Thanks to everyone who asked about our Patreon. I'll put out a full video when I get the time, but for those who want to jump the gun and get on board from the start, here's the link: www.patreon.com/rareearth It means a huge deal that so many have asked us to start an account. I never thought anyone would watch these videos, let alone support them.
Your videos are intelligent and poignant and a potent curiosity inducer. Sometimes they are depressing, sometimes they fill me with hope. But so far they have never failed to question our vision of the world and human societies. Thanks a lot for the hard work you're doing and for sharing with us.
I know this sounds crazy but aliens are real, I saw this documentary where a purple alien came to earth to acquire 6 gems for his golden glove, apparently he needed those items to bring balance to the universe.
what losuy quote and a damnable one too. If we were alone then there would be no mortality and each man and woman would do what is right in their own eyes and NOBODY would have a right to judge them.......But since We are not alone, God has set the standards and proves His excitence.- Nothing come from Nothing. Try that quote out
When I was a child, I was terrified of Aliens. I once asked my mother about them, and why they're always trying to kill us in movies and t.v. shows. She told that's because we were trying to see ourselves in the aliens, that we attributed our history and desires onto these creatures. That's something that's always stuck with me, and I wonder how many other people can take the proper messages away from this. You're doing great work Evan, thank you. Always an introspective experience.
Firefox is red, Explorer is blue. Google+ sucks and Chrome does too. Eh, the French saw through it immediately. How's that saying? "God made the world but the Dutch made the Netherlands"?
Wow. That's some real food for thought there. It reminds me of the Vsauce2 video about how the rise of snakes 50+ million years ago hardcoded a snake warning system into our mammalian brains, and it manifests as dragons. Also that we draw aliens that way because we are hardwired to interpret large eyes and brains as more intelligent, and the less necessary part of the body like limbs and clothes to slowly disappear. That part about orcs and monsters being ancient humans has really shaken me, as if a light went on. Thank you for that
I'm surprised he didn't mention by name the Sea Invaders of the bronze age collapse. A group of alien invaders was the one of the main causes for a long break the development of human society
If you've heard of the Sea People, you must also know the theories of why the bronze age ended not because of a group of people, but a variety of internal and external problems, just like any other great civilization. The Roman Empire fell not just because of immigrating tribes fleeing climate change and overpopulation, but because of many fundamental dysfunctions in their society.
Kabcr1 ya for sure I said said one of but I know it was likely one of the more minor aspects as opposed economical difficulties. But for this exact video I think it would be worthy of mentioning. Also it's possible that people of the time thought the invaders were a bigger cause and passed that story down. We may have a better way of understanding the global faults in there society better than they did.
Sorry to hear about threats, but it doesn't surprise me anymore. There are some very frightened people out there who feel powerless against the confusing world around them. They feel forced to work hard to defend the set of beliefs that they've built up in order to cope. It'd be nice if we as a society could prioritize helping these people somehow.
Evan, you must have felt at some points that you have incredible shoes to fill with regard to your father, but I am equally impressed by what you do with these videos. Most underrated content on UA-cam.
This was fantastic. The video ended and was just.. awestruck. I wish there was more journalism/ content in general like this! So well articulated, so insightful.. please don't stop rare earth!
I just realized who you guys are. I had heard of Chris Hadfield and think he is a great person, clearly charismatic and inspiring... It's amazing but it also explains why Evan is so well-educated and well-spoken. Such a harmonious and rare family (pun intended). There is a thirst for people like you these days. In a society that praises mediocrity and shuns intelligence and education, those of us who still crave for pertinent, useful information about the past are starving for series such as this. Congrats on your success so far and thank you for your effort to share these stories with us!
I am Dutch and when u said: They came on ships nobody could build. Then I knew it was my people who where the aliens, a history that isn't told to the children in school because we ain't proud of it but we are proud of how rich it made us, millions of people were our slaves and we were rich men, now all we tell our kids is that we traded spices to become rich
Evan and Francesco, you were by far the best find on youtube ever. Thank you once again for an insightful video. Keep up the good work, it makes us think.
Reminds me of Reinhold Messner's tale about the Yeti. Everybody thought he had lost it, but when he researched the topic together with scientists, he came to an actually rather scientific explanation that it is a kind of bear, its footprints getting distorted by the sun, and its shape shifted by the the colour of its fur when standing in front of snowy beckgrounds. The encounters as found in the tales of the people match very well just like the encounters of modern mountaineers like Messner himself.
Stories you share on this channel are amazing. When I listen to them I always try to imagine how the situation looked like and felt to people back then. I learn a lot from your series. My only worry is that by talking about remote places and local stories of these amazing cultures people like logan paul will discover them, go there and ruin them. But I guess he doesn't watch content like that so we're good :)
We are a speck on a rock that is a speck in the solar system that is a speck in the galaxy that is a speck in the super cluster and so on and so forth.
Very well put together and presented, really enjoying the content your putting out. Fascinating look at the topic, makes perfect sense, love the different perspective.
I started watch theese series, because you talked about japan, and im going there this year, but now you are making vídeos in my country, and i dont know why, it makes me happy. Hope you can make something in Santiago.
Thanks Evan, that was amazing, I'd never given thought to how aliens from outer space could be related to and mirror the alien invasion experience of our societies. Storytelling is one of the major (if not the prime thing) that makes us human, and for these kind of traumatic events to not be codified into stories (and thus morph into an underlying context/worry) would be strange and I think unlikely. Even if we have been the scary invaders, deep down we know that if we can be such a thing, so too could such a thing exist out there and thus do the same to us. Fascinating. Thanks for a wonderful series and sorry that you're receiving threats... :/
"The usual example given to illustrate an Outside Context Problem was imagining you were a tribe on a largish, fertile island; you'd tamed the land, invented the wheel or writing or whatever, the neighbors were cooperative or enslaved but at any rate peaceful and you were busy raising temples to yourself with all the excess productive capacity you had, you were in a position of near-absolute power and control which your hallowed ancestors could hardly have dreamed of and the whole situation was just running along nicely like a canoe on wet grass... when suddenly this bristling lump of iron appears sailless and trailing steam in the bay and these guys carrying long funny-looking sticks come ashore and announce you've just been discovered, you're all subjects of the Emperor now, he's keen on presents called tax and these bright-eyed holy men would like a word with your priests."
Who are you? Son of an Astronaut, Speaker of the mind, Debater of truth, The Mystique of Life, Unveiler of Thoughts, The great Narrator, The traveling philosopher, Harbinger of Rare Earth.
Btw, In spanish, we do pronounce the "s" in "isla". So it is like the "es" in "easter", plus the "la" in "ladder" Greetings from Chile! It's great to see content from one of ny favourite channels, featuring pieces of my culture
+SomeOne I don't know about Latin Americans, but the reverse is certainly true for Spanish people pronouncing English sounds. Vamos al cine a ver Estar Gwars. Say what? ^^ Once I was guilty of doing the exact opposite of what the OP described. I was talking to a friend about gay rights in Spain and trying to figure out why it had opened up to the idea fairly easily despite having very strong Catholic roots (compared to say France, where Catholicism is less rooted yet the country took longer to recognize gay rights). Pecado became pescado. Apparently I had asked him whether his grandmother thought homosexuality was a fish. Sure. Makes sense. ^^ Then of course there are those situations where dialectal forms of Spanish do drop the S, which can be confusing. In Andalucia, a girl walks up to me and my group of friends and says "de donde soy", which struck me as an odd philosophical question to ask to a stranger, and so I told her that. Where am I from? Where am I going? What does it all mean? Of course it was just "de donde sois" without the final S. Language is a bitch but man you sure get a lot of laughs when you're trying to learn. ^^
I think it was C.S.Lewis who attributed the rise in popularity of science fiction in the 1920's/30's to the fact that we had simply run out of mystery on Earth. Until then, fiction and fantasy were at the depths of the oceans, the tops of mountains, the centre of the Earth. We reached a point where we knew what was there, even if we hadn't been. So we started imagining the stars instead. This video reminded me really sharply of that, because I suppose it's just another side of the way we tell stories and pass on lessons.
The Mega-fauna extinction was mostly due to climate change rather then over hunting. Over-hunting did not help, but when the mammoths steppes and great plains were overtaken by forest, swamps and rivers, large animals unable to digest the trees and forest plants did not survive. The plains surrendered to forest, and the mammoths starved. There are a few other theories out there including migration of invasive predators or in some cases, natural disasters like mega-floods, but for the most part, climate change/environment change.
I would argue that because of hubris many humans tend to overlook the fact that we too are an invasive species. Nonetheless the quality of your videos keeps surpassing the previous ones! Great work.
Recent findings actually suggest that homo sapiens and neandertalis never coexisted, the most recent neanderthal remains were supposedly dated wrong and are now considered to be older than the earliest homo sapiens in the area. Not sure whether that theory is true but it sounds reasonable
Amazing video, I'd just like to offer a bit of constructive criticism. You start off the video by using the therm alien to mean foreigners or outsiders, but later transition to using the therm to mean extraterrestrial beings. That transition is sudden and could lead to confusion. You could have smoothed the transition by saying something like "now let us talk about a different kind of alien" or something along those lines. Mind you, I don't have any kind of storytelling or writing credentials, so take this with a grain of salt. It is clear to me that you are a masterful storyteller and have achieved much more than I have at this point.
I think your attempt to talk about aliens was quite successful. The connection you draw from today's stories to myths of the sea of the past is quite interesting. As a physics and astronomy student i really appreciate your effort on educating people on such a loaded issue. I can't imagine what kind of burden those constant conspiracy theories must be on your family. Hope you will keep going with this great channel!
I've never considered stories of extraterrestrial aliens in this light before, but it makes a lot of sense now that I have. I wonder if a similar link between dragons and dinosaurs (or dinosaur like large reptiles) exists, albeit more from found fossils and drawing similarities to reptiles that existed at the time.
In a caravan... the current xenophobia being whipped to a frothy meringue by our leerful feeder is that same brand of myth. I think it survives because it’s useful for those in power to stay in power. There always has to be a villain, a threat, an invader.
Really !! Did you came to Chile I saw all your videos about Japan and continue view your series. I never think that my country could be interested to you to make some chapter. Greeting from Chile.
Love the ending credits title "A Gentle Probe Into an Alien's Dark Side" Very clever double entendre. On the one hand, briefly discussing Dutch colonial (the "aliens") poor treatment of natives, and the other meaning is a twist on the supposed reports of what happens to UFO alien abductees while being physically examined.
5:50 I haven't seen all the extinct hominin fossils out there, but every one I have seen has been shorter than Homo sapiens. Homo neanderthalensis was close, so it's possible that over millennia a few individuals were that large (as some are today), but I see no reason to expect any species was so tall.
Thanks to everyone who asked about our Patreon. I'll put out a full video when I get the time, but for those who want to jump the gun and get on board from the start, here's the link: www.patreon.com/rareearth
It means a huge deal that so many have asked us to start an account. I never thought anyone would watch these videos, let alone support them.
Rare Earth son of a astronaut?
Canadian Astronaut and hero Chris Hadfield.
send my threats to Francesco.
You deserve way more views and subscribers.
Your videos are intelligent and poignant and a potent curiosity inducer. Sometimes they are depressing, sometimes they fill me with hope. But so far they have never failed to question our vision of the world and human societies. Thanks a lot for the hard work you're doing and for sharing with us.
I know this sounds crazy but aliens are real, I saw this documentary where a purple alien came to earth to acquire 6 gems for his golden glove, apparently he needed those items to bring balance to the universe.
elPichirri lmao
Sonic ?
@@monad_tcp
I think the alien was called Anus?
Lmao thanos
Pokemon
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
Ur tiny and weak. That's where the fear comes from; It doesn't really have much to do with being alone.
what losuy quote and a damnable one too. If we were alone then there would be no mortality and each man and woman would do what is right in their own eyes and NOBODY would have a right to judge them.......But since We are not alone, God has set the standards and proves His excitence.- Nothing come from Nothing. Try that quote out
I think this is my favourite Rare Earth video so far, really makes me look at folk tales differently now
When I was a child, I was terrified of Aliens. I once asked my mother about them, and why they're always trying to kill us in movies and t.v. shows. She told that's because we were trying to see ourselves in the aliens, that we attributed our history and desires onto these creatures. That's something that's always stuck with me, and I wonder how many other people can take the proper messages away from this. You're doing great work Evan, thank you. Always an introspective experience.
You had a wise mother.
Your mom was super woke
This channel is my favorite thing ever on UA-cam.
keep up the amazing work
absolutely
Yes
Oh no, they're onto us. How long before they realize that we - the Dutch - have been terra-forming this planet to make it hospitable to our kind?
Firefox is red, Explorer is blue. Google+ sucks and Chrome does too. Heightening doorways one inch at a time.
:DDD
Firefox is red, Explorer is blue. Google+ sucks and Chrome does too. Eh, the French saw through it immediately. How's that saying? "God made the world but the Dutch made the Netherlands"?
I'm dutch. Does that make me the alien?! O:
Considering only a small part of the Netherlands is below sea level you sure are doing a shit job.
thank you for always making the weird end-text. "never wrestle a pig. they're dirty and never stop screaming." please keep these coming
Also pleaso don't threaten me. Francesco is fair game though.
I laughed so hard :D
Wow. That's some real food for thought there.
It reminds me of the Vsauce2 video about how the rise of snakes 50+ million years ago hardcoded a snake warning system into our mammalian brains, and it manifests as dragons. Also that we draw aliens that way because we are hardwired to interpret large eyes and brains as more intelligent, and the less necessary part of the body like limbs and clothes to slowly disappear.
That part about orcs and monsters being ancient humans has really shaken me, as if a light went on. Thank you for that
I love that he dropped, "and as the son of an astronaut," like no big deal. Love this series, full of so many surprises.
Really interesting and insightful video. Thank you for posting it.
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This is definitely my favorite video of yours. Love it.
"Sci-fi conspiracy theories are way less scary than just admitting we're a bunch of vocal apes"
Loved it
I'm surprised he didn't mention by name the Sea Invaders of the bronze age collapse. A group of alien invaders was the one of the main causes for a long break the development of human society
I was expecting them too, haha.
If you've heard of the Sea People, you must also know the theories of why the bronze age ended not because of a group of people, but a variety of internal and external problems, just like any other great civilization.
The Roman Empire fell not just because of immigrating tribes fleeing climate change and overpopulation, but because of many fundamental dysfunctions in their society.
Kabcr1 ya for sure I said said one of but I know it was likely one of the more minor aspects as opposed economical difficulties. But for this exact video I think it would be worthy of mentioning. Also it's possible that people of the time thought the invaders were a bigger cause and passed that story down. We may have a better way of understanding the global faults in there society better than they did.
Sorry to hear about threats, but it doesn't surprise me anymore. There are some very frightened people out there who feel powerless against the confusing world around them. They feel forced to work hard to defend the set of beliefs that they've built up in order to cope. It'd be nice if we as a society could prioritize helping these people somehow.
Evan, you must have felt at some points that you have incredible shoes to fill with regard to your father, but I am equally impressed by what you do with these videos. Most underrated content on UA-cam.
This was fantastic. The video ended and was just.. awestruck. I wish there was more journalism/ content in general like this! So well articulated, so insightful.. please don't stop rare earth!
Rare Earth is one of the best channels in YT, the monologue was great and the footage breathtaking. Thanks for this.
I like how Evan always touches on some sensitive topics almost no one would dare,gotta say matches much to my mindset
why do i always end up crying
you are conditioning me to tear up to the words "this is rare earth"
One of the best channels on UA-cam at this point. Glad it gets more known and grows steadily.
I just realized who you guys are. I had heard of Chris Hadfield and think he is a great person, clearly charismatic and inspiring... It's amazing but it also explains why Evan is so well-educated and well-spoken. Such a harmonious and rare family (pun intended). There is a thirst for people like you these days. In a society that praises mediocrity and shuns intelligence and education, those of us who still crave for pertinent, useful information about the past are starving for series such as this. Congrats on your success so far and thank you for your effort to share these stories with us!
This may just be the most-important video you've so far shot and published on this channel, Evan!
This is rare for a series this good to be on UA-cam
I am Dutch and when u said: They came on ships nobody could build. Then I knew it was my people who where the aliens, a history that isn't told to the children in school because we ain't proud of it but we are proud of how rich it made us, millions of people were our slaves and we were rich men, now all we tell our kids is that we traded spices to become rich
Evan and Francesco, you were by far the best find on youtube ever. Thank you once again for an insightful video.
Keep up the good work, it makes us think.
Reminds me of Reinhold Messner's tale about the Yeti. Everybody thought he had lost it, but when he researched the topic together with scientists, he came to an actually rather scientific explanation that it is a kind of bear, its footprints getting distorted by the sun, and its shape shifted by the the colour of its fur when standing in front of snowy beckgrounds. The encounters as found in the tales of the people match very well just like the encounters of modern mountaineers like Messner himself.
That alternate title though. Hahahah :)
Very good video, as usual. Thanks for all your hard work.
This video says everything I've been staying my whole life about myths being ancient memories.
Stories you share on this channel are amazing. When I listen to them I always try to imagine how the situation looked like and felt to people back then. I learn a lot from your series. My only worry is that by talking about remote places and local stories of these amazing cultures people like logan paul will discover them, go there and ruin them. But I guess he doesn't watch content like that so we're good :)
I always knew the Dutch were from Pluto...
Cyrule i mean the comparison of size checks out.
You could even say that they are "the flying dutch"
Hey dat is niet aardig!!
this is the best series in youtube love it
Aren't we all floating specks of dust in space ?
Magnartist what was that about? Why did he get threads?
Some people decide to believe it makes more sense for the speck of dust to be an UFO.
We are a speck on a rock that is a speck in the solar system that is a speck in the galaxy that is a speck in the super cluster and so on and so forth.
Conclusion. Everything is a spec of dust
thank your for making videos like these. the philosophical talks alongside the comforting visuals, they never fail to amaze me.
Saw an ad with your dad before this video. 🤣 (Chris Hatfield's Masterclass)
Totally worth to spent my time here.Not only learned about the new culture but learned a lesson to be a good civilised person.
I love your rework of the channel my dude.
I'm so glad you changed the icon for the channel!
That was a nice shot at the end. The statues were looking out for alien ships on the horizon.
You have such great content that I'm always surprised to see views under 100k. Keep up the good work!
Very well put together and presented, really enjoying the content your putting out. Fascinating look at the topic, makes perfect sense, love the different perspective.
Wow, this video rocked my mind. Your best yet!
I am saddened that anyone would threaten you, Evan. Stay safe and please keep bringing us these stories.
This video just messes with my mind everytime I watch it. In a good way.
0:52 - amaaazing shot!
thanks for a great video. storytelling + the human condition.
My favourite channel on UA-cam
2:17 wait?! You're a son of an astrounaut!?
Chris Hadfield. The coolest one, by the way.
brother. chris hatfield is his brother
No Gizjr, he's his son, read Chris' wikipedia, it says Evan Hadfield is his son
Look at some of the earlier videos on this channel
Gizjr TheAssBLastermaster chris is his dad....
I started watch theese series, because you talked about japan, and im going there this year, but now you are making vídeos in my country, and i dont know why, it makes me happy. Hope you can make something in Santiago.
So powerful. Glad I found this channel. Thank you!
I feel this channel slowly becoming exurb1a levels of existential.
Thanks Evan, that was amazing, I'd never given thought to how aliens from outer space could be related to and mirror the alien invasion experience of our societies. Storytelling is one of the major (if not the prime thing) that makes us human, and for these kind of traumatic events to not be codified into stories (and thus morph into an underlying context/worry) would be strange and I think unlikely. Even if we have been the scary invaders, deep down we know that if we can be such a thing, so too could such a thing exist out there and thus do the same to us. Fascinating. Thanks for a wonderful series and sorry that you're receiving threats... :/
"They spoke a language nobody could understand".
Well, i can imagine.
"The usual example given to illustrate an Outside Context Problem was imagining you were a tribe on a largish, fertile island; you'd tamed the land, invented the wheel or writing or whatever, the neighbors were cooperative or enslaved but at any rate peaceful and you were busy raising temples to yourself with all the excess productive capacity you had, you were in a position of near-absolute power and control which your hallowed ancestors could hardly have dreamed of and the whole situation was just running along nicely like a canoe on wet grass... when suddenly this bristling lump of iron appears sailless and trailing steam in the bay and these guys carrying long funny-looking sticks come ashore and announce you've just been discovered, you're all subjects of the Emperor now, he's keen on presents called tax and these bright-eyed holy men would like a word with your priests."
Best channel ever.
This was so, so good. Please do more like this.
Ps. What was that about the spec of dust.
I've been watching you guys for awhile, keep up the slow insightful talking.
Who are you?
Son of an Astronaut, Speaker of the mind, Debater of truth, The Mystique of Life, Unveiler of Thoughts, The great Narrator, The traveling philosopher, Harbinger of Rare Earth.
I wish i could remember the name but this ties closely to a video ive watched about our primal fears and nightmares. Well worth searching for.
These videos are actually interesting and keep me coming for more but I've already watched them all lol
Btw, In spanish, we do pronounce the "s" in "isla". So it is like the "es" in "easter", plus the "la" in "ladder"
Greetings from Chile!
It's great to see content from one of ny favourite channels, featuring pieces of my culture
dont even bother asking an american to pronounce iberic sounds right
SomeOne He's Canadian.
doesnt change much
True, both speak boring old (new) norman influenced English. Perfect for a homogeneous world.
+SomeOne I don't know about Latin Americans, but the reverse is certainly true for Spanish people pronouncing English sounds. Vamos al cine a ver Estar Gwars. Say what? ^^ Once I was guilty of doing the exact opposite of what the OP described. I was talking to a friend about gay rights in Spain and trying to figure out why it had opened up to the idea fairly easily despite having very strong Catholic roots (compared to say France, where Catholicism is less rooted yet the country took longer to recognize gay rights). Pecado became pescado. Apparently I had asked him whether his grandmother thought homosexuality was a fish. Sure. Makes sense. ^^ Then of course there are those situations where dialectal forms of Spanish do drop the S, which can be confusing. In Andalucia, a girl walks up to me and my group of friends and says "de donde soy", which struck me as an odd philosophical question to ask to a stranger, and so I told her that. Where am I from? Where am I going? What does it all mean? Of course it was just "de donde sois" without the final S. Language is a bitch but man you sure get a lot of laughs when you're trying to learn. ^^
Brilliant . Best aliens video I have seen on you tube!
I love this Channel !
Amazing, as always!!
Really unique channel.. love it
Amazing, as always.
I think it was C.S.Lewis who attributed the rise in popularity of science fiction in the 1920's/30's to the fact that we had simply run out of mystery on Earth. Until then, fiction and fantasy were at the depths of the oceans, the tops of mountains, the centre of the Earth. We reached a point where we knew what was there, even if we hadn't been. So we started imagining the stars instead.
This video reminded me really sharply of that, because I suppose it's just another side of the way we tell stories and pass on lessons.
Wow! this changed my perspective on story telling
The Mega-fauna extinction was mostly due to climate change rather then over hunting. Over-hunting did not help, but when the mammoths steppes and great plains were overtaken by forest, swamps and rivers, large animals unable to digest the trees and forest plants did not survive. The plains surrendered to forest, and the mammoths starved. There are a few other theories out there including migration of invasive predators or in some cases, natural disasters like mega-floods, but for the most part, climate change/environment change.
Never forget the Fair Folk, sometimes they're malevolent, other times they're benign, but they're always powerful and dangerous.
Your voice is so soothing 😍️
Excellent video about a subject near and dear to me heart.
I would argue that because of hubris many humans tend to overlook the fact that we too are an invasive species. Nonetheless the quality of your videos keeps surpassing the previous ones! Great work.
I love reading the outro screen. I like how its sometimes funny ^^. :empty threat on your life: ♥ keep it up evan!
Great video!
The most Americans discussed aliens was in the 1950s when anxiety of the soviet threat was at its highest. UFOs represented Soviet craft.
Really interesting video. Keep it up!
Everybody is talking about "Where are aliens?"
But nobody is talking about "How are aliens?"
wow this was great thank you
Wow you and your old man have so much more in common than I expected.
Recent findings actually suggest that homo sapiens and neandertalis never coexisted, the most recent neanderthal remains were supposedly dated wrong and are now considered to be older than the earliest homo sapiens in the area. Not sure whether that theory is true but it sounds reasonable
That makes so much sense.
1:02 You got me good, sir. Real good.
I love Rare Earth
Candace Farrell i love you
Wow... All I can say is - Thank You. This is something I've never considered.
This man is a genius.
The aliens we encounter will be dead bacteria if we're lucky. If we find live ones, our luck might run out.
- wait. We were the aliens?
- always has been
Does anyone know what the Cruise ship in the video is?
great video
Amazing video, I'd just like to offer a bit of constructive criticism. You start off the video by using the therm alien to mean foreigners or outsiders, but later transition to using the therm to mean extraterrestrial beings. That transition is sudden and could lead to confusion. You could have smoothed the transition by saying something like "now let us talk about a different kind of alien" or something along those lines.
Mind you, I don't have any kind of storytelling or writing credentials, so take this with a grain of salt. It is clear to me that you are a masterful storyteller and have achieved much more than I have at this point.
One things for sure, when they come (or return) you, me, her, him, ain’t gonna me so ego centric anymore.
I think your attempt to talk about aliens was quite successful. The connection you draw from today's stories to myths of the sea of the past is quite interesting. As a physics and astronomy student i really appreciate your effort on educating people on such a loaded issue. I can't imagine what kind of burden those constant conspiracy theories must be on your family. Hope you will keep going with this great channel!
I've never considered stories of extraterrestrial aliens in this light before, but it makes a lot of sense now that I have. I wonder if a similar link between dragons and dinosaurs (or dinosaur like large reptiles) exists, albeit more from found fossils and drawing similarities to reptiles that existed at the time.
This makes me want to watch Starship Troopers
In a caravan... the current xenophobia being whipped to a frothy meringue by our leerful feeder is that same brand of myth. I think it survives because it’s useful for those in power to stay in power. There always has to be a villain, a threat, an invader.
Really !! Did you came to Chile I saw all your videos about Japan and continue view your series. I never think that my country could be interested to you to make some chapter. Greeting from Chile.
Love the ending credits title "A Gentle Probe Into an Alien's Dark Side" Very clever double entendre. On the one hand, briefly discussing Dutch colonial (the "aliens") poor treatment of natives, and the other meaning is a twist on the supposed reports of what happens to UFO alien abductees while being physically examined.
Can you *please* talk about the cargo cults? It's very similar to this social phenomena, only observed much recently, during WWII to be exact.
My birthday is on April 5th and I was always curious about aliens
5:50 I haven't seen all the extinct hominin fossils out there, but every one I have seen has been shorter than Homo sapiens. Homo neanderthalensis was close, so it's possible that over millennia a few individuals were that large (as some are today), but I see no reason to expect any species was so tall.