnow4]

52 sec deevolution in action. were all so fucking awful we should cut our own throats and leave the critical thinkng to the whales and other apparently more worthy fauna. Malthusian logic trap, and fry just skipped on spluttering some shit about how stupid were 30 years ago. ha ha, so sad it's funny.

[IoEstasCedonta]

"Special connecting bus service from Cruithne."

[karmasxocean]

"I raise you Jupiter."

[sallygo1234]

why doesn't the comment box do paragraph formating? (ANNOYING!)

[MrGrinningManiac]

Alternate between 6 and 7 as fast as you can.

[ThnkHppyThghts]

We can't be that bad as species if we've got Alan Davies and Stephen Fry :3

[elastoman25]

ahhhh, my two favourite men in the world. fry, and clarkson.

<3

[TheSacredSound6]

I literally choked laughing when Alan said 'I raise you Jupiter!'

[thomdibble]

'i raise you jupiter'

[kinglynx]

i dont get the joke "showing off" thing

[askl23]

@kinglynx Bach was a Baroque composer who wrote some of the most intricate and complex music ever composed. He wasn't much of a show-off himself, ironically, as he once said of his job "It's just a matter of hitting the right key at the right time." Unless he was just being really ballsy.

[kinglynx]

@askl23 ah cheers :D 

[TechDawgJr]

Jupiter isn't actually that big it's mostly gas..

[boobabycluebaby2]

I raise you Jupiter!

[Melirune]

Alan Davies would have fit in well with Monty Python

[SuperElm]

@Melirune

Kind of.

[zerodorifto]

If I have to watch this dog shit that carpet one fucking more time I'm going to go eat Chinese food. WHY WOULD I WANT TO BUY A DOG TOY I DONT EVEN HAVE A DONG

[TheHeroInDisguise]

@zerodorifto You have no dong? Poor you =(

[Kittyrebeccalai]

I totally agree with Alan on the fact that humans shouldn't move to other planets. We haven't really treated this one well and should make more effort to help it.

[wouterjanhk]

@Kittyrebeccalai main reason why we aren't treating it well is because we're just to overpopulated IMO.

we use to much 'clean' water, our industries blast out millions of kg's of CO2 each year and we pollute our environment with our waste. Why? Because we always want more. If we'd split our population in half and we'd just send the other half to a even fertile planet as ours I think we'd solve a lot of problems..

[ScooperGetHype]

@wouterjanhk We'd solve our problems in population for about 3 generations and then we'd be back to the over-populated state we are now. The population of the world has multiplied many times since only the industrial revolution. Anyways, there wouldn't be anywhere near the amount of fuel needed to send 3.5 billion people to the moon let alone to a new planet. The sad truth is we're pretty much damned to grow ever in size to eventually fight over dwindled resources ending in nuclear extinction.

[madjack18]

Jeremy trying to show off reminds me of those people at social gatherings who think that butting into the conversation and stating a pointless, vague piece of trivia about the subject means that they're intelligent, when really all it does is stop the conversation dead in its tracks as people politely acknowledge that they've got a loudmouth amongst them

[Sidowse]

@madjack18 "Jeremy trying to show off reminds...." in this instance the problem is your social ineptitude. Jeremy didn't interrupt and added an interesting fact.

Don't be so bitter!

[patrickcorliss]

@Sidowse

Not only that but Jeremy created the opportunity for a joke. That's what the show is all about - the banter between guests.

[LaurenLovesTimmyTime]

i love alan davies!

[Daavoid]

lol ''Not that big compared to jupitahhhhhh"

[boobabycluebaby2]

"I raise you Jupiter!" Hee!

[bluemoonrising26]

"Don't start giving me Shakespeare's Sonnets". LOL.

[RCTPatriot75]

I never thought sending a primitive probe with a solid disc of what would be a valuable and useful substance for any advanced civilization, along with the location of our planet into deep space was a very good idea.

[lollypop36]

Alan Davies is so great!

[fc007]

I read this in Cosmos.

[kablamo9999]

Actually the music was on a golden record, not stored on chips. Funny comment by Sagan though

[Bartimayus]

The Autoplay quite doesnt work seeing as each video needs to be manually started :(

[ballisticblue]

lol I raise you Jupitaaaar

[872463051]

Could someone explain to me how only a 50th of 1% of the Earth's surface is covered in water? Because the earth's surface which is under the oceans is covered in water, and would seem to count as about 2/3 being covered by water.

[SubconsciousAlive]

@872463051 He means the earth in total. As in the big molten stuff in the middle too.

[872463051]

@SubconsciousAlive That's not earth, though. That's molten rock. Earth, at least how I was taught, is the crust. But I guess that does make sense... Thanks

[EpicPlaythroughs]

@872463051 The Earth is made up of the crust (The VERY thin outside layer of the Earth which we live on) the mantle the outer core and the liquid inner core.

[simongun]

@872463051 when they say "earth" they mean the planet Earth, not earth meaning soil or our planets crust, so it is this "earth" they are referring to when they compare water mass with earths mass.

[Lager200]

@872463051 70% of the SURFACE is water but not the whole Earth

[soylentgreenb]

@872463051 Mass of Earth: 5.97*10^21 tonnes, mass of Earth's hydrosphere 1.4 × 10^18 tonnes.

[jaydeybugz]

"dont give me shakespeare sonnets."

[NixorX]

Alan and Stephen... They're so different from eachother, but the chemistry between them is pure, comedy *gold*.

[FlippinBooks]

"I raise you Jupiter!" I would love to use that line the next time I play poker. ...Which will probably be never. LOL

[Hellotheres]

"v bad idea", i like it

[balist0]

Carl Sagan fuck yeah!

[damechastain]

I started watching QI clips for Stephen, and I still do, but I also can't stop watching and loving Alan Davies. So funny.

[RyePrice]

@damechastain

quite right. the show wouldn't be it's lovely amusing self without Alan.

[balist0]

Indeed, the two of them make an excellent pair of opposites.

[AvdG86]

@damechastain exactly the same here!

[Baurles]

@damechastain I can saythe same.

[k283cst]

@damechastain check out the tv series Whites, about him being a chef. So funny!

[Sabre809]

@damechastain I feel I'm genuinely learning more from this show, than I ever did at school.

[georginarussell]

Jupiterr lol!

[iamboredok]

phew, Jeremy Clarkson! :)

What season/series is this episode on?

[Vexillolgy]

Season 2, Episode 4.

[JackyRowe]

"Don't start with Shakespeare's sonnets!!"

[lifeisbeautiful13]

"Its not as big as jupiterrr" Lol.

[Velocityangel]

@lifeisbeautiful13 "I raise you Jupiterrr..."

[simplelife88393]

We are advanced.

[zeldamad]

just hit F5 and the advert goes away

[XPeiraX]

Dude =D

+1 Internet

[rickyrb101]

nice one!! thanks!!

[SatoTM3]

that would just be showing off haha! that one made me laugh in real xD

[UberMan5000]

Same here. XD

[InhumanRetard]

I would have said all the wet bits.

[UberMan5000]

BWEEW! BWEEW! BWEEW!

[robthesamplist]

why the fuk is there adert when i pay for lisnse

[IJHaile]

Because this is BBC Worldwide, which has no advertising restrictions. Also this is the internet, which your TV license does not account for.

[robthesamplist]

BBC should be 100% advertising free ffs

[aarandir]

It is, only when its international it isn't - only outside the UK is the BBC allowed to make money from advertising. This channel is BBC Worldwide which is why its advertising, something somewhere may have gone wrong and it may think you're from abroad and is giving you adverts.

[lmcgregoruk]

Cause the BBC is using YouTube which is owned by Google, and Google put the adverts there. The BBC should use their own sites to have clips etc on.

And just don't pay for the licence :)

[AernoutMJC]

I don't agree, since that would rule everyone who doesn't live in the UK out.

[lmcgregoruk]

But everyone outside the UK isn't FORCED to pay the licence fee, ok, they should have both, one on their own sites with no adverts for UK licence payers, and one by BBCWorldwide with adverts for uh Worldwide :)

[pwmty3]

ever heard of bbc iplayer?

[lmcgregoruk]

You mean the thing that only works for 7 days after the original broadcast and only for some of their programs.That cost £6 million of taxpayers money, yet wasn't available to mac/linux users till 2008?

[h3ll0xzx555]

you mean your opinion doesnt matter

[adamfawcett]

There's a 'slight' difference between Taxes and TV Licenses..

[pysgodfach]

No there isn't.

[myg0tpurepunk]

They don't have to pay for hosting this way...

[BoydleAON]

actually, as a student who just got information on bills to pay for accommodation. You have to have a TV license if you watch youtube or any other source of media on the internet. Its a right load of crap.

[z0mgrugbyreturns]

@IJHaile BBC Worldwide would be nothing without the money taken from the British population. They shouldn't run ads, on TV or otherwise. As a license payer I don't care if BBC Worldwide exists.

Where did the BBC get the money for their international service? From me and you. It's not fair for the BBC to create an international commercial arm with money taken from us, without sharing profit, however small.

Imagine the council took your tax and started commercial fucking ventures in Bolivia

[biggerprisc]

@z0mgrugbyreturns actually, the BBC makes more revenue from it's worldwide network than BBC UK itself. The majority of the income earned from international network, cable network, commercials and programs that international entertainment networks acquire from the BBC helps fuel the programming on BBC UK. It is really not the other way round, and it would help if you understand a little about licensing and program procurement. BBC UK cannot survive if it is from your taxpayer dollars.

[lemoncurry19]

"As a species, we're bad. And don't give me Shakespeare's Sonnets."

Lmao!!

[rockbloodyon]

Jeremy Hardy :D

[Jibbaribba]

it's actually about 0,4%

[Vault101Reject]

the monty python channel on youtube puts up parts of their shows for free,why don't the bbc do a few QI episodes? 2-4 minutes of QI,as amazing as it is,isn't as good as getting 10 minutes of monty python.

[Bartimayus]

different licencing options i think

[smudzi]

I raise you Jupiter!

[itszac95]

QI is an amazing show it always makes me laugh!

[amiablesnowman]

Oh Alan Davies... He always makes me giggle.

[STDBID]

Has no one considered that; Due to the larger mass of most of the other planets and therefore increased gravity, humans would not be able to inhabit them anyway. so we are confined to this earth we already inhabit. =[

[RonFuckingBurgundy]

We'd be ok on Mars. It would be pretty cool actually! It's got only about a 3rd of the gravity so we'd be leaping about all over the place!

[smudgethekat]

i suppose, but there's also about 94% CO2 and only 0.13% oxygen in its atmosphere among other things, so we'd fly around, bake and suffocate at the same time.

nice thought though

[eLIPHAS3333]

Mars is actually freezing cold. So we would infact freeze to death.

[blakesquakers]

Not at all. Planets like Venus, Mars and one of Jupiter's Moons are of similar gravity to the Earth and were all possible at certain stages to support life.

[tomwantshelp]

No chance of life of Venus- or not life as we know it. 300 degrees of heat!

Europa (sp?) have ice on its surface, so could support life.

[Djeezes]

haha carl sagan =D

[AnnieMouse60]

I think humans should spread off this planet before the next major extinction event happens.

[jacobmallinsonbird]

what a wise idea!

[c0nzo12]

well, pack your bags then. we of course, won't need oxygen or food or anything. just need to go live on mars, and we'll be fine!

[seasoner13]

good one.

[thepsiborg]

hes got the right idea, c0nzo12, If humans, as a species, intend to survive, then a self sufficient base on another planet doubles our chances.

[riteso]

stop trying to sound like stephen fry. ur not stephen fry

[ravenblues1990]

Good idea, we'll just go and live on the moon.

It's just as easy as that.

[LordMyoo]

"I raise you Jupiter!"

[meaning1]

There is nothing 'smug' about a manner of speech. What is smug is when somebody discerns and points out an error that the writer is obviously aware of, then proceeds to call them smug for talking a certain way - despite their own intention to degrade the writer's comment. Hypocrisy is the world's greatest plight.

[XxNoEl4EvErxX]

very well phrased meaning1

[suvabunny1992]

i want to marry Alan

[lulululuqtqt]

I want to marry Steven.

[TableWolfMusic]

@suvabunny and @lulululuqtqt,

What if, rather unfortunately, they were both cleft in twain? You could append each either's halves to the other's. One of you could have a Stan, and the other an Aleven? That sound like a reasonable compromise?