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!
#nasa #space #comparison #solarsystem
@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…
@Z-Ren
March 13, 2024 at 2:06 pm
dog
@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.
@coyotaro
March 13, 2024 at 2:41 pm
Banana for scale please
@Gebohq
March 13, 2024 at 3:29 pm
The video title should probably say mass comparison, not size comparison, unless I’m missing something.
@AlternateHoney
March 13, 2024 at 4:42 pm
There’s just something to be said about a dramatic pan from “Labrador” to “Uranus”
@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
@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
@jerrygreenest
March 14, 2024 at 6:42 am
78 whales, well that’s comprehensible at least
@joshuaperrine2019
March 14, 2024 at 12:27 pm
This just made it harder to understand😂😂😂
@RandyLent
March 14, 2024 at 3:54 pm
Insane whooaa
@ImGoosey
March 14, 2024 at 5:59 pm
Absolutely amazing concept! I love you brilliant Vsauce2!
@GooseCee
March 14, 2024 at 5:59 pm
Absolutely amazing concept! I love you brilliant Vsauce2!
@Guilous
March 14, 2024 at 9:42 pm
Love the video but i think you should work on thumbnails
@thermidorthelobster4645
March 15, 2024 at 6:40 am
7 giraffes? Surely a cetacean could have fitted in there.
@ImBarryScottCSS
March 15, 2024 at 12:38 pm
Square law makes this video very misleading when thinking in volumetric terms.
@pickrzz
March 15, 2024 at 1:01 pm
US Measurements be like:
@theonlycatonice
March 16, 2024 at 2:21 am
7 Giraffes made me laugh 😂😂😂 it’s like a weirdly specific thing
@suzannecyoung
March 16, 2024 at 3:05 pm
🤯
@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.
@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.
@KyleIng
March 19, 2024 at 1:26 am
Popular science is back baby!!!!
@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
@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.
@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?”
@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.
@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
@thanksfernuthin
April 13, 2024 at 12:45 am
Thanks for including Pluto. Fuck those guys. We can’t have an honorary planet?
@AnglophobiaIsevil7
April 13, 2024 at 1:29 pm
My anus is certainly not a grizzly bear!
@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
@nickshamas
April 24, 2024 at 8:03 pm
Why drugs and YouTube don’t mix well.