Hasta La Gadget!

Vsauce, the master answerer of life’s toughest questions and professional blower of minds, tackles something so philosophical in his latest video that you’ll start to wonder what in the hell our purpose is on this Earth. And if it’s any different than a purpose of a rock. It starts with the discussion of art and then fakes and forgeries of art and what forgeries really mean and what it means to be original and eventually leads into a discussion on how we’re pretty much all just forgeries too. What is real! Who is real! Nothing is. Damn. Sauce.

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The moon is not as far away as some things, but it’s definitely farther away than your nearest McDonalds or the bottom of the ocean or, you know, anything on Earth at all. Basically it’s not easily accessible. So it would be pretty presumptuous for a person or group to say that they owned a certain part of it. Or all of it. But it’s kind of complicated to figure out what would happen if anyone tried.

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There’s not a single soul in the world who doesn’t love it when they get to see the endless world that appears when you’re in a room of mirrors. I remember trying to count as a kid how many versions of myself I could see. But what would happen if you were in a perfect mirror sphere? Vsauce, as only he can, explains and breaks down the wonderful science behind mirrors in the video above. [Vsauce]

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It seems unlikely—impossible, even—that aliens would just happen to make contact today. Or tomorrow. Or the day after. But what if they did? How do you even deal with something like that?

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Humans come in all shapes and sizes, but when it comes to height there seems to be an unofficial limit on how tall someone can be. On average, the tallest of humans measure in at around seven feet six inches, with a few Guinness-worthy cases breaking the eight foot barrier. But why is that? More »