• From questions about outer space to wondering where snow comes from, we answer 10 of your
most burning questions about Earth • Hello there, my name is Shima, and I’ll
be reading out the questions and answers • I’m Danger Dolan and I’m here to blow
your mind with TRUTH 10 - Why is the sky blue?,
• Before you were born, a kid came along and coloured in the sky blue with his crayon
and we haven't been able to fix it yet, but we took away his playstation and he hasn't
done it since • It's because of sunlight, which isn't
yellow because it's actually a bunch of different colours all mixed together and blue just happens
to bounce around the sky more than others like red or green
• Pigeons - blue pigeons, everywhere, and they move so quick that by the time you've
spotted one it just becomes a blur in the sky, and each pigeon has a name but it's been
so long that we've forgotten what they are - we think one of them is named Enrique
9 - Why do you sink in quicksand?, • Old people spend a lot of their time under
the sand waiting to pull you under, and once they do they'll steal your youth and you'll
become old, until you grab a kid yourself and pull them under to get young again
• You sink because the sand is so mushy from lots of water, like when it rains outside
and the dirt turns to mud and becomes slippery • Quicksand actually just wants a friend,
and it's trying to give you a big hug but you keep squirming out of it so now it thinks
you don't want to be its friend and that makes it sad, NAAW
8 - If you were on the other side of the planet, would everything be upside down?,
• Upside-down and inside-out yes, you would have to walk to school wearing the inside
of your skin as clothes doing an endless handstand clutching grass so that you don't fall into
the sky • No, because no matter where you are on
Earth, you would be pulled towards the ground and the centre of the planet due to a thing
called gravity • Since the world is flat, when you flip
it upside down you'll find the evil version of yourself, doing nasty things like spitting
on sidewalks and not helping old ladies cross the road
7 - How many people are in the world?, • There were actually 100 billion humans
at one point but a meteor hit the earth and went straight through it and took 93 billion
people off into outer space - it's been a while since we heard from them but sometimes
a space stork brings back a baby or two, so that's alright
• There are more than 7 billion people living on Earth right now, not counting all the animals,
and we might end up with more than 9 billion people in about 30 years
6 - Why is the Earth round?, • The earth was flat a few thousand years
ago but it kept eating cake and cookies and chocolate and now it's gotten a little fat
- it can't even fit into its pants anymore so its legs and feet are a little cold
• For the same reason the other side of the planet isn't upside down, gravity means
everything is being pushed towards the centre of the planet, and being round means every
part of Earth is as close to the centre as possible
5 - Why can't we live on other planets?, • We do, it's called Planet Dolan where
everyone dances all day every day, and cute little bunnies roam freely - but we ignore
them because we're so focused on dancing and they - they don't like us for that...
• A lot of other planets are too hot or too cold, and they don't contain the things
that keep us alive like oxygen or water, so we would need special equipment to visit them
like spacesuits 4 - What would happen if all the gravity disappeared?,
• You'd simply need to replace the hamster on the hamster wheel running around powering
the earth - if that doesn't restore gravity, then we'll need to turn off the earth and
turn it back on again, that should solve the problem
• We would all float away into outer space because nothing holding us on the surface
of the planet - but don't worry, gravity isn't going anywhere
3 - Why does the ocean taste so salty?, • Every Tuesday I visit my local beach with
a bag full of salt and I pour it in, people usually try and stop me but I just throw a
handful of salt at them and they dissolve into the sand
• It's because the ocean slaps against rocks on beaches, and the rocks put a lot of salt
into the water where it carries over huge distances, and it's been happening for millions
of years 2 - Where does snow come from?,
• One day a snowman woke up and found he was the only snowman in the whole world, so
to stop himself feeling lonely he started coughing up snowballs and used them to build
friends - that's where snow comes from, it's a ball of cough
• Clouds drop rain out of the sky, and on the way down those drops stick to things like
bits of dust and freeze solid, then other water drops join it and freeze forming snowflakes
and ice crystals 1 - Why do seashells sound like the ocean
when you put it against your ear?
• It isn't actually an ocean sound - if you listen really carefully, really quietly
and you concentrate really hard - you'll hear a turtle gently whisper into your ear - "hey...
how's your day been?"
• Those aren't ocean sounds, those are fluids inside your ear sloshing around like waves
- the shell just makes that sound louder and echo, so you can hear it clear as day
So, how about it?
Do you have any burning questions about life and the universe that you’d like us to answer
in a future video?
Go ahead and ask it in the comment box below Anyway that’s it, thank for watching, HAVAGUNWUN