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Imagine making a "yo momma so fat" joke to Michael, then he goes on for 15 minutes explaining how yo momma is larger than the observable universe.
@Im Bored sounds legit
Lmao Note to self dont talk abt facts within 15km of micheal
Altho the height of Tacko Fall(an NBA Player)IS 7’6”
@@donandremikhaelibarra6421 wtf u trippin on abt
I can see that happening
Clicked to see how big a person can get, found out that I’m immortal
What ?
@@xannax7183 he talks about the light we give off goes on forever making us immortal
@@andrewleaming3049 oh
0/10 video, mislead and found out info i didnt want to know /j
That’s a vsauce video in nutshell
"Your light - your personal glow - isn't really bounded... by anything." Thanks Michael. I don't know how you always turn scientific topics into inspirational messages but it gets me every time.
Imagine my photons are being absorbed by space objects right now, and I'm sitting here thinking they are immortalizing me
these videos are timeless, so fun to watch even after almost 10 years. so much respect for you michael, youve been a big part of my childhood
This will always be my comfort show
You are so right, I didn't even notice the video was 10 years old until you said it, I was 7 by the time this video was made and posted
love to get stoned and rewatch
@@ElpitxitarevoltosaI noticed when he showed veritasums channel on the old school KZhead lmao
The only question I have for michael is why doesnt he age?
12:34 “It keeps going and through outer space.” “Which of course brings us to Australia” WHAT
I know right!!! I died!!
Derek lives in Australia
For a second i thought Australia is in outer space i was like wait wtf 😂😂
Australia is not real and it's just a show with paid actor on a spaceship in outer space.
If you plan to watch vsauce a lot get used to this
Came for the height limit of a human, left with an existential crisis
Every Vsauce video ever
big booty judy vsauce in a nutshell
Lord. Minion kurzgesagt should make a video on that :)
welcome to vsauce
ayy murdoc
“We are likely to hit a ceiling” -vsauce, master of accidental puns.
"there are no accidents" -- old turtle
Can you imagine the world we'd live in if school was 6 hours of this a day growing up
The world would be significantly better
We'd have solved global warming by now and natural selection would have weeded out all the dumb people.
We would all be Einstein’s Reincarnate
i would be excited to go to school if that was what it was all about
I'd be Elon Musk by then
"The tallest man alive was 8 feet tall-" Ten minutes later "Frogs can see individual photons" okay Michael
Hahahhaha :))
Hey, DAT5 PRTY GUDD!
I Was Promised Jetpacks lol funny joke
9 feet actually
That_Casual_Person 8' 11&1/2in....but why quibble, eh?
Me: "How tall can a person get?" Michael: *"In space, no one can hear you scream"*
Carrot Fly also you: stealing comments
Pewdiepie's entire comment section:
But could they also see you scream? Or could they even see you at all?
@@Grey_Warden_Invasion Light also travels in space.
This deserves more likes lol
At 7:30 When he said no one will hear you scream, the music disappears.
Can't be a Vsauce video without a very interesting question, a proper but slightly generic answer, and then expanding upon the question beyond comprehension with a few topic diversions and then an extremely inspirational message in the end. Seriously, that's kinda the general layout of most if not all of Michael's older videos, and I'm all for it.
I like how he says blue whales “like” swimming in the water as if they had a choice
I like how you say you like how he says blue whales "like" swimming in the water as if they had a choice as if you had a choice.
Don't they?
@@kusanagi-no-tachi5303 I like how you say you like how he says he likes how he says blue whales "like" swimming in the water as if they had a choice as if he had a choice as if you had a choice.
Ha
@@LK_707 I like how you say you like how he says he likes how he says he likes how he says blue whales "like" swimming in the water as if they had a choice as if he had a choice as if he had a choice as if you had a choice.
1 minute this guy could be talking about kangaroos the next minute he would be talking about how much centipedes eat
ikr lol
Ikr he seems like he'd be fun at parties
+Pranalee Joshi that's what I hate about his videos, also how he pops back up onto the screen every 30 seconds
You mean the random topics, or the popping?
that's the beauty of Vsauce
that one friend explaining why he isn't short
Lol
Vsauce: How Big Can a Person Get? Also Vsauce's Conclusion: You are bigger than the entire universe and is basically immortal.
Starts on height Ends on photons and immortality
As one does
Starts from facts, ends with philosophy
@@TJ-rm2rs answer is 42
This is why I like vsauce - the unpredictable detour of philosophical thoughts!
That glow that is not bound by anything, that Light, is God. Im tellin you, everytime science gets a stump where they dont kno what something is, its always deeper, why cant yall admit that energy source that cant be seen, is God. How could it not be?
A breed of grizzly has a nose 7x stronger than a bloodhound. Great. That's the last thing we need. POLICE BEARS.
Rainy Meadows lol
Rainy Meadows Hey, at least they'll be more calm and reasonable than the human police we have!
WOOP WOOP THATS THE SOUND OF THE POLICE BEARS
true
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9:12 vintage KZhead lol this is why vsauce videos are incredible, their editing and vibe is timeless
I went to elementary school with a kid that had a pituitary gland tumor and he was already as tall as the teacher in kindergarten. He had a surgeries to try and stop him from growing more but I moved away before I saw him again. Hope he's doing alright
Me: How tall can a human get? Michael: Here's me holding a can
TXXIC SHADXW this is such an underrated comment
@@coletonfleury9505 thank you
Very underrated comment!!
Noodle's Club why do people call comments underrated it literally has like a thousand likes
Marcus N it probably didn’t have many when he wrote it
How to record a vsauce video: Step 1: get super high and write down every question you think of while high Step 2: sober up and do all the research
Yeah pretty much
Naaa he still on something recording this shit 😂
step 3: get high again to record this shit
@@jasperrosa1369 ya he on yo mom
i dont even need to be high to think of the questions, but i need to be high to get through the process of researching it
0:45 for anyone not aware, Igor Vovkovinski passed away on 08/20/2021. The Rochester community misses him dearly.
0:49 He died today, RIP.
Rip
*Please don't call our bodies **_"skin containers"_* *Instead please use the terminology **_"Flesh Tupperware"_*
Flesh armor
Foreskins
@@hexcrimson2511 agreed
Me, an intellectual: Skinvelope
Meat Mech
"so how tall are you?" "eh, about 26 light years" "???"
100 billion light years tall
@@sheraphrajbhandari7130 in that case you are 100 billion years old beceause light's speed is limited and travel a lightyear every years (that's why we call it lightyears) you are your age lightyears tall
@@blewcraft. and light from the parts closer to the ground (feet, legs, etc) would reach us faster than the parts higher up so if he was 100 billion light-years tall and we looked at him from the ground we would very (very very) slowly start to see more and more of him as the years went on
Actually, it would travel in all directions, so you would be your age * 2 light-years tall (and wide).
Pretty much tall
Me explaining to the girl that I’m not 5’1 I’m the size of the observable universe
Hey Michael! Morgan here. It’s 4 AM and I am so high I can’t tell if I’m wearing my contact lenses or not. Please, please tell me how big a person can get.
Loll
Michael: How big is the Sun compared to an ant? *one minute later* Michael: That's why some oranges are dangerous.
i was lafing at this for 2 minutes at 10 55am and woke up helf my family.
singing super hero haha original comment. You’re so brave and funny
singing super hero you got the whole squad laughing 😐
timestamp?
I laughed
Question:"how big can you get?" Conclusion:"You are immortal"
That came up right after I read this.
that was smooth
Love how your videos start in one way and end up in a totally different direction but still related to the central topic. It is even possible to detected those who watched the whole video from those who did not by reading the comments.
Technically, all objects in the universe has a slight gravitational impact on all other objects in the universe. So by that measure, we’re all as big as the entire universe.
You are underrated
Your mim
This is the dumbest thing I’ve read
Me: How tall can someone actually be? Michael: Frogs can see you glow from the edges of the universe. Me: Oh, okay, so tall
Damn no comments feels bad
Kade Van Ry haha
My favorite comment!
Read it as he said it. 13:04
No, frogs at the edges of the universe can't see you... ...at least not yet. ;-) Even if you assume that a creature like a frog exists at a place so far away, there is still the limitation in time and the speed of light. Not even the first ligtht of our sun, which had flashed up around 5 billion years ago, has reached the edges of our universe.
“Girl you are glowing, literally.” Can’t wait until I use this one in a bar and then explain this whole thing to a poor girl while drunk.
I'd like but it's 69. Guess I'll wait for some bastard to do it
@@morallyitsdisgusting.perso6534 do it
have you done it yet? please update.
@@darshanpatel.1782 we need to know
We’re waiting…
Recently discovered vsauce and I LOVE all these questions he find answers to, and I love that every video ends with some philosophycal toughts.
Bro this comment has been sitting here for one year and yet only has 4 likes 😞
I stopped paying attention for like two minutes and he's talking about how no one can hear you scream in space...
Title: How Big Can A Person Get? "Hey, Vsauce! Michael here! 10cm" well that's all the info I need
Isn't that your measurement?
I got the 420th like
I guess many generations *broke the 10cm record*
That's my weewee size :)
Dr.drama goddamn yours is still bigger than mine :/
History teacher: "Galileo was brilliant" Galileo: "check out this thicc bone I drew"
W I D E
E X P A N D
LENGTH
*I N T E R N A T I O N A L L Y G I G A N T I C*
*H U M O N G O U S*
It's good to see these videos still live here... cheers mate, whoever you are 😘😘
4:50 but what about your mom?
Start of episode: “How tall can a person be?” End: “How many photons are in a raw purple tomato?”
Halfway through the episode: *nobody can hear you scream in space*
Idek what im watching anymore halfway in 😳 and I’m high af so I’m just vibing.
Yeah, I was kinda wanting to see a theoretical dinosaur sized human. Instead, light goes forever........... Me: But I wanna see a hypothetical dinosaur sized human. Science: That's not a thing. Me: Yeah but hypothetically.... Science: Just no. Here are some facts instead. Me: 😢 Ok.
and in the mid of the episode: so... AUSTRALIA
matt rickard I feel you, buddy. I feel you. 😭
Girls: I only date guys taller than 6 feet. Me: *bigger than the observable universe*
Well no
You're as big as the light you emit could've travelled since your birth
@@youtubehandleorsomething ok, well then I would be 7.049522e+13 miles tall (roughly)
I may not be as big as the observable universe, although I am 13 light-years tall and wide.
@@hehtbbsisuecejsisyevrhsjbe6614 what if she doesn't date... wide guys?
12:43 it’s funny how he says “if you’re not subscribed” and in the top right you see he isn’t
Andre the giant is such a gigachad, he's irresistible.
Hello checkmark guy
Every girl on Tinder: 1:48 Me: 5:46
Underrated comment XD
0:23
XD
1:37
XD
Vsauce logic: "how big can a human get?" ok so far so good * 7 mins later * "No one in space can hear you scream..." ...
He likes tangents
When you call Michael, Vsauce. I see you're new to the channel.
Omg its at 420 likes i shall not like it for this reason
top kek His name is Michael. And yep ... I laughed.
This made me laugh and choke on tea
Individual photons of you: I will reach the entire universe Black Hole: I will end this entire man career
2:05 "Likely to hit a ceiling." No, quite literally hit our head on a ceiling.
Im just going to go ahead and say what we're all thinking... "how the hell do you weigh a blue whale?"
@@John-iu9kl that would measure volume not weight so your quick maths is wrong
Yeah, you should know the exact density of the whale's body.
Put the earth in a bag, hang the bag on a scale, and then remove the whale. Edit: duh.
you put it on a scale
they asked the whale nicely
question: how big can a person get? answer: you are in a way, kinda immortal
kzhead.info/sun/qJ2hkdmLqZuejIk/bejne.html
@@internetuser4210 thats how it works today it will make no sense but in future it will make sense
@@namanpahuja7653 How would you know? Wait are you from the future?!?!?!
@@internetuser4210 welp you are responding a 7 months old comment so tecnically you are from the future
@@gabrielreda I guess so
The music that comes on when he asks a serious question tells you you're in for a ride. I like that, it's like the first drop to a roller coaster. He's got it all!
Rest in peace, Igor Vovkovinskiy
“but here’s the thing about light, it doesn’t need a medium to travel through, it just keeps going into space” *”which of course brings us to Australia”*
If Australia did exist then it’s space
@Liam Davis same here
I was thinking , maybe i am dumb. But thanks for telling me ,i am not.
Astronomy aside, for people in Western Europe Australia lies at the border of the observable universe...
i read this so it happened lol
2:10 - "We are likely to hit a ceiling" Literally the best pun ever.
I don't like this guy as a person, not at all, but his work is fine.
@@seanleith5312 ok
@@seanleith5312 how dare you
@@seanleith5312 I don't entirely see who asked but you do you bud
I don't get the pun :I Could someone plz explain?
That kinda made me feel really good when you said "it kinda makes a immortal in a way" 🖤
this is why I love Vsauce, bc it starts with a relatively simple questions and I end learning I am immortal
King crimson islands bruh
@@mirror1001 W ALBUM
@@rporta islands was never my absolute favorite but it grew on me
"No one...can hear you scream", thank you Vsauce
ShellShocking Masochist ( screams in neighbors eats as loud as can )
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No one can hear you meme ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
no one can hear you cream
to what?
Question: How big can a person get? Answer: Frogs can see individual photons
@XK when's ya funeral?
@XK R.I.P gone too soon
I call cap on that by the way
Me on the IELTS test...
I love the music he use in his videos. It sounds like oceans eleven music mixed with elevator music
2:11 "but beyond that, we are likely to hit, a ceiling" i always interpeted this line from the video literally, but it works with both meanings i guess
Me: Hi Michael how are you Michael: In space nobody can hear you scream
*stabbing noises*
In Russia, nobody can hear you scream
@@normalpeep5287 *inaudible stabbing noise
YT_yoshi yolo as I read that Michael said In space,no one can hear you scream.
It's a quote. Lol
_sniff sniff_ "Do you smell that? It might be… you." MICHAEL
Lmao
I love how he never puts a video of other people but encourage us to watch them
10:17 Mate ripped the most deafening damn fart ever
"About 4 inchs" Yeah I know..
mood
I felt this
You wish you had it
???
F
Question: How Big Can a Person Get? Answer: *I'm immortal.*
@MrSisterFister 2 Just what I was thinking
@MrSisterFister 2 ahahahaha happens i guess xD
@MrSisterFister 2 literally your first reply was "Bruh momentum" which is kinda creepy because I used to say that a lot (a bit too much) on my old Discord account.
*********lity!?????!!!!!
This comment chain is a ride
After he said “He is the tallest man currently alive”, I half expected him to say “or his he?” *vsauce music*
time to change my render distance
Watching a Vsauce video: Expect to learn something interesting but rather trivial (like for example how big a human can get) but end up with questioning your own existence / mortality. Always.
Wow I was just about to comment the same thing
Haha yeah it's simply true..
yeah true
Alexander Grimm thats why I don't watch him .-.
Alexander Grimm every time.
I literally farted right as you started sniffing and asking, "Do you smell that?"
lmao
Jarwd im litterally ROTFL
It might be.... you
Jarwd me to
ROFLCOPTER
"No one can hear you **scream**" 7:34
Istg this man must be the best at changing convo topics
“Bruh” -Albert Einstein
@Audrey Lieu Nalugon “lol” -Albert Einstein
Can’t like your comment man, You got 69 likes
@@chunky_kit-kat1343 lol
Bruh
🤣🤣🤣
Skin: • Vital organ for protecting the body from foreign viruses/bacteria❌ • *c o n t a i n e r* ✅
Side Walk yes
My brain: *C O O K I E. J A R*
built in onesie
Why do all humans have skin?
@@Sergio-fu7mv not me, I had *c o n t a i n e r*
Michael: Gives me an existential crisis Also Michael: "But can they SEE you scream?"
Vsauce either makes us very scared and.. sad. Or very happy and powerful. Or both depending on the video
How tall can a person get? Michael: you’re immortal
Cool did you also went through the comments to see who to copy?
Omar Barrios bahaha fuck no you think imma read all these shits
why tf is this guy so popular? like he didnt even properly answer the title of the video?
Monty dw ab it dawg, it is what it is ;)
Michael keeps changing the unit of measure he uses just to fuck with us
sade where is your profile picture from? (im sure i have seen it somewhere)
sade perkele
He needs to use International System os Units. Only USA uses pol-inch-feet-mile, wtf.
Michael is the only guy who can say "no one can hear you scream" with big eyes and still have me watching the rest of the video
He is the GOAT of not simply answering the question but instead, getting deep
Police:" You're under arrest" Michael:"Or am I?"
Underrated
Made me giggle :D
Imagine if some of the viewers actually farted before he said “Do you smell that? It might be you”
That actually happened with my mom lol
I read that at the right time lol
This is the best comment below this video
I was taking a shit the whole video. A turf flew out
@@corinthianmiles3828 Same
Why I love Vsauce Start of the video: "How big can a person be?" End of the video: "You're immortal because of light."
What these videos years ago Now i came back to watch em again need to feed my mind
michael: "hey vsauce... michael here... 10 cm" me: * pulls pants up* "what the heck michael??"
HECKproductions 4 inches ain't bad
@@cucumberrick3064 U got a 4 inch, don't you
Lmfaoo he definitely does😂
I laughed so hard😂😂
And if he doesn't? I met his sister and she told me he has 3 inch... xdxd
"the loudest shout a person can make is around 88 decibels" my mum:
what did you mom say?
My friend once did 117 or something
@@trentecinq35 he said "88 dB from 30cm away." Your friend's 117 was likely measured right in front of their mouth. Volume reduces over distance exponentially rather than by a flat rate, so from 30 cm away, your friend's scream was almost definitely not above 88 dB.
@@kevinstephens9418 he didn't say or maybe he did but I just didn't see or hear but yes it was by his mouth
I'll pretend I didn't hear that
Still the most epic ending to a Vsauce video ever.
Igor Vovkovinsky died this August, of heart disease. Rest well, big guy.
"how tall can a person get" Vsauce - "so you know how dogs noses are wet"
Ghaustly lol 😂
Who ever liked it to 70 I disrespect that
I love how he takes a simple question and answers it in all possible ways Edit:thanks for the likes this is the first time I've made over 100
yeah like he is immortal
Teachers look at him in awww
Cannot help but imagine he is an absolutely master at getting out of buying a round lol
@Shiloh Kaffenberger what
@Shiloh Kaffenberger oh ok I thought you just went crazy
Please accept my compliments for this awesome video Michael, albeit 10 years late :) 10 years later I found this video and was still surprised that it sparked me thinking about something: Using the 5km of line-of-sight and line-of-sound distance, you could fit approximately 31.41 million (or about 10 million times π) people on the entire surface of planet earth, albeit having people on floating platforms above water.. and it would have to be REALLY quiet.. 1) Earth's surface area: 510.1 million km². 2) Each person occupies a hexagon with a 2.5 km radius, each person being a maximum of 5 kilometers apart. 3) Hexagon area formula: A = (3√3 × r²) / 2. 4) Area per person: A = (3√3 × 6.25) / 2 ≈ 16.24 km². 5) Divide Earth's surface area by area per person: 510.1 million km² / 16.24 km² 6) Result: 510,100,000 km² / 16.24 km² ≈ 31,410,000 people And to encircle the entire globe, you would need some (~40,075 km / 5 km =) 8,015 people to get a message across. However, the length of the message would have a limit according to Miller's Law. Miller's Law tells us that the human memory capacity is limited when it comes to processing and recalling information. Miller's Law, proposed by psychologist George A. Miller, states that the average person can hold about 7 (plus or minus 2) items or chunks of information in their short-term memory. This means that in this global 'telephone game', you should theoretically be able to send a 5 word sentence along these people, assuming they all spoke English and that the message was clearly understood. An example of an optimal message could be 'Please repeat these five words!', as it would be easily understood, conveys the intent of communication in a chain and uses the number 5 as a sort of verification (much like a parity bit in computer memory) thus being self-verifiable and by this, aligning even more with natural language expectation, furthering increasing the likelihood of the message successfully being transferred among those 8015 individuals.
man i just love all your videos
Came to know how much I can grow, left immortal.
Your information is only "immortal" until the photons you emit are absorbed (or observed) by something. And beyond about 13 diameters of Earth your "immortal" information loses resolution, lol.
@P. Can't be seen with the naked eye. But I always carry a Hubble telescope in my pocket, so.... can't relate with you.
Satvik Namdeo o
P Hey man fuzzy immortal is sill immortal.
Satvik Namdeo lmao!! Good one
JOKE ok. So a photon walks into a hotel and is asked if he needs help with his luggage the photon replies " No I am traveling light. " @vsauce
Ba Dum Tiss
I C what you did there.
hyesun fuck off
A neutron walks into a bar, he orders a drink, he says I need a big drink the bartender says For you, no charge
What's a photon?
12:18 when he said 4pm i looked at the time and it was exactly 4pm. I am now my brightest
This was 10 years ago but still beats out most of todays KZhead videos by a lot!
"when a photon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie. that's amore."
God darn it... Take you thumbs up...
NOOOO 😂😂😂
I love you
I think your pfp is a tortus
@@cheese3289 That's really what you're wondering about?
Vsauce in a nutshell: 1st minute talking about tallest humans on earth. Rest of the video about photons and grizzly bears.
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Other channels : "You can do it" Vsauce : "You are glowing beyond the edge of the universe"
But… but… the reason the cube parameters escape so violently is because all parts of the cube grow proportionally. So, if a person is scaled in the same way all organs and bones would scale with it therefore remaining in balance. 😅
I don't think you understood it correctly. It's not that some parts become weaker, it's because of how volume works. When height and width are multiplied by 10, the surface area is multiplied by 100. And the volume is multiplied by 1000. It's only a bit taller, but MUCH heavier.