Uh we are all on the same planet in the same solar system…. Is this a troll?
@6ThreeSided9
Жыл бұрын
@@schism2k9It is a joke
@Tessmage_Tessera
Жыл бұрын
The Earth is a moderately-sized rocky planet in the Goldilocks zone, with a ridiculously huge moon for a planet of its size. That right there makes us incredibly rare.
@joso7228
Жыл бұрын
And the protective Magnetic Field and 23^ Earth Tilt giving us Harvests and Seasons.
@GKnb-ny5tl
Жыл бұрын
I always find it amazing that the moon has just the perfect size and distance to us, that it's approximately the same size as the sun in the sky. Edit: The amount of people saying "the moon wasn't always this close and is still moving away" as a response to my comment is astonishing. I think everyone who knows a bit about astronomy knows this already, we don't need to hear it like 20 times already. My point still stands, it's still amazing that the moon APPEARS to be a similar size as the sun in the sky.
@dpackage73
Жыл бұрын
Building on the Magnetic Field comment: some theorize that's due to a combination of the lateness of the Theia/proto-earth collision in the formation of the solar system and the ratio/presence of radioactive material to simpler metals. Needs to be enough to slow the cooling of the core but not so much that life would have to form in an alpha particle shower. Only having learned recently about radiogenic heating being 50% of "Earth's internal heat budget" blew my mind. The string of low-probability events to get conditions that we call "habitable" is wild.
@MyouKyuubi
Жыл бұрын
@@dpackage73 Indeed, our solar system and planet are special, but the life on earth, isn't... Because the life on this planet was just a natural consequence of all these rare cosmic factors coming together, we were inevitable, because all the conditions to bring us into existence were perfect for us. Which is hilarious to think about, we're one of the rare few planets with life on them, and yet, we're the least special part of the solar system. xD EDIT: I'm gonna start waffling about Mars later on in this thread, ignore that part, i was wrong, lmao. xD
@szymonbaranowski8184
Жыл бұрын
moon was a planet Luna is little sister of Mars
@demon_xd_
Жыл бұрын
Many solar systems are categorized based on the kind of planets they have, but I like to define the Sol system as an "exhibit" system, since we seem to have about every kind of interesting planet: Mercury's a planet that you could easily find in most systems, being a small radiation-blasted rock (though the core is remarkably large) We had 3 life candidates at the dawn of the system, Venus, Earth and Mars, and each of them has suffered a different fate We have 2 gas giants and 2 ice giants, and all of them have something cool about them Jupiter's massive, has a century-old storm going on, and according to some "stole" much of the mass that would've gone to Mars Saturn has a large ring system, a moon with a thick atmosphere and another one that *MIGHT* have its own ring "system" Uranus has a massive tilt, hinting at a primordial collision with something else Neptune also has a very noticeable storm going on (the Great White spot) and its moon Triton might have been a captured dwarf planet given that its orbit is in the opposite direction of the planet's rotation We also have 2 asteroid belts neatly dividing the planets according to composition, and filled with a myriad of interesting dwarf planets There *MIGHT* be another planet beyond the Kuiper belt (the so-called planet 9) According to some models about the system's formatipn, there *MIGHT* have been another ice/gas giant, which was ejected as the orbits of other planets shifted
@vaquri
Жыл бұрын
super interesting comment, thx
@brahwhoa188
Жыл бұрын
Also a planet that evolved a technological civilization on it. That one's pretty remarkable tbh.
@erynn9968
Жыл бұрын
I’m sure there are many systems with interesting planets if we would just be able to study them as properly as our close buddies. But most interesting stuff is too far from us to find out how interesting they are.
@demon_xd_
Жыл бұрын
@@brahwhoa188 that's one of the fates of one of the candidates for life
@edd8914
Жыл бұрын
But we have no Hot Jupiters or Super Earths (maybe).
@garymaclean6903
Жыл бұрын
One has to remember: 1. - While there seems to be a high percentage of multiple star systems, there are still a lot with single stars. 2. - It is still rare to detect planets the small size of earth due to the huge distances. They may exists in 'goldilocks' regions but remain undetected. 3. - "Super rare" doesn't rule out how there could be millions of stars that both allow for the origin of life, but also with favorable conditions to sustain it for billions of years.
@Alblaka
Жыл бұрын
That's the key part. Even if the perfect match for life-sustaining conditions is one in a quadroupabazingamegaillion, that mens there's still going to be thousands of likely life-sustaining planets in the *observable* universe, simply because of it's vast scale.
@EvillAnime
10 ай бұрын
@@Alblaka and if the chances are one in a billion, that would already mean the galaxy has hundreds of planets with some life in there
@fuseblower8128
Жыл бұрын
So, we went from "We're the center of creation!" to "We're nothing special" to "We might be kinda odd..." 🙂
@YellowKing1986
Жыл бұрын
My bet is this statement isn't gonna stand the test of time.
@ajlacostewm
Жыл бұрын
We are still the center because the vastness of the universe came from one point, so no matter where you sit in the universe, you're still the center
@Unmannedair
Жыл бұрын
Well... Technically we are at the center of creation... We are definitely at the center of everything we can see. 😂
@dotheevolution78
Жыл бұрын
It's an opinion that'll change again... and again...and...
@josephang9927
Жыл бұрын
Yeah what a ride 😮
@nicotri9722
Жыл бұрын
Also, important to note that the solar system has such a large gas giant in the middle of it - Jupiter. Jupiter's immense gravitational pull and size protects the Earth by pulling in and away most large meteors and comets that would have otherwise threatened Earth!
@dinkoz1
Жыл бұрын
Even better, Jupiter and the other gas giants did not form in the current orbit, the larger ones migrated, which is another additional effect for creating stable inner "pebbles". The description of our system should read "It consists of the Sun, Jupiter, Saturn, and pebbles"
@GODCONVOYPRIME
Жыл бұрын
@@dinkoz1so wait, the planets in our solar system are aligned so that it "protects" our home from intergalactic debris in the form asteroids and meteors? And it just happens that out of all the planets in the galaxy we're the only ones who have our solar system the way it is? Isn't that awfully convenient.
@dinkoz1
Жыл бұрын
@@GODCONVOYPRIME No it is not. 100 000 000 000 star systems in our galaxy alone, hundreds of billions of galaxies in the visible universe. The probability of this star-planet combination is approximately 1:7,160,000, counting only the main sequence stars in our galaxy. There are other systems out there, hundreds of thousands suitable for the origin of life. Furthermore, it does not have to be carbon-based biology, which increases the probability even more and expands the possible candidates to include stars of a different spectrum and size. Life is out there, but we are separated by too much space and especially time. Civilizations have already developed, fallen or died out in the past, because looking only at the human species in the last 35,000 years, we have been emitting radio waves into space only for the last hundred years and even 4 billion years of our sun's existence is just a drop in the space-time structure of the universe.
@christopherdieudonne
Жыл бұрын
@@GODCONVOYPRIME Intelligent design
@Noordledoordle
Жыл бұрын
@GODCONVOYPRIME Eh. I used to look at things that way, but there is a second way: the universe is really, REALLY big. And because it's so big, that means there are chances for unusual things to happen. We just happen to be one of those very unusual things.
@LordofSorrow7
Жыл бұрын
Finally a channel which creator puts links and sources with real papers we can read. That's a great quality video man. Right schematics at the right time, used the right way. Good explainations not too simple not too complicated.
@demus89
Жыл бұрын
Just the fact that i live in a perfect planet at a perfect time that is just a drop in the pan of the history of the universe that i can get on a board an surf a wave is incredibly rare.
@rafalbastek6468
Жыл бұрын
that is really stupid argument since you literally can't live on any other planet. So if you are conscious then as a matter of fact only consciuos creatures can experience stuff so the probability that conscious creature will experience reality over experiencing reality as a mind that doesnt exist makes it easy to see that the probability of you reading is exceptionally high. If there ever was life in the universe, the most probably time to live in is in the golden era, literally
@tabularasa0606
Жыл бұрын
It just is far from perfect.
@demus89
Жыл бұрын
@@rafalbastek6468 still fascinated by the fact that we live in a point in the Earth's timeline that I can surf waves.
@felobatirmoheb4884
Жыл бұрын
@demus89 Yeah, you got 2 buzzkills in the replies here. Surf on, dude.
@naynayreverbed9034
Жыл бұрын
@@felobatirmoheb4884yall are mean😂
@Roguescienceguy
Жыл бұрын
The fact that we live in a solar system with Anton already makes it rare, unique and fortunate.
@abhijithajay1998
Жыл бұрын
bully bhai
@malloott
Жыл бұрын
🪷
@ElasticGiraffe
Жыл бұрын
Wonderful, some might say.
@alfredhernandez9799
Жыл бұрын
Bravo!
@davidareeves
Жыл бұрын
Only a wonderful person appears in these rare occasions
@universemaps
Жыл бұрын
Wow this might have implications on the Fermi paradox... Glad to see my depiction of Tau Ceti system being used in this awesome video!
@maestro-zq8gu
Жыл бұрын
Was thinking same thing.
@Johnny3Batony
Жыл бұрын
Not really. It doesn't. We only assume that other organisms can't survive there because we base it on our own biology and the organisms we know. Other cosmic species don't have to be Humanoid or in any shape or form similar to us.
@Z48654
Жыл бұрын
@@Johnny3Batonyintelligent life forms would have to have hands and thumbs.
@OzixiThrill
Жыл бұрын
@@Z48654 A single prehensile tentacle would be able to resolve that. And that's just off the top of my head. Who knows what else a completely different set of evolutionary games could come up with.
@Z48654
Жыл бұрын
@@OzixiThrill yeah I was thinking that too, hands are superior though.
@caboose176545
Жыл бұрын
Exoplanet Scientist here: We really don't know if the Solar System is rare or not. Yes most of the planets we know about are larger than Earth and Smaller than Neptune (for which we have no analogue in our system) but that's for planets who's orbital periods are less than ~50 days. We just aren't sensitive enough in our detection techniques to find the planets that resemble the ones in our Solar System.
@billyscenic5610
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. This is a really bad click bait video that appeals to anthromorphism and the desperate need to be unique.
@radishpineapple74
Жыл бұрын
This channel is not serious. It's run by a person who used space engine and got popular with clickbait. He spits out WAY too much content to fact-check his claims and thus is prone to making overly-confident or even downright incorrect claims. I had enough after his Extraterrestrial Virus video and it looks like he hasn't changed. Can you blame him for hustling though? The man's just trying to make some money and accuracy clearly doesn't pay.
@depholade
Жыл бұрын
One thing that so many also tend to forget is how quiet our sun is relative to so many others
@nisrrah8198
Жыл бұрын
Some stars are even more stable than the sun, methusela and other stars are estimated to last 10 billion years or more in the same state
@Timsturbs
Жыл бұрын
@@nisrrah8198 i think hes talking about sun activity
@mikebar42
Жыл бұрын
Might be because it's kind of a small Star ⭐✨
@cramer4506
Жыл бұрын
@@mikebar42 Actually no. A small star like Proxima Centauri is actually more active in ways that would harm hypothetical life than our own Sol.
@zointisarenazi
Жыл бұрын
@nisrrah8198 ite not true these are estimates . Its hard to detect sun storms etc even for our sun
@slabrankle9588
Жыл бұрын
Also, our planets have moved around some. Everyone has heard of Jupiter's "grand tack", and Saturn moved as well, so you won't duplicate those random movements in other systems too often, or ever.
@DrMackSplackem
Жыл бұрын
Nice Model comes to mind.
@slabrankle9588
Жыл бұрын
@@DrMackSplackem That's exactly what I'm saying.
@michaelstiller2282
Жыл бұрын
I like the colorful terms, people will like the comment and not realize Anton hates it. lol
@AndrewBlacker-wr2ve
Жыл бұрын
The "Grand Tack" has no direct supportive evidence. It's a raw hypothesis.
@flowersthewizard9336
Жыл бұрын
My theory on why an ordered solar system like ours is race, is because the heavier planets have a stronger gravitational pull towards the stars they orbit, and so they are more likely to move/stay in a closer orbit. They then catch the smaller planets into their orbit and throw them out into a larger orbit of the star/s Systems with more than one star and opposite ordered planetary being more common could be correlated. I have an idea that the more stars there are in a system, the stronger the force of gravity is on each planet. Systems with multiple stars might also cause the planets to have a slight wobble in their orbits due to the gravitational pull being less and more depending on the alignment between the stars and the planets.
@CharlesOffdensen
Жыл бұрын
I have a very old soviet encyclopedia. It says around 20% of the planetary systems have only one star, the rest have between 2 and 6. It also says that most systems have gas giants closer to the stars, and the rocky planets away. The last one surprised me, because people weren't even sure there are planets around other stars.
@regis_c
Жыл бұрын
Didn't the Union fall before they discovered the first exoplanet?
@CharlesOffdensen
Жыл бұрын
@@regis_c Exactly, exoplanets weren't confirmed until the 90ies. But people were speculating a lot.
@toesauce1665
Жыл бұрын
One thing to note is that a lot of star systems that we think only have a couple or so planets might have lots more... we just cant see them with our telescopes because theyre not luminous enough. This might also be why there havent been many asteroid belts found in other systems and why we mostly only see gas giants
@gildardorivasvalles6368
Жыл бұрын
We've known most stars in the Milky way are not single stars, but mostly doubles and triples for many decades. So in that sense, we knew the Sun wasn't very typical, but not extraordinarily rare. It's the planetary configurations that we didn't know about until fairly recently, so that's the surprising bit. This is really interesting news. Thank you for the video, Anton.
@kaufmanat1
Жыл бұрын
I've always loved science. Never heard anywhere that binary stars were tyical and tbmgat our sun was unusual. In fact most videos would tell me there was nothing special at all about our sun. It's just basic medium sized star...... This is interesting to me.
@gildardorivasvalles6368
Жыл бұрын
@@kaufmanat1 I had replied to you, but it seems KZitem didn't like me putting a link to a Harvard-Smithsonian online article. Their bots seem to allow SPAM to appear, but genuine links are a no-no. In the article, it is described how in the 2000s some studies suggested that, CONTRARY TO WHAT WAS ASTRONOMER'S COMMON KNOWLEDGE BACK THEN, most stars in the Milky Way appeared to be single. Now NEWER studies seem to be confirming that OLDER common knowledge: that most stars are actually at least binaries. I also have some astronomy books from the early to mid 1990s where it is stated that most stars in the Milky Way are groupings of two or more. I will have to get back to you with their titles, as I don't have them with me at the moment. Maybe Anton was only aware of that intermediate period in our knowledge before the newer studies, and not what was common knowledge earlier. I for one was unaware that there ever was any doubt about the nature of stars mostly being binaries or triples.
@knyghtryder3599
Жыл бұрын
@@kaufmanat1tidally locked binary plus planetary bodies are WAY more common Rotating planets neatly separated orbiting a single star is not The big factor is being tidally locked like mercury, completely inhospitable for life
@JB48632pointfour
Жыл бұрын
What if we have a very old star that started out much larger and has gone through multiple supernovae? What if we are one of the first solar systems in the universe (relatively speaking. Could our star have gone through multiple supernovae only for the ejected matter to fall back into it (giving birth to nuclear fusion again) and or coalesce into the planets we know today? I wonder if we somehow got the ones with irregular orbits (Pluto?) by capturing them after they have been ejected from a other solar systems or otherwise were formed outside of our solar system. Maybe the outermost planets with irregular orbits began forming after a SuperValu that happened much closer to the beginning of the universe than we generally think? Can someone confirm? I’m just thinking, where did Earth and the other planets get their elements? Especially the heavier ones? Doesn’t it at least suggest that our star has already supernova’ed and has been reignited when enough of the ejected matter fell back into its gravity well? Am I wrong? Am I right? If I’m right, should I not get the Nobel Prize for KZitem comments on Cosmology or some shit?
@gildardorivasvalles6368
Жыл бұрын
@@JB48632pointfour no, the Sun has never gone supernova. We understand fairly well its history, composition, and the physical processes inside it. Besides, single star supernovas leave a remnant that shortly after becomes a neutron star. Also the Sun already has heavier elements in its outer layers and its corona. Those come from the cloud from which the Solar System formed, which is also from where the planets got their heavy elements.
@glenndiddy
Жыл бұрын
Imagine having a very unique 1 star system, and being jealous of all the 2 star systems that would look really cool in the sky.
@durim187
Жыл бұрын
ot could get old real fast.
@are3287
Жыл бұрын
Imagine having a very unique 1 parent family, and being jealous of all the 2 parent families. Smh kids these days
@akpsyche1299
Жыл бұрын
It sounds fun, but maybe the reason we haven't found signs of life around any of the binary star systems we've looked at is because something about having 2 stars makes it less likely for life to form or reach a certain stage. So if we had a binary star system, we might not be around to admire it.
@LukasBanyi
Жыл бұрын
I thought the physics of a planet orbiting two stars was extraordinary complicated and would lead to unstable orbits, resulting in years, decades or centuries of extreme frost, when the planet gets ejected far away from its suns, and extreme heat, when it gets pulled too close. Or is that just a science-fiction assumption?
@betweentheair
Жыл бұрын
Our companion star is a brown dwarf..
@fungoidal
Жыл бұрын
Honestly, I don't know why it took so long to concretely figure this out. When you really think about our solar system, especially compared to other systems in the universe, is honestly really really unique.
@memir0
Жыл бұрын
its because planets are hard to detect. they are smaller than stars and do not emitt their own light
@hazyhalfmoon
Жыл бұрын
We haven’t concretely figured any thing out, except that other planets exist.
@OhGummy
Жыл бұрын
We can’t concretely figure this out. We’ve explored less than 4 percent of the observable space, making the assumption that we’re extremely unique on such a tiny sample size is naive. Im not saying that we aren’t unique, I’m fairly confident that we are, I’m just saying it’s impossible for us to truly know right now.
@sentientbeing8738
Жыл бұрын
@@OhGummy What's crazy to think about is that even if we explored 100 percent of the currently observable universe there is still "at least 250 times more" I doubt we are the only intelligent life.
@thatfeeble-mindedboy
Жыл бұрын
And not one mention of intelligent design. Not one mention of the standing FACT that all the king’s horses, and all the king’s men cannot animate the Inanimate, on a planet perfectly suited to host an abundance of life; what appears to be impossible to an enlightened, unspeakably intelligent and resourceful life form, still just happened on its own, a happy accident to go along with all the other ones. .. like dark matter/dark energy, just to give an example, to believe this to be the absolute truth requires a level of faith that I as an orthodox Protestant Christian find quite enviable. Moreover, it is held by millions who would say that they don’t believe in belief, but instead, would claim that they only espouse those things that can be proven … despite the fact that probably 99.99% of what they “know” actually has not been proven to THEM per se, but they were told that someone proved it to someone, at some point, and that was told to them by their 4th grade teacher, plus they read it in some book. That, you see, is why their knowledge is so superior to others, other knowledge worthy only of derision, dismissal, rebuke, censorship, and to be used as a tool to impeach any and all credibility of a person who might hold such a worldview.
@cloudandsurf
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for ALL your hard work Anton. You are introducing these perspectives into my life. I am lucky to have received them.
@user-qf3dn6sz6e
Жыл бұрын
The more and more we discover the galaxy the more we discover about ourselves, and how rare it is that something like us even exists.
@mauijttewaal
Жыл бұрын
Fine-tuning for life:-)
@youtubegimme8646
Жыл бұрын
The more we find out the more we real lies god exists
@suskysulky
Жыл бұрын
Fucking hell im alive
@CookaSoupNieceEH
Жыл бұрын
Conclusions based on a conjecture
@Karma28217
Жыл бұрын
We've studied a few grains of sand on a beach and determined our gain to be special. We don't have enough information to make claims like that.
@Trials_By_Errors
Жыл бұрын
Maybe we are odd. However our capacity to detect other planetary systems is still very limited.
@HCforLife1
Жыл бұрын
this ^^ I would say that we are rare if we would be sure that we successfully surveyed like 1% of our galaxy solar systems. In my opinion our understanding of solar systems in our galaxy is on a level as our understanding of our own solar system in XVI century
@newagain9964
Жыл бұрын
Yeah. Astronomy and Astrophysics are still nascent disciplines.
@sidpomy
Жыл бұрын
Indeed, and our current statistics on planetary systems are very, very heavily influenced by observational bias.
@daved4547
Жыл бұрын
My mum calls me 'special', not odd! 🤪😎🖖
@yassinebenjdida2394
Жыл бұрын
this is proven with maths not wtever u just said
@aeteno703
Жыл бұрын
Can confirm this is true, I’ve explored thousands of systems in Elite Dangerous :)
@AC_WILDCARD
Жыл бұрын
I stop and think about it sometimes, I am really proud we are here and are from Earth.
@fallenhobbit6554
Жыл бұрын
Isaac Asimov justified his galaxy spanning human only civilization in the foundation series on the fact that our solar system has some extremely rare and unique properties. He came up with this idea in the 1950s. Gawd he was a genius.
@ryanburke6354
Жыл бұрын
Also how unlikely Earth sized planets are to have a moon as large as ours, and how important it has been in facilitating life here.
@E4439Qv5
Жыл бұрын
Gaia and Thea. Earth and its Moon had parents that came together.
@spinfrost
Жыл бұрын
@@ryanburke6354also if I’m not mistaken the planet that struck earth to make the moon also gave us the iron core that creates the magnetic shield around us.
@stephenbarlin2314
Жыл бұрын
I’m correct, we are alone.
@ukaszlampart5316
Жыл бұрын
I Actually like that explanation for apparent lack of advanced civilizations anywhere in our vicinity. We might just bit lottery winners, so to speak. And it is the most optmistic explanation I could think off for lack of others, because alternatives would be some kind of dark forest/late great filter theories which would be scary prospects to say the least. I said lack of advanced civilizations not life because I am convinced microbial life is pretty common. It appeared on earth relatively quickly, it is potentially a very likely consequence of thermodynamics (life actually speeds up increase of entropy in a system), but history of the earth shows making big complex organisms is difficult for life compared to just appearing.
@Jay_in_Japan
Жыл бұрын
Can't forget that our current detection methods are biased towards larger planets closer in to their star (especially the transit method). Easier to notice the dip in luminosity during transit, and faster to confirm thanks to shorter orbital periods.
@OriginalCreatorSama
Жыл бұрын
As someone with an explorer's heart, i was so sad to find out there were no new lands to discover on earth and i was born too early for space exploration. So finding out that we can now see planets WITHOUT going to them is so freaking exciting to me!! I'm alive in the age of far ranging telescopes! I get to be one of the first people EVER to SEE a new planet!! Sure i can never walk on it, but our descendants will envy us living in "such a simple time" when interplanetary delegations and colonist needs aren't an issue and we can just look up at the stars and dream. We only have our own species, our own planet to worry about. And we are the first to see these distant stars that our grand children might get to visit, discovering and cataloguing new places for our future space flights and colonizing missions. I'm THRILLED about all of this!!
@mars-jr5uu
4 ай бұрын
Hi let’s be friends 😊
@DevKumar-ex6zb
Жыл бұрын
The thing is, it doesn't really matter that our solar system is relatively unique because of the size of the galaxy and how much we haven't seen. We simply do not have a reliable sample size to make such a conclusion. Let's not even go to the topic of habitable worlds, because we also do not know the capacity at which life can be deemed as habitable, whether all life even needs liquid water to survive and different masses, atmospheric pressures, gravities, sunlight etc. So realistically, this study may provide some good insight on to what we have discovered so far, but do not be the least bit surprised if it is proven wrong in the coming decades.
@daleonov
Жыл бұрын
Most star systems are binary? Wow, mind blown. I did not expect to hear it, I've absolutely believed binary stars are the rare ones, and the most common are single stars.
@MrLaughingcorpse
Жыл бұрын
Scientists will uphold the failed evolution theory and force feed you millions of years and a very old universe to hold onto their idea that all this came from nothing. When all evidence points to special creation.
@castonyoung7514
Жыл бұрын
Same here. It's such a strange thing to hear that I'm wondering if he misspoke or I'm misinterpreting what I heard.
@metalswifty23
Жыл бұрын
@@castonyoung7514He definitely didn't misspeak. It's been believed for quite some time that binary systems are most common, if I'm not mistaken.
@valoeghese
Жыл бұрын
@@metalswifty23 i recall reading something like around half of all star systems are binary
@daleonov
Жыл бұрын
@@castonyoung7514 exactly! I was watching this half asleep tomorrow and at first I thought I've misheard too
@kacper6117
Жыл бұрын
Hey Anton, i''ve been watching you for years, and you really made me love space, sometimes i told my friends about stuff from your vids and they were really impressed with my knowledge and that's all thanks to you, i really appriciate your vids, keep it going!
@1024det
Жыл бұрын
Ive also got some of my friends to watch him, he’s a truly wonderful person
@saltycreole2673
Жыл бұрын
I can rub my tummy and pat my head, backwards! My friends have low expectations of me. 😅
@whatdamath
Жыл бұрын
glad you like them, thank you
@OttoNommik
Жыл бұрын
Comments like yours where one is just fanboy-ing the creator to death not only makes you seem like a lonely, irrelevant tard, it also is completely inapplicable and takes away from the message.
@that1guyfinn418
Жыл бұрын
Seeing how we've yet to find a star system with the level of variety in its planets is really interesting to me
@samdherring
Жыл бұрын
Perhaps something set our system up so that it's potential future interstellar travelers would have a better introduction to the possibilities... Like the 1st stage in a videogame.
@vincentsanabria
Жыл бұрын
You don’t believe that do you lol
@Pepespizzeria1
Жыл бұрын
Not really, we really can't travel far, our viewpoint is so narrow, like looking to the end of the street, generalising the entire universe based on this is incredibly arrogant and ill advised
@cortster12
Жыл бұрын
@samdherring More likely it just was a one in a trillion fluke, and we just evolved here because we couldn't evolve elsewhere.
@ericktellez7632
Жыл бұрын
We have such a small capacity to explore the solar system let alone the galaxy, its like the old continents never imagined there could be another continent across the ocean
@icy.quasar
Жыл бұрын
How insignificant yet PRECIOUS we all are
@Drikkerbadevand
Жыл бұрын
The idea of rogue planets is really scare to me. No life, no atmosphere, just cold cold and pitch black darkness, so dark you literally cannot see something an inch from your nose.
@RovingTroll
Жыл бұрын
I've always felt that at least earth's circuimstances seem VERY RNG heavy. Like earth alone had another large body smack it just hard enough to spit out a moon, which helped ensure a long and stable rotation for our planet, as well as consistent tidal effects. Our moon is tidally locked to earth, but there's nothing necessarily special about THAT, but it does keep earth from being tidally locked to the sun.
@hstochla
Жыл бұрын
Not to mention the size of our system means that we aren’t in a crowded environment, and the gas giants of the outer system redirect asteroids away from the inner system.
@daviddiaz5815
Жыл бұрын
RNG be crazy on this system
@madcio
Жыл бұрын
Nope, Earth is too far from Sun to be tidally locked in any reasonable amount of time, though it is thought that Moon provides other benefits (tides and stablity like you mentioned).
@alarsonious2071
Жыл бұрын
I am pretty sure Invader Zim did it.
@milenamartins21
Жыл бұрын
"Very rng heavy" LOL
@vaakdemandante8772
Жыл бұрын
1. Ordered star systems are most uncommon, hence they are low entropy by definition. 2. Low entropy systems have a higher chance of developing sub-systems that are even lower entropy, like life. 3. Lack of detection of smaller planets in other star systems can in a significant part be attributed to low resolution methods we are currently using for detecting them. It is entirely possible that in the future we will have a better technology that will help us detect more smaller planets, and hence find more star systems similar to ours.
@q123q123q123q
Жыл бұрын
Earths moon is very rare
@icraftcrafts8685
Жыл бұрын
what i wanna know is, why do we have to know more and more and more?
@kingBing101
Жыл бұрын
@@icraftcrafts8685bro expects an explanation for basic curiosity
@wizzyno1566
Жыл бұрын
2 doesn't follow 1. Try again.
@locrianphantom3547
Жыл бұрын
@@icraftcrafts8685Because
@exwi-zed533
5 ай бұрын
Anton, thanks for all the videos lately. You make it all really enjoyable to follow.
@FizykaFilozofiaFuturystyka
10 ай бұрын
Being anywhere is good, but being home is best.
@edreusser4741
Жыл бұрын
In addition, it turns out our sun is also extraordinarily "quiet" in terms of flares and solar activity. That may be the only reason our civilization has ended in a massive Carrington-type event.
@aaronbarthel6509
Жыл бұрын
Yup. and we have also been extraordinarily lucky as well with any solar activity that has happened in our sun. apparently some time within the last 12 or so months (if memory serves, could be 2 years) a solar flare that would have fried our planet's electronics and satellites got shot out in the opposite direction from earth. lucky
@pfzht
Жыл бұрын
You're speaking too soon lol We're currently entering the on ramp of "interesting times." At a minimum, Earth gets slapped hard by solar activity and its secondary effects every 6000 years.
@tempestive1
Жыл бұрын
@@aaronbarthel6509indeed. Barely missed us. Get a space weather app and enable notifications to safeguard your tech!
@llllllblodllllll
Жыл бұрын
I think you mean "hasn't" ended. Or maybe it has...
@raynac224
Жыл бұрын
@@aaronbarthel6509 Yeah I told people about it and I dont think anyone comprehended what could have happened. I think we got too many people puffing up unlikely calamity's that could happen that people grew numb to it.
@BladezAndrew
Жыл бұрын
we still lack the technology to detect terrestrial planets reliably. Most of the exoplanets we've discovered are from methods that favor large planets usually gas giants closer to the star. Either by radial velocity or transit. I still think it's possible to be a form of selection bias where we're just not aware of the amount of planets most stars have, nor the amount of systems like ours because detecting a system with small planets close to the sun and gas giants further away would be the most unlikely for us to spot as that goes entirely against the main methods we use. So in most cases we're probably missing all the systems that are like ours and spend the majority of time researching the ones we can spot which would be large gas giants closer to the main star(s)
@Pyrohawk
Жыл бұрын
Glad someone said it. While I'm definitely not familiar with the modelling used, nor the underlying research, and definitely can't discredit them as such, I would not be surprised if this is selection bias, I.e. using what we know to get answers that correspond with what we know.
@penguinstrophe
Жыл бұрын
I dont understand anything about advanced astronomy but the method used relies a bit on density right?
@hazyhalfmoon
Жыл бұрын
@@penguinstropheasically Kepler would identify a planet by two requirements. First they would have to detect a dip in the observed system’s sunlight as the planet passes in front of it. Then they would have to observe that dip multiple times to confirm it was actually something orbiting it and not say a dip in the sun’s brightness due to a coronal mass ejection. What this means is that Kepler found mostly “giant” planets, like gas giants, or super earths, and mostly planets that orbit quickly around the sun. For example, if Kepler were to observe a system like our own, it would not be able to detect Mercury because the dip would not be large enough. It may be able to detect a dip in brightness from Jupiter as it crosses in between Kepler and the sun, but it would only detect that dip one time. Then they would have to continue monitoring the star for another 12 years before Jupiter orbited by again. Then they would have to wait another 12 years (iirc Kepler needed to observe the dip three times for confirmation) so to detect our Jupiter, it would take decades of monitoring. Kepler was active for 9 years, meaning it would not have detected a second transit of Jupiter and would’ve had a 1/4 chance of not detecting its first orbit either. Also as an asterisk, not every solar system has planets lined up to where they would pass between their sun and the angle which we were observing. In fact, the further out a planet gets away from our sun, the less deviation would be required for it to not align with our own.
@penguinstrophe
Жыл бұрын
@@hazyhalfmoon Wait so if I understand it correctly, does that mean that to detect small planet (say, about mercury/mars size) it would have to be pretty far away from its star to be noticed? Which would also take a long time considering the likely slow orbital speed, right?
@hazyhalfmoon
Жыл бұрын
@@penguinstrophe A small planet wouldn’t be detected unless the star were close enough to our own that we could see a dip in brightness. For example if a bird flies over your head it will block some sunlight that may be detectable with proper instruments. If an asteroid passes between your point of view and the sun, many thousands of miles away, you would need a much stronger instrument to detect it. There is a means of detecting exoplanets based on their gravity causing a slight “wobble” in our observation, but such planets would have to be very massive (not large but heavy, dense)
@szxnv
Жыл бұрын
swear i was subscribed years ago and it says i am unsubscribed. Glad to be subscribing again
@nugzmedallion8929
Жыл бұрын
I'm really glad this happened to show up on my youtube front page. Very very interesting and informative, thanks!
@ShiroiShinjuDC5
Жыл бұрын
I can’t imagine what life would be like especially ancient history if we had 2 stars in our solar system
@SuperBetaBuxbros.
Жыл бұрын
Probably wouldn’t exost
@malloott
Жыл бұрын
It's very probable that those systems aren't stable enough for intelligent life to form
@darkkyne6261
Жыл бұрын
read the three body problem book it tells the tale of such civilization
@oberonpanopticon
Жыл бұрын
@@evilcookie123Our sun has dozens/thousands of siblings that formed along side it, and throughout its history a lot of stars have passed relatively nearby, so that definitely seems possible.
@frankkolmann4801
Жыл бұрын
There is a SF series by one of my favourite SF authors Aldiss. It sheds some ideas. from wikipedia The Helliconia trilogy is a series of science fiction books by British writer Brian W. Aldiss, set on the Earth-like planet Helliconia. It is an epic chronicling the rise and fall of a civilisation over more than a thousand years as the planet progresses through its incredibly long seasons, which last for centuries. The trilogy consists of the books Helliconia Spring (published in 1982), Helliconia Summer (1983), and Helliconia Winter (1985).
@vexedmirage4678
Жыл бұрын
As an avid lover of playing the game Elite Dangerous, that game has shown me that our star system is, in fact, very rare. I highly recommend the game for space nerds. The game is built on a 1:1 scale of the milky way, inputting what we do know for certain (mostly) and using a fairly accurate algorithm to generate systems that are unknown, but highly probable. It's a space flight sim sandbox and one of the coolest experiences to be apart of. Especially when some in the community get together a big exploration trip.
@veronicatazri9092
Жыл бұрын
Would be cool to play such a game on a console
@meroastisruined3039
Жыл бұрын
Such a shame that they discontinued the console edition, feels like the devs gave up. Such an incredibly beautiful and terrifying game.
@vexedmirage4678
Жыл бұрын
@@meroastisruined3039 i believe horizons is still available on console. I personally think odyssey was a stupid way to go. Adding in space legs and fps just ruined the sim for me. I wanted new vehicles and atmospheric flights/landings more than a janky fps addon.
@AlphaCarinae
Жыл бұрын
Elite Dangerous is literally randomly generated and has no basis in reality
@Squibie
Жыл бұрын
@@veronicatazri9092 cant you just plug controller to pc? who the hell needs console when you have pc
@alexandersavchenko1390
Жыл бұрын
I'm very sceptical about this study. We simply still don't have telescopes strong enough to detect Earth-like planets. They may be quite abundant, but currently we mostly find gas giants close to their stars, because they are easiest to spot.
@hazyhalfmoon
Жыл бұрын
Yes, it would be like standing on a boat in the middle of the ocean, only seeing larger fish that swim near the surface, and determining that most fish in the ocean are large surface dwellers.
@jeffreyluffman3850
Жыл бұрын
An infinite universe where everything system is unique
@michaelcharlesthearchangel
Жыл бұрын
The Earth and Luna (Moon) are more so a Major+Dwarf double planet than how we typically think about the "moon". Very rare indeed.
@jsonjsoff
Жыл бұрын
Very close to a binary planet. I believe our moon is also the third or second largest moon in the entire system in which we only have one. Pretty wild.
@michaelcharlesthearchangel
Жыл бұрын
@@jsonjsoff fifth largest moon. Ganymede is the largest moon, orbiting Jupiter. Titan is 2nd, which has an atmosphere, orbiting Saturn. Io and Callisto, fire and ice, are 3rd and 4th. Then Luna aka Earth's moon.
@mars-jr5uu
4 ай бұрын
@@michaelcharlesthearchangelheyoo😊
@khepri3266
Жыл бұрын
I really took for granted how lucky we are to have such a great and interesting selection of planets.
@showbread9366
Жыл бұрын
As pure luck would have it 🤔
@ZakhadWOW
Жыл бұрын
personally Im overjoyed I got to live thru the "grand tour of the planets" from voyager 2, allowing us to get unimaginable images and data on Uranus and Neptune in particular, but showing us the stunning glory of Io, and the insanely complex ring system of Saturn with shepherd moons! As well as revealing that Jupiter HAD a ring, and confirming suspicions about Uranus and Neptune four outer full planets, all with ring systems!
@TKUA11
Жыл бұрын
Yes, thank God for his intelligent creation
@kingofflames738
Жыл бұрын
@@TKUA11 If it was the Christian god that created this universe (which is doubtful since he only seems to have appeared long after other gods appeared) then this planet wouldn't have been due to his direct influence over it. There's very likely others that just like our planet happened to align correctly. If we weren't here we wouldn't be here so it's survivorship bias if we try to make sense why we were so lucky. If we weren't lucky we wouldn't be here.
@BrutusAlbion
Жыл бұрын
@@kingofflames738 Funny how you can't see the obvious staring in your face. Always looking for another excuse for what is pretty obvious. "If we weren't here we wouldn't be here so it's survivorship bias if we try to make sense why we were so lucky. If we weren't lucky we wouldn't be here." Imagine if a guy dug a perfectly square hole and then it rained. You'd still think the reason you live in a square puddle is because you're just lucky and all the other puddles around you are shaped randomly and our puddle is just by pure coincidence a perfectly square puddle. Even weirder is that the other raindrops from all over the puddle claim that a guy with a magic shovel created this puddle but you dismiss it as pure coincidence and fantasy.
@VenomSteak
Жыл бұрын
"You would think the stars would make war seem trivial." I know it's a long shot but I still dream that, one day, we'll forsake our wars and look to the heavens instead. There's so much out there, so much more to see and to know that seems a lot more important than fighting amongst ourselves. Just imagine if, instead of spending trillions of dollars on pointless wars, our governments directed their money towards exploring the cosmos. I can dream.
@starpergaming2688
Жыл бұрын
Oh! Good old friend. Good I found you again. Hello
@anthonylaviale3021
Жыл бұрын
A big caveat here is that we wouldn't be able to detect a solar system like ours, so it skews our perception of what's common or not' Bigger planets are easier to detect, we wouldn't be able to detect earth from another star. Planets far away from their planet orbit slowly and we need to observe a few orbits to detect one. For reference, Neptune's orbit is over 160y long, so it would take litteral centuries to detect it. Even Jupiter's orbit is about 12 years, so it would take decades.
@stargazer5784
Жыл бұрын
It's called observational bias, I think.
@davidxie2698
Жыл бұрын
> detect a planetary* system like ours
@ImHeadshotSniper
Жыл бұрын
@@stargazer5784 yeah! these are the same reasons why we thought the Earth was the center of the universe, and then the solar system! i love observational/perception biases cause they can appear to be convincing, but they are definitely an important lesson in why we need to collect more information to better understand things, or more importantly and simply, NOT making conclusions until near undeniable evidence is presented. so yeah in this case, we are still extremely limited in our perceiving and observing abilities in space, so drawing conclusions based on our small local sample size is undeniably an observational bias regardless of whether or not our conclusions are right, and we really have no right to be drawing ANY conclusions based on very relatively local and limited information.
@Cobbido
Жыл бұрын
So this video is pointless?
@Kyred808
Жыл бұрын
@@Cobbido No. It got the poster views
@jimalbi
Жыл бұрын
My pick on this: the planetary systems we have detected are still the easiest ones to detect. The planetary systems like ours, with small terrestrial planets and faraway gas giants are may more difficult to detect, whatever the method used. So we still don't have the complete picture and we are very far from it. What we know is that there's a lot of diversity out there. Period.
@another_turtle
Жыл бұрын
Also I think we got really lucky with our star size and location as well as our location in the solar system, imagine if we were swapped with mars such a small distance that would kill all life.
@Deeken171
Жыл бұрын
Exactly. It only makes sense that this is the case, because the only way we can detect planets at the moment is precession. The easiest for us to see using precession, will be when relatively large planets pass between us and the star more often, so large objects that are close to their parent star with shorter orbits. For example, it takes Neptune 165 years to complete 1 orbit. How do you expect to find a planet like this using precession? Saturn is 29 years. All this to say, our sample size and time investment is nowhere near large enough to make any kind of claim about the standard layout of different systems.
@TheAmericanCatholic
Жыл бұрын
That’s why we need more telescopes which dwarf jwst
@epicgamersauce3516
Жыл бұрын
@another_turtle we didnt get lucky life adapted to the conditions given, and wouldnt have formed given different circumstances
@dichebach
Жыл бұрын
I think that is a potentially compelling explanation. Time, presumably will tell!
@TeaspoonYT
Жыл бұрын
Humans when they realize the solar system they live in is, in fact, super rare: 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
@bigozimak
Жыл бұрын
Now that we know for sure that our Solar System is very rare, isn't it interesting that it seems to have been made, 'for us'. Perfect stable, size and long lasting Sun. Perfect Earth with a perfect large moon to stabilise our wobble. Perfect huge Jupiter to Hoover up large dangerous objects and etc.! I'm not claiming anything, but boy o boy it seems our Solar System is a miraculous miracle!
@dAvrilthebear
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for existing in our solar system, Anton)
@farrier2708
Жыл бұрын
The fact that the Solar System is unique doesn't surprise me in the least. I think as we find out more about individual systems, the closer we will be to accepting that every system is unique, each with it's own quirks and surprises. What we really want to know is:- Can' biological life as we know it adapt to any alternative uniqueness out there?
@metatechnologist
Жыл бұрын
I'll break it to everybody. There is other life in the universe. But they're probably really small lizard worms that aren't burning things or building radios.
@ipodman371
Жыл бұрын
in terms of the chemistry, carbon based life is the only* basis for life, with those limitations the goldilocks zone is likely to be universal to any complex life in the Universe. an active core providing a magnetosphere is likely also crucial to protecting early life from radiation, as well as a dense atmosphere. having massive amounts of liquid water also greatly aided the speed of evolution on earth and is likely to be ubiquitous for the formation of Rna and then self replicating Dna. i think any life that may exist will be surprisingly similar to life here on earth, atleast on a microscopic scale.
@jonathanfielding7387
Жыл бұрын
I'm fairly confident life is common place... But only simply life, where the temperature is right and water is present. Intelligent life, like us not so common.
@FracturedOreo
Жыл бұрын
@@metatechnologist Knowing the absolute size of the universe, it would be extremely hard to not consider that there might be advanced civlizations, even if they are few and far between.
@user-hh2is9kg9j
Жыл бұрын
"Can' biological life as we know it adapt to any alternative uniqueness out there?" The answer is NO, as we have more than a dozen planets and moons in the solar system that biological life couldn't adapt to.
@bricefleckenstein9666
Жыл бұрын
Our sample size is still small - and we stlll DO NOT know a lot about other solar systems YET.
@basedtortellini
Жыл бұрын
Finally, someone who doesn't speculate about life based on the size of the universe. We have one sample size of life ever forming, and even then we don't know how it happened exactly, so it sucks to see people debate about it constantly when we just can't know right now.
@noahmay7708
Жыл бұрын
Why does it suck to see people debate a really interesting and mysterious topic? It seems like a net positive, to me.
@basedtortellini
Жыл бұрын
@@noahmay7708 Any discussion about whether or not more life is out there is just speculation. We have one sample size of abiogenesis ever occurring. It happened once on one planet, its just statistically impossible to draw conclusions based on that. I agree it is interesting to think about, but debate seems kinda meaningless when we just cant know.
@Altar-Ego
Жыл бұрын
This is the best planetary system analysis I’ve heard in years. Thank you!!
@hazyhalfmoon
Жыл бұрын
It’s really not that great of an analysis. I recommend watching Cool World’s video on the topic for a more thorough breakdown that does not include a lie by omission through ignoring observation bias.
@Poppy_69
Жыл бұрын
Hey there Anton. Hope you're doing good and the healing process is treating you good too... Thanks for all you do for our learning process and making it enjoyable. Have an amazing weekend my friend...😊
@mateigabrielzaharia4842
Жыл бұрын
I feel like this solar system is just a tutorial for us to understand the basic stuff about stars, small planets, moons, life candidate planets, rings, HUGE planets, asteroids, etc...
@Losowy
Жыл бұрын
That's actually weird yet still makes some sense
@sanic1085
Жыл бұрын
Its like some architect is out there 🧐🤔
@ShortGrump07
Жыл бұрын
I think a few things to remember when being skeptical is: • We started from the premise that we are not rare. And as we gather more data, that premise seems to weaken. It’s not like scientists began with the premise we are rare and mostly relied on data to support it. It’s just becoming harder to say otherwise; • The findings relate to the structure/architecture of a star system. Those arguing that aliens wouldn’t know Mercury or Pluto existed so how can we know etc etc are missing the point - it’s not just the location of planets, but the totality of the system (trees for forest mentality). It’s like arguing whether something’s a person by comparing their limbs and saying “yep 4 limbs, a torso, and a head, a dog is a person, therefore not special.” You gotta look at the whole, such as: • Yes, planets may be difficult to detect, but stars aren’t. And so knowing whether a system is a single, binary, multiple star system is reliable; • Similarly, the type of star is measurable too. Such as whether a star is a red dwarf or yellow dwarf; • Location of planets is important, most know about the Goldilocks zone. But that can be impacted by factors such as where a Jupiter-like planet would be located relative to terrestrial planets and its star(s). This allows us to know the likelihood of there being a terrestrial planet in the habitable zone if at all I’m sure there’s tons of other factors, but the point is that looking at the data we have now over the decades of examination, it’s getting harder to support the premise we’re not special.
@Yarblocosifilitico
Жыл бұрын
We are special for sure. As you say, too many factors had to be right in order for us to happen. But, from there to our System being "the rarest one out there", there's a leap of thought, I think. What does "out there" even encompass, exactly? We don't even know if the Universe is finite or infinite...
@falklumo
Жыл бұрын
You‘re right, but I wouldn‘t trust this particular study. Its computer model seems to miss the split into inner/outer regions once fusion kicks in and empties the inner region of H2 and He gas.
@andyhoughtaling6319
Жыл бұрын
"That concludes my essay, Mrs. Davis"
@MyouKyuubi
Жыл бұрын
@@Yarblocosifilitico nono, the solar system and it's planets are special, but we, as in life on this planet, aren't special... We're just the natural consequence of the rarest factors coming together to create planetary conditions that are perfect for us... We, LIFE, was inevitable, and common, considering the conditions we live under. Ironically life is proof that our solar system is special, but life is also the LEAST special part of our solar system. xD Life developing in a planetary system that is hostile to life, which is the most common form of planetary system in the universe, THAT would make said life special... Because life developed, regardless of the environment and circumstances. EDIT: If i end up waffling about Mars later in the thread, ignore it, lol... I was wrong.
@AnthropomorphicTrilobite
Жыл бұрын
What does special mean here? The same as low probability? Or something else that is contingent on low probability?
@CYGNO
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the summary Anton. It's kind of scary news in a way, the rarity and scarcity of life. Ever-more reason why we need to get organised here on earth.
@crnocommentary
Жыл бұрын
Keep voting democrat and that won't happen
@crnocommentary
Жыл бұрын
@@coltrxne2154 u like that lmao
@WeJamWorld
Жыл бұрын
@@crnocommentarykeep assuming that’s the problem and we will never escape our morass
@crnocommentary
Жыл бұрын
@@WeJamWorld who cares we're lucky if we got 20 years left on this planet anyway it's going to end with nuclear war and famine
@LiveFreeOrDie2A
Жыл бұрын
Before Anton got big on KZitem he moonlighted as the guy who reads the disclaimers real fast at the end of radio ads
@OrangeRadish49
Жыл бұрын
So the point is that whoever you are, you matters
@agathoklesmartinios8414
Жыл бұрын
Really seems like something that can be added to the pile of clues and evidence for the Rare Earth hypothesis... Since we seem to live in a Rare Solar System configuration.
@drstone3418
Жыл бұрын
Depends on how life adapts life life evolves faster around binary star systems. Plus if artificial . Or accidentally artificial or affects not life . If their some life that can live in a vacuum and gather materials around them or more like small black holes
@lionelmessisburner7393
Жыл бұрын
There’s probably lots of aliens out there. We can’t find them bc we don’t have the technology, and as you allude to it’s probably very rare atleast in our galaxy to have life. So their really far away. But we really don’t know. We truely don’t. One thing we know is that the universe is likely infinite and if not it’s absolutely enormous. That fact lets me know there’s probably lots of aliens but at worst their just really rare and so far away from us. But who knows.
@BooDamnHoo
Жыл бұрын
@@drstone3418Evidence? Life evolves faster around binaries? What examples are there?
@rixille
Жыл бұрын
Rare in the grand scheme of things, yet considering the number of star systems there are in our galaxy alone, I can't imagine our solar system being unique in having life in it.
@jaysonkstone
Жыл бұрын
@@BooDamnHooi.e rare earth h y p o t h e s i s
@akscrublord
Жыл бұрын
Hard to really say with certainty at this point how rare the solar system is. We have only confirmed a few thousand exoplanets, and I would bet there are easily a trillion planets or more in our galaxy alone. I think this conclusion is likely to change as we learn more. Looking forward to future updates on this topic.
@737smartin
Жыл бұрын
This science is certainly in its infancy. Still, if an earth cloud that's essentially uniform in composition and physical condition condensates into millions of unique snowflakes, it's not hard to believe clouds of matter in space, with all their tremendous variety, would "condensate" into essentially unique solar systems. 🤷
@knyghtryder3599
Жыл бұрын
And I bet that 90% are tidally locked , made of gas , Perma frozen or Perma on fire , like all the results we have ever seen
@two2truths
Жыл бұрын
@@737smartin ooooo I like that analogy!
@OverRule1
Жыл бұрын
As it looks right now with how fragile everything is leading up to now. The chance of us even being here is like hitting the power ball 10 to 20 times in a row
@bilbonob548
Жыл бұрын
@@OverRule1 I'd love to see how you remotely came to this number - as the shear number of solar systems in our galaxy alone would imply habitable zones would be inevitable... And we are living proof of that inevitability.
@orangeaedan
5 ай бұрын
The solar system also has the record for most planets with another solar system. Commonly there are just 2 planets
@experienceofchris1108
Жыл бұрын
Well seeing as how we can really only see the planets that happen to pass in front of the stars we observe we kind of have to get really lucky in order to find out exactly how many planets a solar system has
@TimeeJustin
Жыл бұрын
It sounds like this could be an answer, or at least a partial answer to the Fermi paradox. If having rocky planets close to the sun is rare then that could explain allot.
@casinodelonge
Жыл бұрын
Might be fun to see how this affects the Drake Equation.
@TMtheScratcher
Жыл бұрын
It's also interesting to consider here additional factors like the magnetic field of our planet, radiation stability of the star over time, potential stability of the planet's climate (due to rotation speed, maybe due to moon size, etc), and - probably most important - how likely does this planet experience gamma ray bursts. We know, that these were more common in the past and are still more common in the center of our galaxy. Since these have the risk of whiping out all of a planet's life, they give the presence of life in the whole universe a certain time frame to exist and grow. Life on earth probably started as early as just possible. So our planet's conditions are not just only super rare, but also at the exactly right time.
@badlaamaurukehu
Жыл бұрын
What about Tau Ceti?
@LordVader1094
Жыл бұрын
@@badlaamaurukehu What about it?
@tomc.5704
Жыл бұрын
For sure -- the Rare Earth Hypothesis is no doubt part of the answer. There's a lot of reasons why life could be rare, and when you stack them all together...who knows? Maybe it's enough to answer the question.
@ThaGamingMisfit
Жыл бұрын
What a time to live in, a time where we have so much data we can compare our system to others and conclude how rare, it is !
@IamsavedbyGodsgrace
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, all this technology stuff is just helping us see more about how AWESOME God is and how such a great artist and creator he is!!!!!!
@ThaGamingMisfit
Жыл бұрын
@@IamsavedbyGodsgrace Here trying to instigate I see. Sad time man.
@zeecapeta
Жыл бұрын
there's no way we've studied enough planets in relation to the proportion of matter in the universe to come to that conclusion
@hazembayado9521
Жыл бұрын
Great video Anton, but I laughed at the "Pure luck" statement.
@mikemcaulay9507
Жыл бұрын
I’m still making my way through the video, but my first thought is the impact of selection bias on the star systems we’re looking at. From my understanding, the methods we’ve used to discover these exoplanets lends itself to certain types of exoplanets simply by virtue of the fact that they’ve needed to be pretty huge and a few other characteristics for us to be able to detect them. While I understand our ability to discover a broader set of exoplanets has been occurring, wouldn’t the current catalog badly skew the results towards systems with things like “hot Jupiters?”
@Bildgesmythe
Жыл бұрын
You also have to start with the star. The Sun is very nice to us. Many stars blast their planets on a regular basis.
@yagwaw
Жыл бұрын
That was my first thought, too. Would have been nice to address the selection bias and how studies deal with it in the video.
@Trickey2413
Жыл бұрын
@@yagwawthe fact that the author completely ignored this inquiry is interesting.
@mikemcaulay9507
Жыл бұрын
@@hazyhalfmoon I've seen a lot of his videos and he's always been very good to mention the things to be skeptical about. I would be very surprised if this was intentional. While I only know his character through his videos, and of course, his personal tragedy, he doesn't seem the sort to do this.
@OzixiThrill
Жыл бұрын
@@evilcookie123 Honestly, even from Proxima Centauri, a mission like Kepler would probably not find anything; Maybe detect a few possible planets with not enough time to confirm them, but that's the most you'd be getting.
@richardmtl
Жыл бұрын
I believed this to be true for a while now and think this pretty much explains fermi's paradox combined with the rarity of our moon formation and then just lots of luck that nothing came to disturb us for over 5 billion years.
@greenl7661
Жыл бұрын
Fermi paradox is pretty much solved by grabby aliens. We are one of the first aliens, we will colonize stuff and then there will be no place for new aliens to appear.
@Zhohan-
Жыл бұрын
@@greenl7661 We can't even solve climate change in time before destroying the planet. So much for being the first advanced alien life.
@greenl7661
Жыл бұрын
@@Zhohan- climate change isn't likely to destroy the planet or human civilization for that matter
@E4439Qv5
Жыл бұрын
@@greenl7661 you don't see us as already living through our own mass extinction event
@Noccai
Жыл бұрын
@E4439Qv5 Climate change is a dire situation, but it is extremely unlikely to turn into an apocalyptic threat. Thankfully. Plus we have already faced similar threat before and fixed it. See the story of ozone layer, how we fucked it up, how we thought it would doom us, and how we saved it in the end.
@MrWatchingclosely
Жыл бұрын
Hi Anton, thanks for the video. Take care.
@whatdamath
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, you too!
@neilwilliams929
Жыл бұрын
Hey " hey It's good to hear from you anton 👈👏👏
@garygreen7552
Жыл бұрын
Very interesting video. One question that I did not hear was whether there are any systems with structures similar to each other? If not, then differences may be the norm with few similarities between planetary systems. The might suggest that the structure of the systems is determined by so many variables that the result appears random. That is a lot to think about.
@TheRockMorton
Жыл бұрын
My thought exactly. Thanks! More for Anton to contemplate for us.
@DevdevRetlub-oj3lf
Жыл бұрын
That's a good question
@ScientiaHistoria
Жыл бұрын
Agreed.
@hunterreeves6525
Жыл бұрын
I think he did answer that, he said the most common type of system has planets with similar mass that are close to the planet. For small stars they’re typically terrestrial and for big star typically gas giants
@blokin5039
Жыл бұрын
He did mention it by stating most other solar systems we observed have planets orbiting very closely to the star.
@glennschroeder3828
Жыл бұрын
It would be kind of funny if it turned out that most UAPs were aliens or their probes investigating how exactly life formed and evolved in such a weird star system. Us being in such a rare system could potentially lend credit to the zoo hypothesis. Aliens aren't exactly rare, but because our system is so odd its treated more or less like a wildlife preserve at least until their anthropologists are done with their research.
@joeshumo9457
Жыл бұрын
It would be even funnier if you realized that it’s never aliens. The odds are astronomically against it.
@Vanta_Blue
Жыл бұрын
@@joeshumo9457 The odds aren't 0 though, and with near infinite possibilities that makes it a near certainty. To me the biggest argument for us being alone is how young the universe is.
@ProjectMoff
Жыл бұрын
@@joeshumo9457your perceived odds are only as good as the completeness of your knowledge. Humanity barely knows anything in the grand scheme of things, so your odds are meaningless.
@Zionswasd
Жыл бұрын
@@ProjectMoff...No? Thats a fallacy, you just made it up. They don't need total knowledge of the universe at all to make those odds. They just need knowledge of two things, what made our life form, and roughly the number of star systems in the observable universe, both of which we know for sure. The odds are 100% that extraterrestrial life, non-complex or otherwise, exists, FYI. That we know for sure. Really the only question is: is it possible to detect or make contact with them considering the vast distances involved.
@angelalewis3645
Жыл бұрын
I love this idea so so much. :)
@siddbastard
Жыл бұрын
Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus work as guardians, the fact we're not tidal locked and have a huge moon is incredibly lucky ... without all that, there's no way we would be as tranquil to evolve for million of years ... of course our system is incredibly cool !
@guyledouche357
Жыл бұрын
Earth: "You may not have heard of me but....I'm kind of a big deal."
@MirorR3fl3ction
Жыл бұрын
The more we look, the more it seems like not only is our solar system odd, but even our sun, our planet, our moon, and even our galaxy is odd. Put all that together and its maybe not so surprising that we find ourselves exactly where we are and seemingly no one else in our galaxy. Other galaxies though are a big unknown. Maybe life is common universally but rare per galaxy, and we just happen to be the rare life in our galaxy
@AndrewBlacker-wr2ve
Жыл бұрын
"galaxies."
@NoisyRooster
Жыл бұрын
I actually had this thought too. Perhaps many, even most galaxies are empty but there are rare ones, like ours, that have at most one planet with intelligent life on it.
@LuisOrtiz-zu3dq
Жыл бұрын
Eh, gotta take things like this with a grain of sand. Don't know why scientists prefer hubris approach when connecting data. I mean, there are so many questions like maybe in other areas of the galaxy our solar system is common. I just don't understand why they say our galaxy, when we only have data on 5000 planets in thousands of systems out of 100 BILLION
@ruberxwibebadhi
Жыл бұрын
This isn’t about life this is about solar system like system. Read the title again.
@theslay66
Жыл бұрын
@@LuisOrtiz-zu3dq Because we have no reason to assume that our part of the galaxy is any different than any other part. There's no reason for star system formation to follow different rules on the other side of the galaxy. So the sample we get from the stars around us should be representative of what we find everywhere else.
@benderisgreat95able
Жыл бұрын
We don't need any science to prove how incredible our system is. Earth's existence up to this point is such a statistical anomaly that it makes me a hopeful agnostic.
@Clock_Man_2763
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your work Anton, you are a really wonderful person, I remember when I watched Universe Sandbox videos about 4-5 years ago then :)
@avicohen1930
Жыл бұрын
What is strange is that we have an astroid belt in the middle of our system! As this study shows, most systems are equal, most systems have closer orbits of the planets, that makes me believe that that astroids used to be another earth sized or mars sized planet, that was destroyed in some way.
@silasdense4725
Жыл бұрын
Thank you Anton. Another great video!
@slowiedovie
Жыл бұрын
Anton, thanks for your space and science content. You really make every day of mine.
@H........8
10 ай бұрын
The fact that the zone in a stars range where life is habitable; a crucial role in the development of life; one of the, if not THE most important steps of life; a criteria that, if not checked of, makes life basically IMPOSSIBLE- - - - - -and it was named after Goldilocks. We named it after a goddamn fictional character that robbed a bears house. What the Heck?
@zx4race31
Жыл бұрын
What a surprise! The more scientist think they are 100% right makes me think they are 100% not. Keep up the good work
@user-ye4gy8vx9p
Жыл бұрын
What about the sample size? How many star systems have we observed? Error rate? Always a great experience. Nice show.
@knyghtryder3599
Жыл бұрын
Basically everything is tidally locked
@harvvee7267
Жыл бұрын
There's only one Universe that we can observe
@hazyhalfmoon
Жыл бұрын
The sample size is skewed because they looked for gas giants that orbited close to their sun. That’s how Kepler detected planets, they looked for planets that blocked some of its sun’s light, repeatedly. That means the big gas giants that orbit once a week were detected quickly because of the dip they made and the repetition of the dip making them easy to spot. Kepler did not look for solar systems close to our own. Kepler cannot detect a solar system like our own, as the only planet they would be able to see orbiting the Sun fast enough, is too small to detect.
@Lmaluko
Жыл бұрын
I was wondering how much does our detection methods influence the types of star systems we tend to find a lot of the one we have come from the kepler mission, i wonder if these could be skewing the data and leading to wrong conclusions.
@tylerdurden3722
Жыл бұрын
The core of the detection method is still exactly the same. The transit method is still used as the main detection method. A star's luminosity is observed, is recorded in the form of a line graph. People are tasked with looking at the graph data for dips in luminosity (amatures also participate in looking at line graphs to find planets). The shape of that dip can be used to determine if it's caused by a planet transiting in front of the star, from our view. From that information, size and orbit can be inferred. And that's basically all one needs to draw a rough picture of that planetary system...possessing rough information on orbits, size. In our past, some planets like Neptune Uranus, (and I think Mercury as well) and Pluto, were not discovered via observation. But those were mathematically calculated by observing the orbits of Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. That was achieved since hundreds of years ago. So, the same can be done today. Observations of orbits of systems can be verified against mathematical models. The most certain way to verify a planet's orbit is to just wait until it transits a second time. Then there is no doubt whatsoever. When you know the planet's orbit, you know it's distance from the star. When you know how much light the planet blocks by passing in front of the star, you know it's size. Also, equipment on earth is also used to verify more things. E.g. Mass of the planets can also be determined by observing cyclical red and blue shifts in the star's light. When you have mass and size, you can determine density. Thus you can know if it's a Gass planet. Or a dense rocky planet. Or an inbetween ice planet.
@mryellow6918
Жыл бұрын
It's why people think most of dark matter is just rouge planets.
@fuzzblightyear145
Жыл бұрын
@@mryellow6918 I don't believe that is a widely held theory by cosmologists anymore. We'd be able to see them (through occultations and thermal radiation) and they wouldn't explain galactic rotation speeds, gravitational lensing and so on. I think this was one of the first ideas to get discounted as it was the one that we could make direct observations if it were true. (hence all the later "exotic" theories of MACHOS, WIMPS etc. If anything, the lack of direct evidence of dark matter (rather than observations of its effects) also leads to the equally intriguing idea that it may not exist at all and that we just don't understand gravity properly on the very large scale. Newton may be fine for zipping around the solar system, but perhaps not on a galactic/universe scale. Though of course, we just wait for experimental evidence either way. Maybe its a load of very heavy invisible dragons!
@avenuePad
Жыл бұрын
I think this is the case. We've barely scratched the surface in terms of our exoplanet search.
@royrogers3133
Жыл бұрын
@@tylerdurden3722the problem is that not every planet orbits around the sun in a short timeframe though. It takes Neptune 165 years to orbit the sun so it makes sense that we can’t see Neptune like planets and are only observing the planets closer to their stars that pass by it frequently.
@alancham4
9 ай бұрын
I hope ftl travel is possible. It would be something to actually visit other solar systems.
@deformedchad8616
Жыл бұрын
Imagine the reason why Aliens havent found us is because where we live in space is so rare and unique
@TheSwamper
Жыл бұрын
900, as you know, is mathematically negligible compared to how many star systems there are in our galaxy alone, not even considering the entire rest of the universe.
@allangibson8494
Жыл бұрын
No - but it provides hard evidence that less than 0.001% of star systems would have “solar system” type structures.
@sideeggunnecessary
Жыл бұрын
What number of identified systems is enough to declare we're alone? 1,000? 1 million? 10 billion? What happens when we have 10 billion and the answer is the same?
@allangibson8494
Жыл бұрын
@@sideeggunnecessary There are about 400 Billion stars in the galaxy. We can write off about a third because they are too close to the galaxy’s core black hole and another half because they are too old or young. The probability curve does get a bit spotty if we hit ten thousand and still haven’t found anything like the solar system.
@uafc1
Жыл бұрын
I've always known that Earth and the Sun are extremely rare to the point of being almost unique but the thing is, life also seems to appear in extremely inhospitable conditions in this planet, which always made me think that life was out there in a lot of places even if the star wasn't as "friendly" as the sun. They just had to evolved in a different way adjusting to the conditions of their star. But this kind of thinking doesn't help the fermi paradox at all lol
@knyghtryder3599
Жыл бұрын
No , there are places on earth with virtually no life , and life only formed once , meaning it is rare , hasn't happened since and barely fills the planet it exists on , if life can't survive earth extremes , no way it exists in binary tidally locked hell holes at least no complex life
@lucyferos205
Жыл бұрын
It's worth noting that all life on earth that's adapted to extreme conditions is still descended from the same abiogenesis as the rest of us. So what really matters is the conditions that allowed abiogenesis to take place and that the planetary conditions change slowly enough to allow lifeforms to adapt through evolution. Even extremophiles couldn't evolve on something like our moon.
@knyghtryder3599
Жыл бұрын
@@lucyferos205 Abiogenesis........ Not likely, or it would have happened more than once , or would be possible in a laboratory today
@slicedolives9902
Жыл бұрын
@@knyghtryder3599Earth-like life perhaps. However just because life formed here in these conditions doesn’t mean that all life forms in these conditions. Life could form in any planet anywhere, just not life that’s like us.
@knyghtryder3599
Жыл бұрын
@@slicedolives9902 As per my above comment, I firmly don't believe life on earth started on earth , I completely reject abiogenesis However , I don't see non-earth based 'complex' life being much different , whether you are on earth or off earth elements and molecules form the same bonds 99.9999% of anyone discussing extra terrestrial life do so romantically, science fictionally , the belief is there is somewhere like here but very different and interesting where we can go and escape our earth problems and live with our alien brethren who we will be able to communicate with , this premise I wholeheartedly disagree with , you share 90% and above the same DNA with all life on earth, yet you can't communicate with a dolphin , nor a rat nor a tree let alone a bacteria , infact most humans can't communicate across language barriers and out of the hundreds of languages, the most adept communicators have only partial intelligibility across low double digits of various languages Sorry to be the ultimate downer !
@ShockInazuma
Жыл бұрын
Earth is honestly metal. It not only survived a collision with a planet billions of years ago, but turned that planet into a ring system which then formed into the moon we all know and love.
@Fister_of_Muppets
Жыл бұрын
"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying" - Arthur C. Clarke
@masamune2984
Жыл бұрын
It wouldn’t be an astronomy video if SOMEONE didn’t always post this quote every single time.
@dylpickle6123
Жыл бұрын
I don’t think we’re alone. I think intelligent life, yes, we are alone, but life as a whole? No. Theres gotta be microscopic life out there somewhere, and can be likely mars and venus had it or started to have it
@Drak976
Жыл бұрын
"Yo I gonna dab on this whole genre and write like 3 books a month no cap" -Isaac Asimov probably
@Fister_of_Muppets
Жыл бұрын
@@masamune2984 that's crazy that you've seen that same comment in every single astronomy video. Follow the white rabbit.
@benjaminsymon
Жыл бұрын
Is it bestiality to have sex with an alien species that is more intelligent than you. I don't understand how intelligent aliens are terrifying. For them to not have exterminated themselves they would have to be incredibly humane.Given this humanness and the rareness of life its entirely possible they would treat humans better than we treat dolphins. Of course its likely they would be very different but there would probably be an agency for protection of foreign creatures. It's impossible to evolve intelligence without humanness without destroying your world. Of course if they needed to colonize our planet it would be scary. It's entirely possible they wouldn't need to though.
@emilianoborselli9787
Жыл бұрын
I wonder if next year James Webb gets us back to “We’re one among plenty” again 😅
@thejatomis
Жыл бұрын
Sol is like your single hermit friend with a weird pet collection hobby.
@Sen-ki-
Жыл бұрын
Fascinating... To think people would live there on "Earth", we've gotta investigate further
@TK199999
Жыл бұрын
The most likely reason for Sol's uniqueness is probably the Nemesis theory, the scientific one. We have seen stars born together in stellar nurseries where they form closer than some times of binary stars, but not tidally locked. So the Nemesis theory suggests that Sol had a twin Nemesis, who formed closer than some types of binaries but was not tidally locked to Sol. Then around 4 billion years ago, Sol and Nemesis went their separate ways. But because Nemesis was so close to Sol, relatively speaking, she pulled on the matter of Sol's planetary accretion disk (this may have gone both ways, with Sol pulling on Nemesis's disk too) and moved most of gas and stuff toward the center/outer edge of the planetary system. Leaving only small amount of rocky debris near the center of the of solar system. This rocky debris would become the 4 rocky inner planets and the asteroid belt. While the main part of the planetary accretion disk went on to form Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus (who may have collied with our systems super earth), Neptune and Pluto/Kuiper belt.
@leykimayri
Жыл бұрын
That is not a theory, that is a "cannot be proven hypothesis" which makes it pseudoscience
@enochianwolf
Жыл бұрын
@@leykimayrihow do you prove ancient history
@leykimayri
Жыл бұрын
@@enochianwolf By observing what happens/there is today. If you can’t or it shows you nothing, then you just can’t prove it and it will remain an unproven hypothesis forever. And since it can’t be proven it falls under the umbrella of pseudoscience….
@enochianwolf
Жыл бұрын
@@leykimayri with your logic, the idea that George Washington can be proven to have existed is pseudoscience
@sloesty
Жыл бұрын
@@leykimayri i would not call this pseudoscience, since evidence may arise, and it is based on current day observations. Very different.
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