• From how planes fly to what evolution is, we answer 10 of your most burning questions
about life!
• Hey there, my name is Shima, I'll be reading out the questions and answers
• I'm Danger Dolan and I'm here to blow your mind with truth
10 - Marianella Perez asks, How do planes fly?
, • What you see as a plane is actually just
the armour we strap onto our killer, man-eating pterodactyls.
We've been growing and training them up for the inevitable apocalypse.
They survived the first one after all.
• The shape of an air plane wing is designed so that air moves faster over the top.
As the air moves faster, the air pressure above the wing decreases.
The difference in pressure creates lift, pulling the plane up into the air!
9 - Why does a year consist of 365 days and a day of 24 hours?
, • A year on Planet Dolan isn't measured
in days or even time – in fact, we barely even know what’s going on outside, we’re
too busy on our computers trying to make animations & countdowns for you – oh… it’s my birthday…
eh *clackity clack* • To put it simply, a year is 365 days long
because it takes that long for the Earth to make one complete orbit around the sun.
As to why a day is divided into 24 hours, the Egyptians are likely responsible.
They were fond of counting by twelve and so they divided clocks up into 12 hours of day
and 12 of night.
8 – yestome asks, What is the largest object and does it have the greatest mass?
, • Despite popular belief, the size of Shima's
cattimus-maximus is not, in fact, the largest object in existence.
At least that's true if you're talking about the entirety of the galaxy.
• Ooof!
Yeah I deserved that…
• The largest man-made object by volume is the Boeing Everett Factory, which is where
the company's aircraft are assembled.
The building is mostly hollow though, so it loses the title of greatest mass to the Three
Gorges Dam in China, which weighs in at about 34 million metric tons.
• (cough) ...cover-up... (cough cough) 7 – killermans asks, Why do some planets
have less gravitational pull than Earth?
, • Some planets just don't want others to
come over.
Ever think of that?
Maybe they're happy with their little circle of moons, just the way they are.
Not everyone wants to be a communal planetoid, in fact, pluto’s so anti-social that we’re
not even sure it’s a planet anymore • All matter attracts other matter, so the
more stuff something has, the stronger its gravitational pull.
For example, Mercury has much less matter than Earth, so its gravity is less, whereas
Jupiter has MUCH more matter and so it pulls much harder!
6 - Luis Houlguin asks, How are diamonds made?
, • They randomly appear underground in small
clusters.
But in order to get to them, you have to dig down 52 meters exactly.
Watch out though, because there are dangerous monsters in the dark...
• Despite the common belief that diamond are made from coal, the formation of natural
diamonds rarely involves coal at all!
Geologists believe that most diamonds are formed in the Earth's mantle and brought to
the surface by deep-source volcanic eruptions. 5 - Can you inflate a balloon underwater?
, • Of course you can!
Duh.
• ...A-Actually, you're right!
• Really?
Oh, er, yeah.
Of course.
• If you have strong enough lungs or an air hose with a high enough pressure, it's
certainly possible to inflate a balloon underwater.
If you think about it, divers do it all the time when they breathe from their air tanks.
Your lungs are just fleshy balloons after all.
• What'cha writing there?
• N-Nothing!
Just... ya know.
Stuff. 4 - Deconverted Man asks, What is the smallest
known particle?
, • A particle of dust is the smallest, unless
you count the tiny little village that lives on the speck of dust.
Then their dust would be the smallest – if we delve into the subatomic level of that
dust though, you’ll find a treasure chest, and inside that chest is a package, unwrap
it and you’ll find the smallest object in the universe: 99% fat free dust
• The smallest known particles are called quarks and leptons, and they seem to be the
building blocks of everything in the known universe.
But quarks are composed of even tinier pieces: up quarks, down quarks, and gluons!
• Glue-ons?
Are they the glue that binds the universe together or something?
• Actually, yes they are.
• Oh.
Okay then.
Yeeeeeeeeah. 3 - Super Fabulous of PATREON asks, What is
evolution?
, • This is what happens when two consenting
adults get nekkid together and fuse into a single gelatinous blob, through which complex
Einstein physics and quantum cellular shindiggery goes down until 3 figures emerge, the two
adults and a new hybrid specimen known through folklore as a chilled-ren
• It basically explains how living things change over really long periods of time and
why plants and animals are the way they are now.
We know things have been changing because we can compare living animals with fossils
and trace the path through time the creature took.
2 - milo jones asks, Why do stars appear only at night?
, • That's because stars sleep during the
day.
You can find them hiding in caves, sleeping upside down like glowing bats.
Don't startle them though, or you'll burn up as they shine brighter in self-defence!
*hiss* bright light…
• Because of how our atmosphere scatters light, the stars aren't visible during the
day because there's just too much light!
Trying to spot a single star during the day, is like trying to pick out a single snowflake
in a blizzard. 1 - Caleb Hart asks, How many dimensional
planes are there?
• You tell me man, with all these delays you’d think there weren’t even one – oh,
oh, another delay, didn’t see that one coming, looks like I’ll be spending the rest of
my life in the stinky reality airport • To define an object, there are four dimensions
needed: height, width, depth, and an existence in time.
There are several theories that add on more dimensions to these, but many of those lack
proof.
If you're talking about the esoteric planes of existence, I suppose the only limit on
those is your own mind.
• So if I imagine more planes, there’ll be more flights?
• That's not what I-- • HNNNEEERGG!
Sweet!
• I can't believe that worked.
• La costa rica – la costa rica, in some other dimension… la costa rica, la costa….