Leonardo da Vinci came up with the idea of tanks, hang gliders, helicopter s and parachutes 500 years ago but was held back by lack funding, material s and the technology of the time. This story is more believable than most would think
Francis Bacon (a relative contemporary of da Vinci and a founding father of modern science) theorized that humanity would invent self propelled carts and flying machines and the like.
There is a theory that each and every idea you think of has already been imagined by a human before your time, but said human either lacked the means or success to bring it into reality.
@@monseurwanksalotte3477 what does that have anything to do with the story? Seriously what, please explain how what you just said had anything to do with a human impressing an alien with our species collective ingenuity?
@@monseurwanksalotte3477 Honestly I can't believe that someone would say that in a comment section talking about humans impressing aliens. The key word there "HUMANS" as in humanity as a whole impressing another species that believes were not even worth talking to. The idea that you think that I as a gamer would want to see other humans wiped out is insanity on the highest level. Now if you are just a troll hoping to get my goat good luck, if you are a pro Palestinian seeking to convince me that destroying Israel and it's people all around the world, I will never agree with that sentiment. i hope that the hate that clouds your judgment on human character is lifted so you can see the good in the world.
@@V2011F bruh chill why are you reacting like that? You Isr*eli? War criminals shouldn't have human rights. I don't think its that controversial an opinion.
@@caseyleeshort Even our children turn the simplest things into weapons, i remember when i was younger i use to make crossbows with texters and rubber bands. Using two hollowed out texters. one to hold the rubber band and one to hold the inside of a pen for projectiles. Surprisingly powerful and hurt a lot.
@@ArigathanksGozaimuchi then we learnt we can make metal stick that shoot smaller stick at high speeds, then a giant metal stick that can create nuclear wastelands.
Reason why humans have fight ot flight reflexes is because we're pretty slow compared to everything else on our planet. Sometimes it's better to stand your ground and punch the thing that's trying to kill you.
It helps that predators are risk adverse. You might not want to try to eat the monkey man if you know his brother is going to smash your face in with a rock, or that your prey will turn on you and suddenly appear way bigger, and look way stronger than you are willing to risk. Also our fight response is primed for mutual aid and interpersonal conflict.
Dude, just wait until he sees something like Isaac Arthur's channel, or some of our ideas around folding space, pocket dimensions, wormholes, and the like. Not to mention nano-bot-driven medicines, molecular construction, etc.
I do believe the proper phrase to describe the reaction would be 'shitting bricks.' Qnd that's BEFORE they got to the video about star lifting, stellar engines, black hole farming, and living til the end of the black hole and iron star epochs.
I think that HFY encapsulates all sides of Humanity. We are Space Orks, but we do not lack ingenuity or forethought. We don’t fight just to fight. We are, for lack of a better term, a peaceful race. Not a non violent, or weak race, but a race not burdened by aggression. Aggressive yes, but we can actively choose Peace, should the event require
"Can it run Doom?" *Holodeck reproduces Doom, complete with gun-toting zombines, fireball spitting/throwing demons, and technorganic abominations.* *Alien guide screams in terror as humans cackle and pull BFGs out of nowhere.*
When the rich by unimaginative kid shoes off his stuff to a kid that grew up poor but had all kinds of ideas and instantly figured it all the new toys he got shown. Also I remember having a poster of the solar system on the closet to mine and my brother's room and dreaming... Space... The final frontier.
Yeah, it would be interesting to see what happens, I immagine that, in this scenario, if nothing else our imagination would make us valuable assets for technological advancement, we make up fictional technologies in our minds way beyond what we are currently capable of for fun and try to re create it later, that'd be really valuable for any galactic or interplanetary nation to have on their side, not to mention the fact we also like to play with the ideas of scenarios that are either unlikely able to happen to seemingly impossible.
Dreamers don't forget that brothers and sisters. That's what all of us really are. Dreams trapped in reality made to strive to make our dreams a reality.
well some usa subs have hand held navigational controller like devices. i remember seeing a picture of it. so in space with 3 dementional like subs, makes sense.
I don't remember the name, but I remember reading an article about an oceanographic expedition (I think linked to Woods Hole) using remote-control subs, where the lead researcher said he wouldn't let anyone over 30 pilot his subs. The reason was because the control scheme and whole idea of remote controlling like that was more adaptable to kids who had grown up piloting virtual vehicles. I think the controller may have even been a converted PS or XBOX controller or something.
I mean, most simulator games have HOTUS control options anyway, and if they had some sort of inertial control then I would not be surprised if a gamer (not to mention a pilot) couldn't pick up the controls and fly the ship, at least basically, with very little difficulty
I do want to point out we do infact have rail guns. Hell the US just finished the newest design and is debating bringing back the battleship to put them on. Destroyers and battleships loaded with rail guns is a thing happening now.
@@ReptillianStrike Nuclear reactors mostly, same way we power most carriers and submarines, it was mandated at one point to consider it for all naval applications to save on fuel costs and to make supplying the various craft happen on a longer timescale than the fuel since most reactors only need more fuel every 10-20 years or so. Most Destroyers don't have it because the old steam systems got phased out on them when gas was introduced and it makes the individual cost of the craft too expensive. Speculatively even with one of the massive diesel engines it would likely just have a capacitor bay setup for the shots likely being capable of 20-30 shots and then recharging with a possible swap between two capacitor banks. Either solution solves the power issue since its all about the split second it takes to accelerate it taking so much since it needs a sufficient field strength to properly accelerate the target. So, likely even on the nuclear craft it still would have some kind of capacitor bank it'd just likely recharge faster since the source power is higher overall. There'd likely also be controls for speed of charging and speed of discharge to modulate the speed the shot is going for ranging and power cost efficiency reasons. No point in a full power shot when half will still go through the target.
@@TemporalandReaty slight addendum: nuclear reactors are *really* slow to throttle up or down, mostly for safety reasons (except for Russian attack subs, which have a button labeled "disable all safety systems because we're about to be hit by a torpedo"). A railgun on a nuclear ship will *definitely* need capacitor banks
Yeah that sounds about right the diplomats are completely out of touch and only the people who actually work on the ground realize the full value of what’s in front of them
For the record, Holo-deck technologies with hard light capabilities should be required to have a physical console rendered at all times for safety reasons.
Hard-light holodecks would be very unsafe, as the physical projects would be very hot to the touch. Have you ever touched a powered lightbulb? The plastic/glass is so fucking hot.
@@ReptillianStrike Lightbulb example doesnt really work, that would just mean at worst the projectors would be super hot, lightbulbs are mainly hot because of how they work, particularly filament, since it puts and electric current through a piece of metal so it heats up and gives off light, but this species would probably have much more efficient ways to do so. Considering we havent actually got hard light, and its not likely possible, you cant really comment on its heat, if you somehow created a sort of flexible, extremely reflective material, still likely more feasible than solid light, you could possibly create a suit to deal with it.
@@poffzihavenoidea531 Agreed. In this case, Solid Light would be more like... An inert, harmless gas been given an electrical charge to produce an image. It'd be... Far more complicated than that, but that'd be the basic idea. Very little heat produced, and any heat it does produce can be counteracted by some decent ventilation or just some AC.
This is... by far the best reddit Scifi storie I've EVER listened to. Whoever wrote this is an artist. A... 'dreamer' of high caliber. They see we humans as exceptional. A potential that would be valued, not just a threat or unworthy of an alien intelligences curiosity and awe. Well done sir or madam. This was entertaining and very thought provocative.
Not so much the resources, but the gravity of our planet, and a willingness to throw money and resources at the problem, which is thankfully less of a problem now with the likes of elon musk, branson, and bezos.
Humanity isn't restricted by resources or technology it is restricted by governments not wanting to lose their grip on controlling the human race under their corrupt systems of government setup to keep the masses under the thumb of their tyranny and corruption of control.
And our incessant desire to stab each other in the back. And fight for basically stupid reasons. I blame not having a common goal to work towards, really.
a few aliens in higher up positions to keep us from accidentally creating zombies, universe ending super weapons, etc, and a budget in the realm of the GDP of a planet they would be obsoleting their own tech every year or so
@@flamestoyershadowkill dude, I didn't mean as Thyssen-Krupp or Mitsubishi, I meant more like Apple or Microsoft or any civilian contractor, not a darn weapons smith.
This author just posted a new story that I think many would enjoy. I would bet it would be a huge hit if you were able to get permission to do that one as well.
We do, but they are - officially at least - several years away from implementation. It's going to be a while yet before big guns overtake missiles as the go-to weapon of choice...
@@Siathuan vary true. We also have used the tech to make a gun that shoots 1 million rounds a second. The steal wall/rain is an Australian gun. You tube it it's pretty insane
I love how this story shows humanity as a military power but an inventive, inquisitive an forward thinking one, shows our value in science an technology rather than brutal space orcs for hire
The biggest issue holding back human tech is poor power sources. Power armor and exo skeletons have already been made but have to be plugged in like an umbilical cord.
Also, battery storage, if we can get a proper way to store loads of energy in a small and light device, we would be capable of pretty much anything right now. We are actually producing loads of energy and could probably go green if we had a way to store all the unused energy and then use it when there is no sun or wind
Pilot Jenkins, I must ask, how can your species be so calm when you share your world with so many large predators? You just kinda go with it And most of your species are like this? Some are much crazier More crazy??? The human turned back to his communication device and on the display I saw him clear the search for the previous animal he showed me and entered 2 words into the search "STEVE IRWIN"
Love the fact that 2 captains are actually then negotiating with each other explain about tech of course it probably would have helped if the human captain had explained that he knew about all this because of shows and t vs and books
This one absolutely needs a series to go into it. With Pilot Jenkins as a mediator between the 2 plus the Captain. Imagine an empire that has become stagnant and struggles with progress, combined with the learning, intuition, curiosity and creativity that thousands of years ago picked up a stick and kept pushing towards greater creation ever since. The 2 gold alliance would be unstoppable with the technology of The Empire combined with the raw imagination and intellect of Humanity.
Nice. I would have liked to see them get more into the human tradition of science fiction and imagining technology they had never seen before and would have no idea how they would work.
Very nice and fun story. Also, a very plausible one within its basic framework. Welldone and entertaining. Our engineers are great ones for tinkering, but what many people overlook is that non engineers also like to tinker. I think that our species is hardwired for this, with people falling into a range of intensity and ability for this. And yes, I occasionally tinker, but I'm not an engineer. My father was an electrical engineer, though. My brothers also tinker with things, but not my sister. However, her husband likes to tinker. I like my BIL. He and my sister get along great. This sci-fi story is also a winner. Thanks for posting it! 😊
I don't know why but given all the " humans are space orcs " story's I've read I feel like aliens would probably find the concept of cyborgs and prosthetic's REALLY strange or down right ludicrous
@@Mr_TJones correct! Its just like the development process of Cannons way, way back. They pushed those things to the limit. I believe the largest cannon used in history was the in Fall of Constantinople and that thing was enormous.
@@drakeonight Yeah, they were scheduled for field testing just after the lasers (yes, they actually fielded a laser-based point defense system, and it did well enough that the Captain asked permission to keep it running on the return trip). Apparently the railguns weren't quite up to snuff for full field testing yet, though.
I'm curious as to how these aliens got all this technology without the ability to imagine it beforehand. Or did they develop the tech first and then lose their creativity because it was no longer necessary?
It's probably a lot harder for those aliens to achieve their true potential, whereas it's really easy for humans, which is why we develop so much faster. Out of the billions of humans, only like a couple hundred thousand of them are actually inventing and researching. The rest are just sustaining society. It's very possible that only like 100-200 of them are inventing and researching.
Not at all. They are clearly still making refinements to their technology. The viewpoint character says as much. It's just likely they are comparatively, speaking, plodders who take ten or twenty times as long to improve their technology. Or at least they were before they met HFY humans.
That wS my thought exactly, I am thinking they must have had thier own version of sci-fi. Dreamers, "I want fly like a bird" "we want to go to space" "are there others put there?"
The principles of flight were discovered by George Cayley in 1799. It took more than a century for manufacturing to catch up to the science, and we were able to produce the first reliable heavier than air flying machines. We understand the "what," but the "how" takes a bit longer.
Humanity holds itself back constantly, with the establishment class and their thralls to busy trying to play king of the mountain and funding their wars at everyone else's expense, while the dreamers long for the stars, but cannot reach them because of bills and taxes.
So true, we still need tens of not hundreds of years of political developments to become an intergalactic civilization (considering how some places are still making laws about the internet), and how technologyally backwards we are currently and it being so only because of a lack of funding is quite sad.
If the aliens let the human fly their ship. I can all ready read the news " human drifts spaceship around ISS, comes with in 5 centimeters from hitting it ."
The aliens don’t even need a human scientist just some random dude at a Con probably don’t even need to pay him just give him some unsupervised time on the holodeck
For the love of f****** God I have spent the past 3 months trying to find this goddamn video again because I couldn't remember The channel or the title
This piece of scifi is surprisingly grounded in reality just read the book called the Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku. All of these things except for the golodeck are things that University Proffessors, Darpa and the US military are experimenting with or have theorized about have shelved for now because of technological roadblocks that they can not as of yet overcome but are doable in the distant future. Maybe with such technologies as carbon batteries. I really love this story and I had to listen to it for a second time before I commented. The surprising thing was the simplicity of the aliens tech in relation to things that we know are possible but can not yet achieve.
Oooo we actually do have rail guns. Well. Some tourists got a picture of a Chinese warship out on drills with a rail gun. The country with the best colleges doesn't make these kind of things. It's the one with the largest, most productive, industrial base. Electromechanical engineering is nearly lost here. We just toss a tiny computer into everything. It's more of a waste of time than a sign of progress.
Heh^^ Gamers will be dreamers^^ imagine the shock on the Capitains face when the Gamer aces one of their Training scenarios for a military flight sim^^
Leonardo da Vinci came up with the idea of tanks, hang gliders, helicopter s and parachutes 500 years ago but was held back by lack funding, material s and the technology of the time. This story is more believable than most would think
Leonardo da Vinci was an exceptional mind of his time, but maybe we just didn't know too many others since we were economically held back.
Francis Bacon (a relative contemporary of da Vinci and a founding father of modern science) theorized that humanity would invent self propelled carts and flying machines and the like.
There is a theory that each and every idea you think of has already been imagined by a human before your time, but said human either lacked the means or success to bring it into reality.
@@neenm4299 amusingly, that sounds a lot like the basis of the Adeptus Mechanics’ religion.
@@chadsmith8966 I like to roleplay is a Magos Biologis so thank you!
A gamer allied us with an alien empire by talking about our scifi. This is the future of humanity's greatness
did they nuke israel after?
@@monseurwanksalotte3477 what does that have anything to do with the story? Seriously what, please explain how what you just said had anything to do with a human impressing an alien with our species collective ingenuity?
@@V2011F its common knowledge us gamer don't recognize isr*el as a legitimate state
You never got the memo?
@@monseurwanksalotte3477 Honestly I can't believe that someone would say that in a comment section talking about humans impressing aliens. The key word there "HUMANS" as in humanity as a whole impressing another species that believes were not even worth talking to. The idea that you think that I as a gamer would want to see other humans wiped out is insanity on the highest level.
Now if you are just a troll hoping to get my goat good luck, if you are a pro Palestinian seeking to convince me that destroying Israel and it's people all around the world, I will never agree with that sentiment. i hope that the hate that clouds your judgment on human character is lifted so you can see the good in the world.
@@V2011F bruh chill why are you reacting like that?
You Isr*eli?
War criminals shouldn't have human rights.
I don't think its that controversial an opinion.
Give a human a shiny new toy, they'll as for two more. If you ask why, they explain "One to play with, one to take apart, and one for backup."
then we would make it into a weapon...could be a really advanced toaster and we would figure out how to make it a weapon
@@caseyleeshort Even our children turn the simplest things into weapons, i remember when i was younger i use to make crossbows with texters and rubber bands. Using two hollowed out texters. one to hold the rubber band and one to hold the inside of a pen for projectiles. Surprisingly powerful and hurt a lot.
@@caseyleeshort I mean, what is a Laser but a long range highly advanced toaster?
@@UNSCPILOT maybe a small lense?
@@UNSCPILOT A toaster is just a laser with a limited power supply!
Okay, that was creepy. The ad I got at the beginning was a cream cheese ad, and it said "you came here for sci-fi, remember?"
You were blessed by the Algorithm... It has deemed you a Good Minion...
For the Algorithm..
Just remember to not disappoint the algorithm. It knows all
philadelphia?
@@solillman2350 Texas?
@@johnjohnjohnson7720 Philadelphia is a cream cheese brand that have that sort of crap as their advertising. Very annoying.
humans have no claws, no fangs, no scales or wings.
still we are the most dominat race on our planet. All because of our greatest skill:
Adaptability
Adaptability, aka "Ahaha, I got a Bigger Stick." *Whack*
@@sugarkross355 well of course, after building the stick
@@Doctor_Hazard then we went on and learn that we can sharpen our sticks
@@ArigathanksGozaimuchi then we learnt we can make metal stick that shoot smaller stick at high speeds, then a giant metal stick that can create nuclear wastelands.
Predators: "Nooo! You shouldn't be able to kill us without big teeth and claws!"
Humans: "Haha, stick go poke, club go thwack, rock go yeet!"
Reason why humans have fight ot flight reflexes is because we're pretty slow compared to everything else on our planet. Sometimes it's better to stand your ground and punch the thing that's trying to kill you.
Can’t run away fast enough from an angry and scare deer, so gotta fight and eat it
@@elijahaitaok8624 exactly sometimes you just got to Bash the things head in with a rock
It helps that predators are risk adverse. You might not want to try to eat the monkey man if you know his brother is going to smash your face in with a rock, or that your prey will turn on you and suddenly appear way bigger, and look way stronger than you are willing to risk.
Also our fight response is primed for mutual aid and interpersonal conflict.
Trust the Persistance Hunter to know when running away is the worse option. :)
"Look out mother nature, I figured out how to throw friggin' rocks!" -Humanity in a nutshell.
Dude, just wait until he sees something like Isaac Arthur's channel, or some of our ideas around folding space, pocket dimensions, wormholes, and the like. Not to mention nano-bot-driven medicines, molecular construction, etc.
I do believe the proper phrase to describe the reaction would be 'shitting bricks.'
Qnd that's BEFORE they got to the video about star lifting, stellar engines, black hole farming, and living til the end of the black hole and iron star epochs.
Did not think of that guy, but you're right.
And Megastructures, so many Megastructures that we could build with the right manufacturing infrastructure in orbit
@@singletona082 right. Their heads would explode.
🤯
And it all started with a wager about weapons teck, to me that just so human.
Finally,a story about the beauty of humanity & it's ingenuity,instead of humans being walking war-machine plaguemasters turned immortal wargods.
I think that HFY encapsulates all sides of Humanity. We are Space Orks, but we do not lack ingenuity or forethought. We don’t fight just to fight. We are, for lack of a better term, a peaceful race. Not a non violent, or weak race, but a race not burdened by aggression. Aggressive yes, but we can actively choose Peace, should the event require
"Can it run Doom?"
*Holodeck reproduces Doom, complete with gun-toting zombines, fireball spitting/throwing demons, and technorganic abominations.*
*Alien guide screams in terror as humans cackle and pull BFGs out of nowhere.*
When the rich by unimaginative kid shoes off his stuff to a kid that grew up poor but had all kinds of ideas and instantly figured it all the new toys he got shown.
Also I remember having a poster of the solar system on the closet to mine and my brother's room and dreaming...
Space... The final frontier.
Not the final. Simply the next.
Because time exists, and so does the multiverse
I desperately want a part 2 to this particular scenario.
Yeah, it would be interesting to see what happens, I immagine that, in this scenario, if nothing else our imagination would make us valuable assets for technological advancement, we make up fictional technologies in our minds way beyond what we are currently capable of for fun and try to re create it later, that'd be really valuable for any galactic or interplanetary nation to have on their side, not to mention the fact we also like to play with the ideas of scenarios that are either unlikely able to happen to seemingly impossible.
It could be the start of a very funny series
You and me both brother, you and me both.
@@suraivase7285
That reminds me of a greentext where humans got two warp drives and then turned a star into a ring to see if they could.
Just imagine if that captain was shown dinosaurs in life-size and not be told they were extinct.
"Evacuate all humans! Glass that hell sphere from creation!"
Or just show some of the megafauna mammals early humans did drive into extinction (referring to the Quaternary Megafauna Extinction)
Oh narrator, kindly narrator, gifting us the long videos
Dreamers don't forget that brothers and sisters. That's what all of us really are. Dreams trapped in reality made to strive to make our dreams a reality.
For the dream.
imagine a spaceship being controlled with something akin to a playstation/xbox/etc controller and a gamer was asked to try steering the ship :P
well some usa subs have hand held navigational controller like devices. i remember seeing a picture of it. so in space with 3 dementional like subs, makes sense.
I don't remember the name, but I remember reading an article about an oceanographic expedition (I think linked to Woods Hole) using remote-control subs, where the lead researcher said he wouldn't let anyone over 30 pilot his subs. The reason was because the control scheme and whole idea of remote controlling like that was more adaptable to kids who had grown up piloting virtual vehicles. I think the controller may have even been a converted PS or XBOX controller or something.
*starts pulling out the Microsoft flight simulator equipment*
I mean, most simulator games have HOTUS control options anyway, and if they had some sort of inertial control then I would not be surprised if a gamer (not to mention a pilot) couldn't pick up the controls and fly the ship, at least basically, with very little difficulty
Oh good lord. I can just see their horrified expressions at the maneuvers we would try, as we giggled maniacally...
I do want to point out we do infact have rail guns. Hell the US just finished the newest design and is debating bringing back the battleship to put them on. Destroyers and battleships loaded with rail guns is a thing happening now.
We also have laser anti missile counter measures. Been in testing and development for something like 40 years, and been equipped on ships for 15-20.
How are we powering these rail guns? Don't they take an absolutely fuck ton of power?
@@ReptillianStrike Nuclear reactors mostly, same way we power most carriers and submarines, it was mandated at one point to consider it for all naval applications to save on fuel costs and to make supplying the various craft happen on a longer timescale than the fuel since most reactors only need more fuel every 10-20 years or so. Most Destroyers don't have it because the old steam systems got phased out on them when gas was introduced and it makes the individual cost of the craft too expensive.
Speculatively even with one of the massive diesel engines it would likely just have a capacitor bay setup for the shots likely being capable of 20-30 shots and then recharging with a possible swap between two capacitor banks. Either solution solves the power issue since its all about the split second it takes to accelerate it taking so much since it needs a sufficient field strength to properly accelerate the target. So, likely even on the nuclear craft it still would have some kind of capacitor bank it'd just likely recharge faster since the source power is higher overall.
There'd likely also be controls for speed of charging and speed of discharge to modulate the speed the shot is going for ranging and power cost efficiency reasons. No point in a full power shot when half will still go through the target.
It may be a older post
@@TemporalandReaty slight addendum: nuclear reactors are *really* slow to throttle up or down, mostly for safety reasons (except for Russian attack subs, which have a button labeled "disable all safety systems because we're about to be hit by a torpedo"). A railgun on a nuclear ship will *definitely* need capacitor banks
Yeah that sounds about right the diplomats are completely out of touch and only the people who actually work on the ground realize the full value of what’s in front of them
For the record, Holo-deck technologies with hard light capabilities should be required to have a physical console rendered at all times for safety reasons.
Indeed. Always have a physical console as backup simply because no tech is perfect and glitches can happen at any time.
Hard-light holodecks would be very unsafe, as the physical projects would be very hot to the touch. Have you ever touched a powered lightbulb? The plastic/glass is so fucking hot.
@@ReptillianStrike Lightbulb example doesnt really work, that would just mean at worst the projectors would be super hot, lightbulbs are mainly hot because of how they work, particularly filament, since it puts and electric current through a piece of metal so it heats up and gives off light, but this species would probably have much more efficient ways to do so. Considering we havent actually got hard light, and its not likely possible, you cant really comment on its heat, if you somehow created a sort of flexible, extremely reflective material, still likely more feasible than solid light, you could possibly create a suit to deal with it.
@@poffzihavenoidea531 Agreed. In this case, Solid Light would be more like... An inert, harmless gas been given an electrical charge to produce an image. It'd be... Far more complicated than that, but that'd be the basic idea. Very little heat produced, and any heat it does produce can be counteracted by some decent ventilation or just some AC.
@@MrJinglejanglejingle good luck getting that on a ship tho.
This is... by far the best reddit Scifi storie I've EVER listened to. Whoever wrote this is an artist. A... 'dreamer' of high caliber. They see we humans as exceptional. A potential that would be valued, not just a threat or unworthy of an alien intelligences curiosity and awe. Well done sir or madam. This was entertaining and very thought provocative.
If Humanity wasn’t so LIMITED in our available resources, we’d already be well into space.
Not so much the resources, but the gravity of our planet, and a willingness to throw money and resources at the problem, which is thankfully less of a problem now with the likes of elon musk, branson, and bezos.
@@nweasels Now if only Bezos and his ilk weren't such scumbags to the rest of Humanity as a result.
On top of what N weasels said, it’s also our politicians too
Humanity isn't restricted by resources or technology it is restricted by governments not wanting to lose their grip on controlling the human race under their corrupt systems of government setup to keep the masses under the thumb of their tyranny and corruption of control.
And our incessant desire to stab each other in the back. And fight for basically stupid reasons. I blame not having a common goal to work towards, really.
I'd start as a company of the Aliens to poach the R&D teams of humanity, and then Patent as much as possible.
a few aliens in higher up positions to keep us from accidentally creating zombies, universe ending super weapons, etc, and a budget in the realm of the GDP of a planet
they would be obsoleting their own tech every year or so
@@artbrann Come on, we'd never accidentally creat zombies. You know it would be with full intent.
with stuff like the allaya vinyana system from gundam ibo and sao's vr stuff
@@flamestoyershadowkill dude, I didn't mean as Thyssen-Krupp or Mitsubishi, I meant more like Apple or Microsoft or any civilian contractor, not a darn weapons smith.
@@biggsdarklighter0473 why not both?
Gotta love the human reaction to anything that seems to be able to be pet.
Wise xeno...
Very wise...
This author just posted a new story that I think many would enjoy. I would bet it would be a huge hit if you were able to get permission to do that one as well.
1:06 actually we have rail guns a few prototypes. You can UA-cam them the us and astrailaia have them
We do, but they are - officially at least - several years away from implementation.
It's going to be a while yet before big guns overtake missiles as the go-to weapon of choice...
@@Siathuan vary true. We also have used the tech to make a gun that shoots 1 million rounds a second.
The steal wall/rain is an Australian gun. You tube it it's pretty insane
I love how this story shows humanity as a military power but an inventive, inquisitive an forward thinking one, shows our value in science an technology rather than brutal space orcs for hire
The biggest issue holding back human tech is poor power sources.
Power armor and exo skeletons have already been made but have to be plugged in like an umbilical cord.
Also, battery storage, if we can get a proper way to store loads of energy in a small and light device, we would be capable of pretty much anything right now. We are actually producing loads of energy and could probably go green if we had a way to store all the unused energy and then use it when there is no sun or wind
Pilot Jenkins, I must ask, how can your species be so calm when you share your world with so many large predators?
You just kinda go with it
And most of your species are like this?
Some are much crazier
More crazy???
The human turned back to his communication device and on the display I saw him clear the search for the previous animal he showed me and entered 2 words into the search
"STEVE IRWIN"
i thought it said "hunt for the wild CHOCOBO" for a second and was concerned about my feathered friends.
Choco-Meteor solves many problems. 😁👍
I love this story so much. I've read it and heard it read at least three times, but I enjoy it every time.
Love the fact that 2 captains are actually then negotiating with each other explain about tech of course it probably would have helped if the human captain had explained that he knew about all this because of shows and t vs and books
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
Xeno Captain is a good manager. Saw the potential in a new "hire" that just needed a little nurturing and then let them go and reap the rewards.
This one absolutely needs a series to go into it. With Pilot Jenkins as a mediator between the 2 plus the Captain. Imagine an empire that has become stagnant and struggles with progress, combined with the learning, intuition, curiosity and creativity that thousands of years ago picked up a stick and kept pushing towards greater creation ever since. The 2 gold alliance would be unstoppable with the technology of The Empire combined with the raw imagination and intellect of Humanity.
whole time alien like, "hold on, i gotta write that down."
Geez. Of course we have ion engines. In fact there are a few craft floating around with em right now.
Holy moly I would love to have this turned into an actual book Id listen the hell out of it
Nice. I would have liked to see them get more into the human tradition of science fiction and imagining technology they had never seen before and would have no idea how they would work.
Aww I want more of this.
Very nice and fun story. Also, a very plausible one within its basic framework. Welldone and entertaining. Our engineers are great ones for tinkering, but what many people overlook is that non engineers also like to tinker. I think that our species is hardwired for this, with people falling into a range of intensity and ability for this. And yes, I occasionally tinker, but I'm not an engineer. My father was an electrical engineer, though. My brothers also tinker with things, but not my sister. However, her husband likes to tinker. I like my BIL. He and my sister get along great. This sci-fi story is also a winner. Thanks for posting it! 😊
Dude narrator you are always my after lunch video and I appreciate everything you do keep it up brother
Such a boss, giving us 2 videos a day, almost - *almost* makes the wait for another Humans don't make good pets bearable
6:46 commence the dune memories
I really enjoyed this story and the refreshing angle to first contact.
15:50 All humans play UR Delver :)
17:49 I tap futuristic gizmo and sack this treasure for blue to cast Expressive Iteration.
Finally a Xenos commander who manages to save his entire species my simply and pragmatically not looking down on or maliciously humanity.
That’s humans, dreaming of the run while we have yet to take the first shaky step
This got to be my farvorite story of hfy. And whenever I have to introduce hfy to others, this is the one I will show.
Keep up the good work.
I don't know why but given all the " humans are space orcs " story's I've read I feel like aliens would probably find the concept of cyborgs and prosthetic's REALLY strange or down right ludicrous
Just the fact that we're alien and inevitably think and perceive reality differently would be a treasure beyond value
okay, I love this story! Jenkins was taken right into Star Trek! LOL
We actually do have railguns.
As far as I know they're still not economically viable
@@biggsdarklighter0473 No but they are used on some US ships that don't really have to care about how much they spend.
@@Mr_TJones I must have misread something back when I last looked into railguns, thanks for the correction.
@@Mr_TJones correct! Its just like the development process of Cannons way, way back. They pushed those things to the limit. I believe the largest cannon used in history was the in Fall of Constantinople and that thing was enormous.
@@drakeonight Yeah, they were scheduled for field testing just after the lasers (yes, they actually fielded a laser-based point defense system, and it did well enough that the Captain asked permission to keep it running on the return trip). Apparently the railguns weren't quite up to snuff for full field testing yet, though.
This was awesome! ( I actually used to live in Fort Davis, really cool to see it mentioned! )
Seeing how we had ancestors that literally had to fight cave bears and smilodons with bare hands or be able to run from them yeah.
I just realized the humans in this story, us, is basically the Jokaero from Warhammer 40k.
He did offer a child a cake and then said he could eat it all
A treaty with an intergalactic empire because we have imagination.
That's a very high possibility.
'Fight, flight, or freeze' in fact.
EDIT: Too bad the human didn't show the alien a killer whale.
I'm curious as to how these aliens got all this technology without the ability to imagine it beforehand. Or did they develop the tech first and then lose their creativity because it was no longer necessary?
It's probably a lot harder for those aliens to achieve their true potential, whereas it's really easy for humans, which is why we develop so much faster. Out of the billions of humans, only like a couple hundred thousand of them are actually inventing and researching. The rest are just sustaining society. It's very possible that only like 100-200 of them are inventing and researching.
Not at all. They are clearly still making refinements to their technology. The viewpoint character says as much. It's just likely they are comparatively, speaking, plodders who take ten or twenty times as long to improve their technology. Or at least they were before they met HFY humans.
@@DavidJoh “it just works m’kay? What more do you want?” - Alien scientists
That wS my thought exactly, I am thinking they must have had thier own version of sci-fi. Dreamers, "I want fly like a bird" "we want to go to space" "are there others put there?"
The principles of flight were discovered by George Cayley in 1799. It took more than a century for manufacturing to catch up to the science, and we were able to produce the first reliable heavier than air flying machines.
We understand the "what," but the "how" takes a bit longer.
One of my favorite stories from hyf
Hfy
imagination is a part of science too ! we would never fly if people didnt imagine us flying even without wings ....
So I just Googled what I Mayhem weapon system is and honestly it's terrifying it is basically you shoot molten metal at things
"Imagination." ( Innovation )
Scary predator that most xenos fear: exitsts.
Human: I wish to pet this creature.
Do not boop that merry suicide bomber
@@aceofspades9640 But boop.
@@wrathshorts2894 Stop wanting
I noticed that your narration are becoming more and more high quality, and i love it 😍
This is now one of my favorite stories in this genre!! ^_^
Wherever you go there is a cat sitting on your keyboard asking for a belly rub.
Humanity holds itself back constantly, with the establishment class and their thralls to busy trying to play king of the mountain and funding their wars at everyone else's expense, while the dreamers long for the stars, but cannot reach them because of bills and taxes.
So true, we still need tens of not hundreds of years of political developments to become an intergalactic civilization (considering how some places are still making laws about the internet), and how technologyally backwards we are currently and it being so only because of a lack of funding is quite sad.
Good god this was a great story. Really captivating
Is this part of the Deathworlders series? As soon as I heard the name Jenkins, my mind went to thinking this is Kevin Jenkins
That my friend is why human could be realy scary to a slow improving creature.
If the aliens let the human fly their ship. I can all ready read the news " human drifts spaceship around ISS, comes with in 5 centimeters from hitting it ."
Humans know that it WILL exist, then they WILL it into existence. You know... like GODS.
The aliens don’t even need a human scientist just some random dude at a Con probably don’t even need to pay him just give him some unsupervised time on the holodeck
And Captain High Crest had not yet seen us in a fight.
This may be one of my favorite HFY stories, which is really saying something 😁
For the Narrator
The moment i heard Holodeck, I knew star trek had inspired this to some extent
This is one of the best for sure!
Dune references nice
For the love of f****** God I have spent the past 3 months trying to find this goddamn video again because I couldn't remember The channel or the title
Of course that’s the human’s name…
The world's first steam engine was developed around 1800 years ago.
Hello Xenos human has ideas to sell do you have the coin?
This is one of my favorite story here : )
Wtf I didn't get a notification on this....
this is a good one
Good one
This piece of scifi is surprisingly grounded in reality just read the book called the Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku.
All of these things except for the golodeck are things that University Proffessors, Darpa and the US military are experimenting with or have theorized about have shelved for now because of technological roadblocks that they can not as of yet overcome but are doable in the distant future. Maybe with such technologies as carbon batteries. I really love this story and I had to listen to it for a second time before I commented.
The surprising thing was the simplicity of the aliens tech in relation to things that we know are possible but can not yet achieve.
Man such a human thing to do
Wait, I reached the last update already? I've been binging it for the last few days I thought i had more. rip
Beautiful
railgun is also a ballistic weapon. probably meant to say explosion propelled?
ok so i got this idea that will take a little bit just give me like a shit ton of money and world hunger will be solved. "no."
This was nice!
Oooo we actually do have rail guns. Well. Some tourists got a picture of a Chinese warship out on drills with a rail gun.
The country with the best colleges doesn't make these kind of things. It's the one with the largest, most productive, industrial base. Electromechanical engineering is nearly lost here. We just toss a tiny computer into everything. It's more of a waste of time than a sign of progress.
Heh^^ Gamers will be dreamers^^
imagine the shock on the Capitains face when the Gamer aces one of their Training scenarios for a military flight sim^^
so basically... if we showed them an episode of Star Trek they'd have had a heart attack or creamed themselves
The cap should be glad he wasn't shown a dinosaur 🤣🤣 Or something from our fiction.