Neil deGrasse Tyson 100 Billion Burgers

[Atheist961]

its looks like he is doing a stand up , i love this man !

[jvome]

i'm loving it

[jazzisbetterthanall]

That is one tasty burger! ... 

[Astrophysicsist]

Now I want a burger.

[Deeredman4]

except McDonald's hamburgers aren't made of cow XD lol

[renacademyrecords]

We could fix the clipping on that mic for you Mr. Tyson ;D

[HungriMunki]

I think the real problem is that we don't have a staircase to the moon, made out of burgers.

[leavetheherbitalone]

I don't think Neil took into account that the bottom Big Macs would be squished from all the weight of the other Big Macs. There might also be a little difficulty with both the earth's and moon's gravity on such a Big Mac stairway to the moon and back. So far I've only been able to stack 3 Big Mac's on top of each other without them falling over. If only they still had styrofoam boxes.

[N3CR1S]

@leavetheherbitalone With the volume of burgers Niel is talking about, you could easily make a "burger pyramid" to the moon and thus eliminate the problem you are having :)

[mouthyweasel]

"...Well, let's say this hamburger represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area...According to this morning's sample it would be a hamburger 35 feet long weighing approximately 600 pounds."

[FrostyTheSnowball]

@mouthyweasel "That's a big hamburger."

[FluffyBunniesOnFire]

If you take 100 billion burgers and tile them across the Sahara desert... the smell would be dreadful.

[MrWrldpce]

At about an eighth of a pound per hamburger.You could get on average,about 200 lbs of hamburger from a cow assuming other parts used for steak etc.Thats only 1600 burgers per cow. Almost 70 million cows Sincerely,Bessy Chik-Fil-A

[htomsirveaux42]

I had no idea mcdonalds used real beef in their burgers.

[sugarfreelemonade]

I would rather eat them.

[TobyBeau]

so... it's 52 domes of burgers, as tall as the moon.

[Baerchenization]

@TobyBeau

That's not what he said. You can do the maths for yourself - or I do it for you: a Burger is 10 cm high. Earth - moon distance is 400,000Km. Therefore, it takes 4 billion Burgers to the moon. Therefore, you can have 25 stacks of Burgers to the moon with 100 billion Burgers at hand.

[lennyf1957]

@Baerchenization

I think he’s a few burgers short of a stack.

[strakha0]

Damn glad I'm not a cow.

[lennyf1957]

So is deGrasse his middle name, or is deGrasse his maiden name and he married someone name Tyson?

Will someone please explain.

[ttopperr]

@lennyf1957

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I don't think that is his maiden name because he is not a maiden. I do not know if he is or isn't married either it is not customary for men to change their last name in the country we both reside in.

[lennyf1957]

@ttopperr ....you are so very informative.

So is it customary in the country in which you reside for men to have two sir names?

'cuz it sure as hell in not in the country in which I reside.



[ttopperr]

@lennyf1957

It isn't customary per say although it isn't all that rare; I for one was given at birth four names three customary first names 1 one sir name.

[lennyf1957]

@ttopperr

WOW...three first names, now is that possible? The second first name wouldn’t really be a first name now would it, neither would the third first name. Silly you.

I have only one first name.....SIGH

[ttopperr]

@lennyf1957 No not really, it’s all about what you choose to go by. Actually; I prefer to go by my last name Topper.

[LiBlub1]

@lennyf1957 Maybe his mother was a Tyson and his father was a deGrasse, either way what does it matter?

[lennyf1957]

@LiBlub1 I guess in the grand scheme of things it really doesn't matter.....just curious.

Another curiosity, Neil deGrasse Tyson, does have a PhD, but he's never given the title "Doctor".

[LiBlub1]

@lennyf1957 Well curiosity I can relate too.

I wouldn't know the difference between a PhD and a Doctor's title.

[JAMMxProductions]

@lennyf1957 He has the title Dr. but I assume he isn't too uptight about people saying it whenever they address him.

[Ioannisthegreat7]

lol he has no idea he's a scientist, he has convinced himself he's a comedian!

[lennyf1957]

@Ioannisthegreat7

Actually I think he sees himself more an atheist then he does a scientist.

He’s absolutely sure there is NO god.

[herropreaseification]

100 billion also happens to be half the amount of stars in our galaxy.

[crazy8sdrums]

Cows arent scared cus it aint real meat. It doesn't look like beef. Doesnt taste like beef. Doesnt smell like beef. The only thing that implies it is beef is the package.

Wanna know something else that 100 billion burgers could do? Feed the starving people all over the world. They wouldn't eat it though because most of them recognize poison when they see it.

Look at Neil Tyson! He is so smart as he eloquently tells you that Dark Energy governs the universe while he slings McDs. Classy!

[1BustedMyth]

I'm a Cow and I'm going to flag this video :/

[robair9911]

@1BustedMyth what a minute. oh I see what you did there

[1BustedMyth]

@robair9911, Moooooooooooo

[IncrediblyStupidName]

4 dudes are cows... and its typical that theres only 4 cows because mcdonlads sold all the rest

[brewerbrian420]

This is not terrible news for cows, McDonalds doesn't use cows in any of their burgers. Think smaller.... more legs.

[KellerDude4]

@brewerbrian420

Spiders!

[brewerbrian420]

@KellerDude4 lol

[tironi333]

@brewerbrian420 one of the best comments i've heard on youtube in months.

[brewerbrian420]

@tironi333 Thanks :)

[qtutoringhelps]

Ode to capitalism!

[Kelavmeister]

gah turn the gain down! Im trying to enjoy some Neil!

[0zzy07]

LOL

[ChildeJake]

I'm calling his math into question. I'm betting he didn't adjust for how smushed the burgers are once you find them in the bag under the large fries and ketchup packets.

[Nerd0042]

I love this man :)

[swilson3d]

Those burgers would go around the world 254 times. (figuring a 4 inch diameter)

[rsorangejake]

@Trouterr while this isn't "smart", he is a very very intelligent man.

[DavidsProductions]

AND THAT'S JUST MCDONALDS!!!!!!

[ThatsTooSmall]

im glad to be part of that 100 billion

[MusicStudyMan]

surely if you made a stack to the moon you wouldn;t need to build another to come back on?

[4jonah]

@MusicStudyMan

haha great point.

[dsdougharty]

And cows go MOO!

[DissensionFilms]

Mr. Tyson is incredible. The audio tech, if they had one, should be shot.

[Sabiancym]

This guy is my hero.

[Thulgore]

If he hadn't become a scientist I have no doubts he would have rocked as a stand up comedian.

[GetLostInCompost]

bullshit

[neil73]

Its incredible to think that MacDonalds have produced so many burgers that they could cover the entire Earth with them.

Worst part about that fact is that it isn't even good nutritious food. And yes, I am guilty of partaking of the sacrement of the unholy clown!

[hitssquad]

@neil73 "Its incredible to think that MacDonalds have produced so many burgers that they could cover the entire Earth with them."

It hasn't. 100 billion burgers is only enough to go around the earth 300 times, which -- at 9 burgers per square foot -- would account for only 399 square miles.

That's smaller than Rhode Island.

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"it isn't even good nutritious food."

Actually, it *is* good nutritious food. See: fathead-movie. com

[zurguta]

100 cows feel terrified with this news...

[blenderpanzi]

@zurguta 100? I see only 4.

[KingdomRa]

@blenderpanzi he meant the number of likes.....cause people who like the video are likely to enjoy hamburgers. and cows would be afraid of those 100 people. at the time he posted the message the number of likes was probably about 100. obviously a lot more than 100 people are eating hamburgers....but that was the intent of the post i'm sure.

[cmurder182]

awesome.

[Kincajou]

"This is terrifying news to cows."

LOL. Nice punchline. : )

[BJ219]

The audio and content itself reminded me of Dane Cook going 'WHOPPERRRRR!!!!"

[onlynameithoughtof]

@BJ219 NO ONION!

[tike0rz]

The audio is terrible. I wish it didnt make my ears bleed so I could hear his infinite wisdom.

[Gummif]

If 1 hamburger is 8 cm in diameter that's 0.08 m *100 billion/40000km = 200 times around the planet.

[CRISNCHIPS12398]

@Gummif Your burgers are incredibly tiny.

[blazereef]

wow, thats alot of slaughter for meat

[sondano]

so many bald people in the audience. Sorry just couldn't miss it

[MrDantheman33]

i have watched pretty much every thing the web as to offer on Neil DeGrasse tyson and i have yet to get bored to man is great best sence sagan hands down

[joetavish]

i want to know more about the stars! :)

[crovax17]

awww he was in vegas and I wasnt there?

[lancevancedance]

goodness gracious! 51 times + to the moon and back. imagine how many cows we've killed! how are the not extinct yet?

[bobafetthotmail]

@lancevancedance because we are killing cows. Not ourselves.

[BulletMagnetOWI]

@lancevancedance Imagine how many are born.

[adell376]

In his book, Death by Black Hole and other cosmic quandaries, he writes that you could go around the earth 230 times, then also to the moon and back.

[zumobster]

100 billion burgers to te moon and back?

(try spending your time on something important instead of counting burgers and how big it will be... i guess Neil ate a big chunk out of it)

[Quint37]

@zumobster Lighten up Dr.Crazy

[christo930]

That is a LOT of artificial meat and meat byproducts.

[timwnorris]

Neil Tyson is my favorite comedian...

[ShipMonster]

@timwnorris LOL amen

[knowthetruth1492]

So what is the conclusion? This cow slaughter is good, bad, or what? Whatever. Im just glad that im a vegetarian.

[darkcanuck]

@knowthetruth1492

Conclusion: Delicious

[knowthetruth1492]

@darkcanuck , How about........... Conclusion: Billions of pounds of CO2 and Methane

[MachonyLeeoun]

@knowthetruth1492

Still delicious. 

[knowthetruth1492]

@MachonyLeeoun , This would be the same argument that canibals would use to justify eating people. ''Because it taste's good''.

[MachonyLeeoun]

@knowthetruth1492

Oh go hug a tree.

[knowthetruth1492]

@MachonyLeeoun , In a couple of years, there won't be that much trees to hug. It's people like you that give euthanasia a basis.

[MachonyLeeoun]

@knowthetruth1492

And it's people like you that are so smug that they have to shove their beliefs down people's throats.

[sothis45]

brilliant

[RmanDC]

no wonder aliens avoid us. we killed enough beef to make a sausage chain to mars

[thewhisperedrose]

This puts a whole new spin on Chick Filet's cow ads.

[LordBLB]

"terrifying news to cows"

LoL! I know it's a joke and all. But I was under the assumption that McDonald's used mostly Soy in their burgers now. I dunno. =P

[rohit91]

BILLIONS AND BILLIONS

[rohit91]

BILLIONS AND BILLIONS

[carbonseven1st]

this seems to be so difficult to mesure a burger and multiply it 100 billion times....i am so fucking impressed, my life will never be the same,..

and u r adopted

[Baddboy187]

lmao

[Darkmage1293]

Considering that our own blood systems are so complex and long that if we laid it out end to end it'd stretch around the world, TWICE, this isn't that remarkable. For 100 billion hamburgers we'd just need a scant 39 people to be flayed just right.

There are about 6+ Billion people on the planet. Imagine the distance we could stretch our blood vessels. 100 Billion Hamburgers got NOTHIN on us.

[hasjtrackers]

@Darkmage1293

6 billion times 2 is the same as 100 billion times 52 times 1,9 million?

Imagine 100 billion for what it is,not what you think it is.

[evilwatermelon]

imagine the vascular systems for all life on earth.

[lildjm06]

lmao your logic is so flawed

have you ever heard of a saying "comparing apples to oranges"?

[ghostandgoblins]

@Darkmage1293

Not on us.. IN us! Well not is us any more .. i guess we could say out the a.. nvm :)

[djhenwood]

Neil's the king, no doubt about it

[rmcdaniel423]

Regardless of how the numbers work out, it clarifies the concept that earth is essentially a closed system where everything is somehow recycled. Every single thing that has ever been made by everyone, everywhere, in all of our history still only comprises a relatively thin layer on the globe. And much of that thin layer is still relatively untouched by man.

My brain hurts. Somebody give me a big mac.

[pklukepk]

@rmcdaniel423 Hands Mac - This Shit is good!

[rickiex]

lol thats mcd alone. just think about every other place that sells hamburgers T_T poor cow........

[thegdin]

i wonder how many cows we killed to make our mickey Ds.

[Zay151]

THIS GUY NEVER GETS OLD

[FcK2420]

@Zay151 Just like your mother.

[lennoxlude]

well the comment made people laugh anyway.

[Slantzalot]

Wow, not only is he incredibly smart, he's a pretty funny guy too.

[Trouterr]

@Slantzalot hes more funny then smart. he kind of just says basic stuff.. but i guess some people would think this is smart. lol.

[Sutie13]

@Trouterr Basic? He figured that math out on his own. You need to watch other vids with him speaking. He's a brilliant mind.

[Trouterr]

@Sutie13 lol its just a simple problem. size of hamburger times the number. any 6th grader could do it. but yeah ill have to watch more vids of him before i say he isnt smart. just from waht ive seen he is more funny then smart. very well spoken.

[FantomL0rd]

@Trouterr He was one of the main people that said Pluto was just a dwarf planet, while that isn't smart in and of itself, but getting to a point where you are a respected enough scientist to change the number of planets in our solar system is pretty intelligent.

[pac6010]

@Trouterr lol I think anyone who is an astrophysicist in today's day and age qualify as smart....no endorsement needed

[monokhem]

@Trouterr It is smart. They way he makes it seam like the burgers might not make it araound the world in the beggining, and the way he grows what the burger is doing throughout his story is smart. If you are appraising how smart this is just by the math and research involved then the failing is most certainly with you.

[lennyf1957]

@Slantzalot Is he smart because you agree with his beliefs?

[Bleppe]

Lets say you stack them, use them as bricks to build a house.

I doubt you could build a 5 story appartment building using 100 billion hamburgers, even using superglue as mortar as the hamburgers consistency is squishy/spongy at best.

With no preasure they take up alot of volume, but put your hand on one of them and they pretty much deflate like a baloon.

[carlrs15]

Somewhere, a civil engineer is busily crunching the numbers on this new construction material

[Xigano1]

I wonder how much of the surface of the earth a 100 Billion Burgers would cover ... but not enough to do the research :)

[AapoJoki]

From my experience, hamburgers are about 10cm in diameter, giving them a surface area of about 80cm^2. (π*5cm^2). So 100 billion of them would make 8000 billion cm^2 in surface area, which is 800 billion m^2, which is 800 000 km^2.

These hamburgers would cover an area somewhat larger than Texas, whose surface area is about 700 000 km^2.

Someone correct me if I made a mistake, or if they have measured a hamburger more accurately :)

[AapoJoki]

Fuck, I did make a mistake! 8000 billion cm^2 obviously makes only 800 million m^2, which makes 800 km^2. Pathetically small, really.

[Xigano1]

It would probably still be an awesome sight :).

Thanks AapoJoki !

[Bleppe]

What if you used them as bricks to build a 5 story appartment building? The hamburgers would eventually be put under so much preasure that they would compress down to the thickness of paper.

[MasterXXChief]

haha yea i was looking at ur comment above and i was like what? dont u divide by 10000 then 1000000? but yea that is tremendously smaller than i expected... i was at least hoping it would cover america so we could show ourselves how much it really is :P

[PenguinJin]

8000 billion cm^2 comes to 8000 million m^2 and leads to 8000 thousand km^2 or 8 million km^2. That's larger than the US.

Laid end-to-end that's 10cm x 100 billion = 1000 billion or a trillion cm in length. 1000 billion cm translates to 1000 million meters and that's 1000 thousand or one million kilometers. It takes light more than three seconds to travel that far. 78 times around the earth. What are we thinking?

[LimmBurger]

Haha that's awesome.

[nekftw]

the flood = stupid fake story in a book of a thousand other stupid fake stories

[John23476489]

That video serves no purpose

[Faztlan]

Gonna go get me a ground Ribeye Steak burger right now. -TX

[Sqirril]

NOT THE COWS! FUCK

[FelixCulpa81]

a stack to the moon and back would have to be a big big big big big big mega trega mac.

[Incongruent]

Nigger? Wow. He's a doctor of astrophysics. What do you do for a living?

[xRIKTERx]

i think he's professionally retarded...

[xxxHALO117xxx]

The Flood was here and wasted their time

[DrJ824]

The Flood = Waste of time

or is it?

[TheAlivePixel]

There will no longer be world hunger! Hamburgers For Everyone :D

[reaperofdagrim]

pff.. this is stupid.. like you could stack hamburgers to the moon without them tipping over..

[SpecialKit]

This guy's math is extremely off unless he is counting the buns as well as the burgers.

[Truthiness231]

Since the rest of us aren't hamburger math whizzes, care to elaborate? What is the distance of regular and bun-less hamburgers from McAneurysm? And what are the implications of cheeseburger math juxtaposed with hamburger math?

[SpecialKit]

Have you ever seen a hamburger from mcdonald's? The hamburger is 1mm thick the whole thing is bun.

[Truthiness231]

LOL no I understand that patty+bun > patty. What I was talking about was the actual math; thanks ByT3R for clearing that up so well ^.^

[ByT3R]

McDonalds doesn't just sell patties, so I guessing burgers + buns.

About the math, I'm assuming the dimensions of a cheeseburger are 12cm*12cm*4cm. So lining them up next to each other would mean 100 billion * 12cm.

(1*(10^11)) * 12 cm = (12*(10^6)) km

So If we line up 100 billion cheese burgers, the line would stretch 12 million kilometers.

The earth's equatorial circumference is ~40075.02 km, so 12 million kilometers divided by 40075.02 kilometers:

(12*(10^6)) km / 40075.02km = 299.438403

[ByT3R]

Damn character limit, here's the rest:

So 100 billion burgers lined up could go around the earth 299.438403 times.

But he said if we went around 52 times, that we still would have enough to stack them to the moon and back. Ok, so lets do the math.

52 * 40075.02 km = 2,083,901.04 km

2,083,901.04 km / 12 cm = 17,365,842,000

So we used up 17,365,842,000 burgers going around the earth 52 times.

100 billion - 17,365,842,000 = 82,634,158,000

We still have 82,634,158,000 burgers remaining.

[ByT3R]

(At the limit again, here's the rest:)

The average distance between moon and earth is ~384,400 km. Still having 82,634,158,000 burgers:

I just noticed that he probably did mean just the burger patties (hardly changes the length, just height, now using 1cm instead of 4cm):

82,634,158,000 * 1cm (thickness of a patty) = 826,341.58 km

826,341.58 km / 384,400 km = 2.14969194

So 100 billion burgers of 12cm*12cm*1cm are enough to go around the world 52 times, and stack to the moon and back.

[SpecialKit]

Wow... okay you proved me wrong... nice work.

[therising1]

No shit. That's 4th grade math, if that. Not to mention, I doubt Neil would have messed that up.

[ByT3R]

Well, I was a bit critical as well, so I thought I'd do the math, and post it directly on Youtube. ^_^

[masterbasser24]

stack to the moon and back and still have .14 left over :)

[manhattanwombat]

mmmmmm burgerrrr

[facekoo]

Don't think the cows have to worry with how much cereal filler they use in McDonalds patties.

[GetMeThere1]

But is he trying to say that the 100 B figure is bogus? Cuz, it's only 100 burgers each for 1B people--which seems plausible, since they've been a huge company for 50years, and they have stores all over the world.

If the average weight is 1/8lb, that's 12B lbs. If you get 500lbs of hamburger per cow, that's only 24 million cows. Also plausible (half million a year for 50 years).

[GetMeThere1]

Just looked it up (as best as I could). US beef production is over 26 B lbs per years.

It wouldn't be exactly accurate to spread McD beef consumption evenly 50 years. S let's make it generous and say they currently use 0.5 B lbs. per year. That's still under 2 % of US production. Seems plausible (especially since, I seem to recall, McD gets MOST of their beef from South America).

[jgoemat]

McDonald's used to have a sign that showed how many hamburgers they've sold. Last time I saw one it was stuck at 99 billion because it couldn't go any higher, so yes they've sold over 100 billion hamburgers.

[jackdav34]

I don't think he's saying it's bogus--just trying to point out how much a 100 billion is.

[wooftacant]

so not funny

[dw457]

Neil DeGrasse Tyson isn't a comedian.

See: Louis C.K.

[MononofuBlood]

Wait a minute. There's cow meat in McDonald's hamburgers?

[EarlFaulk]

LOL +1

I think burger king has more beef.

Wheres the beef?

Not in a mcdonalds' burger.

[ryanmartin1993]

polysmart are u dumb? this is one of the most famous scientists in todays day and age im pretty sure he wouldnt get that equation wrong he does it on a daily basis. ur a moron.

[polysmart]

What a lovely comment. Thanks. I appreciate it. Still doesnt hurt for some to actually try to verify what they are doing, or wait was that part of science or not? I'm not sure.

[DarthQuola]

If you can, its always best to check. Especially since this is a famous scientist.

[comp7878]

ack, gain too high!

[polysmart]

The math is most definitely wrong.

Suppose 1 burger is 8cm diameter (pretty big). The equator is 40.000km = 40.000.000m = 0.5 billion burgers. Need to stack 200 layers on top of each other to get 100 billion burgers. If a burger is 5cm tall that is 10m tall wall, or about 30 ft.

He is WAAAAAY off!

[foolfodder]

He was saying the burgers go 52 times around the Earth and then a single stack would go to the Moon and back.

[polysmart]

Ok, I see it. It is plausible then.

[darnellball]

You've got too much free time dude!!

[tall1992]

hey thats only mcdonalds...so what about all the other burger chains and restaurants around the world?