Hello and welcome to SciShow Tangents, the Lightly Competitive Knowledge Showcase.

I'm your host, Hank Green, and join me as always this week as Science Expert, Siri Rylee.

Siri, what is space?

Hello.

What is space right now, if you can't tell from my sound effects, which is definitely

intentional and not because I'm sitting in an empty room in a corner like a sad boy.

Space is, I mean, this is the problem.

What is space flight?

Space flight, apparently, is if you just go high enough in the atmosphere that a commercial

plane can't fly.

If you go a little bit farther than that, where it's like a little bit thinner and harder

to breathe, if you were outside of the vehicle, then you're in space, basically.

Right.

But also, I am in space right now because everything is space, and I'm made of space, space

is all of space is everywhere.

There's no like this outer space, but like everything is space and the earth is a giant

spaceship and we shouldn't be trying so hard just to get there because we're already there.

We should only be going there to do stuff, not just to go there.

I hope you hear this, Hank.

We're talking about this because as we are recording Jeff Bezos has recently landed

on earth after being in space for 12 minutes.

We're also joined as always by our resident, every man, Sam Schultz, who is just like Jeff

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