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Have you ever noticed that vacation days go by twice as fast as workdays? Well, maybe that’s precisely what’s happening. The Earth doesn’t spin on its axis once in exactly twenty-four hours as we used to think. In fact, its rotation speed can change. On July the nineteenth, twenty twenty scientists recorded the shortest day in history. It was almost a millisecond and a half shorter than usual. Moreover, researchers believe that the Earth's rotation rate will continue to increase.
But how fast? Four and a half billion years ago, the day on our planet lasted for just four hours. What if Earth starts spinning so fast again?
In this video, you’ll find out: can raindrops fall in the opposite direction? How to reach zero gravity on our planet? And what will happen to us if Earth starts spinning at the speed of light?
Imagine getting one of the coolest superpowers ever – an ability to teleport! I have no doubts you’ll immediately want to travel from your dull office to a warm sunny resort. But don’t rush. Mind that after the very first leap, you can find yourself not on the Mexican seashore but in the cold vacuum of space. That is, if you aren't blown to atoms. And the trip can seem to last an eternity. In the real world, even having access to super technologies and superpowers doesn’t guarantee that you can instantly move from one place to another like sci-fi movie characters. But we’ll try to make the whole thing work! In this video, you’ll find out: how can teleportation kill you? Why are rocket engines indispensable even for a superhero jumper? And can we make teleportation work in the real world?
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In nineteen twenty-nine, researchers who were studying an ancient people named Oroch asked one of their shamans to draw a map of the Universe. The local sorcerer insisted that the Universe is surrounded by an invisible sphere with periodic holes that Orochs called "the mouth of the skies." The old man refused to tell where, in his opinion, those portals lead. Nowadays, this understanding of the world seems rather funny, but... can we find a better answer to the question they challenged the shaman with?
In this video, you’ll learn what space structures threaten humanity if we have a chance of living forever and whether we can find the boundary of the Universe.
At the beginning of 2022, a huge “sea dragon” was found in Britain! That’s what terrifying Ichthyosaurus is sometimes called. This beast lived in the waters of the Jurassic era one hundred eighty million years ago. It could easily swallow a human!
This carnivorous marine reptile unearthed in Britain reached up to ten meters in length. This is one of the most giant and complete skeletons of Ichthyosaurus in the history of paleontology. Broadly speaking, 2021 was quite full of surprising discoveries that let scientists see dinosaurs in a new light.
In this video, you’ll find out: what kind of weapon did the ancient reptiles have? Why is the famous t-rex not just one but several predators at the same time? Who was an even bigger and scarier creature?
That’s the question that puzzles scientists who are monitoring the Moon. The thing is, our satellite is acting really weird: flaring up, erupting the fire, producing multicolored fog. It raises the question: is this celestial body okay? Astronomers can't yet determine exactly what all these unusual Moon symptoms mean.
Although the satellite is really close to our planet and was visited by both spacecraft and astronauts, it turned out that there's still so much that we don't know about our nearest neighbor. But the worst part is any catastrophe that could happen to the Moon would undoubtedly affect us.
In this video, you’ll find out: why is it dangerous for astronauts to land on the Moon? Can our satellite explode? And most importantly, can the Moon wipe out humanity?
In 2017, the Very Large Array Radio Telescope located in the plains of New Mexico detected radio bursts in a star-forming galaxy that lies five hundred million light-years away from us. The bursts happened in a binary star system where one of the stars had once turned into a black hole. It sank to the star's outer layers, which made it emit a tremendous amount of gas and dust. And when the black hole swallowed up the star’s core, gravitational forces triggered energy flow in the star’s layers. And that's precisely what we saw on Earth.
That was how a dying star warned us of a terrible danger – Space Cannibalism. These events took place far away from Earth, but is it a rare occasion in outer space? Who might be the one to attack us? And is it possible to get away from space cannibals?
There have appeared many new scientific discoveries since that time, and many of them shake the foundations of the famous theory. It’s full of gaps and unanswered questions. So doesn't this mean it’s not that perfect?
In this video, I’ll tell you: how many dimensions can the Universe have? What if the world was made of liquid? And most importantly, you’ll find out why the Big Bang theory can be wrong.
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A phrase that quite accurately characterizes our time, has been floating around the internet for a long time. Born too late to explore the world, born too early to explore the Universe. Indeed, humanity hasn't flown beyond the limits of near-Earth orbit. But In terms of discovering new lands, the anonymous author clearly spoke too soon. As it turns out, in 2017 a new continent was discovered - Zealandia. A couple of years later, scientists discovered that it was directly connected to the most dangerous volcanos on the Earth.
What do this hidden continent and ring of fire have in common?
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Our starry sky deceives us. Four out of five stars you see from Earth are, in fact, binary star systems. There are also triple systems, but binary ones are the most common in the Universe. So, in theory, Earth had a better chance of ending up in a binary solar system. However, it's infrequent that such systems have planets, and it's pretty dangerous to live in an unstable world like this. But what if we try? In this video, you’ll find out: how can we turn our Jupiter into a star? If we do, will it bring unbearable heat or, instead, permafrost to Earth? And will we manage to survive if a star appears in the Sun’s orbit?
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Scientists recently discovered an exoplanet from the Draco constellation, which is seven times the size of its star. It’s comparable in scale with a volleyball revolving around a tennis ball. In this video, you'll find out: what celestial bodies don't fit into the usual model of the Universe? Can a planet "swell up"? Will Earth become larger than the Sun? And most importantly, how can a planet be bigger than its star?
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A unique find was discovered in the permafrost of Siberia. Meet Sparta, a lion cub. It’s the best-preserved frozen specimen from the last Ice Age ever found. Lions usually sleep twenty hours a day, but this lion cub took a twenty-eight-thousand-year nap. Despite this, it has well-preserved fur, internal organs, skeleton, and even whiskers. But most importantly, the cub may still hold some of its mother’s milk inside it. Thanks to it, scientists will be able to determine what the lion cub’s mother used to feed on.
For many years, the information concerning what lions could eat under the harsh Siberian conditions remained a mystery. But there’s a downside to such finds. Exploring the ice mountains of Siberia, scientists can encounter not only perfectly preserved creatures but also perfectly preserved viruses. And the worst part is that, unlike a lion cub, viruses can recover on their own.
In this video, you'll find out: will we be able to see a living mammoth? What kind of menace has the Siberian freezer kept for us for years? And should we oppose the research missions to Siberia?
This fish existed eighty million years ago and inhabited the planet along with titanosaurs and pterodactyls. Only the Frilled Shark managed to survive to the present day, and practically hasn't changed at all. Is it possible to meet one in our time? And would it really be possible to survive after such a meeting? Now, we're going to find out!
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In less than ten minutes, you will learn why what is happening right now under our feet can destroy the entire familiar world. Why can the Amazon rainforest completely disappear, and the usual wind can be cause millions of deaths? And what does the journey from Antarctica to Uruguay have to do with it?
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If you've ever watched Star Trek, you've probably heard about red matter. With the help of this substance, the film created a bomb and epically destroyed a planet.
Of course, red matter is just a fiction of the creators of the series. And the reaction of scientists to such a scenario is easy to imagine. In reality, such a substance would have to have a mass millions of times larger than the Earth and instantly collapse - therefore, according to official science, it’s simply impossible to create such a bomb to destroy planets. Or is it still possible?
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There are really dangerous venomous creatures on our planet. In this video, you’ll find out: what animal can poison you if you touch it with your hands? Whose bites can cause the most unbearable pain and suffering? And what venomous animals pose the greatest threat to human life?
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In fact, there are many videos on the Internet about the disappearance of humanity from our planet. There are even documentaries. But all of them simulate a situation where people have disappeared forever, you may have seen them before. Today, I want to tell you what would happen if humanity disappeared for just twenty-four hours. Are car accidents and fallen airplanes all that can happen? I won't keep you waiting, I already have the answer.
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