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considering it’s the only planets our
species has ever lived on it’s amazing
how little the average person actually
knows about this big blue space mumble
that we call home welcome to
watchmojo.com this Belgium one by one
in today’s installment we’re counting
down the five myths about Earth that
left us grounded it met one thing can’t
be the view myth number 5 only bodies of
water experience the tides watching that
time most people are familiar with the
concept of high tide and low tide the
gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun
with some help from the centrifugal
force of our planets rotation causes a
bulge in the world’s oceans twice a day
while the oceanic tides are easily seen
and measured land masses are also
affected by the planetary bulge these
earth tides certainly can’t compete with
the extreme fluctuation of their liquid
counterparts but considering the fact
that we don’t even perceive them they’re
still more significant than the average
person would expect the country of
Switzerland rises and falls 10 inches
every day at the equator land masses
experience a differential of 22 inches
throughout the day myth number 4 Mount
Everest is the tallest mountain in the
world before you get up in arms over
this one please allow us to clarify if
you’ve scaled to the very top of Mount
Everest you’ve climbed the highest
mountain our planet has to offer unless
you’re willing to wear a weighted scuba
suit and subject yourself to Skull
Crushing the underwater pressure Mount
Everest is the highest mountain above
sea level but it loses this title when
you remove the sea level consideration
altitude measures the height of
something above sea level and at 29,035
feet Mount Everest has mono Kia’s
altitude of 13 thousand seven hundred
and ninety-six feet soundly beat but if
you’re actually looking for the world’s
tallest mountain from base to peak
Hawaii’s Mauna Kea take home the title
a staggering thirty three thousand four
hundred ninety seven feet
that’s incredible myth number three just
nuke an asteroid to save planet Earth
cut slow down Bruce Willis despite what
your director might believe not all
problems can be solved by making things
explode but if it doesn’t pass us by
let me target some ICBMs to blow it out
of the sky the truth is nuking an
asteroid is an option but Hollywood is
yet to get it right in Armageddon the
nukes weren’t nearly powerful enough and
a deep impact the shrapnel would have
proved devastating to a huge area of the
planet the actual best option is to
detonate explosives and deflect any
incoming asteroid when it’s still many
years away from Earth NASA is currently
working on a plan to destroy an asteroid
in case we ever discover one that’s too
close to deflect but it involves a
complex two-piece spacecraft the likes
of which no sci-fi film has presented to
date ever tell me VR myth number two the
Sahara is the biggest desert when you
hear the word desert you probably
imagine a hot dry expanse of sand
uninterrupted as far as the eye can see
with the exception of an auto ASUS in
the distance which is probably a mirage
captain just a mirage but a desert
doesn’t need to be hot or even sandy it
just has to be a harsh desolate
inhospitable area of land in which
essentials like food and water are
incredibly scarce so while the Sahara
covering 3.6 million square miles is
certainly the largest classic desert the
world’s actual largest desert is
everyone’s least favorite continent
Antarctica which covers 5.4 million
square miles myth number one people in
the Middle Ages thought the earth was
flat it’s the edge of the world
for all their medieval shortcomings the
average person in the Middle Ages didn’t
actually think the earth was flat most
people weren’t educated enough to
contemplate the shape of the earth
period but scholars nobility and the
clergy were pretty much on the same page
regarding the earthly shape a nice
functional sphere which has been the
dominant accepted geographical theory
dating back to ancient Greece and the
Roman Empire so why does everyone think
the people in the Middle Ages believed
the earth to be flat revolutionist
history it’s all a lie Washington Irving
amongst other writers began to assert
that a flat earth was part of the
Christian Church’s medieval doctoring in
an attempt to illustrate the historical
conflict between religion and science a
up flat so how many of these myths did
you believe yes yes yeah I paid a bit
for more revealing top tens and
sometimes scientifically found the top
fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com the world does go on will
not go on for everyone
[Music]
considering it’s the only planets our
species has ever lived on it’s amazing
how little the average person actually
knows about this big blue space mumble
that we call home welcome to
watchmojo.com this Belgium one by one
in today’s installment we’re counting
down the five myths about Earth that
left us grounded it met one thing can’t
be the view myth number 5 only bodies of
water experience the tides watching that
time most people are familiar with the
concept of high tide and low tide the
gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun
with some help from the centrifugal
force of our planets rotation causes a
bulge in the world’s oceans twice a day
while the oceanic tides are easily seen
and measured land masses are also
affected by the planetary bulge these
earth tides certainly can’t compete with
the extreme fluctuation of their liquid
counterparts but considering the fact
that we don’t even perceive them they’re
still more significant than the average
person would expect the country of
Switzerland rises and falls 10 inches
every day at the equator land masses
experience a differential of 22 inches
throughout the day myth number 4 Mount
Everest is the tallest mountain in the
world before you get up in arms over
this one please allow us to clarify if
you’ve scaled to the very top of Mount
Everest you’ve climbed the highest
mountain our planet has to offer unless
you’re willing to wear a weighted scuba
suit and subject yourself to Skull
Crushing the underwater pressure Mount
Everest is the highest mountain above
sea level but it loses this title when
you remove the sea level consideration
altitude measures the height of
something above sea level and at 29,035
feet Mount Everest has mono Kia’s
altitude of 13 thousand seven hundred
and ninety-six feet soundly beat but if
you’re actually looking for the world’s
tallest mountain from base to peak
Hawaii’s Mauna Kea take home the title
a staggering thirty three thousand four
hundred ninety seven feet
that’s incredible myth number three just
nuke an asteroid to save planet Earth
cut slow down Bruce Willis despite what
your director might believe not all
problems can be solved by making things
explode but if it doesn’t pass us by
let me target some ICBMs to blow it out
of the sky the truth is nuking an
asteroid is an option but Hollywood is
yet to get it right in Armageddon the
nukes weren’t nearly powerful enough and
a deep impact the shrapnel would have
proved devastating to a huge area of the
planet the actual best option is to
detonate explosives and deflect any
incoming asteroid when it’s still many
years away from Earth NASA is currently
working on a plan to destroy an asteroid
in case we ever discover one that’s too
close to deflect but it involves a
complex two-piece spacecraft the likes
of which no sci-fi film has presented to
date ever tell me VR myth number two the
Sahara is the biggest desert when you
hear the word desert you probably
imagine a hot dry expanse of sand
uninterrupted as far as the eye can see
with the exception of an auto ASUS in
the distance which is probably a mirage
captain just a mirage but a desert
doesn’t need to be hot or even sandy it
just has to be a harsh desolate
inhospitable area of land in which
essentials like food and water are
incredibly scarce so while the Sahara
covering 3.6 million square miles is
certainly the largest classic desert the
world’s actual largest desert is
everyone’s least favorite continent
Antarctica which covers 5.4 million
square miles myth number one people in
the Middle Ages thought the earth was
flat it’s the edge of the world
for all their medieval shortcomings the
average person in the Middle Ages didn’t
actually think the earth was flat most
people weren’t educated enough to
contemplate the shape of the earth
period but scholars nobility and the
clergy were pretty much on the same page
regarding the earthly shape a nice
functional sphere which has been the
dominant accepted geographical theory
dating back to ancient Greece and the
Roman Empire so why does everyone think
the people in the Middle Ages believed
the earth to be flat revolutionist
history it’s all a lie Washington Irving
amongst other writers began to assert
that a flat earth was part of the
Christian Church’s medieval doctoring in
an attempt to illustrate the historical
conflict between religion and science a
up flat so how many of these myths did
you believe yes yes yeah I paid a bit
for more revealing top tens and
sometimes scientifically found the top
fives be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com the world does go on will
not go on for everyone
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