Asteroids - Sixty Symbols

[tmafkap]

Tears filled my eyes while a smile was forced on my face when I saw that great game Asteroids in this video. Made me remember how I beat all the grown up guys in those days, while I was only five or six...

[Scratchyjam]

@Akhiloth

Wait, is that supposed to be an advertisement?

[truthseeker010101]

I wondor if theres a solor system where there are 3 or 4 living planets passing each other and flying back and forth. that would be so fun to fly to another planet

[MrYungFatal]

"An asteroid is a big...chunk...of...rock."

No, shit, 'Sherlock'?! I would have never guessed if that 'genius' hadn't stated it. Thanks a lot, Captain Obvious!

[rorydathomas452]

so now im addicted to celestia =.=

[colwyn25]

like for asteroids 

[rorydathomas452]

What's the name of that program that the guy manipulating the view of the orbits of local asteroids is called..? Anyone?

[ikitat]

@rorydathomas452

Celestia 

[rorydathomas452]

@ikitat sweet thanks :D

[ssw1988]

@rorydathomas452 celestia?

[FlashFizz]

For every asteroid that can cause global catastrophe, there are hundreds that can cause regional catastrophe. We need to continuously scan the sky and be prepared to evacuate any region within days.

[pgomespwr95]

two people live in asteroids

[Direkin]

I thought Kuiper was pronounced more like "kai'per"...

[ifsey]

I have to say, these are pretty damn enjoyable.

[ribenawrath]

why is he ashamed to admit it!? asteroids rocks!

[counterclockwise123]

@ribenawrath thats exactly what i thought lol

[roidroid]

Asteroids are cool coz you can land on them (and potentially mine their ores), without needing much energy to takeoff again.

They are Pac-Man pills, waiting for the human race to gobble them up and produce giant space stations and spacecraft outof their materials.

omnomnomnomnom

[ribenawrath]

@roidroid you watch too many michael bay movies...

[roidroid]

@ribenawrath michael bay films SUCK

[ZodeakUrganomix]

Towards the end they finally got what I typed in the search bar!! "Asteroids review"

.....sorry very poor....

[gulllars]

I love how he says "I got to be quite good at it i'm ashamed to admit" with a light smile. That type of game is actually quite fun to play, and helps kids build coordination. I feel the graphics spoil a lot of games these days...

[eltotoX]

@gulllars Nah, graphics are cool but I think what spoils games these days is when developers start worrying more about graphics than gameplay.

[TheTwistedGypsy]

I think the asteroid belt is the result of a destroyed planet. Google "Stones Of Fire"...it was called Rahab, and was the seat of Lucifer's power before his downfall.

[cuntylishus]

@TheTwistedGypsy Idiot.

[TheTwistedGypsy]

@cuntylishus right......what did you stay up all night thinking up that witty response?......stop showing your emotional immaturity, and seek therapy for your anti-social personality disorders......stop lashing out at people, its not our fault life has marginalized you years ago....God forbid, you should be exposed to any children, as you are obviously a disturbed individual.....

[flangleelgnalf]

@TheTwistedGypsy and this is why its good to read back when i see something like this, just reading your comment and cuntylishus i assumed that cuntylishus said something stupid earlier...then i read your earlier comment. i totally agree with cuntylishus, that was a pretty idiotic idea.

[TheTwistedGypsy]

@TheTwistedGypsy well then google stones of fire. Or do you condemn all things before you research them. Or is it because it's religiuos writings that tell about it's destruction....but I bet you have jumped right on the Nubiru bullshit huh.....

[RazielKain]

Since you mentioned the Kuiper Belt would you make a video about the Oort Cloud?

[benignsage]

Celestia!!!!

[rusp]

love the reference to the game!

[yusukeshinyama]

Haha, nice reference to the video game!

[8DX]

Ashamed to admit ?? sigh.. BE PROUD, MAN, BE PROUD! People come and go - but highscores remain forever..

[Intervene]

Great video.

[liquidefeline]

Thumbs up for the video game asteroids!

[NAMLegolas]

Hah, I couldn't stop laughing when the Asteroids game showed up! Great video! thank you!

[steadfast1984]

how thick is the asteroid belt?

[BowlingFreak218]

@steadfast1984 20 feet

[pepsibookcat]

You ended with back in the day Asteroids! Yeah! NICE TOUCH! :)

[oberon1020]

why is it that almost everything orbits in a planar orbit?

[jeebersjumpincryst]

@oberon1020 yeah i wondered why that was too.... maybe has something to do with the suns magnetic field...? If only i could be bothered asking Dr. Google...

[angelxsid]

What is that app on his MBP?

[Lavabug]

@angelxsid

It looks like Celestia.

[mangoismycat]

I wonder how most of our solar system is flat, as in, on the "planetary plane" as Boris said

[bliss314159]

"Fortunately space is a very big place" :D

[1RadicalOne]

Celestia!! :D

[McPrfctday]

Old Skool Asteroids!! I dropped plenty of old 10p pieces in that one! (btw That (Scandinavian?) professor always makes me think of Douglas from The IT Crowd). I wander if that asteroid belt was once a planet? or all the asteroids elsewhere have been incorporated into existing planets.

[puretroubleman]

you forgot an important question, what are asteroids made of?

[Alastor308]

@puretroubleman Rock.

[puretroubleman]

@Alastor308 not very helpful.

[PennyDorkis]

@puretroubleman Hmmm, I suppose you want an answer more like silicon dioxide rocks. MMMMM... look up the chemical composition of asteriods. I am not sure they are Earthlike silicon dioxide rocks, might be iron, I dunno.

[gayglue]

@PennyDorkis I think they're like iron and nickel

[PennyDorkis]

@gayglue Yeah, that's what I found, iron and nickel, magnesium and silicates, and some contain a bit of water and some carbon compounds

[clearmenser]

@Alastor308 ROLL!

[hydrox24]

For those who are interested, The software being used on the laptop is free and called "Celestia". but I think it's only for Mac

[McPrfctday]

@hydrox24 I've got it on PC... but not used it - I only looked at the moon when I forst Dloaded it. So yep, it's for PC too :)

[AguzSuiCaedere]

Asteroids! Phil Plait would be proud.

[Doomside]

6:27 Nothing to be ashamed about :)

[Roddyoneeye]

If they hit, they hit. I'm more interested in getting there and mining them.

[Digeridude]

I thought asteroids were those things you get when you poo too hard.

[Jigiligy]

I wish an asteroid with aliens came to earth, but did no damage. I wanna see a real alien

[Akhiloth]

1:11 Yay, he's using Celestia! I use that program too for all my astronomy needs.

[hornetpalooza]

@Akhiloth It's a nice piece of software. Love taking long trips in it. :)

[Jigiligy]

Could there be valuable minerals on these asteroids like gems and diamonds and all that can be exploited?

[bedeone]

@Jigiligy The cost to send probes to these asteroids would be much greater than the gems one could get out of them. That, and I doubt there would be any.

[FmMan33]

My mum is an asteroid.

[noobenstein]

When we go into space.... asteroids will be some of the first useful objects used by hunanity.

Either finding rare mineral rich asteroids and crashing them into the ocean for later collection...

Or simple building a base inside an asteroid. Mining out it's core and building your ship inside of an asteroid.

It makes perfect sense.

[ALAPINO]

Haha--- I grew up addicted to Asteroids! HAHAHA!

[flakemusic86]

Since I always got confused until I looked it up and this didn't come up in the video:

"Asteroids" are solid, small objects mostly consisting of rocky materials and/or metals.

"Comets" are more loose then Asteroids, most of their mass is ice.

Every small object that enters earth's atmosphere is called a "Meteoroid".

[sixtysymbols]

@flakemusic86 always great when people watch a video then go look up stuff themselves... that's kind of the point!

We can't and wouldn't want to cover EVERYTHING in a YouTube video!

[demios99]

@sixtysymbols

I agree ! It's always better to spur interest than give off everything on a platter. The latter just makes people used to not doing anything by themselves. Yours are some of the greatest channels on YT, ever :) Keep up the great work !

[MrSpitfireUK]

@flakemusic86 One thing I like to do when something like this comes up is assert that 'Earth has never been hit by a meteor', and watch the confusion unfold. As you now probably know, if it hits the Earth it is a meteorite, not a meteor. ;)

[smbhax]

@flakemusic86 It's trickier than that too because sorta technically an asteroid is only an asteroid if it's orbiting the Sun in the inner solar system. Other things in other parts of the solar system might be called centaurs, dwarf planets, minor planets, SSSBs, TNOs, KBOs, SDOs, planetoids, planetules, planetesimals, moons, asteroid moons, moonlets, Greeks, Trojans, rocks, boulders. =p

[okmasko]

@flakemusic86 I have to corret you a little bit.

Every small object that entered the Earth's atmosphere is called "Meteor" and when a meteor hits the ground it becomes a meteorite. :-)

It is funny that one piece of rock can be named by three different "names" within a few minutes :-D

[harvellt]

@flakemusic86 Also, it may be possible that some "Asteroids" that have spent the entirety of there lives beyond the "frost line" could become active "Comets" if their orbits were petered to an orbit passing closer to the sun.

Also the Jovial Trojan asteroids are obviously the coolest asteroids in the solar system!!!!!

[DeltaPhi79]

So this means that our asteroid hitting the Earth on 2012 is most likely not going to happen. IN YOUR FACE DOOMSDAY THEORISTS.

[sciencoking]

@DeltaPhi79 no, of course he is part of the conspiracy which is hiding the asteroid (???) which is actually a planet about the size of Jupiter (!!!) and located directly behind the sun, which is why we can't see it. Yep. And Michael Jackson was one of them. And Bush too. Oh and Hitler too.

[Infloresence]

@sciencoking The Hitler Asteroid.... tell me more.....lol

[Spetsop]

@sciencoking

I've heard both sides: we can and we can't see that planet! So which one is it? If it's behind the Sun then it should still be visible at some time b/c Earth moves around the Sun... so, unless that planet can speed up and slow down to precisely match the angular motion of the Earth around the Sun, so that the Sun ALWAYS blocks it, we should be able to see it. AND if that was th case, then it also has an orbit around the Sun similar to Earth and thus no chance of collision!

[StaupEimer]

@Spetsop Also we could detect the gravitational and magnetic fields.

[Zeldakitteh]

@DeltaPhi79 I thought that was a planet.

What are the chances of a rogue planet hitting Earth, again?

[DeltaPhi79]

@Zeldakitteh What are the chances of a planet even going rogue?

[Jigiligy]

@DeltaPhi79 If the asterroir does come it will be IN YOUR FACE ....literally

[temporaldisplacement]

I 'rawk' at asteroids. (but I'm better at 'thrust' and 'gravitation' .....later rip-offs)

[RectumPilum]

But are all the planet's and asteroid's orbit allmost the same angle?

[javonoUTube]

Maybe a different numbering system should be used for indexing,Hex or base 66.

[theleftorium]

great vid :)