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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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2 months ago

March 13, 2024

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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!

#nasa #space #comparison #solarsystem

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35 Comments

@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…

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@Z-Ren

March 13, 2024 at 2:06 pm

dog

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@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.

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@coyotaro

March 13, 2024 at 2:41 pm

Banana for scale please

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@Gebohq

March 13, 2024 at 3:29 pm

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

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@AlternateHoney

March 13, 2024 at 4:42 pm

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

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@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

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@Jules.11011

March 14, 2024 at 3:42 am

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

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- @pimpmastert4980
  
  March 15, 2024 at 2:48 am
  
  😆😆😆
  
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- @Yourmission9
  
  March 19, 2024 at 8:19 pm
  
  Or Uranus
  
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@jerrygreenest

March 14, 2024 at 6:42 am

78 whales, well that’s comprehensible at least

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@joshuaperrine2019

March 14, 2024 at 12:27 pm

This just made it harder to understand😂😂😂

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@RandyLent

March 14, 2024 at 3:54 pm

Insane whooaa

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@ImGoosey

March 14, 2024 at 5:59 pm

Absolutely amazing concept! I love you brilliant Vsauce2!

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@GooseCee

March 14, 2024 at 5:59 pm

Absolutely amazing concept! I love you brilliant Vsauce2!

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@Guilous

March 14, 2024 at 9:42 pm

Love the video but i think you should work on thumbnails

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@thermidorthelobster4645

March 15, 2024 at 6:40 am

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

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@ImBarryScottCSS

March 15, 2024 at 12:38 pm

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

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@pickrzz

March 15, 2024 at 1:01 pm

US Measurements be like:

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@theonlycatonice

March 16, 2024 at 2:21 am

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

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- @kozmobluemusic
  
  May 7, 2024 at 5:23 am
  
  it’s like one of those American measurement unit memes
  
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@suzannecyoung

March 16, 2024 at 3:05 pm

🤯

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@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.

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@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.

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@KyleIng

March 19, 2024 at 1:26 am

Popular science is back baby!!!!

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@MrMattkid

March 27, 2024 at 10:41 pm

Sorry this is wrong because it includes Pluto

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- @archaicbeliefs1114
  
  April 7, 2024 at 9:51 am
  
  And the sun and moon arnt a planet too XD
  
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@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.

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@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?”

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@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.

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@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

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@thanksfernuthin

April 13, 2024 at 12:45 am

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

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@AnglophobiaIsevil7

April 13, 2024 at 1:29 pm

My anus is certainly not a grizzly bear!

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@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

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@nickshamas

April 24, 2024 at 8:03 pm

Why drugs and YouTube don’t mix well.

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