QI XL G12 - Gravity

With Barry Humphries, Bill Bailey and Rich Hall.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• QI
• Gravity
• XL

[scaffairl]

Rich Hall, restoring America's credibility one sentence at a time.

[KonijNx2]

@scaffairl

Well said.

[prts2]

/watch?v=2tiOmp1BE8Y Mythbuster on that bullet sropping Stephen talked about.. (part2 on the side)

[bareakon]

@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...

[TOMHYLE88]

@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]

@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)

[nmkloster]

6:00 - Recent studies suggests that the moon may have a molten core

[GoblinXXX]

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.

[EvelynneSaysHi]

"Wee! Yee-hi! Yee-hi!" I'm going to say that now.

[ELuhn]

(singing) Sittin' downtown in a whale weigh station, one toke over the line...

[taylck]

Bill Bailey and Alan Davies sitting next to one another may be the most awesome thing ever.

[ic3l3rd2]

That is a lovely suit that Steven is wearing.