One category of explanation for the Fermi Paradox is the Time Elapsed Argument, or TEA. TEA is essentially a watered-down version of the Rare Earth hypothesis, arguing not that Earth has a few rare traits which are required to make life possible, but that it has several uncommon traits which allow it to arise and evolve more quickly. For instance, life on Earth is capable of mouse movement, which reduced the time taken for multicellular life to evolve from over 15 billion years to merely 2.1 billion years; this one factor enabled Earth life to evolve more than seven times as quickly, allowing its species to reach the Space Stage in half the lifetime of a typical yellow dwarf star.
i laughed so hard at the herbivore pitiful worm randomly getting a kill... they snapped thanks for continuing to think of and make interesting Spore videos years after the game's heyday. it's great to see that there's still an active community that loves this game!
@@guilhermeteodosio40 it says it killed a megamouth, if you look at when the cursor hovers over the target icon in the timeline ... megamouths being some of the most well-armed cells in cell stage
Spitballing some future experiment/challenge video ideas, hopefully they aren’t repeats of stuff you’ve already done. Love your videos btw! *Can you beat…* - Cell stage as a carnivore without directly killing? - Creature stage without socializing or directly killing? - Tribal stage without any tools at all (only natural weapons)? - Civilization stage without a single spice geyser? - Space stage without buying any upgrades at all? - The entire game on a planet modified to be the most difficult possible? - _All of these at once?_ *Can you…* - Kill an epic in creature stage? (I’d especially love to see this one) - _Become_ an epic? - Walk across the entire planet in a completely straight line in creature stage? - Wipe out your own empire in space stage? - Wipe out the Grox? - Use charmed epics to beat Civilization stage somehow?
I know you can kill an epic in creature stage, but only if you manage to lure it into a nest where it'll be overwhelmed. I think it's best if you do it in your own nest as well, since they can't go extinct and would continuously spawn
Thank you! These are interesting ideas! Definitely some of these are in the works ;) Creature without killing/socializing other creatures could be done by eating eggs if that doesn't count as killing. Maybe worth experimenting with to figure out egg spawn rates! Space only needs Interstellar Drive 2 to reach the Center of the Galaxy, which I believe is the absolute minimum needed like I do here :) ua-cam.com/video/M6KMM7uwLkk/v-deo.html It's possible to fly/walk across the whole Creature Stage planet using the Sea Monster bypass glitch like in this video (at the end) :) ua-cam.com/video/Cx6DSzTVmto/v-deo.html When destroying our own Space Empire the game will automatically spawn a new city on our home planet when the last city is destroyed. I've seen mods to allow Planet Buster on the home planet, but it's not usually possible. I haven't actually worked with the charmed Epics in Civ very much, I should look into how those work more!
@@TheLeafcuter an alternate strategy I successfully used a long time ago was to use spit attacks and avoid getting hit long enough until its health eventually gets whittled down to 0.
ive personally beat creature stage without socializing or killing (i literally just ate eggs the entire run it was Very Interesting), tribal stage without tools should probably be possible if your creatures offensive stats are good enough (ive had runs where i went without axes (i dont use other weapons) for a while and just relied on my creature's natural attacks), ive also killed a few epics in creature stage. so all of that is possible. neato
I don't think you can become an epic, but in earlier patch versions of Spore there were reports of people being able to turn their befriended rogue animals into epics by killing epics until the game randomly assigned their teammate rogue to become the new one. I've never seen it happen myself, though.
A couple ideas: 1. Can Cell Stage be beaten (automatically or manualy) with the worst possible cell? (a pitiful worm, but with its spine at the maxmum size and the carnivore jaw on its "tail" instead of its "head") 2. Can Creature Stage be beaten semi-automatically? (probably by holding W until a creature that isn't your species comes into Tab range, then pressing Tab and spamming the 1 key)
really fun video! brilliant concept, and you explain everything very well. watching this made my day, thanks! cheers from canada, make sure to stay warm!
In cell stage the specific amount of 334 seconds pet billion years seemed a little interesting to me: Behind the scenes of the code I would bet that 333 seconds would be the equivalent of 999 million years, for a constant rate of 3 million years a second, with the final 334th second tipping it over to 1 billion and then getting rounded or truncated.
Fantastic content Valence! I've enjoyed your speedruns, but THIS sort of thing is exactly the random useless knowledge that I crave. Really good scientific rigor!
Sick vid. Was not expecting this to work but thinking about it and how you have infinite lives, it makes sense. Wasn't expecting to see you run it with the worst cell as well, even with speedup that takes dedication.
I came in here to watch some quick videos about a dumb challenge to not focus on, it turned into a math exposés and im just impressed as counting on my fingers sometimes gets hard...
here's a cool challenge, try and complete the cell stage with the least and most amount of time possible. I would love to see one that ranges into the trillions of years
How scientific of you to do multiple trials with various variables! The fact that there are multiple advanced civilizations in the space stage makes more sense if it did take these cells billions of years just to evolve.
Someday you should go on twitch and stream realtime pitiful mouseless herbivore worm% and see if any fun chat obsessions occur call it a social experiment
I think an interesting and probably unobtainable idea would be to train an AI to play spore to the end, or something to do with randomized part addition or deletion via "mutation" to simulate real evolution.
If you're doing more research videos. May I humbly request a video on empire seeding? I want to remake star wars or star trek and I'd like to know how to ensure I get the proper alignments for customized empires without having to play the game all the way through each time.
Space empire locations and their archetypes should be the same every time and for everyone. This was really important for routing speedruns with the community for the fastest way to the Center of the Galaxy as some empires would and would not sell Energy Packs. Wormhole locations are also in the same locations however the wormhole connections to each other are random for each game (specifically in the "Spore" folder in the Roaming folder in Windows). I'm not sure about how seeding works but some stuff like stars and empire locations are consistent across all games whereas wormhole connections and Artifact locations are generated per game. And planets within stars are generated at the time of exploring them for the first time :) I'd love to see a Star Wars or Star Trek themed Space Stages! Would have been really cool to have a Federation in Space Stage!
me: goes afk Game: eh let's just continue :/ me: comes back Game: It took you 134822 billion years but now ur in war with Grox :D me: BRO WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL?!?!?
What's next, beating Spore without launching the game?
the only winning move is not to play
Wouldn't that be almost easy with cheat engine or other external tools?
@@PeterBarnes2 Using Cheat engine to launch the game?
@@EnlightenedEsoteric And play the game in Cheat Engine too.
@@WhirligigGirl if you keep on trying
Mindlessly keep playing~
"Look Spode, no hands!"
One category of explanation for the Fermi Paradox is the Time Elapsed Argument, or TEA. TEA is essentially a watered-down version of the Rare Earth hypothesis, arguing not that Earth has a few rare traits which are required to make life possible, but that it has several uncommon traits which allow it to arise and evolve more quickly. For instance, life on Earth is capable of mouse movement, which reduced the time taken for multicellular life to evolve from over 15 billion years to merely 2.1 billion years; this one factor enabled Earth life to evolve more than seven times as quickly, allowing its species to reach the Space Stage in half the lifetime of a typical yellow dwarf star.
i laughed so hard at the herbivore pitiful worm randomly getting a kill... they snapped
thanks for continuing to think of and make interesting Spore videos years after the game's heyday. it's great to see that there's still an active community that loves this game!
Even a worm will turn!!!
It probably ate an egg
@@guilhermeteodosio40 it says it killed a megamouth, if you look at when the cursor hovers over the target icon in the timeline
... megamouths being some of the most well-armed cells in cell stage
@@Phobic_Nova how can a herbivore do damage? Chaning elecrocut?
@ i did not say it did, i just replied to a now-deleted comment that said it might have gotten an assist of sorts.
I am massively impressed by amount of work you put into the video. Well done
Thank you! Definitely my most ambitious editing project :D
*The video topic doesn't agree.*
always appreciate when full subtitles are available, imo a clear indicator for someone who's passionate about their content!
you make me yearn for those warm 2011 nights not even knowing of the existence of city stage playing spore past my bedtime lol
Spitballing some future experiment/challenge video ideas, hopefully they aren’t repeats of stuff you’ve already done. Love your videos btw!
*Can you beat…*
- Cell stage as a carnivore without directly killing?
- Creature stage without socializing or directly killing?
- Tribal stage without any tools at all (only natural weapons)?
- Civilization stage without a single spice geyser?
- Space stage without buying any upgrades at all?
- The entire game on a planet modified to be the most difficult possible?
- _All of these at once?_
*Can you…*
- Kill an epic in creature stage? (I’d especially love to see this one)
- _Become_ an epic?
- Walk across the entire planet in a completely straight line in creature stage?
- Wipe out your own empire in space stage?
- Wipe out the Grox?
- Use charmed epics to beat Civilization stage somehow?
I know you can kill an epic in creature stage, but only if you manage to lure it into a nest where it'll be overwhelmed. I think it's best if you do it in your own nest as well, since they can't go extinct and would continuously spawn
Thank you!
These are interesting ideas! Definitely some of these are in the works ;)
Creature without killing/socializing other creatures could be done by eating eggs if that doesn't count as killing. Maybe worth experimenting with to figure out egg spawn rates!
Space only needs Interstellar Drive 2 to reach the Center of the Galaxy, which I believe is the absolute minimum needed like I do here :) ua-cam.com/video/M6KMM7uwLkk/v-deo.html
It's possible to fly/walk across the whole Creature Stage planet using the Sea Monster bypass glitch like in this video (at the end) :) ua-cam.com/video/Cx6DSzTVmto/v-deo.html
When destroying our own Space Empire the game will automatically spawn a new city on our home planet when the last city is destroyed. I've seen mods to allow Planet Buster on the home planet, but it's not usually possible.
I haven't actually worked with the charmed Epics in Civ very much, I should look into how those work more!
@@TheLeafcuter an alternate strategy I successfully used a long time ago was to use spit attacks and avoid getting hit long enough until its health eventually gets whittled down to 0.
ive personally beat creature stage without socializing or killing (i literally just ate eggs the entire run it was Very Interesting), tribal stage without tools should probably be possible if your creatures offensive stats are good enough (ive had runs where i went without axes (i dont use other weapons) for a while and just relied on my creature's natural attacks), ive also killed a few epics in creature stage. so all of that is possible. neato
I don't think you can become an epic, but in earlier patch versions of Spore there were reports of people being able to turn their befriended rogue animals into epics by killing epics until the game randomly assigned their teammate rogue to become the new one. I've never seen it happen myself, though.
ah, you can evolve without a brain
no wonder those blue herbivores with 1 flagella got so far
The fact you're still making videos for Spore is amazing. Appreciate the subtitles, too!
A couple ideas:
1. Can Cell Stage be beaten (automatically or manualy) with the worst possible cell? (a pitiful worm, but with its spine at the maxmum size and the carnivore jaw on its "tail" instead of its "head")
2. Can Creature Stage be beaten semi-automatically? (probably by holding W until a creature that isn't your species comes into Tab range, then pressing Tab and spamming the 1 key)
The experimental style video is such a fun change of pace, please make more!
I loved this new experiment-style video! You should do more of them (of what I have no idea, but it seemed fun)
Absolutely loved this video, amazing how thoroughly you covered this, I cannot wait to see whatever is next!
really fun video! brilliant concept, and you explain everything very well. watching this made my day, thanks! cheers from canada, make sure to stay warm!
also, was that a spaceballs reference when you said "ludicrous speed"?
Thank you! :D
And yes it was ;)
Im always so happy to see a new spore video from you. I really hope you have more to come!
In cell stage the specific amount of 334 seconds pet billion years seemed a little interesting to me: Behind the scenes of the code I would bet that 333 seconds would be the equivalent of 999 million years, for a constant rate of 3 million years a second, with the final 334th second tipping it over to 1 billion and then getting rounded or truncated.
Perfect video, thanks for going the extra mile every time to answer every potential question
I really thought this was a pretty generic boring challenge video but.
I'm amazed how entertaining that was. Awesome work
Fantastic content Valence! I've enjoyed your speedruns, but THIS sort of thing is exactly the random useless knowledge that I crave. Really good scientific rigor!
Wow, using actual scientific methodology for Spore wasn't something I expected clicking on this viedeo. Definitely subscribing!
The amount of effort you put into this is insane!! I can't believe you keep finding ways to make Spore so interesting and fun to watch
It’s awesome seeing thatpeople keep making videos about this game, it was a huge part of my childhood
I loved this video! Cell stage is so underrated. Thanks for making it, and I'm looking forward to more Spore videos.
Interesting video. Love to see spore videos still being made after all these years
I'm so glad to have found this channel omg thank you
the vid was already really good and then you brought out the charts and the formula... love the dedication. keep it up!
Dude you are the sporelord. We love the vids!!!!
recently got into spore again and your videos have been addictive for me, love what you do
Thank you for lovely videos. I have nothing to suggest so just keep doing whatever, I'm up for it.
Sick vid. Was not expecting this to work but thinking about it and how you have infinite lives, it makes sense. Wasn't expecting to see you run it with the worst cell as well, even with speedup that takes dedication.
This was great, I liked the work you did to make sure the measurements were accurate.
This is pretty much jellyfish
I loved this video a lot. Very well done
This is the most insane video on UA-cam.
Really enjoyed this new format, would love to see more like it in the future!
I like how cell stage said “Its celling time.” and celled all over the place
Dude you really did the scientific way and did multiple trials I’m impressed. Love this video
what an absolutely amazing and detailed video!
I adored this video. I would be interested in more experimental videos.
As a Sporoo enjoyer, it filled me with glee to see Sporoo come in -second- third and Loobo get almost last in the herbivore heat
This is ridiculous. I love it
always a good day when kinglyvalence uploads
I highly appreciate the closed captions on this video! :)
This was so entertaining, icl im hoping to see more videos like this. I always enjoy your content
Great work as always, it makes my day when you upload! I would love to see more experimental videos like this!!
Nice! Took it as far as it could go and I appreciate that.
My two favorite things all in one video: Math, and Spore....... Gosh, I wish I could subscribe TWICE!
I came in here to watch some quick videos about a dumb challenge to not focus on, it turned into a math exposés and im just impressed as counting on my fingers sometimes gets hard...
You're in my top 5 favorite youtubers
Thank you! That really means a lot! :D
awesome vid. Loved spore growin up.
and somehow you got 5 out of 6 parts including all the ones you'd need for either social or aggressive starts, that's insane!
I really like your videos pekos you never give up even if spore is an old game keep up the good videos👍
here's a cool challenge, try and complete the cell stage with the least and most amount of time possible. I would love to see one that ranges into the trillions of years
Genuinely fascinating
I did not expect standard curve here haha
This makes me wonder what the slowest possible way to beat every other stage is
Cell stage but you have the intelligence of an actual single celled organism
i was half expecting this video to just be you using keyboard controls
Always a joy to watch these videos
it'd be interesting to see the minimum keyboard/mouse action requirements to beat the game
I really liked the video!
This would be a hilarious speedrun.
The quickest way to get to your destination is in a straight line
Great video! Very well done and thank you for doing all the math!!! 🤩
this is great. its like a shounic video for Spore.
Next video must be "Beating Spore without launching the pc"
The Half A Press of Spore
The king returns!
You’ve actually become a biologist rather than a video game player, what with controlled trials and all.
I finally found it
The reason to know math after finishing school
I hereby baptize these as "Luigi cells".
Thank you so much for adding subtitles ❤❤❤
ooh this is very interesting actually
You should make a Destroying the Grox speed run
Loved it!
Haven’t watched the video, but I’m going to assume no. You need to click the timeline to advance to the creature stage and thus finish cell stage
Wow, they're about as smart as real cells!
pitiful worms are cells that have their mouth on backside. it makes your "challenge" a lot harder
How scientific of you to do multiple trials with various variables! The fact that there are multiple advanced civilizations in the space stage makes more sense if it did take these cells billions of years just to evolve.
Luigi beats Spore by doing absolutely nothing
new challenge: beat spore without earning points from other creatures
damn now thats what i call SCIENCE
"Can I Beat Cell Stage Without Moving the Mouse?"
That is, if you like playing the waiting game.
Can’t believe you forced me to listen to math
good work
Oh, like the ol' strategy of waitng until food comes to you?
Wonder how long a pitiful worm, but with the eyeballtrap for debris would take
Someday you should go on twitch and stream realtime pitiful mouseless herbivore worm% and see if any fun chat obsessions occur
call it a social experiment
so unnecessary, but so interesting. Well done.
If the cell eats food after ten minutes of in-game time, how many billion years have passed? Show your working. [2]
Well well you managed to turn Spore into a 0 player game. Seriously tho nice experiment to watch. :D
My brain broke.
love the vids, :)
I think an interesting and probably unobtainable idea would be to train an AI to play spore to the end, or something to do with randomized part addition or deletion via "mutation" to simulate real evolution.
If you're doing more research videos. May I humbly request a video on empire seeding? I want to remake star wars or star trek and I'd like to know how to ensure I get the proper alignments for customized empires without having to play the game all the way through each time.
Space empire locations and their archetypes should be the same every time and for everyone. This was really important for routing speedruns with the community for the fastest way to the Center of the Galaxy as some empires would and would not sell Energy Packs. Wormhole locations are also in the same locations however the wormhole connections to each other are random for each game (specifically in the "Spore" folder in the Roaming folder in Windows).
I'm not sure about how seeding works but some stuff like stars and empire locations are consistent across all games whereas wormhole connections and Artifact locations are generated per game. And planets within stars are generated at the time of exploring them for the first time :)
I'd love to see a Star Wars or Star Trek themed Space Stages! Would have been really cool to have a Federation in Space Stage!
me: goes afk
Game: eh let's just continue :/
me: comes back
Game: It took you 134822 billion years but now ur in war with Grox :D
me: BRO WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL?!?!?
wait until he realizes that you can move in cell stage with wasd
what can i say man, life finds a way
Id like to see you play the game by making all the body parts as sml as possible. I wonder if it would be harder?
I play with only the smallest cell body and mouth in this video, for example :) ua-cam.com/video/M6KMM7uwLkk/v-deo.html