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Planets As Animals – To Scale 3D Mass Comparison

If Earth is a labrador dog and Venus is a human child, then gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter must also match masses with their own animals… like an African forest elephant and a herd of 7 giraffes. You can understand the real scale of vast celestial bodies by comparing their relative sizes to animals…

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If Earth is a labrador dog and Venus is a human child, then gas giants like Saturn and Jupiter must also match masses with their own animals… like an African forest elephant and a herd of 7 giraffes.

You can understand the real scale of vast celestial bodies by comparing their relative sizes to animals on Earth that we’re familiar with — and then you can see them all in 360-degree 3D animation. We’ve paired the real scale of all the planets in our solar system to a range of small and large animals worldwide, like Pluto as a tiny black rat and Mercury as a kitten — and of course, the Sun, which by comparison to the planets has a scaled mass of 78 blue whales.

The cosmos is everywhere, all around us, all the time… it just depends on your perspective.

See you in the future!

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  1. @FlorianLinscheid

    March 13, 2024 at 2:04 pm

    Just 78 blue whales vs a Labrador? I mean that’s still a lot but I expected way more to be honest. Like that all animals on earth wouldn’t be enough. I’m kinda blown away right now…

  2. @Z-Ren

    March 13, 2024 at 2:06 pm

    dog

  3. @bman5988

    March 13, 2024 at 2:16 pm

    Cool! Shout out to Pluto! He’s back! And since you did the moon too, I want to see ALL the moons.

  4. @coyotaro

    March 13, 2024 at 2:41 pm

    Banana for scale please

  5. @Gebohq

    March 13, 2024 at 3:29 pm

    The video title should probably say mass comparison, not size comparison, unless I’m missing something.

  6. @AlternateHoney

    March 13, 2024 at 4:42 pm

    There’s just something to be said about a dramatic pan from “Labrador” to “Uranus”

  7. @Conrad500

    March 13, 2024 at 7:04 pm

    What the fuck is popular science now? I thought this was a meme post, a very educational and good meme post, but still a meme post, and then the pop sci logo came up.

    Mad lads. Utterly mad, but god damn if it doesn’t make me excited to see what more will come

  8. @Jules.11011

    March 14, 2024 at 3:42 am

    I was fully prepared for the sun to be “your mom”

    • @pimpmastert4980

      March 15, 2024 at 2:48 am

      ????????????

    • @Yourmission9

      March 19, 2024 at 8:19 pm

      Or Uranus

  9. @jerrygreenest

    March 14, 2024 at 6:42 am

    78 whales, well that’s comprehensible at least

  10. @joshuaperrine2019

    March 14, 2024 at 12:27 pm

    This just made it harder to understand????????????

  11. @RandyLent

    March 14, 2024 at 3:54 pm

    Insane whooaa

  12. @ImGoosey

    March 14, 2024 at 5:59 pm

    Absolutely amazing concept! I love you brilliant Vsauce2!

  13. @GooseCee

    March 14, 2024 at 5:59 pm

    Absolutely amazing concept! I love you brilliant Vsauce2!

  14. @Guilous

    March 14, 2024 at 9:42 pm

    Love the video but i think you should work on thumbnails

  15. @thermidorthelobster4645

    March 15, 2024 at 6:40 am

    7 giraffes? Surely a cetacean could have fitted in there.

  16. @ImBarryScottCSS

    March 15, 2024 at 12:38 pm

    Square law makes this video very misleading when thinking in volumetric terms.

  17. @pickrzz

    March 15, 2024 at 1:01 pm

    US Measurements be like:

  18. @theonlycatonice

    March 16, 2024 at 2:21 am

    7 Giraffes made me laugh ???????????? it’s like a weirdly specific thing

    • @kozmobluemusic

      May 7, 2024 at 5:23 am

      it’s like one of those American measurement unit memes

  19. @suzannecyoung

    March 16, 2024 at 3:05 pm

    ????

  20. @clsanchez77

    March 16, 2024 at 6:52 pm

    This was really awesome. Could have did the asteroid belt as a school of fish.

    Oh, and on the moon, is equal to a squirrel with the nut or without the nut. I did notice any other animals holding food.

  21. @fractalsourceresearch

    March 16, 2024 at 8:05 pm

    Interesting. If one takes a “beast” to be a planet, then the Book of Revelation takes on a more coherent narrative.

  22. @KyleIng

    March 19, 2024 at 1:26 am

    Popular science is back baby!!!!

  23. @MrMattkid

    March 27, 2024 at 10:41 pm

    Sorry this is wrong because it includes Pluto

    • @archaicbeliefs1114

      April 7, 2024 at 9:51 am

      And the sun and moon arnt a planet too XD

  24. @xkennyPLx

    April 4, 2024 at 12:39 am

    Wake up, babe! New religion just dropped! All hail the 78 blue whales that provide us with life sustaining blubber.

  25. @Leron...

    April 4, 2024 at 5:01 pm

    Just remember this helpful mnemonic: “I’m not Kitten when I tell you this 6-Year-Old’s Labrador chased a Squirrel to Turkey where it saw 7 Giraffes. Also, did you know that the Elephant, Grizzly Bear, and Horse are all scared of Rats?”

  26. @megadog9305

    April 5, 2024 at 9:22 pm

    Ah yes, the old mnemonic, 78 Blue Whales, Kitten, Child (6), Labradoor (and Squirrel (Grey)), Turkey, 7 Giraffes, Elephant, Bear (Grizzly), Horse, Rat. It’s honestly the easiest way to remember the planets and also Pluto and the Moon.

  27. @vaszgul736

    April 6, 2024 at 11:39 am

    I’m not sure that child model is to scale, look at the dog and the cat. Hilarious

  28. @thanksfernuthin

    April 13, 2024 at 12:45 am

    Thanks for including Pluto. Fuck those guys. We can’t have an honorary planet?

  29. @AnglophobiaIsevil7

    April 13, 2024 at 1:29 pm

    My anus is certainly not a grizzly bear!

  30. @CoperliteConsumer

    April 13, 2024 at 1:29 pm

    My anus is certainly not a grizzly bear!

  31. @justinbaker2883

    April 13, 2024 at 8:20 pm

    Ive watched dozens of these scale solar system videos and i guess the part i dont get is the gravity of it all. Its all so spread out and gravity is so weak, how come a pod of whales aint pulling planketon in via gravity

  32. @nickshamas

    April 24, 2024 at 8:03 pm

    Why drugs and YouTube don’t mix well.

  33. @jagrutinabar

    May 19, 2024 at 6:54 am

    Bear

  34. @skipperbentdk

    July 8, 2024 at 7:35 pm

    Space is fake and g…ai 🙂

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