Rings around planetary bodies is surprisingly common. So why doesn’t the Earth have rings? Today we take a look at how rings form, what kind of rings Earth could have, how they would have shaped humanity, and why many scientists believe once upon a time, we did.TRANSCRIPT:Astronomers have...
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In today’s Lightning Round video, we look at the upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, which is predicted to find rogue planets through a process called “microlensing.” It’s predicted that the universe is teeming with rogue planets, which are planets that don’t orbit around a star...
In 2001, the city of Kerala, India experienced a freak storm event. Granted, storms are nothing unusual in India but this storm was unique because the rain was red. Blood red. The theories around this included everything from desert sand, to rust, to literal alien biology. But the truth...
History is filled with stories of giants, from Goliath in the Bible to the giants of Patagonia, which Magellan and other explorers reported finding in the 1500s. Most of these accounts are nothing more than myths and legends, but there have been verified cases of human gigantism that blur...
Over here in the US, we catch a lot of grief for having never switched to the metric system, but the fact of the matter is, we tried several times. So today let’s talk about the history of metric in the US, all the times that we tried to make the switch, and why each one failed...