What if the World turned to Gold? - The Gold Apocalypse
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Let us explore the scientific mystery of what would happen to you, if Earth suddenly turned into gold! The “Midaspocalypse”, based on the ancient tale of King Midas who was cursed so everything he touched turned into gold.
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You guys are awesome! I really want one of those.
Edit: yay 8 likes
But, I can't afford
I fast
yes
I THOUGHT YOU SAID DYNAMITE!
I like how they take a random stoner idea and turn it into a well-researched and insightful video
Yeah
which is why watching it stoned is mindblowing
@ yeah... but... ummm... I can't understand your language...
Helo
there's a book called "What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions" that I'd highly recommend.
"gold is about 20 times denser than a duck"
*takes notes furiously*
This *is* important. It means gold is not a witch.
Who are you so wise in the words of science?
@@radekc5325 monthy pyton reference? :D
*insert noted meme here
@@radekc5325 my liege!
"lets say Midas stumbles again."
He doesn't learn does he.
Uncle ben every spiderman movie: First time?
Underrated comment
Guys here me out, turn the earth to uranium/plutonium
@@ethancarlos3809 Similar problems, but with radiation.
@@ethancarlos3809 Anti matter
The idea that Midas just violently explodes the first time he uses his curse is too funny to pass up
King Midas: 🥹🪙💥
So true
@@dnpjj dawg thats the funniest shit ive seen all year
Ha Ha
This comment has 911 likes 👀👀👀👀
That was far more catastrophic and deadly than I was expecting...
Didn't know you watched kurzgesagt
Anybody realized the cure for the gold touch was using Running water
On the object
So essentially the earth would suddenly gain mass then....
Go back to normal till he touched it again
@@badatsomerhing oh, right.
Was still fun tho
I was expecting "so now there's no more food to eat, and the scenery will get boring after a while", not "and the world is F*CKED"
shouldn't you be playing diep now?
My new favorite Kurzgesagt quote: "if you learned anything, please let us know what it was"
"because we have no idea what it could have been"
Don't touch grass
@@oldest200 lol
r/TIL motto
I should no longer worry that; if the solid body of the Earth became solid Gold, I would slowly STARVE to death! (as there would be no more arable land to grow crops)
No Sirree! I would instead die from a big explosion, burning up, or a giant SPLAT!
YAY! . . . . uh? . . .Wait a minute. . . . .
Moral of the story: Magic is easy, the consequences are not.
Just ask The VVitch.
well, it's a curse so yeah
Have you ever heard the tragedy of King Midas, the greedy?
@@nightgazr Is it possible to learn this power?
There are no consequences if I have nothing to lose
"Pressure quadriples, which is a bad thing if you like living". This channel is pure gold
Does that mean that it's dead?
pure "gold"
pun intended :D
That right there was a violation. personally, I woudn't have it
i'll do swimmingly, then
Thank you for FINALLY addressing magic.
Hi, Jesus. How's heaven?
2nd
Yo ma man make this a little more realistic
yo how God doing bro?
Hello God Please make 2021 better
Jesus Christ it’s Jesus Christ
What i learned in this video:
*"Gold is about 20 times denser than duck"*
ur a teacher aka poopy head
@@lolliii5477 I was about to make a comment about that ! "What can also float ?"
...
"Ducks !"
"Okay, so if we attach her to a duck and wood, and if she floats, then she is made of wood, which means ..."
"SHE'S A WITCH !!!"
@@lolliii5477 what
But does it float like a duck?
@@WarpigCTS i didn’t really get it
Near the end, I was like "good, everyone is already dead, so they can't illustrate more horrific death sequences."
And then the mountains had faces.
lmao
They add faces to everything, i expect that sometime they are going to put a face on a door
@@marcoantoniosenzanoarteaga1857 lol
Sound of Perseverance but GOLD
You could say the Hills have eyes
Any discrepancies between the original myth and this interpretation can be easily explained with "Midas can't learn his lesson if the world is destroyed, so his gold touch only works on things the gods want it to work on."
When you use science to analyze magic, it simply fights back with more magic.
i like how this implies the world being destroyed would be perfectly fine as long as midas learns his lesson first
@@okebedokeThat would be a very Greek god thing of them to do.
That is more science than this nerdy quantum physics book I'm reading.
@@Toonrick12 But the gods like their sacrifices , so blowing up the world wouldn’t be entirely in their best interest
@@MM126.90 but isn't that really the ultimate sacrifice? lolol
"If you learned anything, let us know what it was."
You guys are phenomenal. Please don't stop.
Ikr
I learned that living things, humans included, can only survive environments they were designed for.
nah living things would probably do fine if the change spread at a slow rate of say 100kg of a material a day slowly spreading from the initial contact point. Yes starvation would kick in but the change would be gradual enough as to be survivable so long as food and water were covered.
@@brendago4505 we werent designed. we evolved to live here
“Not this shit again...”
The moral of the story is, never underestimate Kurzegsats ability to turn any scenario, into the most gruesome end of the world story you can imagine
That i agree. I love the animation when i eat somthing but i will need a paper bag to breath after watching this . Anything or any scenario could kill u if kruzgazts is making a video
Ikr, it even rivals What if, the master of apocalyptic scenarios!
and still make it sounds as wholesome and fun as possible too. It's the only channel I've found out that makes the apocalypse sound fun to learn about without freaking me out XD
ditto
Way to go Kurzgesagt, making a Greek mythology so realistic and cruel
"If you learned anything in this video, let us know what it was"
Truly a masterful educator quote
ikr lol
I learned that existential crisis exist again
sounds like what teachers should say after your classes end.
Not sure tl:df
@D Cheru that is fair enough
For everything Kurzgesagt is, I greatly appreciate all of the transparency. Not enough channels are.
Lesson learned: King Midas touching his daughter and turning her to gold was NOT the worst thing that could have happened.
He must never stumble
Very true
Wonder if he peed no hands.
@@who9387 The term Metalhead has a whole new meaning now.
@@mathewwright4129 Nice
So, in theory the third scenario just makes earth soup? A bunch of animals and plants boiled in water? It would even be well seasoned.
Served in a platter of gold
best tasting soup, in a golden bowl... kinda.
a bit salty perhaps
All the salt would be gold
It’s not a scenario it’s just God making soup
It’s funny how to narrator is so calm in every scenario, he talks about humanity dying like it’s a normal occurrence like “yup they die again :)”
It happened before. Mother Nature survived still. It will happen again, no doubt about it. So if ya know a thing or two about living things and the Earth's history, yeah it's a common occurrence.
Welcome to the Kurzgesagt channel where everyone dies casually every other day
I see that my wording makes me sound like I’m new to the channel... nope been here for 2-3 years so far (obviously no one will care but I’m putting this here before I get slapped with more welcomes)
They probably use a text to speech software
Pretty trippy ya ?
Not gonna lie, suddenly floating for 10 minutes only to fall down on a very dense mineral sounds terrifying.
thatd kinda hit rn ngl
Fr, n if u somehow survived ud be in pain for a while just to see more of the apocalypse unfold as you burn alive ☠️
What I learned: Being careless when modifying physics is probably a bad idea.
SOUP
@@Ciro_Esposto S O U P
What I learned: not using my Midas curse on the planet :-(
What i learned: modifying physics is a bad idea in general
@Asvo 777 YES
My favorite quote:
“Which is a bad thing if you like living”
Reminds me of glados
Ha! Jokes on them cause I hate it >:)
@@Bernardoribei no
Literally every one of Kurzgesact's videos has this quote
"Everyone is dead, and then things get bad."
“Gold is 20x denser than a duck” that’s the info I’m leaving this video with
And ducks float; therefore a witch!
@@maxximumb Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
Hmmm just turn the ocean into gold too.
what does dense mean?
Maxx B You were faster than me
6:23 “Which is a bad thing if you like living”
Made my day
"this is funky and doesn't explode, wich is progress." i love this channel
"The atmospheric presser quadruples which is a bad thing if you like living"
More proof that this show is pure gold
Pun absolutely intended
Also him 3 ways to destroy humanity move the sun make a black hole bom and make an ellfant explode everyone should sub to this channel always
Science resumed in a single phrase
@Minh Tri Nguyen ok grammerly:)
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"In one instant, Basically all of humanity gets smashed into red puddles'
Happy, upbeat music in the background
It’s like minecraft
Yea, that moment just made me laugh :D perfect combo noone expected :D :D
"However, gold is very dense: about 20x denser than a duck"
One of my favorite Kurzgezagt quotes
Good one
So we can conclude that gold is not a witch?
"According to science, the moon is big and very massive"
And then the duck sounds afterwards. 😂
@@FlammifleureWho are you good sir so wise in the ways of science.
My son said he learned that we shouldn’t make the earth into gold. Thanks for the lesson.
“Gold is 20x more dense than a duck”
Citation needed
You uh.. you got a water bath and a duck?
Yes, but does it float?
Hmm
@@nickel36 ok
Well, gold isn't a witch.
i learned that calling someone “gold” is a great insult since that means they’re 20x denser than a duck
Okay, we can all go home. The internet has been won for today. We can all try again tomorrow.
Damm fella, you're gold
black hole is more powerful
Lmfaooooo I'm screaming 😭🤣😭🤣
amateurs. the best insult is your like the universe. beacuse it expands more and more everyday
Kurzgesagt: You want Earth turn to gold?
Anyone: Yes
Kurzgesagt: *DIE*
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Correction: Kurzgesagt: You die off da
😂
@Ì Àm Ķēvïn BB stfu
@Ì Àm Ķēvïn BB bot
This is one of my favorite videos, the results of earth being gold causing major danger everywhere is really interesting
"...Causing the duck to explode with the power of half a ton of tnt, and leaving a very dead midas"
...
"This isn't a very good way for midas's power to work"
" So, what if midas' power was to rearrange the gold using the atoms? This is makes a funky gold with tiny microscopic gaps, which is progress.."
I know right
I dont quite get why though..? the duck is mostly water and lighter elements so if those same atomes turn to gold how come they are suddenly too close to each other..?
@yak B. because most stuff in our body is made from molecules, but when each atom turns into a gold atom the molecules fall apart releasing some energy and also gold atoms which are initially as close to each other as original atoms in the molecule were, are now much larger so they get violently pushed apart?
I have no idea how they calculated what the energy of that explosion would be though...
@@markinipannini I read up on it now and not quite.. its just that gold atoms are much much larger than most of the atoms in the duck (water, helium) so if each of them swells up there is suddenly much less space available between the atoms. Now GOld is naturally denser than water but gold atoms are so much larger that it becomes too dense even for gold. Thats what threw me off originally
Midas: *near a stone on the ground*
Humanity: [softly] Don't.
this is underrated
“Hey whats going on with the physics engine?”
“The ducks are back at it... again...”
Its code has a duck in it.
Unity has crashed
Reason: Quack
God dammit.
*Lord Jesus died & rose again to free u from sin accept His Gift by faith*
@@aaravyadav9906 ...
This is the first Kurzgesagt video I watched (a few years back) and it got me hooked. Its still my favourite video on this channel - there's something about it that makes it a really enjoyable watch. Can't exactly pinpoint what that is
I learned that MIdas' touch is less "get all the money you would ever want" and more "I can erase every trace of life on this planet if I sneeze too hard"
What's the point of having money if anything you buy with it turns into more money?
@Ì Am ĶèvìñBB Shut off, not even a shut up because you don't deserve it
He could also remove the economy. And plummet the price of gold
Okay I've reported The Bots, Any more Bots want another report?
I learnt that Kurzgesagt uses cute birds to explain how we are going to die in darker and darker settings.
oh dear
I perceived this setting as very.... bright. Almost like shiny gold...
@@timothy7988 yes, and that's perfectly fine
yup, basically
@@timothy7988 Why does it matter
It's funny how the narrator is saying "You would spatter on to the earth's surface like a water balloon, turning into a puddle on blood" with a calm voice, and lively music is being played in the backgroud
@Ailsa Ni are you a bot
That's exactly why a lot of "In a Nutshell out of context" videos exist!
@@grandmacat406 most likely
Lol u copied me and still got more likes. Well done! Hats off to u
@@Epicguy_101 nah you just wrote very little
7:38 its probably: "dont turn the world into gold for *science*"
Scenario 1: Death
Scenario 2: Death
Scenario 3: Death
Sounds about right.
Well we won't know for sure until we try it!
Jokes on you queen Elizabeth will walk of without a scratch
It wouldn't be a kurzgesagt video if there is no existential threat :D
@@Heilkromer shut up, she has some MILK
It is like a Prequell: It is not about where we end, only about the way we take to get there :)
Kurzgesagt's answer in any UA-cam video: "So basically, everyone dies."
3 ppl have copied you in an hour and all of them have more likes. I'll never understand why people do this. It's very primitive behavior. Maybe we all should turn gold and blow up. We can't even respect each other, let alone the rock we live on.
I came looking for copper and I found gold. Pun intended.
Yes, and no. "Everyone dies" is just the short answer, the LONG answer is: "This is HOW everyone will die", and THAT is what makes this channel so great ;D
@@Technicallyaddicted Legends say you are still counting comments
as life is a concept of reaching death eventually
The lesson is: if you’re granting a mortal magic gold-transformation powers, give them a maximum range.
Lol so true
The almost viral spread of the gold is insane. The energy input required... 😂
Also make it the explosion version so that the problem "solves" itself. A one time use sort of thing with a maximum range of say hmmm....one duck.
@@blazingeek Yeah, they didn't take that into consideration with E=mc^2
The one time the fay will say, "Dude . . . are you sure you want to phrase it that way?"
This was the first kurzgesagt vid i ever watched. Two years later, it’s still a banger 👌
Planet: **Literally turns into gold**
The atmosphere: *Ight imma head out*
Is more like: you have chosen death
The atmosphere: imma go back to Mars, peace!
so funny
@@Toastedletoast 1 million years later imma go make life
atmosphere pressure: ight imma head *in*
Scenario 1: Everybody dies
Scenario 2: Everybody dies
Scenario 3: Everybody dies
*Magic is a beautiful thing*
✨Glorious indeed✨
Answer: Dethrone the Grim Reaper
Ok but at least scenario 2 you get to fly for a bit
scenario 4: profit
@@1amSam true, that'd be fun for a while.
Ynow, until you get smashed into a red puddle.
One little detail I liked is that the water never turned to gold in the video.
In the original myth, water was either a means of reverting the gold back into its original form or simply just the one thing immune to Midas' cursed blessing.
Funny, cause that’s not what happened in the Aladdin adaptation
There was some kind of divine limiting agent in the original story. Midas danced on the earth barefoot and only the blades of grass turned to gold.
I think water was involved in reversing the curse in the Ducktales 2-parter, too.
Why is the water turning into gold in the thumbnail-
In the original myth, when Midas touched his daughter she turned to gold. Midas prayed to God to relieve him of his foolish wish, and he instructed Midas to take his daughter and wash her in the river. She came alive again and his curse was lifted. The water itself is just a symbol of the cleansing power of God, while the myth is specifically about the hubris of wishing for great wealth without regard for consequence. Water doesn't have magic powers in the story, it's all about God giving and taking away - the water is just symbolism, like the rest of it.
seeing gore and dead birds in a kurzgesagt video is so grim lol
The lesson here is that pre-scientific storytellers rarely stopped to think about the implications of the powers they were giving their characters.
> rarely
... you mean they did at _all?_ :V
I mean according to another comment, the original Midas could turn grass blades to gold but not the actual earth. So I contend the real lesson is that pre-scientific myths were more aware of the implications than we realize! (jk of course...)
ahh yes cause post scientific storytellers have ALWAYS thought about the implications of the powers they were giving their characters.
The irony here is that the entire point of the story of King Midas is about the implications of the power he had
"Pre-scientific" storytellers were usually relating a moral, something practical or positive attitudes that people should think about and apply to their own lives and relationships. There's a lot more to life than just science.
"This is funky and doesn't explode, which is progress." - My favourite Kurzgesagt quote so far.
I feel that's us humans when we invent something
what about "biggest anime betrayal" in a video about the life?
In the world of Kurzgesagt, not exploding is definitely progress.
Mine is,'No one knows and that's why we do science.'
@Manju Manju shut
As soon as I saw only a duck explode with the force of half a ton of TNT I knew this wasn't going to end well.
A very dead Midas
@@wavelengths1728 a very very dead everyone
A very very very dead death
A very dead grim reaper
A very dead world
The fact he puts so much detail into just a 9 minute animation
Lesson: Turn off physics when you do magic, else the results be catastrophic.
Else you can't do magic
Turn off science
But... if you turn off physics, how can we then still exist? We need gravity to stay on top of our precious earth surface. Without thermodynamics, we wouldn't be able to breath, get rid of excess heat energy, make food, congest food and so on. Mechanics and electromagnetism also also certainly handy for living as desired on earth. So, I assume you meant to only turn off certain parts of physics, but I don't know which you referred to. Please explain. Maybe then @Kurzgesagt could eventually make a video about that. :laugh:
@@kleinpferd something flew over your head
@@kleinpferd did you not get the joke
Moral of the story: Don't ever let Midas stumble.
Just put some latex on that bad boy and we’ll be alright
@oʇoɥd ǝlıɟoɹd ʎɯ ʞɔılɔ ʇ,uop dont worry I wont
@oʇoɥd ǝlıɟoɹd ʎɯ ʞɔılɔ ʇ,uop not going to :)
So true
@oʇoɥd ǝlıɟoɹd ʎɯ ʞɔılɔ ʇ,uop对不起，我不会说粤语 sorry I don't speak cantonese
“Almost all of humanity is squished in an instant”
_Joyful music continues_
yes
I was like: aa what a good doom for us
WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN
*Ode to Joy starts playing*
This is my kind of entertainment.
the music for this is just so perfect, and I love the way the music slowly ramps up when everything slams into earth.
So, the "Au-pocalypse"?
🤣🤣🤣
Your brow is too high for this congregation sir.
underrated comment
Thank god someone did it. I was going to go to Mars in protest if nobody had done this yet.
Very good. But also, get out.
Lesson: Don't ask a genie to give you the Midas curse. No matter how the genie mischievously interprets the details of that wish, it's always going to be extremely catastrophic.
Funny part is that probably even a well intentioned and honest Genie would be hard pressed to grant your wish in a manner that dosen't have catastrophic consequences.
Heck, even the oringinal curse taken at face value from the original story was indeed a *curse* and served as a cautionary tale
Don't worry, I'm sure I'm special enough to come up with something that will benefit everyone.
😂
@@nicbarrax76 you're going to come up with us all as the earth starts imploding because you touched it
@@Dour888 the only thing I can think of is limiting the power to the actual thing he touches instead of the whole, like if he falls he would turn only the grass and the soil he touches to gold instead of the whole world
The problem of the possibility of the bloke having the idea of going mountaineering remains, but a lot of problems are quite more avoidable
The real horrific thing would become how cruelly people touched by him would die, since with this new rule he would only turn the skin into gold
@@fulviopontarollo2952 or maybe limiting it to only singular and contigous objects/creatures.(if he touches sand, only the singular grains he touches would turn, if he touches a person, the clothes remain unturned and vice versa)
But really the only true workaround would either be the wisher to specify that it must be controlled by will or the genie beign level headed and benevolent and choosing to interpret his wish that way even if the wisher didn't specify.
Well, I learnt something new: no matter the scenario, everyone dies.
It's like WebMD for stoner science.
just jump lol
Pun intended?
The universe in a nutshell, methinks.
Life in a nutshell.
Watching KGZ feels like magic! Those animation and smooth narration are simply beautiful and makes me feel amazed by everything in the video. And then, when you think 'Huh, nice theories', it hits you that they actually did all the math behind this
"Gold is 22 times denser than a duck."
Who are you, who is so wise in the ways of science?
From now on I'll expect the channel to measure density in ducks.
Underrated comment
I guess that means gold is 22 times denser then wood as well
Probably some guy from a certain country where they certainly doesn't use metric units
It's 20 times denser u r wrong;)-
"This is funky, and doesn't explode, which is progress!"
Me on a good day
Kurzgesat out of context part 6 is coming!
My KSP rocket engineering motto.
"
I'm making a note here:
HUGE SUCCESS.
"
humans: get splattered like water balloons
music: *happiness noises*
But not if you were inside. Then you'd just fall down from the ceiling. (Assuming the building was still attached to the planet.) You'd have to wait for the next part of the disaster to kill you.
@@JK-vp2ux The ceiling is also moving at insanely fast speeds, so you'll still smash into the floor
@@JK-vp2ux Say you're in a car going at 500 miles per hour.
What would happen if it abruptly stopped mid race?
You would get catapulted outside at that very speed.
That's how inertia works.
Proof the world has turned into 'gold'
In circulation, There are $37 trillion, meaning abt 34.45 thousand cubic meters of gold, $1.2 quadrillion in cryptocurrencies. That is equal to 1.12 million cubic meters of gold, so world has 1.15 million cubic meters of gold, and Elon Musk's home is full of 'figurative gold'
Hey I’m fine with that
I always try to watch your amaizing videos every day 2 or 3 times for each, and i can expand my knowledge about everything i am interested in. keep going
Kurzgesagt: All of humanity gets smashed into red puddles
The music:🌈🌞🌞🎉🌈😀
i dont see why not
*Society*
Komm, süsser Tod
@@luissemedo3597 YES
Also, "this is only the start of our problems"
I was half expecting him to say ‘short answer, you die, long answer, it depends’
Incorrect, it's "Short answer: you die. Long answer: like this."
The lesson was: Not all that glitters is gold.
Sometimes it’s the super hot plasma that was once your atmosphere.
This comment definitely needs more likes. :)
Only shooting stars break the mould.
S O M E B O D Y
@@TheSignatureK 😭😭😭🤣
What I learned : Gold + Earth = Bad
The people that wrote myths had no idea what they're doing
?? Lol wut
Do you know what you're doing?
Well, it's a story from ancient Greece, it was just for fun and how the hell were they supposed to know the physics? Midas never turned the Earth into gold in the story anyway and probably couldn't.
@@ub3rfr3nzy94 I agree he probably couldn't. The earth's surface is not a homogenous solid. Each particle he touches would turn to gold. I don't think it would spread.
a lot of whoosh here
"so, midas stumbles again"
GOD DAMMIT MIDAS!!! NOT AGAIN!!!
LMFAO, best comment yet today
Ok Midas, you can have the duck, but leave earth alone!
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teehee, i'm such a klutz
@@midasredding Midas: TEHE
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If people are wondering how the third example can have liquid water despite the planet being lethally hot, its because at higher pressures water will remain liquid at higher temperatures than normal, and same thing with the reverse, lower pressures will have water boil at lower temperatures than normal. Mars is an example of the latter, which is why water will boil on Mars despite not reaching the normal boiling point of water. So, Golden Earth V3 is hot enough for no life to survive, but not hot enough to pass the boiling point threshold of that high pressure.
I _was_ wondering about that, thanks!
Plus water's specific heat is much higher than air's- there probably wouldn't be enough energy in the atmosphere to boil away even a lot of the water.
Specific heat of water is 4x air at STP, and there is something like a thousand times as much mass in the oceans as in the atmosphere.
I just wonder why the water did not turn to gold as well. But thanks anyway :D
Thanks!
The water should be gold
The Genie: "HA! TRICKED YOU! MAYBE THIS WILL TEACH YOU A LESSON ABOUT GREED!"
Midas: "watch this."
Nobody:
Kurzgesagt: _"Hey everybody we thought up yet another way to make a planet-sized bomb!"_
“Yay” UA-cam stock sound
they made a black hole sized bomb made out of a black hole so why not
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@@ricoparadiso what
People: What if-
Science: everything dies
This pretty much sums up my thoughts on this video
ok but what if we had t-
Science: I said everything dies!
@@xislomega242
Science: Everything dies !
Me: No, U
@@cezarcatalin1406
Science:**dies**
Humanity: so uhh, was science?
Philosophy: My child, and thanks for asking.
@eljun hitaas w
Short answer: Everyone dies
Long answer: Everyone dies but explained
Everyone wants to know the story, and not just the end.
@@ujjwal2473 bold of you to assume that I want to know the story
@@caz8135 lmao
@@caz8135 lol 😂 this joke is being over use
Sounds like a vsauce episode
이번 화는 개그 요소가 역대급으로 많이 나온 거 같네요 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 주제만큼이나 웃긴 설명이였습니다
TED: let’s answer questions that people are always wondering about
Kurzgesagt: let’s create scenarios that people will wonder about for a year, then explain it
Don't forget about Half as Interesting.
@@marlonmoncrieffe0728 Everything almost no one wonders about.
@@anawesomepet but is still mindblowing
*Lord Jesus died & rose again to free u from sin accept His Gift by faith*
Lets answer questions no one asked, and yet are fascinating
One thing I learned: On top of being awful people, the gods of Olympus were dangerously stupid.
you didn't learn this from any of the other myths?!
Unless I misremember, this story is more about Midas himself being dangerously stupid than the god who granted his wish.
(And not all of them are THAT bad- Aphrodite, Hephaestus, and Artemis are practically cordial)
So true
@@heatherrockwell9012 >aphrodite
see trojan war
and a ton of other myths
@@SalreixVonOtsuu Look, I'm comparing to people like Zeus and Hera here, the bar is low.
"This is funky, and doesn't explode, which is a progress"
*Chemists can relate*
Lol
@@TheFalseShepphard uh, yeah? of course! every gen z likes *B E A N S*
The Midas touch always has been and always shall be a CURSE xD Glad to see it still holds up today.
“this is funky and doesn’t explode, so...progress!”
something about the way they phrased that is so funny to me lol
Cute baby duck: enjoying a soda
Kurzgesagt: yeah actually just get compressed and cooked at the same time.
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Yeah but I felt bad for it :(
Baby duck dying is unpog
@HackingEevee or probably halal 😅
*at the SAME TeIme
Everyone: gets splattered
Kurzgesagt: “and this is the start of our problems”
Amogus
Amogus
Amogus
Idk why but Amogus
Amogus is cringe
being a mathematician/physician/astrologist at kurzgesagt must be the weirdest job ever
so what you do today.
well i made a research paper on how much denser than a duck gold is. and i will continue by exploring the math behind what would happen if a duck instantaneously turn to gold
You've heard of Atlas Shrugged, now get ready for its devastating sequel: Midas Tripped
What's that first thing?
@@afrizaldaniswaraali8980 It is said that Atlas holds the world on his shoulders. Shrugging would imply the world was suddenly accelerated in the direction his shoulder pushed it, or worse yet, it gets dropped and shatters on the surface Atlas is standing on which I can't remember.
@@afrizaldaniswaraali8980 Basically, an euphemism for an earthquake
@@tranquilclaws8470 it is also a very popular dystopian fiction book placed on par with ferenhieght 51 and 1984.
*WHOMST HAS SUMMONED THE ALMIGHTY ONE?*
someone: "Hmm, I wonder what would happen if--"
Kurzgesagt: "Chaos, death and destruction, apocalypse from the deep sights of hell"
Legit
B I R D S
golden earth looks so cool
Nice copy and paste from the german version 😂
But Kurzgesagt will survive
“Leaving only gold dust and a very dead Midas. This is clearly not a good way for Midas power to work” 🤣 the neutral voice always makes these kinds of these hilarious
IKR?
British Understatement is one of our proudest traditions
It turned out to be the safest outcome...
@@Vatharian Scenario 1 Fatalities: 1 duck, 1 Midas
Scenario 2 and 3 fatalities: Everyone
I imagine the outtakes are full of laughter.
The lesson I'm taking from this is that certain actions have a bad impact on our only home in space, Earth. We should do our best at avoiding these harmful actions, regardless of the profit we may get from embracing them.
“This is funky, and doesn’t explode, so this is progress.” thanks for the graduation quote guys
Lol
Bro you got 666 likes....
SIKE NOT ANYMORE BI****
"However Gold is very dense. About 20 times denser than a duck." - Kurzgesagt, 2021
Does that imply that rich people are dumb?
American measurements in a nutshell
“Quack.” -Duck, 2021
So it's not a witch, then.
@@TheFunniBaconMan But Kurzgesagt is German. So this is German measurements
"This is funky, and doesn't explode, which is progress."
I want that on a T-shirt, a mug, a poster...
... a wall, a shoe, a window, a postcard...
“NOT explode?!!! What heresy is this?”
- Elon Musk
you make it sound like the original version was a suicide vest
We want that shirt please get on it!
@Ì Am ĶèvìñBB you are the best UA-cam ever :)
(By the way I am not stupid I will not like your video to ‘annoy’ you)
Moral of the story : don’t let Midas touch earth
“Gold is very dense, about 20x denser than a Duck”
*edukashan*
I was laughing at that part
*educkashan
Smort
syence
@@jip0611
me: oh you have a translation available for this?
Google: yep!
what is it?
Google:Greased
… bruh
What I learned:
Midas accidentally killing himself was the absolute best case scenario
If his hand tissue still work after death, then there will be no best case scenario.
@@ahmedramadan8153 Your hired.
The lesson was: Make sure Midas doesn’t trip.
Moral Lesson: Cut Midas' hands and secure it in a floating metal case inside a fortified bunker.
@@cye2310 Nah. destroy it somehow where it can't even turn anything to gold anymore, because sooner or later, someone would go after that hand.
@@cye2310 sounds like an SCP lol
@@UTO7 scp[number] - "literally midas's hands"
Midas might have benefited from gloves made of woven gold thread. Flexible, but immune to his touch since it's gold already.
If there’s one thing I learned, changing matter on large scales almost always goes south nearly immediately…
I like how every one of these possibilities starts off sounding safe and fun but ends up in horrific human extinction.
Ikr
I think the Kurzgesagt writers always just work backwards from everyone dying.
That was also a lot of the entries in XKCD's "What If?" series.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Its so fucking true
Lesson: Midas should have wished for an element with 30% of the atomic weight of gold. Like maybe copper. Which is pretty useful and valuable too
I'd suggest tin. Bronze is expensive because tin is rare. If Midas had access to a virtually unlimited supply of tin he'd automatically be one of the most powerful and influential figures in history.
In the modern world, if he went with chromium he could make a fortune with stainless steel and synthetic rubies! That’s much less dense than gold!
Or he couldve wished for teddy bears... everything he touches becomes a squishy fluffy teddy bear!!
@@filipwolffs Unless he oversupplies the market.
or he could’ve wished that everything he touches becomes loyal to him, could be used very well or very wrong...
or y’know, something actually reasonable like wishing for his family and his children and him to have a good life? but that’s boooooorringgg.
"yo what's the density of gold?"
-About 20 ducks I'd say
So 20 zeros give us ow much gold?
@BananasForScale
sounds american
Another addition for Imperial system measurement?
@@najimi41 KKkkkkkkkkkkkk omg so true man, so true