Will We Ever Visit Other Stars?

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  • @xenan7889
    @xenan7889 5 років тому +20928

    Can we just take a moment to appreciate how well Vsauce's videos have aged.

    • @xcalixus
      @xcalixus 5 років тому +76

      How?

    • @Andreyabish
      @Andreyabish 4 роки тому +802

      There nearly a decade old now and still so good even relevant to new content

    • @shamicentertainment1262
      @shamicentertainment1262 4 роки тому +181

      I remember when this video came out. I'm the oldest person on earth

    • @IngvarMar
      @IngvarMar 4 роки тому +126

      Space and science are always relevant

    • @felipebrunetta2106
      @felipebrunetta2106 4 роки тому +168

      If it went online for the first time today, 2020, it would be considered an amazingly well done video

  • @amodgawade4323
    @amodgawade4323 5 років тому +1380

    loved the last sentence tho
    "what are you waiting for? Live your life in a way that makes travelling light years just to hang out with you worth it."

    • @discopotato5581
      @discopotato5581 4 роки тому +2

      @jaydon new A bit late to the discussion but, judging by the amount of pure, unfiltered Big Dick Energy Micheal exudes in his videos, he's obviously a grower and not a shower.

    • @lameaaron
      @lameaaron Рік тому +15

      It oddly makes me happy

    • @ajhproductions2347
      @ajhproductions2347 Рік тому +3

      Spoiler alert! I haven’t seen it yet! Thanks A LOT!!

    • @SilverVolo
      @SilverVolo Рік тому +4

      ​@@ajhproductions2347what?

    • @hoogreen
      @hoogreen Рік тому +12

      ​@@ajhproductions2347maybe dont read the comments while you're watching the video?

  • @AJ-he8ki
    @AJ-he8ki 4 роки тому +6283

    that animation of vsauce in space was truly traumatizing.

    • @jamieLtaker
      @jamieLtaker 4 роки тому +133

      I thought I was just a wimp lol

    • @jamieLtaker
      @jamieLtaker 3 роки тому +74

      well im not scared of it anymore because i only chickened out of this video when i was a little kid

    • @uptown3636
      @uptown3636 3 роки тому +81

      his Saturn V was a Saturn II at best.

    • @elly3359
      @elly3359 3 роки тому +6

      I think it's a nice way to die

    • @jamieLtaker
      @jamieLtaker 3 роки тому +51

      @EightyNiner hey 🅿️sauce, 🅱️ichael here

  • @goingoutsad
    @goingoutsad 3 роки тому +3204

    You’re telling me scientists spent all that money and time to build an entire rover to send to Titan and they decide to PUT THE CAMERA IN VERTICAL.

    • @ΑΝΤΩΝΗΣΓΚΙΚΑΣ-χ7ι
      @ΑΝΤΩΝΗΣΓΚΙΚΑΣ-χ7ι 3 роки тому +143

      Horizontal is best.

    • @miguelstevens0090
      @miguelstevens0090 3 роки тому +114

      Tbf boomers

    • @RichMiniön-r2m
      @RichMiniön-r2m 3 роки тому +167

      It was not a rover... it was more of a tiny can

    • @TheSpaceEngineer
      @TheSpaceEngineer 3 роки тому +204

      slight correction, it wasnt a rover, it was basically a tin can with a parachute, and what he showed onscreen is only a slice of the few panoramas the craft made, you can go search it up

    • @brovid-19
      @brovid-19 2 роки тому +14

      *Portrait

  • @nicktokar2459
    @nicktokar2459 6 років тому +3216

    "Will we ever visit other stars?"
    A dried up human in space would contain 115,000 calories.

    • @isaacdavis1363
      @isaacdavis1363 5 років тому +72

      also DONG

    • @lorenzoneblinajr8132
      @lorenzoneblinajr8132 5 років тому +6

      Yea if he was mama case elliots size

    • @derstoffausdemderjoghurtis
      @derstoffausdemderjoghurtis 5 років тому +6

      good meat for another species we are
      Potecc ourselve we need, or make alliances we need

    • @vodkacannon
      @vodkacannon 5 років тому +2

      A disgusting snack

    • @Tarototh
      @Tarototh 4 роки тому +6

      I know right? I kept waiting for the video to start breaking down tech developments & discussing long term plans but no... It kept going in random directions and covering interesting but unrelated trivia

  • @thedollarsauce
    @thedollarsauce 5 років тому +3919

    “Piece of *DIFFICULT* cake”
    ~ Vsauce, 2013

    • @siyacer
      @siyacer 5 років тому +10

      I'm going to put some dirt in your OSC eye

    • @thedollarsauce
      @thedollarsauce 5 років тому +3

      I’m already Sans Undertale what?

    • @fong2506
      @fong2506 4 роки тому +4

      Thanos: "Piece of cake."

    • @cheekyd-z
      @cheekyd-z 4 роки тому +1

      Dollar I hear what he said...no need to repeat.

    • @thedollarsauce
      @thedollarsauce 4 роки тому +1

      E X I was quoting...

  • @susosusosson138
    @susosusosson138 4 роки тому +2131

    ”Piece of cake” *:D*
    ”Piece of difficult cake” *:O*

    • @catnium
      @catnium 4 роки тому +23

      the cake is a lie

    • @dickyarya8204
      @dickyarya8204 4 роки тому +5

      Pog

    • @ahrnishdahal2367
      @ahrnishdahal2367 4 роки тому +2

      Black man meme face in my mind

    • @zeedee7387
      @zeedee7387 4 роки тому +1

      Flawless comment

    • @richmond3083
      @richmond3083 4 роки тому

      It killed me that DIFFICULT CAKE was on the screen, just like any other interesting word would be

  • @chillies696
    @chillies696 3 роки тому +2509

    When he mentioned wormholes I just realized that if you go through a wormhole that took you say 1 light year away, you could theoretically, watch yourself go into the wormhole one year later

    • @Universal_Anomalies
      @Universal_Anomalies 3 роки тому +511

      Also if you had a ridiculously large telescope (tens of lightyears in diameter) and a wormhole that takes you you to a distant galaxy about 65 million light years away you'd even be able see the dinosaurs.

    • @chillies696
      @chillies696 3 роки тому +62

      @@Universal_Anomalies yeah I think I remember seeing that somewhere now that you mention it

    • @Universal_Anomalies
      @Universal_Anomalies 3 роки тому +23

      @@chillies696 Me too, I wonder if it was the same video.

    • @dasik84
      @dasik84 3 роки тому +17

      @@Universal_Anomalies Me wanna! Dinosaurs are the best!

    • @theonebman7581
      @theonebman7581 3 роки тому +17

      What'd be so special about that tho, you can see dinosaurs on trees every day :p
      You may even be able to buy and eat dinosaur meat at some grocery stores~

  • @buffmywifi3839
    @buffmywifi3839 4 роки тому +2647

    When you hear the song at the beginning you know it's existential crisis time

    • @jesspehlivan5676
      @jesspehlivan5676 4 роки тому +24

      Jupitrean Music “cRYsiS” headass

    • @MrJackOfAllTraits
      @MrJackOfAllTraits 4 роки тому +11

      Best song in the show

    • @ManishSharma-lm3wg
      @ManishSharma-lm3wg 4 роки тому +2

      Grt

    • @smie3907
      @smie3907 4 роки тому +6

      @@MrJackOfAllTraits whats the name of the song? I need to know, please

    • @smie3907
      @smie3907 4 роки тому +3

      What's the name of that song, i need to know

  • @OberonGames1
    @OberonGames1 9 років тому +12832

    In 1903, New York Times said that mankind can build a working plane in a million years...

    • @505-g6t
      @505-g6t 8 років тому +1248

      How wrong were they

    • @OberonGames1
      @OberonGames1 8 років тому +1801

      yup :) Also once one of the Wright brothers said that mankind will never be able to fly :)

    • @ManBehindTheMask
      @ManBehindTheMask 8 років тому +181

      +Gulya - Nintendo I think they meant in a million that a factory will just build another plane that happens to work.

    • @cmb9173
      @cmb9173 8 років тому +608

      ***** No, they literally said "a million years"

    • @K.nd3
      @K.nd3 8 років тому +508

      +Gulya - Nintendo Yo, I appreciate you. This comment restored my hope.

  • @Lemosa3414
    @Lemosa3414 4 роки тому +2892

    Q: Will we ever visit other stars ?
    A: Michael space jerky would have 115.000 calories

    • @YhormTheSmall
      @YhormTheSmall 4 роки тому +30

      Why is this so true

    • @jjjoel27
      @jjjoel27 4 роки тому +14

      yummy

    • @yalu2
      @yalu2 3 роки тому +9

      that whole idea took a left turn

    • @rafiatbm7867
      @rafiatbm7867 3 роки тому +9

      The answer is here 5:58

    • @FoXenthusiast42
      @FoXenthusiast42 3 роки тому +11

      ~~congrats on being a successful stolen comment~~

  • @yahlikanfi5511
    @yahlikanfi5511 3 роки тому +1152

    Just think how lucky we are to live in the same life time as this man

  • @spanishball9449
    @spanishball9449 4 роки тому +585

    0:38
    When that music begins, you know that it's science time.

    • @Allrounderguy
      @Allrounderguy 3 роки тому +8

      It is 0:39 :)

    • @Generic887
      @Generic887 3 роки тому +3

      @@Allrounderguy 0:40

    • @dreamer_4937
      @dreamer_4937 3 роки тому +16

      @@Allrounderguy sounds better when including the trigger word, at 0:38

    • @panther7389
      @panther7389 3 роки тому +1

      More then philosophy

    • @myla2495
      @myla2495 Рік тому +1

      Yea :DDD

  • @funkymonks8333
    @funkymonks8333 5 років тому +1512

    *"In case that makes you hungry-"* no Michael it doesn't...

  • @artawesome30
    @artawesome30 5 років тому +498

    Video: will we explore other stars?
    Michael: if I was a piece of human jerky, I’d be worth 115,000 calories

    • @asgelwkyi
      @asgelwkyi 4 роки тому +2

      underrated

    • @joeg579
      @joeg579 2 роки тому +3

      if you ever had an original thought, it would die alone

  • @snowcat9308
    @snowcat9308 3 роки тому +103

    1,096 years and counting boys

    • @kiiturii
      @kiiturii 6 місяців тому +31

      1,093 years, getting there

    • @Droplxt
      @Droplxt 4 місяці тому +6

      ​@@kiiturii Hell yeah brother 🗣️🔥

    • @gibraltarsfriend
      @gibraltarsfriend 3 місяці тому

      Still waiting

    • @a.h.m.nishat8091
      @a.h.m.nishat8091 2 місяці тому

      1093 years guys. Perseverance brother. We'll get there

    • @INFINITUMSPIRIT
      @INFINITUMSPIRIT Місяць тому +2

      Soon 1,092 years, boys

  • @Albert_Hu
    @Albert_Hu 6 років тому +1533

    Aliens: *arrives in earth's atmosphere undetected*
    Humans: *eats laundry detergent and starts filming their own dead and posting it to the internet*
    Aliens: *leaves*

    • @H.EL-Othemany
      @H.EL-Othemany 6 років тому +47

      That's a valid theory. Maybe who knows. It's a theory that aliens found us not that interesting to be explored.. Dumb creatures who kill each other and who kill the planet which we live in.

    • @hexstudios
      @hexstudios 6 років тому +5

      Rest in peace Tim

    • @songd7466
      @songd7466 6 років тому +7

      David Umali Trump would deport their sorry asses XD

    • @PoshWosher
      @PoshWosher 6 років тому +2

      Songviet Dau
      Lol

    • @minecraftcat_
      @minecraftcat_ 6 років тому

      Lol

  • @gregorysk8126
    @gregorysk8126 4 роки тому +649

    Lol best motivational advice I’ve ever received: “live your life in a way that makes traveling light years just to hangout with you, worth it”

    • @pascalfragnoud2846
      @pascalfragnoud2846 4 роки тому +12

      Yea that's my take away from this video

    • @Jam-zt4xe
      @Jam-zt4xe 3 роки тому +3

      I'm gonna right this on my study table board

    • @sundigest1121
      @sundigest1121 3 роки тому +22

      @@Jam-zt4xe make sure to spell it *right* though

  • @psibarpsi
    @psibarpsi 4 роки тому +434

    "So, what ar you waiting for? Live in a way that makes travelling light-years just to hang out with you worth it."
    One of the most motivating lines I've heard in my life.

  • @danielhuneke5862
    @danielhuneke5862 3 роки тому +227

    I love how DONG is is so obviously supposed to sound like a euphemism.

    • @yato-chann856
      @yato-chann856 3 роки тому +1

      If u say Dong on Minecraft it will censor it XD (first Comment)

    • @cursedmailman3999
      @cursedmailman3999 3 роки тому +1

      Pretty sure it's D!NG

    • @ArchangelExile
      @ArchangelExile 2 роки тому +9

      @@cursedmailman3999 It was originally DONG. It was later changed to D!NG.

    • @cursedmailman3999
      @cursedmailman3999 2 роки тому

      @@ArchangelExile that's the joke

  • @fuzzzbuzzz4208
    @fuzzzbuzzz4208 5 років тому +654

    8:55 that is an image I never thought I’d see

  • @user-ew5vj1sl1u
    @user-ew5vj1sl1u 4 роки тому +657

    *Michel - 1104 years, not in our lifetime*
    *Me - but can't we increase our lifetime*
    *Michael - Or can we?*

    • @anshdeo
      @anshdeo 4 роки тому +27

      *vsauce music starts*

    • @jamesfry552
      @jamesfry552 4 роки тому +32

      i wish when we die we get into spectator mode

    • @user-ew5vj1sl1u
      @user-ew5vj1sl1u 4 роки тому +3

      @@jamesfry552 same wish

    • @QPUNeptune
      @QPUNeptune 4 роки тому +9

      @@jamesfry552 that's just a ghost

    • @marvelismarvelous8987
      @marvelismarvelous8987 4 роки тому +2

      @@jamesfry552 shit you never know maybe it does happen and you figured it out you never know because no one actually knows what happens after death.

  • @soulchorea
    @soulchorea 9 років тому +2140

    1,104 years? Ok I'll be there

    • @awesometico
      @awesometico 9 років тому +212

      Nigga we made it

    • @soulchorea
      @soulchorea 9 років тому +44

      Lol!!

    • @grantcamacho2668
      @grantcamacho2668 9 років тому +37

      Bout a week ago

    • @fazeblue9933
      @fazeblue9933 9 років тому +37

      Grant Camacho you ruined it

    • @grantcamacho2668
      @grantcamacho2668 9 років тому +14

      Farid Ahmed At the time it was "week ago". So referring to a song or not stfu you Allah Akbar gamerbitch.

  • @NicleT
    @NicleT 3 роки тому +54

    Eight years later I still find this video mind-blowing! Thank you Michael.

  • @ManbearSWAT
    @ManbearSWAT 8 років тому +5214

    we were born too early to explore the universe
    we were born too late to explore the earth
    we were born just in time to explore the dankest dank memes

    • @patriks9785
      @patriks9785 8 років тому +39

      +Manbear SWAT The truth has been spoken!! Who needs space traveling if you can go full danker ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    • @ManbearSWAT
      @ManbearSWAT 8 років тому +2

      Annabelle Alpar it's a pun

    • @theskullraider5058
      @theskullraider5058 8 років тому +2

      Bless up

    • @Idkwhoiamdawg
      @Idkwhoiamdawg 7 років тому +2

      Manbear SWAT Nice job searching "Dank meme" on the internet and taking that.

    • @AllanElMelon1043
      @AllanElMelon1043 7 років тому +1

      AAAAHHH hell yeah

  • @Fox1-p1o
    @Fox1-p1o 8 років тому +939

    This is the type of shit that makes me pissed off to know that I won't be alive when/if we discover aliens.

    • @grantdagoat3750
      @grantdagoat3750 8 років тому +4

      Fox 1 same

    • @fluffyunicorn3907
      @fluffyunicorn3907 8 років тому +25

      oh we could see aliens very soon when they come to kill us

    • @nickarry
      @nickarry 8 років тому +23

      just as our great grandparents would be pissed to learn what they miss out on. all the cool stuff our modern tech can do for us.

    • @moes1275
      @moes1275 8 років тому +7

      Fox 1 We might be able to, you never know.Freeze you're body its the best shot you have to come back in the future.We will probably be able to live to 200 years of life and then when you're nearly 200 you will be able to live to 1000 and that could be going on long enough for us to become immortal. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT COULD HAPPEN.

    • @nickarry
      @nickarry 8 років тому +2

      *****
      proof? not ideas or evidence or opinions or bias, proof. where is your proof? i'm not saying they aren't among us. but i'm not going to believe anything like that unless i have proof since it's such a wild claim.

  • @DelayedCoder
    @DelayedCoder 4 роки тому +156

    Just watched this again after years and the nostalgia is both depressing and touching

  • @er.esakkim8781
    @er.esakkim8781 2 роки тому +16

    I have nostalgic memory of watching this video today. It was around 2014! When I was in College, the curios me watched this piece of Infotainment and was baffled with the same. Today it is past mid 2022 and almost 8 years since I last watched. Those old memories crept coming up now.

  • @sisyphus349
    @sisyphus349 8 років тому +4006

    This is why I am afraid to die. Not because of the pain. Because I'll miss out on everything. Possible Interstellar travel and meeting aliens. How the history of our civilizations will be. Fuckin' sucks mate.

    • @vaibhavsinha7291
      @vaibhavsinha7291 8 років тому +139

      I agree but I think we still have a lot to look forward to.

    • @Vorexia
      @Vorexia 8 років тому +236

      I understand you. We will be more intelligent, more healthy, and we would advance at a rate ten times more shocking than the rate electricity gave us. But that comes at a cost. Our culture. What we have constructed in our existance will be replaced, one by one, building by building, language by language, by a more efficient, futuristic, and beautiful one. By a non-human one. Piece by piece, the human cultures would fade away. If an alien would ask us today "What have you achieved as a species, without the help of any other?" We could be talking for hours about incredible things that we have made by ourselves, while two thousand years later, we would be silent or refer only to the distant past. Which would be like talking about Rome or Ancient Egypt. Fascinating, but ancient and outdated. I am not saying that the sacrifice of our culture is not worth it, because it really, REALLY is worth it. Just saying that we have a larger opportunity to enjoy our own culture than our distant children will.

    • @shudini985
      @shudini985 8 років тому +86

      We all are really not grateful of what we have now. If you were to be born in the 15th century so what will you do.

    • @Vorexia
      @Vorexia 8 років тому +29

      +Ringuin None claimed that this is going to happen. We're discussing if it happens. IF. A "what if" scenario, you know?

    • @Awesomistics
      @Awesomistics 8 років тому +46

      Well.. If you're born into a world where everything has been "perfected" there would be nothing new.. It would suck to be born in that generation

  • @loddyda
    @loddyda 5 років тому +2777

    Nobody:
    VSAUCE: We’re gonna need a ‘DONG’

    • @robincharles3326
      @robincharles3326 5 років тому +50

      V S A U C E P E N I S

    • @ariestheram5693
      @ariestheram5693 5 років тому +47

      V S A U C E P E N I S
      V S A U C E P E N I S

    • @richtigmann1
      @richtigmann1 5 років тому +15

      we need a do online now guys?

    • @zacplayzgamer6328
      @zacplayzgamer6328 5 років тому +12

      Ive only heard of -Dong- Demonized

    • @reiendowo
      @reiendowo 5 років тому +7

      @@yesno1498 the name this section has always gone by

  • @shubbbb
    @shubbbb 7 років тому +677

    Am I the only one who checks the title of every vsauce video at the end just to make sure what it started with

    • @nicholasfernandez7720
      @nicholasfernandez7720 7 років тому +14

      no, you are not alone. we must band together my brother to bring this problem to... *the surface* (picks up and starts surface pro laptop)

    • @LazyLazu
      @LazyLazu 6 років тому +1

      Sam Cubes lmao

    • @nishilbright2007
      @nishilbright2007 6 років тому

      😂 😂 😂 You're good

  • @amehak1922
    @amehak1922 8 місяців тому +59

    A reporter once said that humans will not achieve flight for another million years. The Wright brothers' Kitty Hawk flight happened and succeeded a few months later.

    • @Sinistralitee
      @Sinistralitee 7 місяців тому +3

      he literally made a video about this

    • @mtb416
      @mtb416 6 місяців тому +5

      Yeah, this ain’t that, buddy. We are never going to visit a system outside our own.

    • @amehak1922
      @amehak1922 6 місяців тому +6

      @@mtb416 no one currently alive, no, we won't, someone eventually will.

    • @kiiturii
      @kiiturii 6 місяців тому +7

      that reporter wasn't very smart is the difference

    • @Prometheus7272
      @Prometheus7272 5 місяців тому +3

      This is quite different

  • @nathan44u
    @nathan44u 5 років тому +1531

    1:08 dong
    8:55 *D O N G*

  • @pewpew2897
    @pewpew2897 4 роки тому +376

    Teacher: Your homework is piece of cake
    Me: Piece of difficult cake.

  • @themasqueradingcow91
    @themasqueradingcow91 6 років тому +222

    Ohh VSauce.
    We miss these videos. We miss little nuggets of wisdom and philosophical musings.
    We miss your witty anecdotes.
    Please come back to us!

    • @frogdeity
      @frogdeity 5 років тому +4

      Fuck off soyboy

    • @ttnorekq3b432VB4l
      @ttnorekq3b432VB4l 5 років тому +1

      check the dong channel lmao

    • @josef6057
      @josef6057 5 років тому +1

      Shelter Blyat the dong channel doesn’t have the same feel

    • @ttnorekq3b432VB4l
      @ttnorekq3b432VB4l 5 років тому +1

      @@josef6057 well too bad, thats where he uploads and none of you can change that
      EDIT: he appears to have changed it himself by uploading

    • @josef6057
      @josef6057 5 років тому +1

      Shelter Blyat he means the videos don’t feel the same, but I understand that constantly doing the same style every video gets stale overtime so I don’t blame him, but that doesn’t mean I can’t be annoyed

  • @jackbenson3011
    @jackbenson3011 Рік тому +126

    Anyone else think about the fact that you could be looking up at a star in the night sky and in that solar system their could be an intelligent being there looking back at one of your ancestors without ever knowing it

  • @horrorAk
    @horrorAk 4 роки тому +1523

    Or may be aliens also.tryimg to figure out how to travel light speed

    • @gamingtime468
      @gamingtime468 4 роки тому +105

      Or they are copying our methods, using Facebook whilst blending into society

    • @nope929
      @nope929 3 роки тому +29

      The second biggest problem in traveling light speed is accelerating without killing the passengers, the first is obviously we have no clue how to get so fast.

    • @brad1552
      @brad1552 3 роки тому +7

      that could be true but that would imply life started on their planet the same time it started on ours which is highly improbable. it's more likely if aliens exist they've existed longer than us and therefore are more technologically advanced

    • @horrorAk
      @horrorAk 3 роки тому +5

      @@brad1552 ya some what true but theres butterfly effect which can make their events slow or fast.

    • @rustyshackelford4613
      @rustyshackelford4613 3 роки тому +11

      I'm an alien, you guys just aren't worth visiting

  • @m-man201
    @m-man201 7 років тому +338

    hey guys 1,100 years left!!! are you as hyped as i am?????

    • @raksospielt
      @raksospielt 7 років тому +6

      MaroonCacti a non manned mission to proxima centauri is already planned

    • @brk932
      @brk932 7 років тому +2

      in 2069? NASA engineers can't plan what they will eat for breakfast in 40 days. But in 40 years time. Sure? Why not?. NASA might not exist by then. Those same engineers will be ancient sclerotic farts or dead. I would rather believe in Maria's words about the immaculate conception than that we will reach a star. At least, we know Jeebus came out of a vagina.

    • @hiok2050
      @hiok2050 7 років тому +1

      MaroonCacti almost 1,099

    • @sweetsilence5642
      @sweetsilence5642 7 років тому

      we all know that this number is incredibly stupid right?

    • @winterweib
      @winterweib 7 років тому

      Ivan darling, you sound so so greedy and pissed, honey, I feel with you. Oh, those bad rocket scientists! Did they not ask you?
      I have a second shock for you: Indeed do they know exactly the day when in forty years they will start to fly to Mars or whatever. It is not easy to tell a complete moron like you; you of course never heard about stuff like LaGrange-points, etc, but: you cannot go into your rocket and just fly. You need every planet on the exactly place, and you now, if you saw more than three years your school from inside, when this day will be. Simple mathematics. I fear you have to live with that fact.

  • @GreasyKing
    @GreasyKing 8 років тому +448

    Carl Sagan suggested that, due to the immense universe, intelligent beings as civilizations could come and go, at different time periods, perhaps for thousands of years, yet each either becoming extinct before encountering another. He used a Christmas tree with lights, showing that by the time intelligent beings from one 'light' would reach another, it's light would be burnt/out. It would take a great cosmic coincidence that two would meet, but that if they did, it would be two AI robotic units making the encounter.

    • @puffdaddy69
      @puffdaddy69 7 років тому +11

      Condor Umm I think we should send Watson

    • @cmdr.shepard
      @cmdr.shepard 7 років тому +18

      It is presumptuous to assume *each and every single* civilization would extinct before they meet. There is no guidebook to lifespan of a planetary civilization. Human civilization have existed for a few thousand years now, the only thing we take example from is our destructive nature. But even us haven't gone extinct yet. And there is great chance for us to exist for millions of years more. Even under the worst case scenario. Sure, we don't know if other intelligent beings will be more or less violent than us, but even if they were just the same as us, they would still have the same great chance. So there is no base for to assume a civilization would only exist for a very brief time period.
      There could be other dangers than self extinction, but there is scientific evidence that natural disasters, whether planetary or from space, can take very, very long time to repeat, enough time to allow a civilization to spread to other planets.
      Just like the PBS Space Time channel host, I reject to believe the Fermi Paradox. There are only a few logical explanations to the reason we haven't met any other civilization. 1- "Intelligent" life is rarer than our thought (we're the only intelligent race we know of) 2- Space travel is harder than our guess and there is no way to work around the speed of light - things like wormholes don't exist.

    • @ifrazali3052
      @ifrazali3052 7 років тому

      Greasy King nonsense

    • @EmmyOnYoutube
      @EmmyOnYoutube 7 років тому +3

      I think we can easily achieve that by becoming immortal ourselves, yes it'll take quite a while but we can simply become androids with our consciousness in our processors and our body made of strong durable materials, if we achieve that, if we become AI or part-cyborg part-human, us the human race can very well meet someone else who either did the same, or another machine race altogether.

    • @Kelly101Girl
      @Kelly101Girl 7 років тому

      Condor might as well add our little Bixby to the group as well now lol

  • @pfunk_1535
    @pfunk_1535 2 роки тому +38

    "So what are you waiting for? Live your life in such a way that makes traveling across the galaxy to hang out with you... worth it!"
    *And thus, depression was cured*

  • @LASAGNA_LARRY
    @LASAGNA_LARRY 8 років тому +1805

    Vsauce thought process:
    "It sure is cloudy today..."
    "Am I real? Are you real? What if we could travel at the speed of light? Are we alone in space?"

    • @theunknownblock5942
      @theunknownblock5942 8 років тому +86

      "is that cloud's experience of consciousness the same as my experience of consciousness?"

    • @someguy9227
      @someguy9227 8 років тому +52

      Arguably, those clouds can cause a black hole.

    • @TheNrp8598
      @TheNrp8598 8 років тому +38

      Vsauce, michael here and it sure is cloudy today, but what is a cloud, and how big is today

    • @rulefamilytube
      @rulefamilytube 8 років тому +52

      ::Looks at stars::
      Vsauce: "They are so amazing and huge. Has it died yet and we just don't know yet and the light that left its surface long ago has only just reached us? Have I died yet? Why is it called the internet? What is it in? It's not in a net right?"
      ::Goes inside::
      Vsauce: "Honey I'm back."
      Vsauce Wife: "Alright I made dinner."
      Vasuce: "Cool, what is it?"
      Vsauce Wife: "Pasta."
      Vsauce: "You boiled water to make it, right?
      Vsauce Wife: "Yeah.. Wh-"
      Vsauce: "Why does water boil? Where id water come from? Did the ice, gas, or water come first? Why is it called water anyways? Why do we need to drink water? Why can't we just drink through our skin like frogs? Why can-"
      Vsauce Wife: "I think we need to get you to a therapist...."

    • @Pr3tti
      @Pr3tti 8 років тому +2

      omg this is great xDXD

  • @Killbayne
    @Killbayne 5 років тому +863

    8:55 WHY, ANIMATOR, WHY...

  • @luketien928
    @luketien928 6 років тому +32

    “Live your life in a way that makes traveling light years just to hang out with you... worth it.” That’s an awesome thought! I think I’ll be remembering that for the rest of my life.

    • @debonairrose
      @debonairrose 5 років тому +1

      i was looking for that comment

  • @sgx9874
    @sgx9874 3 роки тому +10

    12:20 "So what are you waiting for, live your life in a way that makes travelling lightyears just to hang out with you, worth it."

  • @smeliot2862
    @smeliot2862 6 років тому +292

    "maybe we arent worth visiting"
    me: ahh, intersteller north dakota

    • @medexamtoolscom
      @medexamtoolscom 6 років тому +4

      North dakota isn't so bad, it's Nebraska that's horrible. Trust me, I know, I've been across the country.

    • @MrMetalhorse
      @MrMetalhorse 6 років тому

      @@medexamtoolscom I can confirm.
      I live in Omaha.
      Boring Af

    • @duckietheduck
      @duckietheduck 6 років тому +5

      north dakota is the canada of america

    • @thenuclearflow3625
      @thenuclearflow3625 6 років тому

      I’m from ND and uh yep

    • @dampcarpet2607
      @dampcarpet2607 6 років тому

      medexamtoolsdotcom North Dakota is the worst South Dakota is where it’s at

  • @micahphilson
    @micahphilson 6 років тому +2747

    8:55 Ah, old youtube and the things you could get away with back then!
    *_DEMONETIZED!_*

    • @br45entei
      @br45entei 6 років тому +81

      Hilarious, considering what UA-cam started out as... web.archive.org/web/20050428014715/www.youtube.com:80/

    • @thatsouris
      @thatsouris 6 років тому +54

      That’s hot

    • @ashh472
      @ashh472 6 років тому +10

      Brian Entei what is this

    • @stealth3002
      @stealth3002 6 років тому +28

      Ash ish it's what youtube looked like in 2005

    • @sunilnarine6313
      @sunilnarine6313 6 років тому +5

      user name and password?

  • @wkblauwster
    @wkblauwster 10 років тому +45

    “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
    ― Arthur C. Clarke

    • @dannyhelser5824
      @dannyhelser5824 10 років тому +1

      Very true wkblauwster, i actually always think about that, but I don't see how we could be the only planet in the entire universe with living organisms, that would be a bit ridiculous. I think that there are living beings in forms so foreign to us, that we pass over them without giving it a thought. Like, maybe there are living planets.

    • @AlpacasForAva
      @AlpacasForAva 10 років тому

      Danny Helser What happens if humanity dies before we find out? That is even more terrifying.

    • @Gamer8734
      @Gamer8734 10 років тому +1

      demon mutant ninja zombie What if there WAS life on another planet, but it was wiped out by some cataclysmic extinction event on their planet? Or they figured out we were here, and died trying to get to us? I am a strong believer that we are not alone in this universe. The chance of habitable conditions for life as we know it is incredibly slim, but divided by the estimated amount of planets in the known universe, there IS life on other planets. But maybe we will never come into contact with them. Maybe when we do come into contact with them, it will just be a few surviving colonists long after earth, and the rest of the human race, has been wiped out.

    • @AlpacasForAva
      @AlpacasForAva 10 років тому +2

      Daniel Jenkins The "what ifs" seem to never leave the human mind. Its what makes us unique.

  • @keikei3301
    @keikei3301 8 місяців тому +3

    I miss this channel so much 😢WOW, over a decade ago and you wouldn’t even know it! His videos stand the test of time. High production, his unique cadence, the rhythm and flow, and how the videos are made/produced and let’s not forget the interesting subjects. He was one of the first channels to do these type of videos successfully and the others modeled themselves after him and not much has changed since. He mastered the formula and other channels have been copying him since. He was one of the first to start this thirst for knowledge niche on YT and to be so successful at it.

  • @timdiersing881
    @timdiersing881 7 років тому +755

    Well. That’s not the kind of dong I’m used to seeing on this channel.

  • @weddingtable3501
    @weddingtable3501 5 років тому +561

    8:56
    Please forgive me god for what I'm about to do.

    • @gullible1137
      @gullible1137 4 роки тому +62

      No dont

    • @gullible1137
      @gullible1137 4 роки тому +11

      A-Voq you got the reference congratulations 🍾

    • @SirMr10
      @SirMr10 4 роки тому +65

      Keep your sauce in

    • @orions2908
      @orions2908 4 роки тому +21

      Don't do it, it's not worth it.

    • @vishalkanojiya3002
      @vishalkanojiya3002 4 роки тому +8

      @@orions2908 Lol...i think u have done it

  • @kariuki6644
    @kariuki6644 8 років тому +3070

    plottwist: the asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs WAS a spaceship that crashed

    • @brendan4425
      @brendan4425 8 років тому +360

      Even more plot twist, a caveman was flying it so that humans could rule

    • @kilderok
      @kilderok 8 років тому +78

      Battlestar Galactica...

    • @theowl2326
      @theowl2326 8 років тому +110

      yes a 6 mile spaceship
      good work man

    • @2001ivar2001
      @2001ivar2001 8 років тому +47

      +do not subscribe do not why not? If all of earths inhabitants worked together to build it it would be easy.

    • @theowl2326
      @theowl2326 8 років тому +2

      +paul wiley really, over a mile!?

  • @quinton1630
    @quinton1630 3 роки тому +15

    I just downloaded A Slower Speed of Light and dang, that’s neat. What no one talks about is the field of view behind your ship and how things you’re travelling away from appear to be right behind you.

  • @garlicboi1916
    @garlicboi1916 7 років тому +443

    8:55 top 10 hottest anime characters

    • @MoonGables
      @MoonGables 6 років тому +13

      more like, top ten anime deaths

  • @donthaha3965
    @donthaha3965 5 років тому +51

    I like watching space videos because it really gets me down to earth, we aren’t as important as we think, my life is not even a point in time, my problems seem so small when I realize how much we still don’t know about life therefore I feel hopeful to try to still be alive just to know what else happens

  • @brendan4425
    @brendan4425 8 років тому +223

    It makes me sad that I won't live to see all this cool things. All we can do is talk about it and set it up

    • @TigerSt
      @TigerSt 8 років тому

      just think about it, ummm we can explore vsauce

    • @xELITExKILLAx
      @xELITExKILLAx 8 років тому +2

      While it would be cool to see it all, it is our job to work and put the foundation down for our future generations to complete our work. If we don't start trying then the future generations won't be able to explore outside of Earth

    • @oldironsfury
      @oldironsfury 8 років тому

      Not necessarily. Artificial intelligence "if" invented could bring these things sooner. Always hope for the best. We may have a chance to see some of these thing ! Take care

    • @RobbeYT
      @RobbeYT 8 років тому +1

      I think if we all wouldnt think like this, and start working for theese cool things, we might travel to other star after 50 years already. But that would mean, we all have to work hard.

    • @dafreshest420
      @dafreshest420 8 років тому

      I think we've been dumbed down for that reason, we are as smart as we are going to get, we know of a warp drive that is scientifically possible we just dont know how to harness the energy which is only being held back by our stupid government.

  • @sakress
    @sakress 3 роки тому +17

    This makes me consider the possibility that perhaps instead of being alone or not worth visiting, that maybe instead we are the first to reach this level of technology, even if that is unlikely given the age and size of the observable universe.

    • @kiiturii
      @kiiturii 6 місяців тому

      maybe it's not even that old, that's just our perspective
      To us "1 year" is a long time, but all that is is a measurement of how long it takes earth to go around the sun. Aka it's a completely irrelevant outside of measuring our time in a way that makes sense to us

  • @someoneelse3456
    @someoneelse3456 7 років тому +203

    8:52 Man u just traumatised me

    • @js-yall
      @js-yall 6 років тому +15

      Jonathan Ashenafi I'll send flowers

    • @joachimb5721
      @joachimb5721 6 місяців тому

      „I‘m afraid of penisses“

    • @SCAeditz
      @SCAeditz 5 місяців тому

      ​@@js-yallRemember.

    • @iaPika
      @iaPika 5 місяців тому

      @@js-yall better have sent flowers

  • @hugo511
    @hugo511 6 років тому +489

    Keemstar can run faster than light

  • @bestfriend5516
    @bestfriend5516 8 років тому +455

    ... or maybe they don't have the technology either to come and visit us

    • @KingMasterKing
      @KingMasterKing 8 років тому +40

      That's always what I thought. Like in alien films or games, if we don't have the equipment to visit other planets why would they?

    • @KingMasterKing
      @KingMasterKing 8 років тому +31

      Or some might not have any tech at all

    • @spectraclasher1034
      @spectraclasher1034 8 років тому

      Best Friend a

    • @addiappealingair5718
      @addiappealingair5718 8 років тому +12

      Or maybe just microorganisms

    • @charli4686
      @charli4686 8 років тому +61

      The paradox is that, if the universe is as old as we think it is, and infinitely large as we think it is, probability determines that there IS life out there on a similar technological level as us, but there also SHOULD exist life eons more advanced. Given the age of the universe and the possible age of life within it, interstellar travel should be happening already if it is possible, and so raises the question of why we haven't been visited.
      So, it's most-likely impossible, or so nearly impossible that it's incredibly rare, or so nearly impossible that life usually goes extinct before ever effectively achieving it.

  • @tariffictypist7372
    @tariffictypist7372 Місяць тому +14

    8:57 demonetization

  • @timofejSE
    @timofejSE 5 років тому +128

    4:30 1098 years left until we come to Bernard Star.

    • @BlindFuryPR
      @BlindFuryPR 5 років тому +15

      1091 years actually, the report itself was made in 2006.

    • @ricochet4674
      @ricochet4674 5 років тому +5

      BlindFuryPR well that is so much better

    • @t-rex9809
      @t-rex9809 5 років тому

      It will become in 200-300 years no doubt.

    • @abcdefg2591
      @abcdefg2591 5 років тому +2

      We’re gonna get there quicker

    • @verbaast6735
      @verbaast6735 4 роки тому +1

      Technology is going to develop so fucking fast in the next 10-20 years so it could be maybe already 100-300 yeas

  • @alexandermathis2955
    @alexandermathis2955 9 років тому +396

    Or maybe everything the aliens see are dinosaurs, because these aliens are too far away for the light, we reflected, to travel to them

    • @RhysCPFC
      @RhysCPFC 9 років тому +14

      only a few far far away galaxies would see that

    • @alexandermathis2955
      @alexandermathis2955 9 років тому +38

      +RB_CPFC dinosaurs lived 60 million years ago, right? So every galaxy 60 million light years away would see the dinosaurs on our planet...

    • @RhysCPFC
      @RhysCPFC 9 років тому +5

      +Alexander Mathis yh that's what I'm saying

    • @romerobryan83
      @romerobryan83 9 років тому +52

      +RB_CPFC imagine the telescope they would need for that

    • @RhysCPFC
      @RhysCPFC 9 років тому +15

      romerobryan83 lol ikr would need to be light years across

  • @fredricksonthe96th
    @fredricksonthe96th 6 років тому +140

    Well... As you were saying in your video "our narrow slice", in the year 1903 the New York Times were speculating humanity to be able to build a flying vehicle within 1-10 million years of time. And yet the Wright brothers managed to do just that within the same year. Also one of them apparently said that flying from New York to Paris would never be possible. So, taking our way of thinking in that past into consideration, what's to say we aren't doing the same mistake in estimating our capability of interstellar space travel in the future right now? In the last few hundred years human technology and ingenuity has improved exponentially. So I honestly wouldn't put it past us to get there within the next few hundred years.

    • @badbeardbill9956
      @badbeardbill9956 6 років тому +5

      We could definitely launch a crewed vehicle by the end of the century. But we'd be limited to a few percent of lightspeed, which would make the journey decades or centuries long, and a return trip impractical, if not impossible. We would also need to use nukes.
      Eventually we may develop photonic laser thrusters to the point where we can travel at functional lightspeed: c/sqrt(2). This a speed where time dilation would result in the proper time of the journey to be equivalent to the amount of time a photon would take in an external frame. Essentially, you would measure your speed as lightspeed, using your time measurements and an external frame's space measurements.

    • @thedeadlinger6992
      @thedeadlinger6992 6 років тому

      Use nukes for what? Just like Project Orion? Why would you want to use that shitty project anyways...

    • @devanshrathore9112
      @devanshrathore9112 6 років тому +9

      Well, in 1985, back to the future predicted we'd have hoverboards and time machines in 2015. Didn't exactly happen, did it?

    • @joshbobst1629
      @joshbobst1629 6 років тому

      Why is it shitty, because it uses fission bombs for propulsion? Can you think of a better use for them? Granted, it's a hazard to life on Earth while it's being constructed, but once it's left our orbit, we're in no danger from it, and the amount of nuclear waste it generates is infinitesimal compared to the volume of space in our solar system. I think the risk would be worth it.

    • @goldfinger1528
      @goldfinger1528 5 років тому

      @pjd412 good pointer. while comparing we need to discern between "reasonably probable though not practically" from "not reasonably probable in the first place".

  • @JustRooster
    @JustRooster 3 роки тому +7

    There's also the possibility that other intelligent life on other planets might have arisen millions of years before earth formed and have went extinct, thus they don't visit us now.
    I heard this in your human extinction video and I thought it would be cool to bring this up.

  • @focusstudios1296
    @focusstudios1296 4 роки тому +224

    My parents asking me when I’m going to move out:
    3:48

  • @lefromhell8475
    @lefromhell8475 9 років тому +442

    In the future they will say:what the fuck thats so easy and pay 20$ to travel to mars

    • @thetripleatom9438
      @thetripleatom9438 9 років тому +57

      $20*

    • @HDvideoedit
      @HDvideoedit 9 років тому +2

      +The Triple Atom thank you

    • @timtovey7265
      @timtovey7265 9 років тому +27

      +Le Fromhell
      Thank you for travelling with Easymartian. Have a great day.

    • @quarkyquasar893
      @quarkyquasar893 9 років тому

      +Andhy Comptis Why? You want to kill him or stop the paradox coming to ruin your life ?

    • @HowtoChangetheWorldRN
      @HowtoChangetheWorldRN 9 років тому

      +Le Fromhell in the future money will no longer exist

  • @RealBillyCheese
    @RealBillyCheese 5 років тому +153

    Somebody help I watched 3 vsauce videos and now my entire recommendation feed is vsauce

    • @LocalHooligan
      @LocalHooligan 4 роки тому +23

      You're learning, stalin. Treat Michael well and learn how the universe works

    • @kyleperlman
      @kyleperlman 4 роки тому +31

      I think you mean OUR recommendation feed, comrade Stalin.

    • @ameyas7726
      @ameyas7726 4 роки тому +4

      Send him to the gulags...problem solved!

    • @disboi4692
      @disboi4692 4 роки тому +2

      I think u mean our recommendation feed

    • @cjkcallum4459
      @cjkcallum4459 4 роки тому +2

      Listen to vsauce embrace vsauce

  • @2332Stephen
    @2332Stephen 3 роки тому +6

    Can you imagine having a guy like this as your high school teacher kids wouldn't want to leave class

  • @thedeadlinger6992
    @thedeadlinger6992 6 років тому +159

    Micheal said that in 1104 years we'll be able to visit other stars... Welp, that's 1099 years to go!

  • @NaudVanDalen
    @NaudVanDalen 6 років тому +176

    Beginning: Will We Ever Visit Other Stars?
    End: Do Aliens exist?

    • @vanxhdeep
      @vanxhdeep 5 років тому +3

      Well typicall of him

  • @sijbrandloot2340
    @sijbrandloot2340 4 роки тому +84

    No matter when you watched this video, how many times you have watched it, or even any other Vsauce video, it will always be worth it

  • @adirice4636
    @adirice4636 Рік тому +4

    10 years passed since the video was released, we still have 1094 years to get to that star

  • @derekdelboytrotter8881
    @derekdelboytrotter8881 7 років тому +151

    "Life doesn't exist anywhere but earth? That's like filling a cup with ocean water and saying there aren't any whales in the ocean." Neil deGrasse Tyson

    • @PRubin-rh4sr
      @PRubin-rh4sr 7 років тому +3

      Yeah except we actually know there are whales.

    • @onecommonname
      @onecommonname 7 років тому +6

      He's a fraud mate

    • @typoded
      @typoded 7 років тому +1

      point
      your head

    • @JustRooster
      @JustRooster 3 роки тому

      Earth fills the cup, the ocean is the vast universe, the whales are extraterrestrial life.

  • @RandomGuy-km6mn
    @RandomGuy-km6mn 9 років тому +314

    Mmmmm... Michael Jerky.
    Tastes like Science.

    • @TheTofy99
      @TheTofy99 9 років тому +1

      Nice!

    • @svetlanabudnikovaofficial
      @svetlanabudnikovaofficial 9 років тому

      +Pearson7951
      Bleh!

    • @dCa991
      @dCa991 8 років тому +24

      +Pearson7951 It tastes really good with some VSauce

    • @drlaing699
      @drlaing699 8 років тому

      MP?

    • @sleepysnailsnack
      @sleepysnailsnack 8 років тому

      +Matt Merry As long as it's not porn and it is used for educational purposes, it is okay.

  • @pete1679
    @pete1679 9 років тому +305

    In 1903 the new York times said it would take 1-10 million years before man could make a machine that Flys , 10 or so years later the wright brothers flew a plane this proves that anything is possible someone could make something in 10 years that makes us travel at the speed of light it could be me or you.

    • @D1scNStuff
      @D1scNStuff 9 років тому +45

      Sajid Sheik Without bending spacetime, yes.

    • @gamingcon16steamgamesandmore
      @gamingcon16steamgamesandmore 9 років тому +66

      Sajid Sheik In space no one can here your pessimism though

    • @sebastianlock7150
      @sebastianlock7150 9 років тому +5

      Nerdology INC Light speed is impossible with conventional propulsion. The Theory of Relativity states this well, as an infinite amount of energy is required to allow anything with mass to travel the speed of light.

    • @gamingcon16steamgamesandmore
      @gamingcon16steamgamesandmore 9 років тому

      Sebastian Lock en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive

    • @sebastianlock7150
      @sebastianlock7150 9 років тому +2

      Nerdology INC As I said, conventional propulsion.

  • @Terminatortravis
    @Terminatortravis 3 роки тому +8

    10:45 after micheal turned into jerky in the cold vacuum of space , he eventually stopped thinking

    • @sayu_sama
      @sayu_sama Рік тому

      HOLY FUCKING SHIT‼️‼️‼️‼️!1!1!1!1! IS THA A MOTHERFUCKING JOJO REFERENCE????!?!?!1!1;1?

  • @jsweizston5410
    @jsweizston5410 8 років тому +32

    In case anyone is wondering, the Voyager 1 reached interstellar space just about 1-1/2 years after this video.

  • @scarhalo
    @scarhalo 8 років тому +194

    Why do I watch these things at night

  • @THEPELADOMASTER
    @THEPELADOMASTER 10 років тому +257

    We assume, for some reason, that aliens would be more technologically advanced than us, but the fact that we haven't been visited yet could indicate that aliens are as advanced as we are (or even less advanced) and haven't achieved interstellar travel yet.
    Who says aliens ARE smarter than us? Who says they're more advanced than we are?
    Maybe they were born as a species one million years ago, or maybe barely 15.000 years ago.
    Who knows.
    Maybe we wil be the first species to visit another intelligent life form.

    • @TCBYEAHCUZ
      @TCBYEAHCUZ 9 років тому +2

      Maby we will become the advanced intelligent civilisation who visits other civilisations without violating the prime directive.

    • @fandomguy8025
      @fandomguy8025 9 років тому +1

      TCBYEAHCUZ Unlikely with the Presumably Infinite Amount of Races all begin inning at different times thousands of Highly advanced FTL races must have and must be visiting us. #UFOSIGHTINGS

    • @TCBYEAHCUZ
      @TCBYEAHCUZ 9 років тому

      bowser jr Then they would be from higher dimensions, Not in our realm of existence, Because the probability of None of these advanced intelligent civilisations being caught by our observation is higher if thousands of different beings visited us.

    • @TCBYEAHCUZ
      @TCBYEAHCUZ 9 років тому

      bowser jr They wouldn't bend light to cloak themselves, because then it would be even easier to see the presence,They would look like the gravitational lensing, Instead I bet the aliens would just find a way to allow their armor to absorb light from behind it and emitt it perfectly towards the viewer, giving an illusion that nothing has been changed to the light, making the unit invisible, We can already do this with todays technology it is just very bulky.
      I understand that thousands upon thousands of UFO's, strange lights and such have been spotted, but look at where we are? No where, We haven't made ANY progress on these sightings, Any legitimate firm, Organisation and government still doesn't really invest or put some fucking effort into ratfying with scientific basis on any of these sightings.
      We're still in the dark and no one wants to fucking do anything about it. Pisses me off.

    • @TCBYEAHCUZ
      @TCBYEAHCUZ 9 років тому

      bowser jr I think you misunderstood, I didn't say it WAS Gravitational lensing, I just said that it they bended light around their ship it would look like gravitational lensing, Obviously it isn't.
      But yes I agree with you, I'd make more sense to cover up and keep people ignorant.
      There are too many conclusion jumpers who would preach it as the end days.

  • @Maxmaxmaxmaxmaxmaxmaxmaxxx
    @Maxmaxmaxmaxmaxmaxmaxmaxxx 2 місяці тому +3

    That animation was like going through a fever dream

  • @tylermustardloooser386
    @tylermustardloooser386 6 років тому +429

    I didn't know DONG was a thing in 2013

    • @NoyZbokZa
      @NoyZbokZa 5 років тому +7

      Oh Yeah Yeah

    • @fomocowboy
      @fomocowboy 5 років тому +12

      To me dong means the same thing in 2019 as it did in 1986....

    • @breastmilkgaming
      @breastmilkgaming 5 років тому +1

      @@fomocowboy ah Chernobyl survivor eh ?

    • @animationspace8550
      @animationspace8550 5 років тому +8

      What's DONG? There was never DONG! It was always D!NG!

    • @user-yn1gd7wn3w
      @user-yn1gd7wn3w 5 років тому +3

      I didn’t know my DONG was a thing until 2010

  • @mariovelez578
    @mariovelez578 8 років тому +612

    bruh, just use the Millennium Falcon

    • @muffincrumbss
      @muffincrumbss 8 років тому +2

      Good Point 👍

    • @SamsonBowl
      @SamsonBowl 8 років тому +1

      Keep dreaming Vsauce.... Keep dreaming.

    • @niknikbik
      @niknikbik 8 років тому +41

      junk? It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.

    • @Ya-df9xb
      @Ya-df9xb 8 років тому

      +Kerser Wun LOL

    • @arcraith
      @arcraith 8 років тому +11

      Assuming the hyperdrive is working

  • @ibrahimchishti6297
    @ibrahimchishti6297 5 місяців тому +1

    "Live your life in a way that makes travelling light-years just to hang out with you worth it" Cold quote

  • @randy95023
    @randy95023 7 років тому +736

    Suppose I build a ship that can reach 98% the Speed of Light and I take off for Alpha Centauri? Half way there my ship strikes a tiny piece of gravel and totally disintegrates. What should the next mission do differently? Sometimes incredulous amounts of Technology can run into the most simple obstacles...

    • @mikehughes6582
      @mikehughes6582 7 років тому +148

      If we ever travelled at 98 pct the speed of light, how and at what point would we need to slow down. If you slowed too quickly, you might not be able to withstand the g forces. Also, at that speed, would it be possible to make slight course corrections? And finally, if you couldn't see where you're going, how would you know if you were on course? Wow, way too many unanswered questions.

    • @jorgensenmj
      @jorgensenmj 7 років тому +104

      If your ship strikes a tiny piece of gravel and totally disintegrates I think the next mission should devise a better way to detect and avoid tiny pieces of gravel. Lasers to disintegrate tiny gravel before impact may work. Also the front end of a ship containing self sealing layers alternating between water and compressed gas can absorb most small impacts.

    • @randy95023
      @randy95023 7 років тому +76

      We might have to slow our velocity by a few milliseconds to allow for a laser's return time, but our technology will take a few thousand years to advance to this type of problem to be an issue. Any "craft" that can travel near light speed will have to overcome problems that aren't even in the realm of sci-fi at present time. Cool to think about nonetheless.

    • @RomanoUni
      @RomanoUni 7 років тому +133

      That happened to me on my skateboard.

    • @friendlyhoovy7354
      @friendlyhoovy7354 7 років тому +41

      no, that wouldn't be the obstacle, the obstacle would be that the ship would incinerate in seconds due to the tremendous amount of gamma rays hitting the ship + combined with the speed + combined with running into more gamma rays with the speed + relativity = well shit we're fucked

  • @oc_vatsal_1197
    @oc_vatsal_1197 4 роки тому +60

    From "will we travel interstellar" to "eat me, I'm a human jerky of 115,000 calories"
    I'm so glad I didn't sleep

  • @brookeconsole5719
    @brookeconsole5719 7 років тому +589

    Michael is 115,000 calories worth of snack

  • @JPizzle7409
    @JPizzle7409 2 роки тому +1

    Hands down my favorite UA-cam channel

  • @WLightTheme
    @WLightTheme 5 років тому +515

    Progress would probably speed up if NASA had the yearly budget of the US military.

    • @michaeldohndelara2240
      @michaeldohndelara2240 5 років тому +2

      Lol true that

    • @holeytrolley6094
      @holeytrolley6094 5 років тому +37

      Who would protect that progress?

    • @bh8671
      @bh8671 5 років тому +22

      Yes but more money doesn’t always mean more progress. The military already has massive amounts of waste.

    • @lotionman1507
      @lotionman1507 5 років тому +34

      the military only gets 16% of the budget. social security and medicare get 60%. lets cut those instead

    • @lotionman1507
      @lotionman1507 5 років тому +19

      @Shreerang Vaidya medicare isnt medicine its just welfare. its the least important thing we spend money on. its just taking money from tax payers and giving it to boomers who didnt save up for retirement, the military is way more important. its the reason the USA has so much global influence. nobody fucks with us and thats why. welfare is parasitism and we need to cut the leeches off

  • @CrazyVloggers22
    @CrazyVloggers22 10 років тому +336

    Seriously all this information and people still don't believe in ailens...

  • @charliekempf
    @charliekempf 8 років тому +3382

    Who else is reading this in 3107?

    • @AnimationPro
      @AnimationPro 8 років тому +11

      +Michael Fernandez nice grade a under a pic

    • @klartlompoktheorc5511
      @klartlompoktheorc5511 8 років тому +22

      Me5 My space vac is sucking me off5 and now in the future we use 5s as what you savages used to call the period or the decimal5 so my roboprofessor 6000 tells me here in my vault5

    • @darkweb417
      @darkweb417 8 років тому +11

      your grand grand........................................................grand children

    • @bbcGaMeR-bb5me
      @bbcGaMeR-bb5me 8 років тому +13

      Charlie Kempf i am reading this in 5006

    • @black_candles1212
      @black_candles1212 8 років тому +13

      no one because the current year is 2017

  • @vicrattlehead8665
    @vicrattlehead8665 2 місяці тому +1

    Vsauce is the only channel I can think of where I’ve gone back to videos over 10 years old to enjoy them again. Everything else I used to watch I grew out of. Except this. Speaking of which, how the hell did 10 year old me even know what was going on.

  • @kurosakiichigo7773
    @kurosakiichigo7773 6 років тому +140

    8:56 is the part you came here for

    • @medexamtoolscom
      @medexamtoolscom 6 років тому +11

      Comment section is the part I came for.

    • @zetanull9631
      @zetanull9631 5 років тому +7

      0:00 is the part I came for

    • @the_nowhereboy9052
      @the_nowhereboy9052 5 років тому +3

      This, my darling, Doesn’t work for a work for a Vsauce video.

    • @nathanb8264
      @nathanb8264 5 років тому

      oh i came alright

    • @nathanb8264
      @nathanb8264 5 років тому

      all over my keyboard

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 4 роки тому +156

    When experts say Vitamin D is good for the eyesight I thought they were kidding.
    8:55

  • @TheWorcestershire001
    @TheWorcestershire001 4 роки тому +118

    "1,104 years from today"
    We thought that the flying machine would be made in the next 10 million years, then it was invented later that year.
    The point is, we don't know how the future will unfold..

    • @IronicHavoc
      @IronicHavoc 4 роки тому +9

      Where are you citing that 10 million years figure from? Which flying machine are you referring to?
      Yes you are generally right that people will overestimate predictions. But people have also famously predicted stuff like nuclear fusion and fully humanlike AI to only be a decade or two away - only to half a century or more without achieving it. Michael basically summed it up: it's more a matter of it you're an optimist or a pessimist.
      And keep in mind, 1104 year was already consider an "optimistic" estimate. We could in speculate interstellar even sooner than a millenia, since we can't truly be sure. But you'd have very little concrete basis for such an estimate, and could just as easily speculate that it will take way longer than a millenia if you didn't decide to be optimistic with baseless speculation.
      And yes no one can say you're wrong necessarily, but it's also not really adding much to the conversation that the video didn't already cover.

    • @Flight_of_Icarus
      @Flight_of_Icarus 4 роки тому +6

      @@IronicHavoc This entire prediction is based on our current rate of technological improvement of speed extrapolated into the future. There's nothing saying that that rate won't speed up, or slow down, or that sudden massive jumps won't happen, or that they will.
      The real answer is that we just don't know how, when or if it will happen or not. This is just our best guess given what we know and see right now. Treating it as concrete isn't as sensible as you might think.
      The quote about a flying machine taking one to ten million years to develop was from the New York Times in October 1903, and it was based on the evolution of birds compared with the effort of engineers, it was mocking a failed attempt at a flying machine by Samuel Piermont Langley that same month, and assuring that his second try in December would fail as well. They were right of course, in that Langley's machines would fail both times, but they didn't predict the success of the Wright Brothers.
      Mentioning it is encouragement to be optimistic if nothing else, because not being so is pretty depressing.

    • @superknightlol
      @superknightlol 4 роки тому +6

      you realise there was bird at that time right? there different between flying through air or space, its much harder.
      we havent even fully explored our ocean, our planet yet you think we can make light speed aircraft in our lifetime? no

    • @belland_dog8235
      @belland_dog8235 3 роки тому

      @@superknightlol I could make the same argument about landing on the moon before 1969. Lol Our technological improvements are not dependent on how much of our ocean we've explored.

    • @superknightlol
      @superknightlol 3 роки тому +1

      @@belland_dog8235 we will never visit other star not that you will know it if it happen because you are dead.
      to travel at lightspeed you need to have no mass not to mention space debris even as small as sand grain can destroy spacecraft at such speed. there a reason they plan to launch 10000? space sail bcs lot of them will be destroyed and thats only 25% light speed.

  • @andrewpurser3587
    @andrewpurser3587 Рік тому +3

    Whenever i watch Videos like these, I imagine going back in time to show it to scientists back then and just thinking of their reactions

  • @cjsimmons6535
    @cjsimmons6535 8 років тому +62

    Vsauce: Destroying hope, and dreams since 2010. Jk.

    • @Tikvinka
      @Tikvinka 7 років тому

      Every joke has a bit of joke, y'know

  • @D1scNStuff
    @D1scNStuff 9 років тому +176

    You should make a "Is it possible to create a galaxy?"

    • @artex6930
      @artex6930 9 років тому +3

      It isent possible to do that

    • @D1scNStuff
      @D1scNStuff 9 років тому +21

      Neil Armstrong Explain.

    • @H4CK41D
      @H4CK41D 9 років тому

      D1sc He already talked about this in one of his videos but I'm sorry I can't remember which one :/ it's funny because I was just thinking of that vid when I came across this comment I wish I could remember cos it's a good one

    • @infinitecreations4702
      @infinitecreations4702 9 років тому +13

      D1sc ...nothing is impossible

    • @D1scNStuff
      @D1scNStuff 9 років тому

      Infinite Creations I never said anything was impossible.

  • @supa721
    @supa721 8 років тому +50

    Star? We can't even visit our own Sun.

  • @VTown1989
    @VTown1989 Рік тому +1

    What's so mind blowing is despite the distance between our solar system and the nearest STAR being unfathomably far (4.2 light years away).... We still have the distance between our galaxy, the Milky Way, and Andromeda (2.537 MILLION light years away) that dwarfs that already unfathomable distance. No words can properly convey these distances.
    All we can do is attribute TIME in the thousands to millions of years to give these distances some weight in our minds. It's just too (pick a descriptor you think is best) for us to meaningfully grasp.

  • @FL2070
    @FL2070 7 років тому +203

    Humans aren't the only intelligent life on the universe!
    Vsauce is.

    •  7 років тому +7

      You are right. Octopus are also very intelligent

    • @cralo2569
      @cralo2569 7 років тому

      He is going to build the first ship that can slip space.

    • @cralo2569
      @cralo2569 7 років тому

      He is going to build The Pillar of Autumn.

    • @slamminl.ickmaballs5347
      @slamminl.ickmaballs5347 7 років тому

      Is vsauce, or are vsauce

    • @redacted2359
      @redacted2359 7 років тому

      FL2070 but what is life
      *music starts*