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5. Which is the closest right now?

Did he ever specify what the future video was where he was gonna reference "Venus is the closest"?

Earth is the closest planet

Wait what? Why you don't talk about last question!?!???!

my mind was blown as well. thx for sharing

Play KSP to understand how solar systems works. :D

I remember when my dad would take me to that museum when i was really young. The earthquake simulator thing always terrified me

This was a year ago?

Specific details can change the answers to all questions.

Nick robinson moment

Which planet is closest to Earth?
EARTH!

What's the closest planet?
Simple, Earth.

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The mostest closest

Earth, duh

Q: Where are you?

So nobody seen him there with this sweater?

Almost 1M in this video

Make more of since stuff

Yes, it is great.

Earth, dur.

:P

I think Mercury most of the time four the question 4
Yes you can travel to Venus faster then Mercury but that’s sometimes
Unless of course and I quote: “Technology”

why are you talking slower??

Hey you live in London! Cool. Funny to see you going to places I've visited.

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When people say Venus is the closest, they probably mean that Venus has an orbit closest to Earth’s

2:00 why does Jupiter look like the dress?

Fake, your mom is actually the closest planet to earth, smh.

Seeing the moon in the thumbnail, I almost thought this was going to be a video about how the ESA, Asimov, and others have argued for recognition that the Moon is not actually a moon but rather Earth's partner in a binary planet system.

Knowledge yields questions, and those questions yield knowledge.

There’s a lot of RLM in your auto play list

okay so which planet the mercury is the most closest to ?

Venus

I always thought of it in terms of "which planet's orbit is closest to that of Earth?" Real simple answer to that one.

So here's the thing, I'd tend to think about "who's the closet" in terms of orbits. It makes the line work.

That introduction made me seem as if I was watching Dan and Phil.

Why do I feel like there should be a part 2 of this series?

love the nhm, damn i need to visit soon

I have discovered my aesthetic, and it's a glowing, house-sized, detailed model of the moon suspended a meter above my head.

I think a relevant question would be "which planet has the closest orbit", which i guess could overlap with 3 but not necessarely so as orbits take different amount of time.

If you could it as a planet( some do ) Luna is the closest planet to Earth. If you do not count Luna as a planet, Venus is the closest on average, but sometimes Mars gets closer.

It is great, great indeed.

It's not even that deep, because most people when you ask the question are actually thinking "which planet's orbit is closest to earth's". Whether that makes sense or not, it's the reason we answer "Venus". Nothing weird going on here, just people (correctly) answering an incomplete question, as you said.

I think the basic question of "which planet is closest" is really thought of as "whose orbit is closest to earth's". So for each point on our orbit we look for the closest point on any other orbit, and in that case the answer is simple to see, even if slightly harder to correctly calculate. But just comparing the average distances to the sun already yields a decent result.
It's still interesting how different that can be from the actual distance at a given moment in time.

From the thumbnail I thought the moon was on the underground

hey uh where'd the people go

Grey, i want to ask. where’d you visit for the videos in the vid? that musuem looks so cool!

0:02 Grey is just writing "Lorem Ipsum" so you don't actually get to see what he's planning ;)

I've always understood this question to mean "Which planet is closest at perihelion? What is the planet's closest approach to Earth?" With that precise meaning (which is the natural meaning people assume), the answer is Venus. Which you state in question 1 in the video. The other questions are interesting, but not what people assume or mean.

You’re the best, Grey. Simply the best.

Knowledge into question feedbackloop systems scare me

I actually thought of it in an Analogue way; Gravity takes the shortest path; and all planets circle around the Center of Mass of the solar system near the sun. .... So it made very logical sense to me that the close you are to that COM the closer you are to all other planets going around it.

I still want to know which planet is the mostest closest to mercury~

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Woah. I learned more from this than school

To be honest when i ask that i am asking what is the distance if all planets were aligned.

Venus' orbit is closest, so you were right

Currently (Don't know about the time when you made your comment) Mercury is the closest

Title: Which Planet is the closest?
Thumbnail: *The Moon*

Oh wait, it's Mercury -_-

Watched that Pluto vid; your voice sounds the same....

Love his pronunciation of Crazy

When you make a Re: to your own video lmao

Im confused, Mercury is so extremely obvious :1 ?

Well, it isnt. Answer varies wildly depending on how exactly you're defining closest

It IS great.

'Member when we could go outside. I 'Member.

I saw that moon display when it was in Bristol, July 2018. It's really impressive close up. (Also, I think the universe is insistent on me seeing the same things over again. I just saw an older episode of QI where this very subject - the closest planet came up. Series Q, Quests 2)

Sir u explanation is JUST OSM

Love this!!

mercury is mostest closest and venus is most closest

you forgot; "which is the closest now?".

I would have conceptualized the question as "What planer's average distance from the sun is closest to Earth's average?"

I watched 3 of those episodes today lol

What's the drawing/note taking program used right at the beginning, 0:03 or so? I've been looking/hoping one existed for so long, and now I see one. Anybody got ideas?

This reminds me of Mike Brown's "How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming". The book is a great exploration of the nature of science. The question in that book is: What is a planet? Spoiler: It's not a totally clear answer.

Which planet gets closest to earth?
Ans: venus

The real question still stands, though: What does CGP stand for? And what is CGP Grey?

Earth.

You know whos the closet to earth its moon

This is one of these situations where something could be taken as so obvious that it would not count as a contribution to human knowledge. Fast forward a few centuries, where everybody is trying to be more precise, and now it seems like new knowledge, at least to academics.

So Grey is bad at geometry. Also the first one would probably be the one most people think of anyway. So he basically stretched the argument so he would have something to talk about.

He didn't say mostest closest.

Yes it’s great! Thanks

mercury,

The moon, duh

I went back to read the portion of your "future script" you were working on, and just got hard lorem ipsum'd........

1:02 Which planet is the closest to Earth usually means which planet's orbit is closest to Earth's orbit. Answer: Venus.

@Sebastião Mendonça Then don't use my definition. I'm going to use this as the only answer worth mentioning. Wasting both our times replying.

@AvangionQ But its not the only definition, and as such Venus isnt the only possible answer

@Sebastião Mendonça Yes, that's how I define it.

that answer only applies if you define closeness as that

Sounded like you were channeling the late Dr. Sagan at the end there, which is one of the greatest compliments one can give in my opinion.

Mercury is the king.
So that’s why he isn’t a god in Roman, he is above gods

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So technically saying “Venus is the closest planet to earth” isn’t wrong, just the person asking the question isn’t precise enough, nor have you confirmed what he means say by saying “the closest”

The moon is the closest actually

The moon isnt a planet, obviously the ISS is the closest

False, it's mercury

0:15 every single video in his recommended is red letter media and specifically the best of the worst. I've never seen such recommendation domination on youtube before.

I understand nothing

You do realize that questions two and three are the same, right?

Earth is the closest, obviously.

I'm pretty sure Earth is the closest planet to Earth.

The two videos you mentioned in this video where the last videos I watched.

What a waste of time...