The Tides

Bad tidings - the tides are slowing down the earth!

For more detail about the tides: http://www.jal.cc.il.us/~mikolajsawicki/Tides_new2.pdf

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[adamdabadboy]

I love how dangerously close this was to two minute physics

[ideedkindsir]

The guy is smart enough to figure life out, but not to use a whiteboard instead of paper and save trees...



[Yirktos]

@ideedkindsir The tree is already dead whether anyone uses the paper made from it or not. might as well not waste the stuff the tree died for, right?

[LNOL]

@ImperiustheGreat the moon also pulls water from the sides of the earth to the closest point, creating a low point of water. The farthest point, being less affected by gravity, loses less water than the sides of the earth.

[ImperiustheGreat]

@LNOL I must be retarded because that didn't make more sense.

there's a tide when the moon is directly above you(because the closer 2 things are the gravity is stronger) but why is there a tided when the moon is in the furthes possible location?

[LNOL]

@ImperiustheGreat Because the earth is spinning.

[ImperiustheGreat]

am I the only one who doesn't understand why the other tide happens at 0:15 ?

[TheAllimania]

@ideedkindsir if you are not using paper, you wont change the enviroment.

and you forget how much paper big companies need...this is an small amount

[xxxIMSIRIUSxxx]

Please make a video on Gravity and how it works. I can't remember or I just never learned.

[badboy09480]

@amoeis The sun would have destroyed the earth by then. So you don't need to worry about that.

[amoeis]

So what will happen with life on earth if 1:11 finally arrives...? Days get longer? Tidal wave? Seasonal change? What?

Judgement Day?

[TheDigitalStone]

I was having a wtf moment when he suddenly started about black holes. But then it made sense.