Astrophobia - Fear of Space
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- Опубліковано 18 чер 2024
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In this video, we delve into the depths of Astrophobia, exploring the triggers and the irrational fears that space can evoke. From the uncanny landscapes of alien planets to the sheer size and darkness of gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn, we confront the unsettling aspects of our universe.
The fear isn't limited to planets alone; it extends to exoplanets with bizarre properties like Gliese 436 B, where ice burns, and J1407b, a colossal planet with rings that stretch to distances beyond imagination.
However, nothing terrifies the narrator more than the enigmatic black holes, triggering Melanoheliophobia. The video delves into the mysteries of black holes, their formation, immense size, and the eerie concept of falling into one, experiencing time dilation on the way to the end of the universe.
But it's not just celestial bodies that induce fear; it's the vastness of the universe itself. The video highlights the incomprehensible scale of galaxies, galaxy superclusters, and the observable universe, emphasizing our insignificance in the cosmic order.
As the narrator grapples with Astrophobia, the video raises the Fermi Paradox - the perplexing question of why we haven't encountered other intelligent life in the universe. It explores the potential barriers and threats that may thwart the evolution of civilizations, like the rise of AI or unknown cosmic filters.
The video concludes with the poignant story of Voyager 1, carrying a golden record with a message from humanity into the depths of space. It leaves viewers with a haunting realization that we may be shouting into the abyss, with no one there to hear our message.
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Heya! I absolutely loved this video, you did a great job! I pretty much agree with everything you said. I've known about your channel for awhile, and it's cool to know you've seen and liked a video of mine. Thanks for the shoutout, my man. Can't wait to see your next vid'
Hey man! Your video was one of my inspiration, and I love the other videos on your channel too, so glad you commented, thank you!
You should seriously do more of space videos like deep and scary themed like i loved it there is no other like i love your voice doing it just can you please do more scary space stuff like deepspace and neptunian system.
i saw your video firstly and thought that this one was the same (almost the same thumbnail and title) loved it
@@toutfilms3455 agree
he literally ripped off your video 1 for 1
Fun fact! When William Shatner went up there and looked at Earth, he got such a huge sense of existential dread that, to sum it up, he reported that instead of the awe and majesty he was expecting to feel, he thought he was looking at a funeral.
Interesting for sure, not fun though😂😅 (imo)
Yea dude was tripping balls when he came back to earth and was getting showered with champagne by a bunch of laughing idiots
Fucked vibes I bet
When I look at the earth, I see a prison and possibly our burial ground.
I can see that…the thought of leaving the relative safety of Earth and floating off into NOTHING, HORRIFIES me. VOIDS TERRIFY me! The deep sea, Space, Out-of-bounds glitches in Video games, it’s all nightmare fuel to me.
@zhitposterzupreme9120 According to the book that you think is true, God eventually ends up burning this world and making a new one after unceremoniously torturing and slaughtering everyone who didn't like him. If that God is real, this isn't a prison. That makes this planet a straight-up concentration camp.
I’m such a fan of space, I have no fear of it, but when you put it into perspective I’m now like “oh, now I really see…”
Same. I love space and I'm just amazed by it but now I really get why some people might be terrified of it.
Hearing terrifying and scary when hearing about space is laughable, Imagine being sacred of space, Bruh
I was never really scared of space before I got into Astronomy, I only could really tell I was scared of space when I realized how terrified I felt looking at planets.
I do get a sense of existential dread from time to time. But space has always been a fascination of mine since I was a little kid and watched Star Wars for the first time
@@Karthik-pn2yj💀
“maybe the universe was never meant to harbor any life” is the most chilling sentence ever
This is actually true, what if us 'Earthlings' weren't meant to be and that we are just so fortunate to even exist. Interesting concept to think about...
If we weren’t meant to be, we would not be. The real question is are we the only ones in this Universe that are meant to be.
@@sevenstarsofthedipper1047if were the only ones, it’s because were the first. Mathematically, odds are we cant be the only ones.
@@xMorbidArtx So, you are still dealing in probability. I agree with you but I leave open the possibility that we are alone. I think the distances are so vast that we cannot contact any other intelligent life and we can’t get to any of the planets in any reasonable timeframe to reach them to find unintelligent life.
@@sevenstarsofthedipper1047 So like no, cuz the UAP phenomenon.
This struck me more as sad than scary. The thought that we cannot know everything, experience and examine every little quirk and abnormalities of other planets.
aw boohoo
Ya I guess thats true would be cool to just know if there's life and what it's like
Let me give you hope. If multiversal theory is true, then it's simply a matter of time. At our current rate of technological advancement, we need only survive. Leave this planet before that is no longer possible- or before we render the earth devoid of the resources to do so before going extinct, and damning any future intelligent earthlife.
If we can bide our time, and keep researching, learning and innovating, we can confirm multiversal theory. If it is false, we can still keep advancing, and die with our universe, confident that we mastered our laws of nature- and if it's true, we need only learn how to access & navigate the multiverse.
If we can escape our universe before it can no longer support life, or even matter? We become an infinite species. We have eternity to pursue any goals we want, free from our biological imperative, to not go extinct. We could effectively travel to parallel universes, to learn as much as there is to know about a thing, and then move on.
..the only problem is, we need to keep the bastards, liars and idiots out of power, for good. Before their bullshit kills us all.
@@lebronjamesharden3958damn bro have some empathy
@@lebronjamesharden3958some of us crave knowledge, and are sad at all the lost or unattainable knowledge that humanity will never have access to.
Some of us avoid knowledge like it's radioactive, and view gaining a wrinkle on their smooth brain as a bad thing.
We know which you are.
Space is so beautiful yet so terrifying. Pictures of phenomena in space such as the pillars of creation are beautiful, but then you have to remind yourself that those pillars are real. They exist and they are larger than human comprehension. Absoloutly terrifying.
Real life eldritch horrors.
they dont exist anymore
@@mr.pumpkin8891 whyyyy
ask space not me lmfaooo@@BlenderRenderChickenTender
@@mr.pumpkin8891 my bad my bad
Looking at the planets through my telescope is always unsettling, especially Jupiter and Saturn. It’s so weird to finally see the planets you always learned about in school with your own eyes. It’s a reminder that these objects actually exist and are always hovering above us, no matter if it’s night or day. Plus, the planets look so tiny in the eyepiece, but I know they are enormous beyond comprehension.
We wanna see them
Not to mention the fact that they would spell literal death if you actually went near them. Even before you could burn up in the atmosphere, you'd be crushed under your own weight due to the sheer magnitude of the gravitational pull-and even if that didn't happen, you'd literally be torn asunder by the sheer force of the raging storms and winds that make up the entirety of the planet's activity.
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@@boeloevanboeloefontein🤓
you are watching an in depth video about astrophobia and then you call them a nerd @@dinosharttt
I’m terrified of space, just the feeling of being able to float and fly away without being able to stop it? Is so SCARY. I played a VR space game and I genuinely couldn’t take a step. Even while I was inside of the ship. I often fear randomly while outside, that gravity will suddenly fail, and I will float up into the sky, and I’ll be unable to stop it. Which is an INSANE thing to fear, since it’s impossible.
SAME
Bro wtf i thought i was the only person that gravity would just turn off and id float away, and i just got this fear recently. I never had this fear until a couple months ago
@@22lrjayden81 ME TOO. I suddenly just started having it, and it comes randomly.
@@22lrjayden81alright this is rlly weird because ive developed the same fear just a few years ago. i did research about it online and its not a very common fear at all, but there are studies linking it to OCD apparently. im glad to know im not alone in this though, more people understand my fear than i thought. its very sad because it can honestly get debilitating, especially if im walking outside at night. i start to lose my balance and feel nauseous.
@@haunter556especially when im drunk or high it really fucks with me especially on the come down. But i dont have ocd at all so that’s strange
Theres definitely a reason that "awe" is the root word of both "awesome" and "awful." Space is definitely awe-inspiring. It is unfathomably beautiful, but also unfathomably terrifying.
most beautiful things are accompanied by terror, that’s what makes space so jaw droppingly fascinating to me.
At least you tried
There's also something that's really scary but also sad about space. Because of the huge distance of most of the stars, planets and galaxy we see, their light takes a really long time to reach earth.
So most of the time we the sky or see photos from stars and planets from really far away, we are seeing how they looked like in more than thousands of years, and they probably were gone for a long time. We are basically seeing their ghosts, ghosts from stars and planets that don't exist anymore.
Part 2: the rate of universal expansion is increasing, meaning that everything in our sphere of observation is all we'll ever get, and even that will be reduced, over time. It will eventually become impossible to ever reach or even detect anything whatsoever beyond the closest stars today.
One day, the universe really will be just our own galaxy. Afterwards, our local group.. Soon after that, the entirety of what humans can ever perceive will be contained within only our own solar system, which would be long gone by then, I think. Wherever humans are by then, I hope they can figure out how to eke out existence beyond this place.
Existence is good. I like existing. Not existing would probably be less preferable.
That's just from our minuscule perspective here on earth boyo, I physically can't imagine anything greater than that but that's okay to me. Small or big, we are all one and the same. We are the universe
@@pianoman7753I’m pretty sure we detect the planets existence thru radio waves. So they’re still there. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Well, voyager and many other robots took real-time photos, but not as many as the planets we've seen.
I'm not afraid of space myself. it's one of the last things that still arouses childlike wonder in me.
one of my favorite movies ever as a kid and still is treasure planet. of course not realistic,
but still it evokes in me a feeling and the thought that space is the last unexplored ocean.
Great Video ! 10/10 ! Have a good day everyone.
may the star winds blow into your sails, taking you forward towards the great universe.
I am not afraid of space, I am afraid of being suck here on earth.
@@_shadow_1 Totally understandable fear, sometimes I share the same fear.
I’m not afraid of space 😂😂😂
I hate being stuck on earth
same! treasure planet is still one of my favorites!
Time dilation is horrifying. The fact that you can get so close to a black hole that what feels like mere hours for you could be millions of years gone by for everyone back home. Humanity could be destroyed, or even colonized entire star systems, or even evolved out of existence in what feels like mere minutes for you is just wild
Another fascinating/frightening thing are rogue planets.
Just imagine, out there in the infinite darkness, an entire planet, floating aimlessly, no star to warm it or give it a home.
Now imagine something like that having life on it. I'm suprised no sci fi media explored that idea.
true, imagine floating around space, in an infinite darkness and suddenly you bump into a rogue planet, cuz it’s also dark and you couldn’t even see it in the first place, it creeps me out
Like you said, it şs actually a good sci-fi movie idea.
Gas giants bring me a sense of peace, knowing that they are our first line of defense from Oort Cloud Asteroids.
counterpoint: the gas giants (especially neptune, that _bastard)_ may be the main reason oort cloud asteroids fall into the inner solar system in the first place
@@alexolas1246SUN
@@alexolas1246 I think this would be the Sun
@@-_deploy_- nono, the sun is the thing they’re orbiting around normally. the outer planets are the things that occasionally brush up near them, effectively randomizing them into completely different orbits around said sun
The blackness of Space is dman scary omg 😂😂😂😂
this was a literal rollercoaster of emotions for me, like fear, chills, confusion, surprise and sadness. well done! Probably one of my favorite videos in whole of UA-cam.
All this actually makes me happy because it shows just how truly special we are and the fact we are alive right now is magnificent
I get that this may be terrifying, but to me it feels weirdly mystical, and amazing
When you think about it space is sorta like a out of bounds area in a video game and interestingly enough there's a phobia for out of bounds too. you get the feeling that your not supposed to be there.
Most accurate description of space I've ever heard
the scariest thing in a video game is falling out of bounds, its my number one fear in subnautica which is the scariest game ive played.
Thats the whole reason the backrooms are a thing and why they got so popular.
@@Narko_Marko i remember playing minecraft for the first time in creative a few years ago and being like whats under the world? and then instantly spamming alt+f4 when i realize im falling in a gigantic dark void
@@raysixth07 i never really felt like that for minecraft because you just fall but when you can move around the void its so much scarier.
Knowledge is fear💁🏻♀️
The more you know, the scarier shit gets.
One thing thats always terrified me are other ocean planets like ours, or ones that are just ocean . Just the massive creatures that might lie in there, or if not, just the sheer loneliness of being in an environment so uncannily familiar yet different and alone...
Sounds like Subnautica
I think the thought of there being no creatures is probably even creepier
There’s no creatures in space there’s no aliens
@@dinosharttt there likely are somewhere
There are aomewhere out there@@dinosharttt
i think something that should've been mentioned is the bootes void, it's a massive area devoid of galaxies that is large enough that, if you were in the middle of it, the only bit of light possible would be some non-galactic stars which are highly improbable, there would be so little light that it's negligable to human vision, you would see absolutely nothing, not even yourself unless you have a light, and if you did, if you pointed it away from yourself, you would see nothing from it and be plunged into darkness once again, it fucking horrifies me and i love it
If our milky way was in the middle of the Bootes Void we would have discovered that other galaxies exist by the 1960s.
@@notjebbutstillakerbal and why is that? because of telescopes, when you're floating in the middle of a massive void, you probably won't have packed a telescope
How about the void that stretches from the edge of the universe to infinity?
@@87dramaramaI mean, you can't BE nowhere, until the universe expands and covers that area there's nothing there....which is arguably even scarier than just darkness.
when you describe the vast distances, and how small earth is relative to everything else, at some point the numbers get so big that i just cant process it.
while the vast emptiness of space is forboading, it makes me appreciate all the small things on earth. every interaction, every video. i feel this strange sense of comfort.
we can also go backwards, and talk about the organelles of cells relative to our whole bodys, and the subatomic particles of atoms relative to our body's cells
its kinda beautiful idk this is just how i feel
im scared of the dark XD
Just imagine, considering how dinosaurs got HUGE (for us) in prehistoric times, there might be somewhere, beings even larger and intimidating due to some weird circumstances just hiding there in the darkness of space, just existing like we do.
I'm terrified of what's in the dark. That doesn't stop me from watching ghost, alien and cryptid videos. Even if 99.9999999% are fake, it's that small number that scares me. Especially since I have seen them myself. I can't imagine what's lurking out in space. What we're not told scares me even more.
You know the video is fire when it gives you existential dread🗣️‼️‼️‼️
What scares me most about black holes is that, by falling in a supermassive one by the logic of time warping, you’d be considered the oldest biological organism to have ever lived, having outlived several planets in only a few hours.
i feel like we could theoretically create a time machine if we can learn more about how and why black holes are warped af
Call that a speedrun
@@fujtkrisztian😂
In theory, it is possible to build a time machine for traveling to the future but we still don't know if physics allows for going back in time. In practice it would probably be easiest to just use a black hole for time dilation because you need a ridiculous amount of mass or energy to curve space-time dramatically. For supermassive black holes rotating very fast especially, you can have very dramatic time dilation without passing the event horizon. The tidal forces of massive enough black holes won't tear you apart at the event horizon and rotation makes the radius of the event horizon smaller, so you you can get closer. Astrophysicists can actually measure a black holes rotation and a typical black hole spins at 90% the speed of light. In theory black holes also have charge, due to the conservation of charge, and could generate it's own repulsive electric field. This could make time dilation even more dramatic and it would theoretically allow for stable orbits past the event horizon. The idea of entire planets and civilizations living inside a black hole isn't as ridiculous as you would think.@@spingleboygle
@@jacobharris3002so summary is we can go to the future but it would be impossible to go back
I HAD NO IDEA OTHER PEOPLE FELT THIS WAY, I’M NOT ALONE IN THIS FEAR!!
We are not alone!
(Man really space is terrifiying)
@@8553animationsNow imagine if u were an ant😂
@@hatpisingson4678 earth is like a galaxy for them, lol
@@8553animations fear friends!! Hooray!! Let us cower together!!
The golden record honestly brings me a sense of peace. Even if humanity ever goes extinct, the golden record will still be out there, almost keeping the sprit of humanity alive in a way. Thank you golden record.
8:27 Saturn vs the guy she told you not to worry about
Space scares me because of all the blackness. It’s like staring out a window on a pitch black night and you don’t see anything. It’s uncertainty, black holes are even scarier
Boots Void is also terrifying. Imagine drifting through space around absolutely nothing. No stars. Just you and the pitch black darkness that goes on what might at well be forever.
It ain't just what's in space, it's what's not.
this man kept dissing the shit out of Jupiter, bro does not know Jupiter is literally our meat shield
Shout out to big boi Jupiter. 💪
Nice try. Everyone knows Astrophobia is the fear of Travis Scott
claustrophobia
Take my like
Homophobia
Funny👀✊🏾
Traviphobia
I love your channel, I found it last night. This is what UA-cam is all about, you’ve killed it
Black holes have always put me on edge. Everything in space is so fragile when put up against the forces of "nature", if space can even be considered nature. The fact that millions of years of history that Earth has accumulated can suddenly be destroyed without a trace really doesn't sit well with me.
When you think about it, there is no way at all that we are the only living beings in the entire universe. There are definitely billions of civilisations that are too far for us to ever see. Too far of a distance for us to even comprehend. Entire planets with millions of years of history could be thinking the exact same thing we are right now. Such planets could also be in the process of being wiped out as we speak, whether it be by a black hole, asteroids, or any other unforgiving force and we'd never know.
What even in the universe? It is seemingly just a space for things to be held in, but what actually IS it? If it supposedly has an ending, then what's beyond that end?
youre afraid of everything
We live in a spooky place
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
And nothing
No kidding. Of all the things we have to be afraid of on our own planet we have it so good that people seriously have time to be scared of space? There’s nothing you can do about it so don’t worry yourself and worry about all the problems we have here. I’d never heard of people so afraid of space that they sound like they need a Xanax.
Nobody ever realizes you watch the entire future of universe, moving quickly to your eyes in the blue orb above you. Nice touch, you’ve nailed the fear.
I appreciate you're incite on this, it definitely gives me a much better understanding on something that scares a lot of people.
To me, being tiny is blissful, and incredibly humbling. The fact that we have beat all odds just to be here and talk about this is truly remarkable, Even more so if it's just us out here. Who knows, hopefully we'll fund out one day.😁
I'm terrified of space yet fascinated, my fear is only me being out there also knowing that we are basically floating so I worry about just coming off the axis or just falling. The "endlessness" is what really scares me and knowing that an asteroid can come out of anywhere and hit water, water being my other fear.
Thanks to the space guys on this rock, anything that enters a certain vicinity of earth can be detected... and along the years scientist observed the cycles of asteroids. Even that it's kinda pointless considering that some asteroids have cycles of thousand and thousands of years and one might pop out of nowhere but considering our asteroid belt and bigger planets with much more bigger gravitational pull... we're are kinda safe.
It might just be me and my imagination as a kid, but I always found information on the planets very cool and intriguing. There's certainly a level of terror when you look at the planets as destructive spheres in the void, but those incomprehensible traits are what made them interesting to me and that intrigue overtakes the fear for me.
In regards to a possible "answer" to the Fermi Paradox, part of the problem with communicating with aliens is communication in and of itself. Say we did get a signal of some sort. How would we even determine we got a signal? Is the method we're using even the right one for detecting alien signals? Would they even use a language to start with? There's technically plenty other intelligent species on this planet, yet the only ones we seem to fully understand is our own. If we can't even communicate with something like an octopus, a close neighbor, can we expect to understand an alien unfathomably further from us?
Excellent point on the invalidity of the Fermi Paradox.
And there's another thing, when we're looking at planets and systems light years away, we don't see the actual present of things... we might see the early stages of a planet or civilization, through a lens we cannot really be sure for certain that planet has life or not. We might see the past and civilizations are probably at our level or higher, we're either not detectable to them as they are to us or they simply chose to ignore our existence entirely... or in the same time we might as well be part of a cycle where at each couple billions of years somewhere, in some galaxy, in the part of this infinite void, a civilization meets the lucky circumstances of actually developing only to PROBABLY reach a level where they determine they are either alone or incapable of reaching someone else due to the stupidly large distances.
Firstly, this video is phenomenal, genuinely well put together and honestly made me enjoy outer space even more. That photo of Earth from Saturn makes the setting of this one video game I love (which takes place in a space station orbiting Saturn) feel even more isolating
Second, I did a research paper on black holes, and knowing not only that one could just, show up and we would likely be none the wiser, but the fact that there's one in the very center of our own galaxies so massive it can hold billions of stars is just so utterly terrifying.
Genuinely cannot wait to see more of your stuff, it kicks ass.
Astrophobia videos just scratch that itch of placing planets, their surface, facts about them in an aestethically pleasing way, thank you!
I don’t normally comment but I’ve been watching you for a while and I love your content bro. Keep up the amazing uploads 🙏
This video feels like it perfectly hit a fear of mine. I got very scared at nearly every description of space and it's objects, i love it! This is an awesome vid. I used to think i was the only one who felt this way, but wow, i know better now. I'm still shaking from this experience, and while i do want to and have shared this vid, i can not ever recommend it. Holy shit. Well done!
Wow! What a fascinating video. You triggered childhood memories of being terrified of a book of space that was given to me. There was a picture of our sun that I could not touch the page. The huge picture of Jupiter also terrified me. I have long overcome those irrational fears, but I fully understand your experience.
Great video. Thank you.
As someone with astrophobia, this is an amazing video and its explains it was writen amazingly. I really enjoyed watching this and it explains exactly how it feels to have this phobia
It's kind of striking to me the difference in perception that this picture can invoke. Me personally, I've always found the cosmos soothing and intriguing. Something awe inspiring and mysterious (but in a good way). I have a Canadian friend who told me that the void terrifies her, and that really truly blew my mind that people see it differently than I do. There's just something about it.
From such a young age I've loved and been so fascinated by space to the point I thought everything covered I'm this video was amazing, like I've never considered the things would be considered terrifying by most people. Like when you were talking about how small we are like it was scary I was confused like "wdym that's so cool" like you are right that's objectively extremely terrifying idk why that crossed my mind 😭😭
I've loved space since I was pretty young. Started out with simple knowledge, with the solar system and such. As I grew, that knowledge went further out, getting into bigger, more complex things in space, such as black holes, galaxies, neutron stars, etc. I honestly love watching these astrophobia videos, because while yes, I can understand the fear of the large objects, that something very bad can happen to us, or the entire universe, in such a way that cannot be prevented, or simply being so tiny and in a huge void where everything is so far apart... space is so beautiful. So much to learn, so many cool things we've found, and have yet to find. I may not have the smarts to put myself into a career path to look further into the deeper science and math of it all, but it's great enough to just know these things, without getting too deep. As some would say, we were born too early to explore the universe, but at least we're still around to enjoy the views, before the immense expansion of spacetime... the universe spreading itself too far apart that light can't be seen from two different points. I enjoy the fact we can still receive light from celestial objects many light years away.
i think perspective is sooo interesting . everything you described being scared of, i think is so unbelievably beautiful. everyone being different is so cool
What really makes me feel uneasy about space are things like the idea of going for a spacewalk in low-earth orbit and worrying that I might plummet if I got to close. That and falling into one of those black holes that freezes time and leave you stuck in limbo, I had no idea black holes could do that
black holes actually do the opposite, it timewarps you. your perception is the same, but elsewhere, time goes by faster
I still remember going to a Planetarium with my school when i was young and i had to hold both of my friends’ hands because of the way it so rapidly took us through the solar system. I couldn’t even look around because it was on every surface through the ceiling & wall screens, closing my eyes didn’t help either as you could just hear the noises and it was so scary. I’d love to visit again at my age now though, see if i’d still shit my pants or not.
i’d sue the planetarium
Now now, no need to sue the plane arium.
@@spingleboygle that's like saying you would sue the zoo because you're afraid of animals
Bloody amazing video! I find Jupiter positively terrifying, you nailed the "face in darkness" metaphor
this needs more views! best astrophobia video I’ve seen so far!
It’s so mind boggling to me that something I find beautiful and amazing no matter how scary it is, people still share their fear for it
Just found your content last night, 3 videos in. Definitely subbed and liked each one! Keep it coming for these topics. Would love a spooky one for October! 🤘🏼
I absolutely LOVE space it’s so fascinating! I do understand how people can be scared of it, it’s so unknown. And the darkness is everywhere.
Excellent video. I'm glad you brought up Elite Dangerous at the end. This game is the epitome of astrophobia for me. I never played it on VR, yet I got scared many times in front of my big screen and terrified by the state-of-the-art sound design of this game. Also exploring the surface of unknown planets in an SRV is a pretty lonely and anxiety inducing experience. As of right now, I can't no more play that game because of the intense fear it cause to me. And that is after playing it intensively for 2 years. PTSD I guess.
amazing video, how does this not have more views. so well edited and written.
This is absolutely amazing
everything talked about in this video is actually why i LOVE space, so weirdly it resonated with me in a way. i think the terror of space is exactly what makes it so awe-inspiring and beautiful
This is a very well made video, I have always loved space. I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid, so I’ve never had a fear of space. But you did an excellent job explaining your fears in a way that I understood and even though I’m so curious if black holes and I want to see inside one so bad. You (not in a bad way) made me feel your fear. Good fucking video.
Keep this coming, absolute gold!!! Every video unlocks a new rabbit hole of fears to pour into my creative outlets! ♥
It's actually regressive to fear space and a little stupid so I don't want content like this to trend if it's only going to make people fear space.
I don't see what's so scary about space, seems dumb
@@Karthik-pn2yjmfs really scared of some random planet 10753 light years away while his parents pay his taxes
@@Karthik-pn2yjmfs really scared of some random planet 10753 light years away while his parents pay his taxes
@@Leopard-2A6.. ok tough guy. I bet you never even left your trailer park town
You’re going to blow up soon. Genuinely one of my favorite channels up there with Solar Sands and Jacob Gellar
You have good taste
That sounds like a threat
The fact that we will be bound to our home, Planet Earth, or the Solar System at most and will never know the secrets of the universe is oddly relaxing to me. It's like I have just accepted my meaningless existence in the eternal black void we call the universe
i don't know why but this guy's voice is really relaxing LIKE REALLY RELAXING!!!!
The scariest thought to me is that there are countless alien civilizations ou there, they know of our planet, just like we can see theirs, but not a single one has been able to figure out space travel, no matter how lomg theyve been around. Its like a consmic scale sized stranded on an island situation, left to survive with the only planet we were gifted
Well by the time they figure it out we will probably be long gone as light years is still a long ways away
The great equaliser- a cosmic bottleneck for those that would seek to become masters of the void.
if you're scared of black holes, look up what naked singularities are. also, look up "true vacuum" and "strange matter".
I think the big rip is more terrifying than any other fate because we would see it coming, but we have no way to stop it or escape it.
I already knew everything about this video but I’m glad to see it being shared as I don’t make videos. I always find it kind of annoying how people think we’re alone out there. I honestly highly doubt that we are and if we are then we are super super super lucky to ever have existed. Even if we are the only ones out there I doubt we were the first ones
Nice job with this video… very well done! You’ve got a new subscriber 🤙
We’re naturally scared of the unknown, we became self aware only to realize this life was never about us
Earth wasn’t perfectly designed for humans
Humans where perfectly designed for Earth
The same way
A bucket isn’t perfectly designed to hold water
But water was perfectly designed to fill a bucket
Love this comment, best simple explanation of this ive seen tbh
@@sandrahughes1004 aww thanks I have a problem with deep thinking so it’s nice to know it wasn’t for nothing
I'd argue a bit about that bucket example/point, as I believe that both the bucket and the water was designed for it, as the bucket WAS technically made to hold water, as it was built for that exact purpose, and the water also fulfills that purpose, as it fills the bucket, but, other than the relatively bad example, this was a good comment.
@@B_4035mn I was trying to make the point that even though we came from this planet and even though only a relatively small amount of people have been to space so far I don’t think we we’re meant to stay on this planet forever
Kind of like an ocean, like yeah you can fit water in a bucket but most of the planet is water so it can be so much more then just a lot of water in a small bucket
Same with humanity there’s 8 billion people alive so far, but there all only living on one planet even though there’s billions of planets
Hopefully this makes more sense for what I was going for, ether way thank you for the criticism and for calling this a good comment I appreciate it
I don't think we're meant to stay on this planet either, but I also don't think we were meant to leave. I think we're meant to create the next stage of life that can survive in space and explore with few complications; something that's not organically bound.
I love space, and it continues to inspire me day after day. In my mind I'm not afraid of it. Its waiting to be explored and I want to be the one to do that. The only thing as of right now that's more than mildly terrifying is the sounds, as well as life. The sounds space makes are to me what makes space feel huge. In relation, the black hole. Raging with a deep roar and groan, sounds as if its a whale in a deep deep ocean, feeding on millions of krill. As well as being alone. If we are alone, we have a huge responsablity. If we die there will be no meaning to the Universe, no life, no death, nothing. The ideas of being alone and not are both equally terrifying. Space is beautiful and it needs to be seen.
One thing to note, that "real distance map" that you showed isn't even close, its a lot lot bigger. Mark Rober made a video on it if you wanna check it out!
Weirdly enough, I watched this video as a relaxing summary of all the things I love about the universe haha... It's just so beautiful to me
I’m not scared of the universe or what lurks in it but it’s glad to know that i can support my friends when topics like this (since they have these phobias) and i can help them maybe overcome it by telling the more happier facts of space
I feel like Astro phobia is best captured in those “Scale of the universe” videos.
They’re really cool but whenever they pull out really far to show something huge I always get a chill
Terrifying yet beautiful
watching this video, i feared basically nothing you talked about 😔
great video btw! 😄
Well written.
Well narrated and
Extremely well presented!
I think the reason most people don't fear space is because it doesn't effect us. Everything is so far away that it will never interact with us, and most people aren't scared of not being able to go to other places so there's no fear of the distance. Blacks holes could swallow us whole, but it would be eons before any could reach us.
the golden disc is kind of depressing, it's like a final hail Mary, a death/suicide note, a final message just thrown out there on our only current resort, still to this day, of searching further into the galaxy to either be destroyed, or found by life who can't understand it, possibly discarding it without a second thought.
it's also depressing asl since life on earth would probably be long gone by the time it reaches anything, i almost feel like we're being watched over, like a plant or, more like a terrarium, watching how far our curiosity takes us without us realizing that searching for beings like us is hopeless.
As someone who loves space and loves astronomy, I'll say I'm an astrophile.
I love learning about planets, stars, nebula, galaxies, black holes, etc etc.
Space is scary, yeah.
But it's also beautiful.
Absolutely amazing in every way!
i find it very interesting we share such opposing views. where you find the fact there are probably billions or trillions of exoplanets we'll never know about terrifying, i believe it to be one of the most disheartening things about living in this time period. the fact we'll most likely never know the origins of everything in our lifetime is extremely frustrating to me and is honestly what pushed me into this field in the first place. great video as per usual! :)
I completely agree, for the purposes of this video I wanted to focus on fear, but for the most part I also get frustrated that I live in a time where the universe's most pressing questions likely won't be answered.
it was a very thought provoking video and raised some points i myself have never even thought of! cant wait to see what you come out with next :)
There is a chance our future descendants won’t know either. We can’t expect progress to be infinite. Then you look at the events of the last 5-6 years or so and you realise how fragile civilisation is. We could end up going in reverse. Our future descendants will struggle to understand our technology.
I absolutely love space and the mystery surrounding it the unknown and how small we are compared to it. It honestly amazes me
Im dont have astrophbia but this video is so incedeible, its so well made and explained, I love space and I knew about most things in this video but the way you explained it make me realize, oh shit this really is scary, you deffinetly deserve a sub
This video is gonna be a hard watch, I may bail and not be able to finish it. It's a slight comfort that I know that this phobia is shared by the maker of the video. As much as space and the things in it terrify me, the thing that has filled me with dread more than anything was listening to the "noise" that the different planets make.
The sounds.
The SOUNDS.
I cannot with the sounds these planets make, I hate it, it sounds like the planets are screaming.
I had a mental breakdown because of the sounds, because I hate screaming- I hate the sound.
An honorable Exoplanet not mentioned, is TOI 849 b, a planet stripped bare.
It was ripped of its LITERAL CRUST, IT IS JUST A CORE- WHAT?
THATS TERRIFYING!
I don't feel fear, I've always felt absolute fascination. The more its wonder and scale is incomprehensible to me, only fills me with hope that there's so much more to this existence. Trying to visually enumerate it in your mind however, might lead to some er... negative results tho lol
Yeah it's absolute fascination but in the same time when you think about it more deeply, at least at this point, our technology is not able to properly detect or even analyze planets. We see the past and not the present of things, stars that light up the sky might as well be long dead.
Beautiful video! Normally I don't subscribe on the first video I watch, but this was so good!
I still don't know who all of these guys making amazing video essays are but damn, I've found so many good ones its way too underrated
13:00 correction. No, the life cycle of the universe does not go by as you fall. The universe appears to slow down as you fall, not speed up.
Imagine if it did though, that'd be so metal
I think that vast terrifying nature of it is partly why I find space so beautiful. This… ineffable vastness that dwarfs us is mesmerizing to me
I can see how it’s terrifying, at times it terrifies me. I just end up going “damn… space is so fucked… awesome”
EDIT: if you want a good horror media based on this fear, Hellstar Remina by Junji Ito is perfect
I forgot about my nightmares of falling into Jupiters atmosphere when i was young.
Thanks for that
It’s interesting to hear you talk about your experience with this! Unlike when you said the surface doesn’t bother you, that’s the scariest part to me! Especially for gas giants. I also like seeing the planets from far away, but their size truly starts to intimidate me once you get just above the atmosphere, or close enough to where you can slowly start to see it become 3D and encompass most of your vision.
And the space between them, of course.
Thinking of approaching a gas giant makes me want to throw up😅
Just Imagine, somwhere exists another planet with humans on it… which is very possible in my opinion considering the Infinity of Space. I mean, infinite Space means infinite possibilities Right?
I think every image you showed is incredibly beautiful and awesome to see. I don't understand how planets can scare someone, I love planets and moons and everything you say is just scientific facts I've known since I was a kid
try to live on them. Space is more deadly than the oceans😊
@@immortalituss the ocean is just a mere copy of what space it's supposed to be... our planet itself is hostile towards us, the lifeless void just amplifies things significantly.
They are beautiful and fascinating but in the same time it... radiates a sense of sadness knowing what we see might as well be something that happened long ago.
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@@immortalitusswe already are in space.
I’ve come here to get my fix of space, yes it’s all very mysterious but I’m just so fascinated by it that it doesn’t scare me
I think that planets are the only thing that truly scare me about space. Sure black holes are scary but planets are like the closest thing possible to an elder god. An inconceivably large body that is older than you and your entire family put together, older and more ancient and deadly than anything or anybody you’ve ever known. Its just… out there. Floating around and waiting and watching in the pitch dark. Space itself is spooky, but the planets themselves are where the true horror comes in, at least for me. Space being a huge fathomless empty void is scary, but it’s the things that fill the void that really get to me. Which is why i love them so much. Brilliant video. Instant subscription 🪐
You should make a video about Ornithoscelidophobia, the fear of Dinosaurs.
As funny as it may sound, as of late, i've been seein A LOT of disturbing dinosaur stuff on youtube and twitter and other places, from analog horror, cryptic images or bizarre and disturbing species and what they could do with us if we lived alongside them.. how Tyrannosaurus was so massive that we wouldn't even be worth hunting because of how tiny we are, how dinosaurs like Ankylosaurus would liquify our insides with a single swing of it's tail, how big Titanosaurs could get or how HORRIFYING it would be to live alongside Carnotaurus or Quetzalcoatlus, animals that would see us as genuine food source, one would be impossible to run or hide from and the other would be able to simply fly towards us and swallow us whole, or how horrifying it would be to be a target of a Velociraptor or Deinonychus, which disembowled it's prey and ate it alive, pinning it down with the sickle-like claws on it's feet... the fact that feathered dinosaurs are no less horrifying than the scaly ones we see in Jurassic Park, and in fact, it made them even more efficient and adaptable predators, i just think that dinosaurs are horrifying and should receive a video dedicated to this fact...
Can you have a phobia of something that no longer exists? Genuine question. 🤔
For me personally, seeing the photo of the Earth hundreds of thousands of miles from The Moon made me feel extremely calm, anyone else?
For some yeah, it surely induces a sense of calmness being surrounded by pure nothingness. It's a blade with two faces, one tells you that no matter what you do, say or see is ultimately equal to nothing in the grand scheme of things, meaning that as a person you shouldn't worry too much about life itself... but the other face of the blade induces the sheer weight of being nothing in this reality, we achieved so much, we have so much history, names, dates, EVERYTHING that humanity did and led up to the present means nothing, it's depressing.
Gordon freeman
Since i was fascinated by this stuff since i was a kid, i sorta got over these kinda fears fairly quickly as i grew up learning about the wonders and quirks of outer space, though that means i have been. Sorta desentized to the sheer scale of it all. It really is magical to just stop and think of all the sheer implication of it on our tiny, fragile existence.
I love space, I'm super in love with astronomy, and I love the feeling that no matter how significant we are, the universe keeps going...