It's funny that they're having so much trouble accepting that a bullet dropped from your hand and fired from a gun will hit the ground at the same time, when they've ALREADY gone over Gallieo's discovery that all objects fall at the same speed.
@GoblinXXX Actually, in theory the bullet from the gun would very definitely hit later. It is fired level (yes?) which means the line of its momentum is tangential to the globe of Earth, which means that if you extend that line straight to the distance where gravity brings the bullet curving down to Earth's surface beneath that straight line, the curvature will have caused that surface to be further from the tangent line than is the surface at your feet. (ie kind or micro orbit)
@GoblinXXX Of course in actuallity the Earth is not a globe and the local variations over the short distance travelled by a bullet are far greater than the curvature, usually. But theoretically, theoretically the fired bullet would hit Earth later.
PLease help I need to find the name of a guest on QI... He is from yorkshire he has boxed with the dalai lama tryed to climb mount everest but had to turn back to recuse someone... I can not think of his name...
when firing straight they'd hit the ground at the same time, but if you pitched the barrel of the gun then no! the bullet in hand will hit the ground first
At least in America, much of the red juices in a steak actually is red food coloring. It is standard practice to put food coloring in beef to make it look reder.
@MrZhabadasher No, no it's not. They do use special lighting some times and package it in carbon monoxide which makes it turn a bit more red and stay red longer.
My impression was based on having been in other countries, where the beef there was not nearly as red, and after googling it, I read something about red dye being used.
However, it seems its actually a type of preservative used that incidentally keeps the meat red longer.
fcs okstate edu/cnep/ask/answers/dye htm [make sure to add the dots where the spaces are.
@thewirelessdrool All objects fall the same speed, regardless of size. The only thing that makes them fall differently for us is air resistance. If you drop things on the moon where there is no resistance, all objects will hit the floor at the same time, regardless of shape, size and mass. He was proving Galileo's theory correct.
for the time to be 42 minutes and 12 seconds, and even to reach the other side at all you would have to completely eliminate air resistance, friction, and any other force that affect your speed or acceleration in any way
Oh dear just finished the video. I can't believe Stephen actually stuck to saying that alcohol's effect of the body is what makes people live longer. I think it's the most stupid thing I've ever heard him say. Alan is exactly right. It's because the more social people are happier. The UK is one of the most depressed countries in Europe, it's OBVIOUS that's why. Alcohol is a *poison* Stephen. Why would you even suggest something so stupid?
@naryanr When you say it's "obvious", do you mean you either have done or have access to research which reaches that conclusion? Or do you actually mean "it seems to me OBVIOUS although I have not done any research on the matter beyond what my common sense suggests!"? Because I can't imagine the latter approach would last long. I seem to recall the news that a small amount of red wine, for example, is good for your health.
@Th1sWasATriumph I've read hundreds of papers on this and while there have been proven to be links, the actual reason why is almost ALWAYS some kind of vague push in the direction that social people are happier (which seems fair enough) and then thrown in at the end is a "and the alcohol probably helps too" line which drives me mental in what are supposed to be scientific studies. Everyone seems to "recall" a line like that somewhere.
A bullet shot into the air will not kill you if it hits you on the top of the head coming back down. It's terminal velocity is far from lethal. If I had a nickle every time QI was wrong... :\
@SpazzyMcGee1337 A few people have died from falling bullets. A dude in America leaving his house with his girlfriend. The bullet was fired into the air at a New Year's party nearly a mile away.
At least, that story was on the program "1000 Ways to Die". That was through the shoulder near the clavicle. He died instantly. So if one hit you in the head you *could* die.
There are statistics from the US of the mortality rate from bullets striking people after being fired into the air. Meh. {XD
1) If QI is wrong this often I can't imagine how often "1000 Ways to Die" is wrong.
2) If the bullet traveled a mile then it wasn't fired directly into the air & high caliber guns have effective ranges over a mile.
I will give you that many people die from "falling" bullets, but my physicist intuition is telling me that bullets dropped from extreme heights wouldn't be lethal (unless landing in the eye of someone looking up). It would need to be shot at an angle to be lethal.
@SpazzyMcGee1337 I replied to, "A bullet shot into the air will not kill you if it hits you on the top of the head coming back down."
Not, "... dropped from an extreme height..." lol That's different. But not much. Fire a gun in the air, somebody could get hurt, and there are fatalities. {=D
Obviously the trajectory of the bullet plays a role in the overall speed and velocity it can reach on the way down. I've read 300 mph since I commented. Doesn't sound healthy to me. =)
@UnitedKingdomify But this is just my educated intuition speaking. I may be wrong. After all, physicists like imaging everything as spheres. Maybe if the bullet doesn't tumble it would be aerodynamic enough to significantly exceed the terminal velocity of a sphere of similar density and mass.
@SpazzyMcGee1337 Net force = Drag - Weight. My friend, the chair of Astrophysics at the University Ive left due to disability, thinks of things as spheres when spheres are what is being studied, they also study oblate spheroids, Earth being one, they study 4 dimensional shapes you can't see, and of course all sorts of organic items. Not sure where Physics=Spheres comes from. It is about drag coefficients in this instance, and a bullet is a ballistic missile.
@SpazzyMcGee1337 Ok, reading this explains a lot. All falling bodies descend at the same rate, unless outside influence is introduced. Its as basic as science gets. You may be thinking of inertia, maybe not, but you'd be closer if you were. You are missing the POINT. Say I have a sharpened pencil, and jab it in your arm at 60mph, next i hold a golf ball, and strike you at the same speed, both would hurt badly, but which would penetrate? Concentrated Inertial force is the killer.
@painxtreme I later discovered Mythbusters actually tested. They apparently found that the bullet is nonlethal if the it is shot up PERFECTLY into the air because it it begins tumbling downward once it hits the apex. If there is even a slight angle to the shot from the vertical then the bullet maintains its spin and remains highly aerodynamic, allowing it to maintain a deadly velocity right up until it returns to the Earth's surface.
@SpazzyMcGee1337 Yeah, Im pretty dubious on Mythbusters vs the Scientific Process. While I do not doubt the tumbling (Many Hi-power rounds are designed to tumble downrange so they do more damage than a thru and thru), that is not the case with all rounds. That is all determined by mass distribution. Now, in real world, out of 10 shots, do you think you could get even 1 at 90º? Wind also factors heavy into this, especially at altitude. Either way, Im not doing it.
@UnitedKingdomify I believe it was 3 people, just this last spring that were killed at a Turkish wedding, due to firing rifles in the air. Now, as for physics lessons on v. Do you agree hailstones the size of tennis balls could kill you? They have a lot of mass in a fair sized area, whereas lead has a lot of mass in a small space. Net force = Drag - Weight. Its focus of mass at v you've overlooked, the hailstone has more drag per its weight, the bullet is shaped to defeat drag
@painxtreme Apologies...that was meant for Spazzy, but it holds no matter. People have been killed by pitched or hit baseballs, which exceed v in some cases, some not. I for one would not be willing to stand under a mile long pipe, as someone drops a copper jacketed 30.06 bullet down its length...not much drag at all. YES...however, I think many people mistakenly think falling bullets are still traveling at muzzle velocity.
I had a friend try to catch me out with "what hevier a truck carrying a ton of lead or a tone of feathers" I said "the truck carrying a ton of lead" because the truck's gotta weigh a bit and the feathers didn't get a truck, left the explenation out for a bit and watched him get quite irate
@Dawnphyre Try this one, ask him which is heavier, a ton of gold or a ton, or a ton of coal. If he is really sharp, he will know, but Im betting you can get this one over on him. The answer is a ton of gold, because gold is weighed in Troy weight, which is heavier than standard weight, yet still uses the same terms, e.g. Troy Ounce, and so on. Dirty ol' coal is just by the ton. Its a technicality, but both measures use the same terms ounces, pounds, tonnes.
I believe that bullet saying has a slight problem with the theory on it's drop rates. You would need to fire along a 0 slope for said bullet to do such a thing I think. If there is any positive level slope then the bullet will actually raise a bit defying gravity before getting pulled back down and thus out lasting the bullet in your hand dropping depending on it's rate of speed and degree of drop. It will also hit the ground faster if it has a negative slow. The shot would hit ground first then
Hmm for a "Gravity Train" you would think that London to Spain wouldn't work at all... In fact I would think that it would require something on the other hemisphere of earth from your specific location. As opposed to the Longitude lines running north/south and Latitude running east/west. Still using London as starting, count "30°" out and past would be to where the tunnel would work. Cause I don't really think a tunnel to London to say Paris would be enough curvature to 'fall' for the distance
If someone dug a tunnel from the north pole, to the south pole, and someone dug a tunnel through the west, to the east, and both jumped in, would one man end up drop kicking the other in the back, or stomach as they reached the intersection since they were falling from different sides of the earth?
@Sabre809 Nope. The earth isn't perfectly spherical; besides normal surface irregularities and the differing thickness of the crust, it bulges a bit at the equator.
@the2crowrox Thanks at least I'll know that instead of hitting each other, they might smash against one of the bulging different spots inside the earth.
QI is a goldmine for people who wants to learn a little bit of knowledge everyday. It's like a supplement for the mind and you get a good dose of humor as a bonus. Marvelous, just simply marvelous! I wish my other colleagues watch this. It could help them become a little bit civilized and not act like twats all the time.
@Whoami691 Yeah, I wish my colleagues watch it. Talking about QI is interesting and there are lots of things to talk about. Unfortunately, they don't know about it and the jokes are too thick for them to comprehend. It's sad that I'm the only one to understand it.
Given the curvature of the earth, introducing horizontal movement by firing the gun rather than dropping the bullet means that the landing place of the fired bullet must be slightly lower than that of the dropped bullet on the plane the bullet was fired, even if only infinitessimally so. I'd like to suggest the dropped bullet lands first!
And I'm kind of stunned that they're so surprised by the bullet drop thing at the end - that seems like it's taught right alongside the hammer and the feather.
Actually the earth isn't perfectly round, it's wider at the equator so it would take a little longer to go from one end to another when you are standing on the equator and less when you are standing on one of the poles
@alikazi I wouldn't say that. At the equator, you'd accelerate more and go faster towards the centre of the earth, then decelerate more afterwards than at the poles.
You could argue about you'd travel longer if your destination was at the top of a mountain, versus the destination being at sea level, if your starting point was at the same level.
Is it a bad sign that while I was shopping today all i could think about was how my cart (trolley for all you across the pond) had a bad wheel and kept veering to the left?
Gravity accelerates things at the same rate, but that doesn't mean they fall at the same rate. It is only true that things fall the same in a vacuum. In air, objects of different mass will fall at different rates.
@Metatality No I disagree with you in just one point, I think based on the equations, the mass does not affect the rate. What will affect the rate is the air resistance. 2 objects with the same mass will fall at the same rate only if the air resistance they are facing is the same. Research on Maximum Velocity.
@panzerschreck89 Agreed, I just didn't feel like explaining all that. But I think mass has some effect on the impulse working against air resistance doesn't it?
@panzerschreck89 simplest way of describing this is that if the only force acting on two objects is gravity (due to having mass) they will accelerate at the rate of 'acceleration due to gravity'. If you dropped a feather and a stone, you may observe that the feather takes longer to touch the ground, but this is because more than gravity is acting on the two objects (drag, influenced by the speed and cross sectional area). lift, (influenced by geometry of the feather with respect to the flow)
@100percentgiver lift would actually make the feather move in a direction not vertically up so wouldn't directly influence the rate at which it vertically travels (if the air is still) but causing the feather to move might induce unsteady drag effects.
Kenneth Williams' distinctive tone aside, Fry's brief rendition was so dead-on that I knew within a microsecond who he and Davies were talking about without actually knowing the subject by name or work. His talent continually surprises.
@nikanj Roughly; ideally the trajectory of the bullet would be a symmetrical parabola. It comes down at the same speed as going up, and therefore the same time in transit.
But if you're turning left,and you turn the handlebars right, dont you have to turn the handlebars left before turning it right before turning it left, thus creating a paradox?
If ther ewere some sort of contraption you'd get in to use the tunnel, and you'd jump a little, or very hard, and make the lift go faster than you, then you'd hit the ceiling to reverse the effect, and by the time you'd end up in moscow you'd have been severely beaten for the past 42 minutes by the lift.
GAARR i hate the BMI scale, I'm 6'2" of big build and i couldn't join the air force because I was classed as obese despite being able to smash the fitness test!
Myth busters tried this once and it didnt do any damage at freefall. they did it with a coin from a hige building but i imagine the terminal velocity doesnt change. mind you, bullets are pointed so the impact would be more damaging
@Doddsy The bullets tend to do more damage if they manage to maintain a ballistic trajectory, as they stated in the episode. They never actually tested that part, but that's understandable; it would be both difficult and dangerous to test.
reply to me: How did all of you (Americans) hear of this show? It's fantastic... I know everyone says it, but David Mitchell is seriously the mad shit!
@spikedog85 That's a good question. . . I probably heard about it on TV Tropes at some point. I didn't start watching until my mom started watching Never Mind The Buzzcocks, though, and I started getting into quiz shows. America doesn't really have any quiz shows except Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, but that's on the radio, not on tv.
@spikedog85 I came to this show because of Stephen Fry. I find him fascinating and only recently discovered he hosted a show (Wikipedia), and voila. Can I ask a question.... Do folks in the UK actually find Rich Hall humorous? I mean, I know personal and all that, but is he a successful comedian? Because I find him always to be the most boring panelist.
@guhrrlno Rich Hall, I find to be hysterical. He's been successful, but he isn't the most known, even though he was the inspiration for Moe in The Simpsons. If you watch his standup, it can be pretty good, but I agree somewhat that as a panelist, he isn't the absolute best.
@chocchipfox I strongly reccommend you watch Fry and Laurie reunited, it's on this bloody website somewhere unless it's been taken down, but seriously it's brilliant
When Stephen shot a .44 magnum in America, the range master there said that gunslingers would keep a $20 bill in the empty 6th cylinder. This was so that if they lost a duel/firefight and died then that $20 would pay for their funeral cost.
The trick is you get less Americans on QI videos than you would on most videos, and those of us that you do get must pass a rigorous intelligence test of liking other videos with educational content, watching Mr. Fry put the Christians in their place (which oddly enough is the back of a closet with a cock in their mouth/ass) and not subscribing to or watching more than once any video/channel with the phrase 'creation science' taken seriously within it.
Only after passing aforementioned tests do the UTOOB gods deem us worthy of watching QI - Christmas, Christianity and Mithras, which for the few of us curious enough to watch the related videos acts as a sort of "Gateway Drug" into the dangerous territory of knowing something that wasn't written down several thousand years ago by superstitious genocidal and barbaric Hebraic tribes based on stories their illiterate granddads heard from their illiterate granddads and ...
... oh fuck it all my countrymen(women) are by and large stupid and don't watch this sort of program so you are saved from their stupid comments mostly by the fact that they are simply too stupid to comment,because after all isn't the best strategy for dealing with something new and scary to BACK away slowly until you can safely run for cover?
Here is an interesting fact. If you want to be in every country on Earth at once, where would you have to go? The answer is to the center of the Earth. That's because, by international law, the property stretches from the surface of the Earth to the center of the Earth. So to dig to China from the other side of the Earth, you would just have to dig half way and not all the way through.
/watch?v=2tiOmp1BE8Y Mythbuster on that bullet sropping Stephen talked about.. (part2 on the side)
prts2 1 day ago
6:00 - Recent studies suggests that the moon may have a molten core
nmkloster 1 week ago
It's funny that they're having so much trouble accepting that a bullet dropped from your hand and fired from a gun will hit the ground at the same time, when they've ALREADY gone over Gallieo's discovery that all objects fall at the same speed.
GoblinXXX 1 week ago
@GoblinXXX Actually, in theory the bullet from the gun would very definitely hit later. It is fired level (yes?) which means the line of its momentum is tangential to the globe of Earth, which means that if you extend that line straight to the distance where gravity brings the bullet curving down to Earth's surface beneath that straight line, the curvature will have caused that surface to be further from the tangent line than is the surface at your feet. (ie kind or micro orbit)
TOMHYLE88 1 week ago
@GoblinXXX Of course in actuallity the Earth is not a globe and the local variations over the short distance travelled by a bullet are far greater than the curvature, usually. But theoretically, theoretically the fired bullet would hit Earth later.
TOMHYLE88 1 week ago
@TOMHYLE88 Yes, but we're assuming a flat surface for the sake of the very short distances most bullets travel.
At those distances, the difference is negligible...
bareakon 1 week ago
"Wee! Yee-hi! Yee-hi!" I'm going to say that now.
EvelynneSaysHi 2 weeks ago
(singing) Sittin' downtown in a whale weigh station, one toke over the line...
ELuhn 2 weeks ago
Bill Bailey and Alan Davies sitting next to one another may be the most awesome thing ever.
taylck 3 weeks ago in playlist QI XL - G 3
That is a lovely suit that Steven is wearing.
ic3l3rd2 3 weeks ago
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PLease help I need to find the name of a guest on QI... He is from yorkshire he has boxed with the dalai lama tryed to climb mount everest but had to turn back to recuse someone... I can not think of his name...
freewilly2fly 3 weeks ago
28:00 I love it when they reference jokes from earlier in the episode. ^^
Yora21 3 weeks ago in playlist QI XL - G
Barry Humphries nice one QI been waiting for some aussies to come on here
tjwhalan 3 weeks ago
"They're not shredded like Steve Buscemi in Fargo?"
"No but they do look at you like you owe them an explanation."
Damar158 3 weeks ago
Bill Bailey was Alan's best man :)
Rubystein 1 month ago 3
I just cringed with all the gravity questions...
Nickidemic 1 month ago
Norm MacDonald would be hilarious on this show
snappycatchy 1 month ago 2
when firing straight they'd hit the ground at the same time, but if you pitched the barrel of the gun then no! the bullet in hand will hit the ground first
Mohrkai 1 month ago
At least in America, much of the red juices in a steak actually is red food coloring. It is standard practice to put food coloring in beef to make it look reder.
MrZhabadasher 1 month ago
@MrZhabadasher No, no it's not. They do use special lighting some times and package it in carbon monoxide which makes it turn a bit more red and stay red longer.
Dionysus187 1 month ago
@MrZhabadasher Source please?
sorkle 4 weeks ago
@sorkle From what Ive read, it seems I was wrong.
My impression was based on having been in other countries, where the beef there was not nearly as red, and after googling it, I read something about red dye being used.
However, it seems its actually a type of preservative used that incidentally keeps the meat red longer.
fcs okstate edu/cnep/ask/answers/dye htm [make sure to add the dots where the spaces are.
MrZhabadasher 4 weeks ago
didn't get the part with the feather and the hammer.. please enlighten me
thewirelessdrool 1 month ago
@thewirelessdrool All objects fall the same speed, regardless of size. The only thing that makes them fall differently for us is air resistance. If you drop things on the moon where there is no resistance, all objects will hit the floor at the same time, regardless of shape, size and mass. He was proving Galileo's theory correct.
SaintLouisX 1 month ago
for the time to be 42 minutes and 12 seconds, and even to reach the other side at all you would have to completely eliminate air resistance, friction, and any other force that affect your speed or acceleration in any way
djflegg 1 month ago
haha at alan 2:50 ish itching his back with his pen as Bill speaks!
Georgeous129 1 month ago
Wouldn't a mass dropped toward the center of the Earth stop in the middle where gravity should have equal pull in each direction?
AingealDubh 1 month ago
@AingealDubh Because it is already going at such great speed it would pass the point where both pulls were equal before it could stop.
TheErrantWilder 1 month ago
Earth Sandwich! Zefrank! Haha awesome!
flyboy1945 1 month ago
oh its malnourished
bs4e 1 month ago
we have those swoosh tube rooms things for tubes at work
bs4e 1 month ago
Hah! I'm proud to say that I'm American AND I know that horizontal velocity doesn't affect vertical velocity!
ameliamlu12 2 months ago
Barry Humphries: "Losing is the new winning on this show."
If he thought this up, why did he look depressed at the end when he found out he was in last place? By his rules, HE WON.
ReeceDogg100 2 months ago
Q: How big does a cloud need to be to dispense my recommended daily allowance of wine?
A: 12 Stone 4Ounces.
ReeceDogg100 2 months ago
did Rich crack a smile at the end? I think he did.
TheTelepathicKid 2 months ago
Rich Hall, restoring America's credibility one sentence at a time.
scaffairl 2 months ago 108
@scaffairl
Well said.
KonijNx2 1 month ago 19
@KonijNx2 agreed
TheSevanthNinja 1 month ago
when he talks about the earth sandwich it was actually a contest from zefrank. (to those who know who he is)
xpericfilms 2 months ago
Oh dear just finished the video. I can't believe Stephen actually stuck to saying that alcohol's effect of the body is what makes people live longer. I think it's the most stupid thing I've ever heard him say. Alan is exactly right. It's because the more social people are happier. The UK is one of the most depressed countries in Europe, it's OBVIOUS that's why. Alcohol is a *poison* Stephen. Why would you even suggest something so stupid?
naryanr 2 months ago
@naryanr When you say it's "obvious", do you mean you either have done or have access to research which reaches that conclusion? Or do you actually mean "it seems to me OBVIOUS although I have not done any research on the matter beyond what my common sense suggests!"? Because I can't imagine the latter approach would last long. I seem to recall the news that a small amount of red wine, for example, is good for your health.
Th1sWasATriumph 2 months ago
@Th1sWasATriumph I've read hundreds of papers on this and while there have been proven to be links, the actual reason why is almost ALWAYS some kind of vague push in the direction that social people are happier (which seems fair enough) and then thrown in at the end is a "and the alcohol probably helps too" line which drives me mental in what are supposed to be scientific studies. Everyone seems to "recall" a line like that somewhere.
bryanmarcel. com /red-wine-health-heart#
naryanr 2 months ago
@naryanr Because he beliefs some things he is told on face value.
Darvinisti 1 month ago
A bullet shot into the air will not kill you if it hits you on the top of the head coming back down. It's terminal velocity is far from lethal. If I had a nickle every time QI was wrong... :\
SpazzyMcGee1337 2 months ago
@SpazzyMcGee1337 You would perhaps have a couple of dollars. However, you are the one wrong here.
CagelessBirds 2 months ago
@CagelessBirds How am I wrong? The terminal velocity of a bullet is not lethal.
SpazzyMcGee1337 2 months ago
@SpazzyMcGee1337 A few people have died from falling bullets. A dude in America leaving his house with his girlfriend. The bullet was fired into the air at a New Year's party nearly a mile away.
At least, that story was on the program "1000 Ways to Die". That was through the shoulder near the clavicle. He died instantly. So if one hit you in the head you *could* die.
There are statistics from the US of the mortality rate from bullets striking people after being fired into the air. Meh. {XD
UnitedKingdomify 2 months ago
@UnitedKingdomify
1) If QI is wrong this often I can't imagine how often "1000 Ways to Die" is wrong.
2) If the bullet traveled a mile then it wasn't fired directly into the air & high caliber guns have effective ranges over a mile.
I will give you that many people die from "falling" bullets, but my physicist intuition is telling me that bullets dropped from extreme heights wouldn't be lethal (unless landing in the eye of someone looking up). It would need to be shot at an angle to be lethal.
SpazzyMcGee1337 2 months ago
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@SpazzyMcGee1337 I replied to, "A bullet shot into the air will not kill you if it hits you on the top of the head coming back down."
Not, "... dropped from an extreme height..." lol That's different. But not much. Fire a gun in the air, somebody could get hurt, and there are fatalities. {=D
Obviously the trajectory of the bullet plays a role in the overall speed and velocity it can reach on the way down. I've read 300 mph since I commented. Doesn't sound healthy to me. =)
UnitedKingdomify 2 months ago
@SpazzyMcGee1337 But yeah, I cringed when I mentioned 1000 Ways to Die. lol But it was entertaining. {XD
UnitedKingdomify 2 months ago
@UnitedKingdomify But this is just my educated intuition speaking. I may be wrong. After all, physicists like imaging everything as spheres. Maybe if the bullet doesn't tumble it would be aerodynamic enough to significantly exceed the terminal velocity of a sphere of similar density and mass.
SpazzyMcGee1337 2 months ago
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@SpazzyMcGee1337 Net force = Drag - Weight. My friend, the chair of Astrophysics at the University Ive left due to disability, thinks of things as spheres when spheres are what is being studied, they also study oblate spheroids, Earth being one, they study 4 dimensional shapes you can't see, and of course all sorts of organic items. Not sure where Physics=Spheres comes from. It is about drag coefficients in this instance, and a bullet is a ballistic missile.
painxtreme 2 months ago
@SpazzyMcGee1337 Ok, reading this explains a lot. All falling bodies descend at the same rate, unless outside influence is introduced. Its as basic as science gets. You may be thinking of inertia, maybe not, but you'd be closer if you were. You are missing the POINT. Say I have a sharpened pencil, and jab it in your arm at 60mph, next i hold a golf ball, and strike you at the same speed, both would hurt badly, but which would penetrate? Concentrated Inertial force is the killer.
painxtreme 2 months ago
@painxtreme I later discovered Mythbusters actually tested. They apparently found that the bullet is nonlethal if the it is shot up PERFECTLY into the air because it it begins tumbling downward once it hits the apex. If there is even a slight angle to the shot from the vertical then the bullet maintains its spin and remains highly aerodynamic, allowing it to maintain a deadly velocity right up until it returns to the Earth's surface.
SpazzyMcGee1337 2 months ago
@SpazzyMcGee1337 Yeah, Im pretty dubious on Mythbusters vs the Scientific Process. While I do not doubt the tumbling (Many Hi-power rounds are designed to tumble downrange so they do more damage than a thru and thru), that is not the case with all rounds. That is all determined by mass distribution. Now, in real world, out of 10 shots, do you think you could get even 1 at 90º? Wind also factors heavy into this, especially at altitude. Either way, Im not doing it.
painxtreme 2 months ago
@UnitedKingdomify I believe it was 3 people, just this last spring that were killed at a Turkish wedding, due to firing rifles in the air. Now, as for physics lessons on v. Do you agree hailstones the size of tennis balls could kill you? They have a lot of mass in a fair sized area, whereas lead has a lot of mass in a small space. Net force = Drag - Weight. Its focus of mass at v you've overlooked, the hailstone has more drag per its weight, the bullet is shaped to defeat drag
painxtreme 2 months ago
@painxtreme Apologies...that was meant for Spazzy, but it holds no matter. People have been killed by pitched or hit baseballs, which exceed v in some cases, some not. I for one would not be willing to stand under a mile long pipe, as someone drops a copper jacketed 30.06 bullet down its length...not much drag at all. YES...however, I think many people mistakenly think falling bullets are still traveling at muzzle velocity.
painxtreme 2 months ago
I had a friend try to catch me out with "what hevier a truck carrying a ton of lead or a tone of feathers" I said "the truck carrying a ton of lead" because the truck's gotta weigh a bit and the feathers didn't get a truck, left the explenation out for a bit and watched him get quite irate
Dawnphyre 2 months ago in playlist qi 2011-08
@Dawnphyre Try this one, ask him which is heavier, a ton of gold or a ton, or a ton of coal. If he is really sharp, he will know, but Im betting you can get this one over on him. The answer is a ton of gold, because gold is weighed in Troy weight, which is heavier than standard weight, yet still uses the same terms, e.g. Troy Ounce, and so on. Dirty ol' coal is just by the ton. Its a technicality, but both measures use the same terms ounces, pounds, tonnes.
painxtreme 2 months ago
I cant describe how nice it is to see a gay person on you tube without brain dead comments.
carlstss 2 months ago
MythBusters did the bullet drop vs fire one.
gyrrakavian 2 months ago
Is that the actor who does Dame Edna?
albertusj 2 months ago
@albertusj yep, this is genuinely the first time I've ever seen him not wearing a dress
TheOmegajuice 2 months ago
@albertusj yeah but he does a few others too, name escapes me at the moment
Dawnphyre 2 months ago in playlist qi 2011-08
Got to love the childlike happiness with which alan says plus three
lulpastoor 2 months ago
I believe that bullet saying has a slight problem with the theory on it's drop rates. You would need to fire along a 0 slope for said bullet to do such a thing I think. If there is any positive level slope then the bullet will actually raise a bit defying gravity before getting pulled back down and thus out lasting the bullet in your hand dropping depending on it's rate of speed and degree of drop. It will also hit the ground faster if it has a negative slow. The shot would hit ground first then
endzordays 2 months ago in playlist QI XL - G
Hmm for a "Gravity Train" you would think that London to Spain wouldn't work at all... In fact I would think that it would require something on the other hemisphere of earth from your specific location. As opposed to the Longitude lines running north/south and Latitude running east/west. Still using London as starting, count "30°" out and past would be to where the tunnel would work. Cause I don't really think a tunnel to London to say Paris would be enough curvature to 'fall' for the distance
endzordays 2 months ago in playlist QI XL - G
Yeehai Yeehai! Hahaha
reubenchiffi 3 months ago
Oh my god, the bit about the groundhogs at 8:51 - watched it 3 times - in stitches.
TheColdwontrise 3 months ago
I find this exceedingly easy to masturbate to.
*oh, Alan, you cheerful imp!*
ciaochowbella 3 months ago
Let's see, ichigoism, the sum result of Alan Davies+ Bill Bailey+ Rich Hall= Civilisation. Where do you live, Outer Mongolia?
borintine 3 months ago
how does the scoring system work?
essenceofcool 3 months ago
@essenceofcool Nobody knows
cogidubnus1953 3 months ago
@essenceofcool It doesn't
WelcomeToTheWolf 3 months ago
@essenceofcool
However Fry wants it to
Westwoooooooood 3 months ago
Galileo's reasoning was pretty shitty.
the2crowrox 3 months ago
Yehhh Canadians... Great Uploads btw
HavocMcToker 3 months ago
Haha! Rich is still stuck on the 2nd moon thing.
SirDruhHu 3 months ago
If someone dug a tunnel from the north pole, to the south pole, and someone dug a tunnel through the west, to the east, and both jumped in, would one man end up drop kicking the other in the back, or stomach as they reached the intersection since they were falling from different sides of the earth?
Sabre809 4 months ago
@Sabre809 Nope. The earth isn't perfectly spherical; besides normal surface irregularities and the differing thickness of the crust, it bulges a bit at the equator.
the2crowrox 3 months ago
@the2crowrox Thanks at least I'll know that instead of hitting each other, they might smash against one of the bulging different spots inside the earth.
Sabre809 3 months ago
09:25
YeahNigguhhh 4 months ago
I want tiny werewolves now.
FattyMcFox 4 months ago
SWEET JESUS
a 43 minute QI vid
(fap, fap, fap)
pravkdey 4 months ago 114
@pravkdey yeah all the episodes of series g!!!
SovietSquirel 4 months ago
@pravkdey Just look up "QI XL" in youtube - all the episodes in full format :D
TheColdwontrise 3 months ago
@pravkdey you're new to the QI xl on youtube aren't you?
mrhenk007 2 months ago
@pravkdey It's going to be a sad sad day when I've watched all the QI vids on YouTube.
naryanr 2 months ago
@pravkdey That's what I'll be watching while falling through the earth.
tdurran 1 month ago
Ahhhhhhh Rich Hall....."But they are lookin at you like you owe them an explanation".
Brilliant!
Lennon4life1968 4 months ago
This episode seems to involve a lot of factually dubious claims.
MetroAdventures 4 months ago
This show is so good that I'm staying late at work in order to finish the episode.
FunkyHonkyCDXX 4 months ago
Stephen quoted himself from V for Vendetta!
Klamath2046 4 months ago
QI is a goldmine for people who wants to learn a little bit of knowledge everyday. It's like a supplement for the mind and you get a good dose of humor as a bonus. Marvelous, just simply marvelous! I wish my other colleagues watch this. It could help them become a little bit civilized and not act like twats all the time.
ichigoism12 4 months ago 81
@ichigoism12
Couldn't agree more, but they surely don't make them fast enough :D
Kaktusiechanizigama 4 months ago
@ichigoism12 Hehe, you said it, fortunately a few of my colleagues do watch it and we have some rather interesting talks :)
Whoami691 3 months ago
@Whoami691 Yeah, I wish my colleagues watch it. Talking about QI is interesting and there are lots of things to talk about. Unfortunately, they don't know about it and the jokes are too thick for them to comprehend. It's sad that I'm the only one to understand it.
ichigoism12 3 months ago
@ichigoism12 and sexual innuendos
BlakjeKaas 3 months ago
@ichigoism12 well said !
yastopanihunchaa 2 months ago
@ichigoism12 You sound like a pompous asshole, be a bit more humble.
Whayleejay 1 month ago
I thought Rich was funnier than usual in this episode :)
camtheman3x6 4 months ago 2
"Brand new Heroes"
Shat a brick and thought that it'd started up again, then it dawned on me and I felt sad.
joespenny 5 months ago
Given the curvature of the earth, introducing horizontal movement by firing the gun rather than dropping the bullet means that the landing place of the fired bullet must be slightly lower than that of the dropped bullet on the plane the bullet was fired, even if only infinitessimally so. I'd like to suggest the dropped bullet lands first!
M1st3rB3nn 5 months ago
(Of course, in the real world, the dropped bullet would tumble and be slowed, the fired bullet would be going either up or down, etc., etc...)
IoEstasCedonta 5 months ago
"Thuslywise."
And I'm kind of stunned that they're so surprised by the bullet drop thing at the end - that seems like it's taught right alongside the hammer and the feather.
IoEstasCedonta 5 months ago
Some of these episode's really fuck with my mouse like brain :S Sooo much smart talk! But i like it. Makes me feel dumb.
ZanyKenpachi 5 months ago
Rich Hall is the funniest American that ever lived. Apart from Jimmy Carter. And for different reasons.
jamessquire1 5 months ago
@jamessquire1 how about Bill Hicks or Mitch Hedberg?
foxxycleopaterra 3 months ago
Actually the earth isn't perfectly round, it's wider at the equator so it would take a little longer to go from one end to another when you are standing on the equator and less when you are standing on one of the poles
alikazi 5 months ago
@alikazi I wouldn't say that. At the equator, you'd accelerate more and go faster towards the centre of the earth, then decelerate more afterwards than at the poles.
You could argue about you'd travel longer if your destination was at the top of a mountain, versus the destination being at sea level, if your starting point was at the same level.
... just saying...
nikkienisis 5 months ago
@alikazi you would have more time to accelerate then so it probably be the same
1brokenarrow1 4 months ago
Is it a bad sign that while I was shopping today all i could think about was how my cart (trolley for all you across the pond) had a bad wheel and kept veering to the left?
z3r0t0l3r4ns 6 months ago
WHICH MOON ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?
HAHAHAHAHA
wallet1337 6 months ago 2
vertical motion and horizontal motion act independently of one another. so steven is correct. AP physics. class of '05. w00t
maikeru01 6 months ago
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ahaha ouch my stomach hurts from laughing... "I was doing the limbo with Lionel Blair and one of my nipples came off!!!"
beanbaggyful 6 months ago
ahaha ouch my stomach hurts from laughing... "I was doing th limbo with Lionel Blair and one of my nipples came off!!!"
beanbaggyful 6 months ago
ahaha ouch my stomach hurts from laughing... "I was doing th limbo with Lionel Blair and one of my nipples came off!!!"
beanbaggyful 6 months ago
Gravity accelerates things at the same rate, but that doesn't mean they fall at the same rate. It is only true that things fall the same in a vacuum. In air, objects of different mass will fall at different rates.
Metatality 6 months ago
@Metatality No I disagree with you in just one point, I think based on the equations, the mass does not affect the rate. What will affect the rate is the air resistance. 2 objects with the same mass will fall at the same rate only if the air resistance they are facing is the same. Research on Maximum Velocity.
panzerschreck89 6 months ago
@panzerschreck89 Agreed, I just didn't feel like explaining all that. But I think mass has some effect on the impulse working against air resistance doesn't it?
Metatality 6 months ago
@panzerschreck89 simplest way of describing this is that if the only force acting on two objects is gravity (due to having mass) they will accelerate at the rate of 'acceleration due to gravity'. If you dropped a feather and a stone, you may observe that the feather takes longer to touch the ground, but this is because more than gravity is acting on the two objects (drag, influenced by the speed and cross sectional area). lift, (influenced by geometry of the feather with respect to the flow)
100percentgiver 6 months ago
@100percentgiver lift would actually make the feather move in a direction not vertically up so wouldn't directly influence the rate at which it vertically travels (if the air is still) but causing the feather to move might induce unsteady drag effects.
100percentgiver 6 months ago
Kenneth Williams' distinctive tone aside, Fry's brief rendition was so dead-on that I knew within a microsecond who he and Davies were talking about without actually knowing the subject by name or work. His talent continually surprises.
Borgninho 6 months ago
12:00 Shrodinger's Theory of General Relativity
atjnAdfhhjea 7 months ago
I have lemonade and buns for Stephen. o:
failrailtf2 7 months ago
Pay attention, Hollywood: Mr. Fry said that you could ALMOST make a movie about that ship.
TheLoonwolf 7 months ago
28:10 Shouldn't a bullet take the same amount of time to go up as it does to come down?
nikanj 7 months ago
@nikanj Roughly; ideally the trajectory of the bullet would be a symmetrical parabola. It comes down at the same speed as going up, and therefore the same time in transit.
darthbob88 7 months ago
But if you're turning left,and you turn the handlebars right, dont you have to turn the handlebars left before turning it right before turning it left, thus creating a paradox?
Kan2209 7 months ago
If ther ewere some sort of contraption you'd get in to use the tunnel, and you'd jump a little, or very hard, and make the lift go faster than you, then you'd hit the ceiling to reverse the effect, and by the time you'd end up in moscow you'd have been severely beaten for the past 42 minutes by the lift.
Kan2209 7 months ago
Alan's buzzer sounds a little bit like boxxy.
prophetchannel 7 months ago
GAARR i hate the BMI scale, I'm 6'2" of big build and i couldn't join the air force because I was classed as obese despite being able to smash the fitness test!
ooogaboooga172 7 months ago
Myth busters tried this once and it didnt do any damage at freefall. they did it with a coin from a hige building but i imagine the terminal velocity doesnt change. mind you, bullets are pointed so the impact would be more damaging
Doddsy 7 months ago in playlist QI and Brittish comedy 2
@Doddsy The bullets tend to do more damage if they manage to maintain a ballistic trajectory, as they stated in the episode. They never actually tested that part, but that's understandable; it would be both difficult and dangerous to test.
MarsJenkar 7 months ago
Barry Humphries looking very well - you'd never think he's 75 years old
belisariusorb 7 months ago
@belisariusorb And if I'm not mistaken, wearing the same green silk pyjamas he wore as "Envy" in Peter Cook & Dudley Moore's film "Bedazzled".
frpetermark 7 months ago
I love how Alan claps for himself when he gets +3 :D
aliceharrold 7 months ago
Hugh as Dr. House would not explain it -- he'd just insult everyone and pop a vicodin.
theRealPlaidRabbit 7 months ago
Barry Em Effin Humphries!!! WIN
guhrrlno 8 months ago
wouldnt you come out feet first though? though the earth that is
MrJaysChannel 8 months ago
reply to me: How did all of you (Americans) hear of this show? It's fantastic... I know everyone says it, but David Mitchell is seriously the mad shit!
spikedog85 9 months ago
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@spikedog85 Friend kept talking about it, decided to check it out. :U
armegeddis 8 months ago
@spikedog85 That's a good question. . . I probably heard about it on TV Tropes at some point. I didn't start watching until my mom started watching Never Mind The Buzzcocks, though, and I started getting into quiz shows. America doesn't really have any quiz shows except Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, but that's on the radio, not on tv.
SmashingMelons42 8 months ago
@spikedog85 I came to this show because of Stephen Fry. I find him fascinating and only recently discovered he hosted a show (Wikipedia), and voila. Can I ask a question.... Do folks in the UK actually find Rich Hall humorous? I mean, I know personal and all that, but is he a successful comedian? Because I find him always to be the most boring panelist.
guhrrlno 8 months ago
@guhrrlno Rich Hall, I find to be hysterical. He's been successful, but he isn't the most known, even though he was the inspiration for Moe in The Simpsons. If you watch his standup, it can be pretty good, but I agree somewhat that as a panelist, he isn't the absolute best.
nexusparanoia 8 months ago
@guhrrlno
I think he's brilliant.
6Dantes6Inferno6 8 months ago
@spikedog85 My family actually seems to prefer foreign television. Mostly British in my house, but I quite enjoy Japanese dramas and cartoons.
atjnAdfhhjea 7 months ago
haha 'he's a jibbering idiot without his script' XD luv how stephen still makes fun of hugh yet stills says sweet words straight after
chocchipfox 9 months ago 2
@chocchipfox I strongly reccommend you watch Fry and Laurie reunited, it's on this bloody website somewhere unless it's been taken down, but seriously it's brilliant
TheEvilEskimo 9 months ago
@TheEvilEskimo Don't worry I've watched it the moment it came onto youtube =) Seeing them together again was bliss!
chocchipfox 9 months ago
oh wow i'm so not used to barry humphrie's normal voice after watching dame edna a minute ago
chocchipfox 9 months ago
When Stephen shot a .44 magnum in America, the range master there said that gunslingers would keep a $20 bill in the empty 6th cylinder. This was so that if they lost a duel/firefight and died then that $20 would pay for their funeral cost.
Xanatos712 9 months ago 5
Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood evening:D
queenrocks21 9 months ago
I think that Qi comments are the only comments in all of the internet that sound like they come from people above an 8th grade level.
lnfreeman 10 months ago 192
@lnfreeman WELL I WILL CERTAINLY BREAK THAT RECORD YOU SCUM SUCKING BUGGER!
pakk82 8 months ago
@lnfreeman Guess you've stumbled across a great deterrent.
Kan2209 7 months ago
@lnfreeman That's because we are. Simple enough
sootyferrari65 6 months ago
@lnfreeman
The trick is you get less Americans on QI videos than you would on most videos, and those of us that you do get must pass a rigorous intelligence test of liking other videos with educational content, watching Mr. Fry put the Christians in their place (which oddly enough is the back of a closet with a cock in their mouth/ass) and not subscribing to or watching more than once any video/channel with the phrase 'creation science' taken seriously within it.
z3r0t0l3r4ns 6 months ago
@z3r0t0l3r4ns Who do you think it is watching QI on Youtube?
IoEstasCedonta 5 months ago
@lnfreeman
Only after passing aforementioned tests do the UTOOB gods deem us worthy of watching QI - Christmas, Christianity and Mithras, which for the few of us curious enough to watch the related videos acts as a sort of "Gateway Drug" into the dangerous territory of knowing something that wasn't written down several thousand years ago by superstitious genocidal and barbaric Hebraic tribes based on stories their illiterate granddads heard from their illiterate granddads and ...
z3r0t0l3r4ns 6 months ago
@lnfreeman
... oh fuck it all my countrymen(women) are by and large stupid and don't watch this sort of program so you are saved from their stupid comments mostly by the fact that they are simply too stupid to comment,because after all isn't the best strategy for dealing with something new and scary to BACK away slowly until you can safely run for cover?
z3r0t0l3r4ns 6 months ago
@lnfreeman Faggot.
Cokecakepopcorn 5 months ago
@Cokecakepopcorn
I guess that proves his statement wrong.
ILGAR93 5 months ago
@ILGAR93 Sure does!:D
Cokecakepopcorn 5 months ago
It would be falling at about 55mph, that's around the critical velocity. It would hurt but not kill anyone most likely.
WalterLiddy 10 months ago
9:05
XD
elrynx2 11 months ago
If you drilled a hole into the Earth to end up where it is you wanted to go, when you finished drilling, you'd be there.
Until you wanted to go back that is. In which case, it would then take you the 42 minutes to get back :D
HerdULeikMudkips 11 months ago
Here is an interesting fact. If you want to be in every country on Earth at once, where would you have to go? The answer is to the center of the Earth. That's because, by international law, the property stretches from the surface of the Earth to the center of the Earth. So to dig to China from the other side of the Earth, you would just have to dig half way and not all the way through.
orlock20 10 months ago 117
@orlock20 That is quite interesting.
LoonShia 9 months ago 2