Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Why we should teach astronomy" video.

@freshrockpapa-e7799 I guess it depends on where you live. The difference between quality of education between countries is enormous.
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And on such a scale, typical human life is between one and two minutes! Another way to understand scale of things is to use 1m x 1m x 1m cubes and represent a year with a small 1mm x 1mm x 1mm cube. If you take a typical human life and organize it in a row at the bottom corner, it would be a narrow line between 50–100 mm from a corner (about 2–4 inches if you don't know SI units). The time from all the stories in the Bible would two a couple of straight lines on the bottom, the time from the asteroid that killed all the asteroids would be 65 mm (~2.5") thick layer of small cubes at the bottom of a bigger cube. And the time when life first appeared on Earth would be about 4 full big cubes.
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@freshrockpapa-e7799 Are you honestly claiming that education in schools has identical quality in different countries? I would recommend checking PISA research results one day.
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@freshrockpapa-e7799 I was replying to comment "no it isn't". How do you know what was actually meant and my interpretation as "identical" was incorrect?
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@eliasbergstrom5300 People have trouble truly understanding even 10000 years. Even 200 years is hard to grasp for real and that's only about 10 generations.
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The pale blue dot speech is always a nice thing to include in any video. I think it would have been worthwhile the include the next paragraph, too, about fighting against other people for temporary control of a small corner of the pale blue dot. If we teach the next generation nothing more than basic math, reading, writing and full understanding of the pale blue dot speech, the next generation will be much better than the previous one.
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1:20 "We are not astrology majors." I wouldn't been able to not respond "That's cool because this is an astronomy question."
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