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Season 1: Tiny Human vs.

Four missions, one very small astronaut. New episodes go out on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X at 7 pm New York time. Times below are shown in yours.

Episode 1 poster: How deep can we dig? Tiny Human dangles on a rope above a glowing borehole.
EPISODE 1

Tiny Human vs. the Earth's Core

We've only ever dug 0.2% of the way to the center of the Earth. Tiny Human tries to finish the job.

Facts, sources & more →
Sources
  • Mponeng gold mine: over 4 km deep, with rock up to 66 °C.
  • Kola Superdeep Borehole: 12,262 m deep and about 23 cm wide; drilling stopped when the rock reached 180 °C.
  • A fall through the Earth takes about 38 minutes (Klotz, American Journal of Physics, 2015).
  • Inner core: about 5,400 °C, roughly the temperature of the Sun's surface, under 3.3 to 3.6 million atmospheres.
Episode 2 poster: Who gets Mars? Tiny Human and the Blorps argue at podiums on Mars as a rocket lands.
EPISODE 2

Tiny Human vs. the Blorps: Who Gets Mars?

The first debate ever held on Mars. It did not stay civil. Then the robots landed.

Facts, sources & more →
Sources
  • NASA Mars facts: gravity 38% of Earth's, a day of 24 h 40 min, about −60 °C on average, two small moons (Phobos and Deimos), air about 95% carbon dioxide.
  • Blue sunsets on Mars were photographed by NASA's Curiosity rover in 2015.
  • Mars's surface area is about the same as all the dry land on Earth; the trip takes about 7 months.
Bonus short poster: Your sunlight is 170,000 years late! A dusty Tiny Human courier holds up a glowing parcel while Blip glares from the window in a bathrobe.
BONUS SHORT · 30 SECONDS

Tiny Human vs. the Sun: Your Sunlight Is 170,000 Years Late

Tiny Human delivers one parcel of sunlight from the Sun's core to Earth. Getting out of the Sun is the slow part.

Facts, sources & more →
Sources
  • NASA Sun facts: energy from the core bounces around the radiative zone for about 170,000 years before it reaches the top of the convection zone.
  • NASA Marshall Solar Physics: an individual photon can take about a million years, hence "give or take a few hundred thousand".
  • The Sun is about 150 million km away, so its light reaches Earth in about 8 minutes 20 seconds.
  • Mainland woolly mammoths died out about 10,000 years ago and the Great Pyramid dates to about 2560 BC, so both happened while today's sunlight was on its way out.
Episode 3 poster: They cut the cable! A robot arm with giant scissors reaches for the cable of Tiny Human's submarine.
EPISODE 3 · TWO PARTS

Tiny Human vs. the Mariana Trench

A race to the deepest point on Earth, 11 km down… and someone cuts the cable.

Facts, sources & more →
Sources
  • The Challenger Deep is about 10,935 m deep; Everest (8,849 m) would fit with about 2 km of water to spare.
  • Sunlight barely gets past 200 m, and between 200 and 1,000 m, 4 out of 5 animals make their own light (NOAA).
  • "Marine snow" really is bits of dead plants, animals and poop (NOAA), and Mars is mapped in more detail than most of our ocean floor.
Cover of Tiny Human Comics #1, The Moon Is Escaping!

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The Moon Is Escaping!

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