#AskEck Could the Archdevils (Barbatos, Dispater, Belial, Mammon, Geryon, Moloch, Baalzebul and Mephistopheles) Defeat The Flood? | Pathfinder vs Halo (73rd attempt)
The monks tried to delete the universe but they needed the admins password. They guessed that God was lazy and just used his name as a password but they just didn't know what it was.
When you look at it from our modern perspective, isn't this exactly what we are doing to simple A.I programs right now? Give them a set directive, wait for them to find a way to complete the problem we have set before them in whatever way they figure out how, and then reset the simulation and start over again. Kinda makes you wonder who god really is in this story, and what's in a name.
It wasn't the Goa'uld they were trying to mess with, it was the Aschen, a sinister race of advance humans that make contact with less advanced Tauri under the pretense of trading advance technology but actually poisoning the population to make everyone sterile so they all die out after a decades so they can take over the planets land for agriculture without needing an invading force...
The first question this raised for me: If you were one of the technicians, and somehow knew/suspected that the Monks beliefs were correct, would you try to stop them? Or would it be satisfactory to know that the end of the universe would happen only if their beliefs were correct? And that was truly the plan laid out out by some omnipotent entity?
@Pedro Kantor Well, the order didnt destroy reality, they were doing what their religion taught them to do, which in this case was simply put all of the names in one list. God did the rest. Remember humanity was created for the sole purpose of doing this. And it had a long long long time to do it, and with that the gift of life and existence for hundreds of thousands of years that it otherwise would not have had. This next one is just an extra speculation on my part but it also possible that not honestly attempting to finish the job to the best of their abilities may have had dire consequences. If you ran a program on a PC to run a task, you would close it after its done the job right? But what if said program had bugs and was actively attempting to sabotage your work or just froze mid process? You would also close it even the work was not done yet, and maybe get a different program or restart the program. It is possible that the god in this story will do the same thing and the monks understood that.
I've known this story for a long time. Only very recently it occurred to me that seeing the stars "go out" in the night sky might be just the sign of the universe experiencing the last seconds of the "big rip". Interestingly, when Clarke wrote the story, no one (as far as I know) had thought out yet what the last seconds of the universe ending in a big rip would be like. It seems to me Clarke was a visionary as well as a great storyteller.
If you scan the comments of pandemic videos, you sometimes see religious fanatics posting about praying. Which seems to beg the same question as this story or video, why would God create something so dire in the first place?
Weird that the stars started going out right at that moment when technically the stars have gone out long before time immemorial (because it would have took the star light millions of years). So is this like a predetermined event? Set even years before? Maybe a coincidence? If the monks stopped printing would things have changed?
Other possibility: the light is being returned to primordial chaos as a first step before moving on to actual matter. Doesn't explain why God started with light in the sky but not the light closer to the event (the two techs don't have any difficulty seeing each other). Maybe He just likes to be dramatic, and why not put on a show?
God would have to be beyond such things as space and time. The universe as we see it, were it to end in an instant by god, would do this in a way that all light visible to us would be extinguished in that moment, I’d suppose.
@@TrayTerra or maybe the "gods" people believe in today were created by a "super God" and those "gods" humans worship are just playing in a sandbox like we are, maybe everything is a simulation, maybe we're just the product of the dreams of some being in the actual universe or some other plane of existence we can't comprehend with our puny knowledge
I very much appreciate others who can truly grok and vasten classic stories from the golden age of sci-fi. Most mainstream "sci-fi" in this dark age is offered by people who don't read, don't watch, don't understand, and dont even _like_ sci-fi.
I think not. Enough computing power to simulate an entire universe, but not to generate a paltry 9bn entry list? Are they simming the universe on a redstone computer in Minecraft or something?
@@talltroll7092 I mean, we simulate AI to do a task, sometimes rather mundane and redundant tasks and then end the program when they finish it effectively ending "their" universe. I don't think an omnipotent higher being or God-forbid (no pun intended) an omnipotent bored programmer needs a reason to simulate an entire universe just to see if a bunch of, most likely in their eyes, sheep try to discover their real name. They have enough computing power to simulate an entire universe so they have enough power to do whatever the hell they want. p.s. I know this is an 11 month old comment, but I'm using this video to write an essay and your comment gave me some ideas and it's easier for me to write stuff out haha.
Huh. It's been a while since I read this, and your review made me think of The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges, about a library with countless books with every possible combination of letters and punctuation. Most of the books are gibberish, but some believe every perfect book is on the shelves i.e. universal knowledge, the lives of every person from birth to death, etc. Well done.
Really enjoying this series! There are a lot of content out there on Star Wars but pretty much none on Golden Age sci-fi. I'd love to see a video on "The Gods Themselves" or maybe something covering the Robot/Empire/Foundation series
I love both of these short stories. I read them first time some 25 years ago (and maybe 2 times since) and still sometimes think of them. They are smart, funny in a way and mske you consider things in a bigger scale.
Please watch the colour out of space. ♥️ I'm pretty sure your video on "I have no mouth but I must scream" made me go down the cosmic horror rabbit hole.
Nice analysis! I remember this story from childhood when I saw the video title. There's this short story I've been trying to find where an alien conquering race marries an alien race of one of his victims, who eventually teaches him compassion through singing. It becomes clear his race commits these atrocities because they knew nothing of art or compassion until now. But a rock's radiation from his home world kills her and he quickly dismisses his new feelings as a strange, inpractical and inconvenient anomaly to his nature. He resolves to remarry, but noting; "I don't want another singing one."
Read this for my sci-fit lit class last semester. It definitely is an interesting one. Also glad that you mentioned “The Star” because I was considering asking for a video on that one
Man this story sounds rather similar to a plotline from Futurama! I don't recall specifically WHY, but Fry, Leela and Bender go to a monastery/laboratory in the Himalayas as part of the episode. If this is where Groening and crew got their inspiration, I'd be rather surprised...
I suspect the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy was also somewhat inspired by this short story. What happens to Marvin at the very end etc? That said A quote from THGTTG also suggests a less bleak interpretation of the ending... "There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is annother theory which states this has already happened "
I'm loving these new videos, "I have no mouth, and I must scream" is one of my all time favorite stories but it's dark and morbid. This one though, while still very nihilistic, has a peaceful somewhat anticlimactic end (without any fuss). That's not a criticism, I think it adds to the experience and leaves you with lots of food for thought. Loving the channel's new direction , Please keep them coming EckhartsLadder 🙏
I read this as a kid. I seem to recall it was printed in my edition of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and marvelled at how Clarke had managed to send shivers down my spine in a couple of pages.
I love seeing you talk about sci-fi concepts like this!! Please please please talk about the “Bolo” super-tanks from the writings of Keith Laumer!!! Super underrated machines!!
Clarke loved that open ended ending. "Childhood's End" has the same sort of ending. I consider the end of Rama to be the best; "The Raman's do everything by threes." Clarke did not often write sequels, therefore the reader is left free to imagine his own. Unfortunately, most authors today (and their publishers) have discovered the never-ending story. Most can't pull it off. After the first two or three, repetition and boredom sets in.
A comment, a note, a recomendation. Comment: There is something interesting on the very oriental idea of a comunion with the divine that requires contemplation and meditation and produce some mistyc knolwedge -And in the end we got this cosmic Nirvana! Note: Generally speaking I am not very fond of the theology of the sci fi authors, most of the time is silly. I do love the work of Frank Herbert, on that matter and, yeah, everything Herbert Write is amazing. A recomendation, have you read Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiada? Many great stories there. They have a more fantasy tone despite being space and technology the background. Trurl's electronic bard makes me remember all the fear automation produce nowadays.
I love these short story videos so much, it's helped me revisit some hidden gems I didn't appreciate on my first read when I may have been too young to fully enjoy them or just wasn't paying attention
My first thought is that they didn't even need a computer for this process. They could have done this completely mechanically with a printing press and rotating wheels with the alphabet inscribed on them. It would probably have been exponentially quicker than having a computer sending strings of letters to a printer.
I read these stories when I was a kid growing up in the seventies. I am reliving my days in the school library at Sonoraville elementary school listening to this. Thank you.
I think it would be seriously awesome if you covered the "We Are Bob" series, aka the Bobiverse. The concept of self-replicating, self-governing, infinitely expanding AI is always a big win in the science fiction ideas, imo
Eck, I've been here with you for years man. I love seeing these videos pop up on my feed. I love Star Wars but you covering other areas of science fiction has really caught my attention
Imagine seeing that looking up at the night sky only to see the stars disappearing one by one what would go through your mind seeing that other than wtf is happening of course just blows the mind thinking about it. Thanks for the upload really enjoy these short stories
This little series you’ve got going recently about sci-fi short stories has been really interesting and given me, and I’m sure many others, a lot to both read and think about.
Arthur C. Clarke was a writer who, after reading his stories, kept you thinking. That is something Isamov and Bradbury was good at as well, keep you thinking.
Honestly this is interesting coming from a religious stand point as well, what lead them to search for gods name? What lead them to the requirements, were they told by god or did they just pull them out of thin air? Perhaps gods name is what we make it? This is definitely one cases that made me love Sci-Fi, the questions.
He glanced to see him staring up at the sky. “Look...”. And as he gazed to the stars, one grew brighter. Brighter still. Until the light was revealed to be a flying craft of some sort. As the craft made a pass directly overhead, the figure of a man dropped out of the sky. The man stood with his back to the airplane which the engineer was moments away from departing on. They overheard him speaking the English language. “Proxy, you were right, they figured out the alphabet thing. Retransmit my location to Vader.” The mysterious man turned toward the speechless engineer and pilot. A smile struck his face as a short beam of pure red seemed to ignite from the palm of his hand. The engineer was enamored by what he saw, as it mystified and shuffled his understanding of the universe. He walked slowly toward the strange man. “Who... are you?” The red beam was thrust into the engineer’s chest. The leader of the monks watched from a distance. He uttered to himself in satisfaction: “ The killer of stars.” Arthur C Clarke: Nah, they wouldn’t get it. *erases and starts over
Holy crap! I remember reading this short story from one type of a Young Readers book when I was maybe 9 or 10, and the ending was just 😱🥶... Essential. 👍
Dang. I chose this story for an English paper based on the cool name and the author. I had no idea where to take the paper. This video helped a lot. Thanks.
I would certainly like to see a video about the Star but the small portion of it in this video was certainly sufficient for now. There are so many other amazing stories still to review so I’m not in too much of a hurry to go over that one again.
Maybe the next short story to be discussed could be Murray Leinster's "A Logic Named Joe", Philip K. Dick's "The Electric Ant" or Arthur C. Clarke's "Dial F for Frankenstein"....
Really enjoying these videos, Eck. Here's a suggestion for a story to cover in the future - Second Variety by Philip K. Dick. Been a favourite of mine for a long time.
"Beyond the finger of fear which lies on him, another finger places it's self, and another, making ready for that clutch, that grip, that ultimate insane squeeze of panic. Yet beyond that again, past the squeeze when it comes, to be savored if that squeeze is only fear and not panic, lies triumph-triumph and a glory. It is this that perhaps constitutes his whole battle: to fit himself, prepare himself to bear the utmost that fear could do, for if he can do that, there is a triumph on the other side. But...... Not yet. Please not yet awhile." Theodore sturgeon the man who lost the sea
I recommend reading: The lion of Comarre, the Awakening, Whacky, Loophole, Reverie, The sentinel, All the time in the world, Nemesis, if I forget thee oh Earth, (all these are short stories of Arthur C. Clarke)
It's a thing that groups do seek the end and think it's what they want. And by the way, I am glad you point out how self-centered the human view of religion tends to be. We tend to think all of creation revolves around us and us alone. While I do believe in God, I find it hard to believe he'd create so much universe, and only put us on one planet and leave the rest of the universe barren and lifeless.
The whole story sounded like god realized that a varchar size of name field wasn’t long enough with 64 chars and its reseting the db (universe) and setting the field to 256
One of the interpretations of the story I had was that god creating the universe to run a program, and that this was a test run. You can do infinite computation in a pocket universe in a finite amount of time as time is accelerated in the pocket. And what do we do when we are done with a program? We turn it off. The test could have been of many different things, it could be can the universe with this setting create intelligent life (as only such would be able to create the books and such ) or perhaps the system in which things and people are observed is being tested and this was a simple way to have the program shut itself down if it detects it.
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Hi Eck, do think you'll do a Timeline comparison: Canon Vs. Legends? Like for example (35 ABY [Canon] vs. 35 ABY [Legends]).
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Could the Archdevils (Barbatos, Dispater, Belial, Mammon, Geryon, Moloch, Baalzebul and Mephistopheles) Defeat The Flood? | Pathfinder vs Halo
(73rd attempt)
Any of the Foundation stories/short stories would be excellent
#Askeck will you cover the entire Masseffect universe?
@EckhartsLadder keep it up with this series, really enjoying it.
God: creates universe “say my name”
Universe says God’s name
God: “k thanx bye”
Your me damn right!
is this a reference to breaking bad
The monks tried to delete the universe but they needed the admins password. They guessed that God was lazy and just used his name as a password but they just didn't know what it was.
machine: gets to SIXTYNINE
munks: nice
I mean thats technically what happened lol
"without any fuss, the stars were going out" - I read that story decades ago. For some reason I have never forgotten that line.
Dude I love these weird lovecraftian horror stories that you delve into. I came for star wars a long time ago but this stuff is so good
I love this stuff. Creepy af in a great way.
And SCP. I need more SCP!
Nothing hes done has been Lovecraftian since the literal Lovecraft stuff he did?
@@nataliealphonse4634 This story kinda is.
@@nataliealphonse4634 doesnt have to be authored by lovecraft himself to be considered lovecraftian
When you look at it from our modern perspective, isn't this exactly what we are doing to simple A.I programs right now?
Give them a set directive, wait for them to find a way to complete the problem we have set before them in whatever way they figure out how, and then reset the simulation and start over again.
Kinda makes you wonder who god really is in this story, and what's in a name.
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SG1 once used the Stargate linked to a planet close to a black hole to destroy a star. And they tried to kill a "God" in the process.
Ah yes SG-1 Stargate Commands best.
I like how the actor who played Teal’c now voices Kratos. He never stopped killing gods.
It wasn't the Goa'uld they were trying to mess with, it was the Aschen, a sinister race of advance humans that make contact with less advanced Tauri under the pretense of trading advance technology but actually poisoning the population to make everyone sterile so they all die out after a decades so they can take over the planets land for agriculture without needing an invading force...
@@dojokonojo I mean episode 4.22 "Exodus"
@@dojokonojo And they used the Black Hole against both
The first question this raised for me: If you were one of the technicians, and somehow knew/suspected that the Monks beliefs were correct, would you try to stop them? Or would it be satisfactory to know that the end of the universe would happen only if their beliefs were correct? And that was truly the plan laid out out by some omnipotent entity?
Oof. Imagine trying to check nine billion lines of code to make sure one wasn't misspelled :D
@@pills- Haha. But you could do the whole thing in less than 10 lines with a recursive algorithm.
@@Heizenberg32 Everything can be a oneliner if you want
Pedro Kantor well if this omnipotent being is real, then human life is nothing more than a light snack.
@Pedro Kantor Well, the order didnt destroy reality, they were doing what their religion taught them to do, which in this case was simply put all of the names in one list. God did the rest.
Remember humanity was created for the sole purpose of doing this. And it had a long long long time to do it, and with that the gift of life and existence for hundreds of thousands of years that it otherwise would not have had.
This next one is just an extra speculation on my part but it also possible that not honestly attempting to finish the job to the best of their abilities may have had dire consequences.
If you ran a program on a PC to run a task, you would close it after its done the job right? But what if said program had bugs and was actively attempting to sabotage your work or just froze mid process? You would also close it even the work was not done yet, and maybe get a different program or restart the program.
It is possible that the god in this story will do the same thing and the monks understood that.
I've known this story for a long time. Only very recently it occurred to me that seeing the stars "go out" in the night sky might be just the sign of the universe experiencing the last seconds of the "big rip". Interestingly, when Clarke wrote the story, no one (as far as I know) had thought out yet what the last seconds of the universe ending in a big rip would be like. It seems to me Clarke was a visionary as well as a great storyteller.
What's the big rip?
@@GazB85 If all else fails, ask Wikipedia; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip
This story is terrifying.... imagine being alive when the universe ends....
We are...
Matt Pando when the universe ends? Nah the world probably not, most of the human race, probably
If you scan the comments of pandemic videos, you sometimes see religious fanatics posting about praying. Which seems to beg the same question as this story or video, why would God create something so dire in the first place?
It would be at least 4.3 years before any stars in the night sky would "go out", of course...
@@IcebergGamingTop10s Thats erie af
Weird that the stars started going out right at that moment when technically the stars have gone out long before time immemorial (because it would have took the star light millions of years).
So is this like a predetermined event? Set even years before? Maybe a coincidence? If the monks stopped printing would things have changed?
Other possibility: the light is being returned to primordial chaos as a first step before moving on to actual matter. Doesn't explain why God started with light in the sky but not the light closer to the event (the two techs don't have any difficulty seeing each other). Maybe He just likes to be dramatic, and why not put on a show?
@@boobah5643 They say God started with light when he created the universe, so maybe he started working in reverse.
God would have to be beyond such things as space and time.
The universe as we see it, were it to end in an instant by god, would do this in a way that all light visible to us would be extinguished in that moment, I’d suppose.
God was just like "Yeah, they said all my names, now i can turn that stupid relativity light switch off" :D
@@TrayTerra or maybe the "gods" people believe in today were created by a "super God" and those "gods" humans worship are just playing in a sandbox like we are, maybe everything is a simulation, maybe we're just the product of the dreams of some being in the actual universe or some other plane of existence we can't comprehend with our puny knowledge
I very much appreciate others who can truly grok and vasten classic stories from the golden age of sci-fi.
Most mainstream "sci-fi" in this dark age is offered by people who don't read, don't watch, don't understand, and dont even _like_ sci-fi.
I grok you are a water brother from another mother lol
I've heard of this story! It was cool to find out more about this one.
It could also be taken as a representation of a simulation universe, too.
And the god is some guy on a computer who just finished processing some videos.
I think not. Enough computing power to simulate an entire universe, but not to generate a paltry 9bn entry list? Are they simming the universe on a redstone computer in Minecraft or something?
@@talltroll7092 Yeah, good point.
@@talltroll7092 I mean, we simulate AI to do a task, sometimes rather mundane and redundant tasks and then end the program when they finish it effectively ending "their" universe. I don't think an omnipotent higher being or God-forbid (no pun intended) an omnipotent bored programmer needs a reason to simulate an entire universe just to see if a bunch of, most likely in their eyes, sheep try to discover their real name. They have enough computing power to simulate an entire universe so they have enough power to do whatever the hell they want.
p.s. I know this is an 11 month old comment, but I'm using this video to write an essay and your comment gave me some ideas and it's easier for me to write stuff out haha.
Alexa: I'm not sure.
I dont remember the episode but a side story in b5 plays off of this story.
Arthur C Clarke is one of my favorite scifi writer's.
I love your entrance music so much. It reminds me of simpler days of my life when I watched you all the freaking time
Huh.
It's been a while since I read this, and your review made me think of The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges, about a library with countless books with every possible combination of letters and punctuation. Most of the books are gibberish, but some believe every perfect book is on the shelves i.e. universal knowledge, the lives of every person from birth to death, etc.
Well done.
The Bacca That Chews I was thinking of that while making the video
You should cover Stephen King’s “The Jaunt” on your channel. It’s a great short sci-fi/horror story about a teleportation device with a twist.
Luke Sewell my first planned Stephen King is the Langoliers
Really enjoying this series! There are a lot of content out there on Star Wars but pretty much none on Golden Age sci-fi. I'd love to see a video on "The Gods Themselves" or maybe something covering the Robot/Empire/Foundation series
lol, just one video on the Foundation series?
Star wars and Star trek are good but, It's nice to see someone talking about other science fiction writings!
I love both of these short stories. I read them first time some 25 years ago (and maybe 2 times since) and still sometimes think of them. They are smart, funny in a way and mske you consider things in a bigger scale.
Please watch the colour out of space. ♥️
I'm pretty sure your video on "I have no mouth but I must scream" made me go down the cosmic horror rabbit hole.
Nice analysis! I remember this story from childhood when I saw the video title.
There's this short story I've been trying to find where an alien conquering race marries an alien race of one of his victims, who eventually teaches him compassion through singing.
It becomes clear his race commits these atrocities because they knew nothing of art or compassion until now.
But a rock's radiation from his home world kills her and he quickly dismisses his new feelings as a strange, inpractical and inconvenient anomaly to his nature. He resolves to remarry, but noting; "I don't want another singing one."
Could you discuss the Galactic Empire of the Asimov Foundation universe? Asimov is one of the fathers of science fiction
Ya would love to see that too.
Read this for my sci-fit lit class last semester. It definitely is an interesting one. Also glad that you mentioned “The Star” because I was considering asking for a video on that one
Man this story sounds rather similar to a plotline from Futurama! I don't recall specifically WHY, but Fry, Leela and Bender go to a monastery/laboratory in the Himalayas as part of the episode. If this is where Groening and crew got their inspiration, I'd be rather surprised...
that was based on this story from 1953.
I suspect the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy was also somewhat inspired by this short story. What happens to Marvin at the very end etc?
That said
A quote from THGTTG also suggests a less bleak interpretation of the ending...
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is annother theory which states this has already happened "
I'm loving these new videos, "I have no mouth, and I must scream" is one of my all time favorite stories but it's dark and morbid.
This one though, while still very nihilistic, has a peaceful somewhat anticlimactic end (without any fuss). That's not a criticism, I think it adds to the experience and leaves you with lots of food for thought.
Loving the channel's new direction , Please keep them coming EckhartsLadder 🙏
One of Clarke's best stories. I love the almost downbeat ending.
I read this as a kid. I seem to recall it was printed in my edition of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and marvelled at how Clarke had managed to send shivers down my spine in a couple of pages.
I love seeing you talk about sci-fi concepts like this!! Please please please talk about the “Bolo” super-tanks from the writings of Keith Laumer!!! Super underrated machines!!
The 80s/90s Outer Limits did a story based on The Star. It was one of my favorite episodes of that run.
Always hyped for the short stories
Clarke loved that open ended ending. "Childhood's End" has the same sort of ending. I consider the end of Rama to be the best; "The Raman's do everything by threes." Clarke did not often write sequels, therefore the reader is left free to imagine his own. Unfortunately, most authors today (and their publishers) have discovered the never-ending story. Most can't pull it off. After the first two or three, repetition and boredom sets in.
A comment, a note, a recomendation.
Comment: There is something interesting on the very oriental idea of a comunion with the divine that requires contemplation and meditation and produce some mistyc knolwedge -And in the end we got this cosmic Nirvana!
Note: Generally speaking I am not very fond of the theology of the sci fi authors, most of the time is silly. I do love the work of Frank Herbert, on that matter and, yeah, everything Herbert Write is amazing.
A recomendation, have you read Stanislaw Lem's Cyberiada? Many great stories there. They have a more fantasy tone despite being space and technology the background. Trurl's electronic bard makes me remember all the fear automation produce nowadays.
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*Attempt 726*
Remember to do the Forerunners vs The Imperium of Man.
I like the imperium more but the forerunners would win
Suggestion:
Droid Gunship(Star Wars) vs Phantom(Halo)
I remember reading this years ago. I remember the feeling of wonder, and something like relief.
I love these short story videos so much, it's helped me revisit some hidden gems I didn't appreciate on my first read when I may have been too young to fully enjoy them or just wasn't paying attention
My first thought is that they didn't even need a computer for this process. They could have done this completely mechanically with a printing press and rotating wheels with the alphabet inscribed on them. It would probably have been exponentially quicker than having a computer sending strings of letters to a printer.
I read these stories when I was a kid growing up in the seventies. I am reliving my days in the school library at Sonoraville elementary school listening to this. Thank you.
I think it would be seriously awesome if you covered the "We Are Bob" series, aka the Bobiverse. The concept of self-replicating, self-governing, infinitely expanding AI is always a big win in the science fiction ideas, imo
Bobiverse, like bob iger and bob chapek
@@goodmind4940 Uh... no, but the irony is noted
God I will never stop loving these videos, that intro gets me hyped every time
This is by far my favorite version of science fiction please do more my guy
I think a read you'll thoroughly enjoy is Harry Turtledove's "The Road Not Taken"
Trust me on this
That is a great story love the ending.
Awesome story one of my all time favorites
On December 20th 1985, the Twilight Zone did an episode called the star based on Arthur C. Clarke short story.
Suggestion:
Master Chief(Halo) vs General Blue(Dragon Ball)
Thanks for the short story!
There’s also The Egg which is free to read too
Arthur C Clark and Lovecraft, two more reasons to appreciate your taste in entertainment and media.
Zed, North American accent....Canadian detected ;)
zed- actually speaking english
English
Eck, I've been here with you for years man. I love seeing these videos pop up on my feed. I love Star Wars but you covering other areas of science fiction has really caught my attention
Read this story a few years ago. Loved it. I read it again every few months.
Imagine seeing that looking up at the night sky only to see the stars disappearing one by one what would go through your mind seeing that other than wtf is happening of course just blows the mind thinking about it. Thanks for the upload really enjoy these short stories
This little series you’ve got going recently about sci-fi short stories has been really interesting and given me, and I’m sure many others, a lot to both read and think about.
I was absolutely intrigued by that short story as a kid. Probably one of reasons why I became such a big sci-fi fan :)
A video on the influences of Asimov's Robot/Empire/Foundation series and Herbert's Dune series on Star Wars would be great.
This video series of yours has reignited my love for science fiction short stories, some of my favourite content you've done so far :)
Do Rama or space oddesy series, those have their own handful of mysteries
Robert Thomas I liked Rama a lot. Points out that people tend to self segregate.
Arthur C. Clarke was a writer who, after reading his stories, kept you thinking. That is something Isamov and Bradbury was good at as well, keep you thinking.
Honestly this is interesting coming from a religious stand point as well, what lead them to search for gods name? What lead them to the requirements, were they told by god or did they just pull them out of thin air? Perhaps gods name is what we make it? This is definitely one cases that made me love Sci-Fi, the questions.
He glanced to see him staring up at the sky. “Look...”. And as he gazed to the stars, one grew brighter. Brighter still. Until the light was revealed to be a flying craft of some sort. As the craft made a pass directly overhead, the figure of a man dropped out of the sky. The man stood with his back to the airplane which the engineer was moments away from departing on. They overheard him speaking the English language. “Proxy, you were right, they figured out the alphabet thing. Retransmit my location to Vader.” The mysterious man turned toward the speechless engineer and pilot. A smile struck his face as a short beam of pure red seemed to ignite from the palm of his hand. The engineer was enamored by what he saw, as it mystified and shuffled his understanding of the universe. He walked slowly toward the strange man. “Who... are you?”
The red beam was thrust into the engineer’s chest.
The leader of the monks watched from a distance. He uttered to himself in satisfaction:
“ The killer of stars.”
Arthur C Clarke: Nah, they wouldn’t get it. *erases and starts over
One of the most influential and memorial stories I've ever read.
Holy crap! I remember reading this short story from one type of a Young Readers book when I was maybe 9 or 10, and the ending was just 😱🥶... Essential. 👍
Loving this new series!
Loving the scifi short stories videos
I’m really digging these SciFi spinoff videos
I think this is my favorite series of yours.
One of my favourites. Read this 35 years ago.
This is What got me into your channel, star wars stuff is great but if you can continue doing these more often thatd be great
I love these visits to classic short fiction; stories I greatly enjoyed in my formative years. Please, please keep 'em coming!
I remember reading that story back when I was in school. The ending line has always stuck with me.
I love the ending where u bop the dog on the head that dog is so cute
What an epic title, really blew me back
Good story. I've read it twice 📘📖
Dang. I chose this story for an English paper based on the cool name and the author. I had no idea where to take the paper. This video helped a lot. Thanks.
I cited you as a source in my paper.
Yeah these are a hit keep them coming my guy. I used to mildly enjoy your lore vids, but these make me glad I clicked subscribe all those years ago.
I would certainly like to see a video about the Star but the small portion of it in this video was certainly sufficient for now. There are so many other amazing stories still to review so I’m not in too much of a hurry to go over that one again.
Maybe the next short story to be discussed could be Murray Leinster's "A Logic Named Joe", Philip K. Dick's "The Electric Ant" or Arthur C. Clarke's "Dial F for Frankenstein"....
id love to see some stargate lore
Thank You for discussing good content.
Really enjoying these videos, Eck. Here's a suggestion for a story to cover in the future - Second Variety by Philip K. Dick. Been a favourite of mine for a long time.
Combine Empire vs imperium of man, please!
"Beyond the finger of fear which lies on him, another finger places it's self, and another, making ready for that clutch, that grip, that ultimate insane squeeze of panic. Yet beyond that again, past the squeeze when it comes, to be savored if that squeeze is only fear and not panic, lies triumph-triumph and a glory. It is this that perhaps constitutes his whole battle: to fit himself, prepare himself to bear the utmost that fear could do, for if he can do that, there is a triumph on the other side. But...... Not yet. Please not yet awhile." Theodore sturgeon the man who lost the sea
Arthur C Clarke said this was his favorite sci fi story. If your into the great golden age sci fi stories it's a must read.
I love this story. Thank you for this series!
Loving the science stories coverage. Maybe also try full series like The Foundation.
These videos are so so good please keep doing more like these
Great story review Eck, on this story I read many decades ago!
Love these sci fi short stories. Keep it up Eckhart!
I recommend reading: The lion of Comarre, the Awakening, Whacky, Loophole, Reverie, The sentinel, All the time in the world, Nemesis, if I forget thee oh Earth, (all these are short stories of Arthur C. Clarke)
I really like this new style of yours
Love your channel dude. I remember when you had about 20k subs. Awesome to see how much you've progressed.
It's a thing that groups do seek the end and think it's what they want. And by the way, I am glad you point out how self-centered the human view of religion tends to be. We tend to think all of creation revolves around us and us alone. While I do believe in God, I find it hard to believe he'd create so much universe, and only put us on one planet and leave the rest of the universe barren and lifeless.
The whole story sounded like god realized that a varchar size of name field wasn’t long enough with 64 chars and its reseting the db (universe) and setting the field to 256
Justin back at it again with the depressing short stories
I humbly request you cover "The City and the Stars" someday soon.
Just read it and said wow out loud. Interesting.
These are great! Thank you so much for these pillars of Sci-Fi stories
Your intro is so relaxing.
so is you voice
I’m digging these new kinds of videos.
One of the interpretations of the story I had was that god creating the universe to run a program, and that this was a test run. You can do infinite computation in a pocket universe in a finite amount of time as time is accelerated in the pocket. And what do we do when we are done with a program? We turn it off. The test could have been of many different things, it could be can the universe with this setting create intelligent life (as only such would be able to create the books and such ) or perhaps the system in which things and people are observed is being tested and this was a simple way to have the program shut itself down if it detects it.
love these videos Eck.