It's me, the author again! Thanks so much for covering my book, and I'm glad channels like yours are here to show just how awesome spec bio can be! Keep being awesome and may you always have favor!
I said it already in the first video on this book, but just… wow. The art in this is simply awe-inspiring and so utterly brimming with imagination and wonder. This whole project is just incredible.
@@oimeuchapa6995 it’s not grim or dark though. The art style is more vibrant and colorful with slightly deeper shadows. Personally I feel it has a more sunset like feel to it than it does a grim one.
I like the detail where the astronauts are still wearing protective suits, even though they're on the yaetuan planet which has a breathable atmosphere. I think this makes sense, because it could be that the atmosphere is different from Earth's atmosphere and humans don't have the adaptations to breathe there, unlike the yaetuan who have evolved on their planet. Most science fiction depicts humans being able to breathe smoothly on other planets that have atmospheres, even if the human is the first time to an alien planet they can breathe smoothly without any disturbance.
@@magnarcreed3801 My area used to be very severely polluted due to coal mining and it was a known fact that if you go to cleaner parts of the country you might have minor issues with breathing for the first few days. I don't even want to imagine how it would feel in an area untouched by industrialization
It probably would be on their radar as telescopes could zero in on the transit anomalies from the Crael's Dyson Swarm, but I dont think the Crael would pose any serious threat. They are over 2,000 light years apart and even with advanced technology superluminal travel is uncommon.
Oh my gosh thank you so much for responding it’s so cool to hear a reply from the creator of this beautiful universe! And that makes sense although I wonder what Yaetuns think about the Crael? Would they try and contain and study the crael or try and hide from it.
@@the23rdradiotower41 I don't think the Crael are overtly malicious to outsiders tbh. I think they're probably the remnant of some advanced biological civilization that went extinct. Like, if humanity created machines that could build other machines (that were themselves capable of doing so) before we bit the bullet, who's to say that they wouldn't evolve?
I have zero doubt there are civilizations throughout the cosmos. And I feel like us not being able to reach them is a good thing. Humans aren't sophisticated enough yet. If we encountered beings like the Yaetuan we would probably exploit their peaceful nature and dominate them. Perhaps like 1000 years from now people will be ready to interact with other intelligent species! But that time isn't now I can tell you that much!
The idea of a mechanical biosphere is an extremely underrated and intriguing trope of speculative evolution, and I really wish there were more works that focused on it.
I really like this aproach to meeting an alien civilization. Rather than through an invasion or an attempt to colonize an occupied world, we meet them in an attempt to learn about life in the greater universe, and instead of a hostile first encounter, we meet a civilization that has already lived through our mistakes, and who are more than happy to teach us their history and culture.
I really hope our first encounter with intelligent aliens is something like this, would be so cool to have alien friends especially if they were more advanced then we are so they could guide us.
Assuming it’s the “best” (most friendly humans) meeting similar minded aliens. If either of these things change it will be war. I hope for us to advance past our primitive ideas of what life is valuable and self aware.
It's likely that we'd be feared. Collectively we can be quite mean. Look at our own past. How would the guys mentioned in the book feel if they learned about Stalin or Hitler or how humans used the knowledge of rocketry and splitting the atom to create a weapon powerful enough to level cities with the press of a button. Even today people treat other people poorly because their skin color or religion and culture aren't the same as theirs. Now imagine how those same people might treat someone with four eyes and blue skin.
i liked how this novel is purely optimistic about speculative evolution and interstellar comunication.most of the speculative evolution stories like all tomorrows are dark and artifical focused but this story tells that ecosystems doesn't need an all powerful mastermind to control everything to keep running because life will always found a way to adapt and take benefit from obstacles
You know I had a feeling of dejá vu while watching this and then I realized that Thought Potato also did videos on this book as well recently. I don't mind because you two provide different perspectives and it's two cakes, but it's a happy coincidence.
about Aiyte's 3 eyes animals, it is really not something we should be amazed of, it really depends on how the life in water when they evolved into multicellular animals was.. if they of course needed more eyes because of low light levels then yes they had more eyes and will continue to have in the future
The weird part though, is that the eyes don't come in pairs. For stereoscopic vision: that is the ability to perceive depth or distance, you need to have a pair of eyes. On Earth, most animals rely on vision for depth perception: even animals that tend not to use vision as much as us primates do. However, because Aiyte's air is so hazy even at the best of times: this strategy would not make sense on that planet. Visual depth perception is far too easily fooled by atmospheric particles: that's how mirages work. Therefore, these animals would likely evolve to use hearing for depth perception instead. The odd number of eyes and imbalanced investment in a single large eye, therefore makes sense. The animal only needs to perceive size and color visually, information about shape and distance is provided by their sense of hearing.
@@golwenlothlindel well yess.. but it still might explain why it has 3 eyes.. an ancient specie might have been able to use more eyes for visuals but once they became useless they just evolved way crazier tho thanks for the help on explaing better than i could ever have did, and being more accurate, tho it is true i didn't understand the planets atmosphere that well since i wasn't paying attention, very good explanation tho sir
@@golwenlothlindel yea. animals with many eyes like spiders tend to still have binocular dominant eyes. jumping spiders for example. it would be really weird to have a singular dominant eye.
For years I have googled and searched in vain "Alien looking Aliens" "Alien concept beyond Grey" "Speculative Xenobiology" . Why have I just now found you?
And a whole new world of wonders awaits you if you know where to look. There are multiple UA-cam channels specialised in speculative biology, some really incredible (I must recommend Biblaridion) Enjoy !
dude a whole world awaits you specevo is literally what I always thought aliens or realistic earth evolutionin the future would be like grey aliens are soooo boring
hmmm... it would certainly be feasible to have life without photosynthesis. Certainly a food chain could start with chemo-synthetic microbes instead of photosynthetic ones. However, it's hard to see any member of such a food chain having enough energy to be bio-luminescent: unless perhaps this luminescence arose as a byproduct of the metabolic process. chemo-synthesis is a less efficient means of producing energy than photosynthesis: so such organisms almost never have extra energy, and producing light is energy intensive. There is perhaps a scenario where your proposition does make sense though: on a tidally locked planet. There, animals might move from the light side into the dark side of the planet (assuming this dark side was still warm enough for them to live). This would mean that predatory sessile organisms might live on the dark side of the planet, and they might obtain enough nutrients to produce light for a photosynthetic symbiote: the photosynthetic symbiote meanwhile would attract the animals. In this scenario, the dark side of the planet depends on energy that is "borrowed" from the light side of the planet: carried there in the bodies of animals. This does however assume some way of moderating the extreme heat and cold normally associated with such planets. Normally one could give the planet a thick atmosphere to solve that problem: but this doesn't work on a planet close enough to it's star to be tidally locked. The star's radiation would strip away it's atmosphere faster than it could be produced. There is a possible work-around though: the planet has no land, it's life-forms live in it's liquid mantle under a skin of something solid but transparent. So I'm thinking you're looking at a planet with a silicate crust that got glassed when it's Sun massively expanded. Somehow though, this planet must either have had a mantle composed of elements lighter than it's crust (conceivable but dubious) or else it's life-forms are somehow capable of breathing something heavier than methane (more likely, if also dubious). Certainly some people who know more chemistry than I do have suggested that life in mercury-based oceans is conceivable: just not carbon-based life, obviously.
@@golwenlothlindel What about oceans with a very intense volcanic or thermal activity, as high as you can imagine, could they provide enough resources for life forms to become bioluminescent? Of course, that would be limited to the sea. But I thought that any planet with enough diversity to have predators feeding on static lifeforms that create their own food (an equivalent of any plant, but without light) could receive enough energy to develop bioluminescence. Only, its purpose would not be using it as a bait, like our animals usually do, it rather might have tended towards communications with simmilar others, using fotoreceptors instead of eyes Does it make sense? Or is it too creative hah
Because monkeys are too intelligent to work well as pets. Pet animals need to ride a fine line of intelligence that's below ours, but not too far below so that domestication would be impossible. Dogs ride exactly on that line, and unlike monkeys, were also extremely useful to our primitive ancestors since they could help track and take down prey.
To those watching, Go create your own worlds. It's great to look at the works of others, but what can you come up with on your own? What bizarre creatures will you come up with?
Has anyone ever heard of Expedition by Wayne Barlowe? It takes place on the Mars-sized planet Darwin 4, and was adapted into the documentary Alien Planet on Discovery Channel. It was one of the first books to look into alien life from a scientifically plausible standpoint. Well, for the time. Think of it as the After Man of speculative alien biology, coming WELL before Snaiad and other such series.
Finding this has put me in a more interested state then ever, for having problems with focusing this drags me in. It feels great to find something to listen to, something that connects in ways I don’t know how to explain. It is something I love and I would love to watch it for endless hours. Thankyou for your content man!
one thing i dont understand about the writer is how come he never said once that some of these planets could have millions of lifeforms. kinda like how earth has millions or billions. he just makes it seem like every planet in his book that thats all the life there is. it would make us imagine more if he said there are other life forms but we gotta move on to the next planet. they are very basic ecosystems....
@@topguntk870 i think the book covers the "secondary" species of the planets and this channel only covers the "primary" or more reconogizable species. But even if that isnt the case at least the animals are cool
Tevati and Yaetu plantes is the wealthiest planet in my opinion. :) Unlike Craelon the planet is too dangerous even the machines take control of it. Do not let the earth also be threatened. 🙂🙂🙂
I first learned about this artist from Astrovitae magazine! I hope you cover the featured projects from Astrovitae in a future video. It would be so cool!
I never thought of visiting an Alien's museum. Pretty cool. With the Yaetu's past it sounds like they would be understanding of humanity's past as well, over all they would likely become close friends. Maybe humans and the Yaetu would like to trade museum exhibits like how children trade cards on the playground.
Funny how they just brush over finding the yatuons. Irl that would be the biggest discovery in human history and they and humanity could learn a lot from eachother after getting over the language barrier
I love the idea that first contact might be between two races that have both learned from the many mistakes of their ancestors, ready to make peace with one another right off the bat.
I find it more likely that the 3 eyed creatures evolved form a 1 eyed creature that develop 2 more eyes for a larger field of vision and more depth. Also the machine might be there makers, how have abandoned there organic forms.
Meeting a friendly alien like Yaetuan would be a blessing to humankind. I want them to be able to understand the best spiritual legacies like human art and classical music. Maybe we could trade with them and travel to each other's planets.
"would we even be able to recognize alien life as life?" Sounds like a deep philosophical question, but in my eyes it has a clear answer - Yes, 100% of the time There is no universal concept of "being alive", it was entirely made up by humans. If we decide that something isn't alive, then it can't be alive. The only exception would be if we set certain parameters (for instance just "it reproduces") and didn't notice that the alien in question fulfills them, but at that point we'd be looking for a familiar process that we should be able to find quite easily
I think it goes without saying that most if not all human definitions can be considered subjective at best when observing alien worlds. That ironically being said, I think the real question here isn't *can* we decide what is alive, but how different will our definition of life become.
This is assuming that aliens have similar lifespans. A mayfly lives for a day, while trees can live for thousands of years. With that kind of lifespan diversity just here on Earth, who's to say there aren't organisms living on the surface of stars made out of plasma that live and die in only a few seconds? Who's to say there aren't sessile life forms out there that move with the speed of rock over millions of years? It would be very difficult for us to notice these processes, let alone recognize them as life.
These worlds are fantastic! My favorite was Aiyte. Thank you for talking about the teeming universe once again! It was very entertaining and interesting. Hey I was just wondering that could you do a video about Darwin IV, I know a lot of people know about it and stuff I but want you to one and perhaps you could talk about some stuff/organisms on Darwin IV that others didn’t mentioned, like talking about the Rogose floater. (Also I’m talking about the book)
I mean... the three eye thing in the beginning isn't that weird. Praying Mantises have 5. 2 big compound eyes on the side and 3 smaller eyes right on top of their noggin.
The Crael almost remind me of the terraforming system from Horizon Zero Dawn, rebuilding the planet after an extinction event. But they're destroying the planet's moon so... maybe not
It would be interesting to see other animals that evolved in extreme planets like for example a cow what kind of evolution should fit best for the cow in extreme planets we might be able to create alien life by ourselves
i love the yaetuans and tevets. however most of the other life forms in this book are very basic and look a bit boring. some are cool looking but most just look basic. im actually drawing and writing a book of 100 different crazy unique lifeforms you would find on my fictional world Hydra.
He already published 2 video on Subnautica, and said there were no other on this game. Maybe Subnautica Below Zero but he said nothing bout this (good by the way) sequel.
Curious archive make video focus on not well know project who exist and who pass under the radar, so not before a very long time I think. But yes, Monster Hunter is a great example of speculative biology, and the subject of nature and the wildlife is even one and the main element that the producers want to put forward since the first game ! But for me, I think they lostin a way this inspiration origin and are fell a little (not badly but it's clealy visible) to the capitualisation of the franchise now she very popular and get a lot of money. Because since the MH Rise recent game and the fact we have again in the mainland of the four first game and spin-off since we were in the New World island, they put many contradictory element who throws out the window all that is realistic concerning the laws of nature and especially the evolutionary principle, the biology credibility of the creatures, this kind of stuff, things they were very respectful and serious when you see the elaboration of each creatures you can find on the net to make the overall realistic even it's giant monster and dragons for the most with fucking cool powerfull abilities. Because when in MH Rise they put in some of the creature introducing in MH World like the Anjanath, Tobi Kadachi and two or three other in the mainland thus theses creatures should be oly be in the New World and their presence on the Old World are absolutely not explain, who is one of the biggest bads problems by far of the game (in plus to recycle old map from previous game, that is bad in many ways too for many reasons), you really feel that they try to capitualize a lot on the franchise succes thus they should have the same final result if they take any of the previous introducing monsters from the precedent game and same for the map (because simply they are for these laters more beautiful with the new graphics are not a pertinent argument to recycle them for the use of the game). Because here, for example, it's like if today we are from Europe and we discovers the Australia, we got in Australia, pass some time on it, meet with the local fauna like Kangaroo or Koala and after that we return in Europe, and discovers Kangaroo and Koala in our birth land without explanations and we are absolutely not shocked at all ! So, yes, there we can say that they still screwed up a bit, or on purpose, but the damage is considerable because it breaks a lot of things previously installed! CQFD.
@@viniciuspaiva3578 Yeah, it's should give a good video on it, but it's always a little sad to see how a franchise with the time and with too many success can sacrifice some of his mains components who make his strenght to get more profit in order to maximise a lot on the capitualisation she can made.
It's me, the author again! Thanks so much for covering my book, and I'm glad channels like yours are here to show just how awesome spec bio can be! Keep being awesome and may you always have favor!
Love your creations man
I subbed to get you to 69 subscribers and because I like your work
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@@azfk ayyyyyy lol
Dude you're so talented!
I said it already in the first video on this book, but just… wow. The art in this is simply awe-inspiring and so utterly brimming with imagination and wonder. This whole project is just incredible.
Its not hard to make it really grimdark...
Thanks!!
@@oimeuchapa6995 it’s not grim or dark though. The art style is more vibrant and colorful with slightly deeper shadows. Personally I feel it has a more sunset like feel to it than it does a grim one.
@@oimeuchapa6995 !”
I like the detail where the astronauts are still wearing protective suits, even though they're on the yaetuan planet which has a breathable atmosphere. I think this makes sense, because it could be that the atmosphere is different from Earth's atmosphere and humans don't have the adaptations to breathe there, unlike the yaetuan who have evolved on their planet. Most science fiction depicts humans being able to breathe smoothly on other planets that have atmospheres, even if the human is the first time to an alien planet they can breathe smoothly without any disturbance.
It’s probably because of bacteria and/or viruses that native species are inmune
Not to mention the contamination that we could bring!
What if our own microbes let loose unleash a pandemic or disrupt their environments?
After living in pollution for so long clean air would probably hurt.
@@magnarcreed3801 My area used to be very severely polluted due to coal mining and it was a known fact that if you go to cleaner parts of the country you might have minor issues with breathing for the first few days. I don't even want to imagine how it would feel in an area untouched by industrialization
@@magnarcreed3801 why?
I wonder if the Yaetuns know about the Crael? If so what do they think I’d love to see different perspectives from different civilizations.
It probably would be on their radar as telescopes could zero in on the transit anomalies from the Crael's Dyson Swarm, but I dont think the Crael would pose any serious threat. They are over 2,000 light years apart and even with advanced technology superluminal travel is uncommon.
Oh my gosh thank you so much for responding it’s so cool to hear a reply from the creator of this beautiful universe! And that makes sense although I wonder what Yaetuns think about the Crael? Would they try and contain and study the crael or try and hide from it.
@@the23rdradiotower41 I don't think the Crael are overtly malicious to outsiders tbh. I think they're probably the remnant of some advanced biological civilization that went extinct. Like, if humanity created machines that could build other machines (that were themselves capable of doing so) before we bit the bullet, who's to say that they wouldn't evolve?
Love this, would love a whole book on Yaetuan society/our interactions with them.
Maybe someday, definitely on the table!
@@christiancline6531 Yayy :D Love the book man! Great work!
damn i wish i was born a lot later
This aged very well
I have zero doubt there are civilizations throughout the cosmos. And I feel like us not being able to reach them is a good thing. Humans aren't sophisticated enough yet. If we encountered beings like the Yaetuan we would probably exploit their peaceful nature and dominate them. Perhaps like 1000 years from now people will be ready to interact with other intelligent species! But that time isn't now I can tell you that much!
The idea of a mechanical biosphere is an extremely underrated and intriguing trope of speculative evolution, and I really wish there were more works that focused on it.
Horizon Zero Dawn is one of an example for this troupe
It was Me Jordy, I erased all robotic life trope cases
Technogenisis is a fascinating theory
It's apparent that humanity's creativity transcends the life in this universe.
not sure about that chief....
I really like this aproach to meeting an alien civilization. Rather than through an invasion or an attempt to colonize an occupied world, we meet them in an attempt to learn about life in the greater universe, and instead of a hostile first encounter, we meet a civilization that has already lived through our mistakes, and who are more than happy to teach us their history and culture.
I really hope our first encounter with intelligent aliens is something like this, would be so cool to have alien friends especially if they were more advanced then we are so they could guide us.
Assuming it’s the “best” (most friendly humans) meeting similar minded aliens.
If either of these things change it will be war.
I hope for us to advance past our primitive ideas of what life is valuable and self aware.
Geo (astro?) politics would beg to differ.
@@magnarcreed3801 You'd have to be able to break the laws of physics first.
It's likely that we'd be feared. Collectively we can be quite mean. Look at our own past.
How would the guys mentioned in the book feel if they learned about Stalin or Hitler or how humans used the knowledge of rocketry and splitting the atom to create a weapon powerful enough to level cities with the press of a button.
Even today people treat other people poorly because their skin color or religion and culture aren't the same as theirs.
Now imagine how those same people might treat someone with four eyes and blue skin.
@@twistedyogert bold of you to assume the aliens are less tribal than we are
i liked how this novel is purely optimistic about speculative evolution and interstellar comunication.most of the speculative evolution stories like all tomorrows are dark and artifical focused but this story tells that ecosystems doesn't need an all powerful mastermind to control everything to keep running because life will always found a way to adapt and take benefit from obstacles
I always love speculate biology books involving intelligent or sapient aliens
You know I had a feeling of dejá vu while watching this and then I realized that Thought Potato also did videos on this book as well recently. I don't mind because you two provide different perspectives and it's two cakes, but it's a happy coincidence.
about Aiyte's 3 eyes animals, it is really not something we should be amazed of, it really depends on how the life in water when they evolved into multicellular animals was.. if they of course needed more eyes because of low light levels then yes they had more eyes and will continue to have in the future
But like, it's cool yknow?
The weird part though, is that the eyes don't come in pairs. For stereoscopic vision: that is the ability to perceive depth or distance, you need to have a pair of eyes. On Earth, most animals rely on vision for depth perception: even animals that tend not to use vision as much as us primates do. However, because Aiyte's air is so hazy even at the best of times: this strategy would not make sense on that planet. Visual depth perception is far too easily fooled by atmospheric particles: that's how mirages work. Therefore, these animals would likely evolve to use hearing for depth perception instead. The odd number of eyes and imbalanced investment in a single large eye, therefore makes sense. The animal only needs to perceive size and color visually, information about shape and distance is provided by their sense of hearing.
@@golwenlothlindel well yess.. but it still might explain why it has 3 eyes.. an ancient specie might have been able to use more eyes for visuals but once they became useless they just evolved way crazier tho thanks for the help on explaing better than i could ever have did, and being more accurate, tho it is true i didn't understand the planets atmosphere that well since i wasn't paying attention, very good explanation tho sir
@@golwenlothlindel yea. animals with many eyes like spiders tend to still have binocular dominant eyes. jumping spiders for example. it would be really weird to have a singular dominant eye.
3:44, 🤩🤩🤩😍😍😍 I love tropical beach green blueish...
Such an underrated channel
Deserve millions
For years I have googled and searched in vain "Alien looking Aliens" "Alien concept beyond Grey" "Speculative Xenobiology" . Why have I just now found you?
And a whole new world of wonders awaits you if you know where to look. There are multiple UA-cam channels specialised in speculative biology, some really incredible (I must recommend Biblaridion)
Enjoy !
@@melkerahtagadatsoin-tsoin6016 thank you!
@@melkerahtagadatsoin-tsoin6016 at this point the world he created would be too random to predict any further
dude a whole world awaits you specevo is literally what I always thought aliens or realistic earth evolutionin the future would be like
grey aliens are soooo boring
@@Mark-Wilson hell yea man speculative evolution is so fun - the beginnings of xenobiology
As a long time Wayne Barlowe fan, this is wonderful to see. Much thanks to CA and Christian Cline!
I'd like to see a bioluminiscent planet, dark with no sun yet life has managed to thrive
hmmm... it would certainly be feasible to have life without photosynthesis. Certainly a food chain could start with chemo-synthetic microbes instead of photosynthetic ones. However, it's hard to see any member of such a food chain having enough energy to be bio-luminescent: unless perhaps this luminescence arose as a byproduct of the metabolic process. chemo-synthesis is a less efficient means of producing energy than photosynthesis: so such organisms almost never have extra energy, and producing light is energy intensive.
There is perhaps a scenario where your proposition does make sense though: on a tidally locked planet. There, animals might move from the light side into the dark side of the planet (assuming this dark side was still warm enough for them to live). This would mean that predatory sessile organisms might live on the dark side of the planet, and they might obtain enough nutrients to produce light for a photosynthetic symbiote: the photosynthetic symbiote meanwhile would attract the animals. In this scenario, the dark side of the planet depends on energy that is "borrowed" from the light side of the planet: carried there in the bodies of animals. This does however assume some way of moderating the extreme heat and cold normally associated with such planets. Normally one could give the planet a thick atmosphere to solve that problem: but this doesn't work on a planet close enough to it's star to be tidally locked. The star's radiation would strip away it's atmosphere faster than it could be produced.
There is a possible work-around though: the planet has no land, it's life-forms live in it's liquid mantle under a skin of something solid but transparent. So I'm thinking you're looking at a planet with a silicate crust that got glassed when it's Sun massively expanded. Somehow though, this planet must either have had a mantle composed of elements lighter than it's crust (conceivable but dubious) or else it's life-forms are somehow capable of breathing something heavier than methane (more likely, if also dubious). Certainly some people who know more chemistry than I do have suggested that life in mercury-based oceans is conceivable: just not carbon-based life, obviously.
@@golwenlothlindel What about oceans with a very intense volcanic or thermal activity, as high as you can imagine, could they provide enough resources for life forms to become bioluminescent? Of course, that would be limited to the sea. But I thought that any planet with enough diversity to have predators feeding on static lifeforms that create their own food (an equivalent of any plant, but without light) could receive enough energy to develop bioluminescence. Only, its purpose would not be using it as a bait, like our animals usually do, it rather might have tended towards communications with simmilar others, using fotoreceptors instead of eyes
Does it make sense? Or is it too creative hah
That kind of world already covered the Teeming Planet I of Curious Archive
So you're telling me the Yaetuans have their equivalent of monkeys as their dogs? Why didn't we do that!?
I'd want a golden lion tamarin
Because monkeys are too intelligent to work well as pets. Pet animals need to ride a fine line of intelligence that's below ours, but not too far below so that domestication would be impossible. Dogs ride exactly on that line, and unlike monkeys, were also extremely useful to our primitive ancestors since they could help track and take down prey.
Tldr; monkey do what monkey see
@@gustavosauro1882 saw them at the zoo yesterday. too jumpy and active wouldn't do well for a house pet.
@@malnutritionboy The person is going of the basis of an „alternate reality“ of sorts where we domesticated monkeys
To those watching, Go create your own worlds. It's great to look at the works of others, but what can you come up with on your own? What bizarre creatures will you come up with?
I’ve got a few ideas myself. ;)
Tentacles with top hats
The same day AZFK released his newest entry into the teeming universe. Beautiful
I thought the same thing
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@@azfk Hello. I love your videos
@@BorisEdiacarov-ui8sk thank you👁❤️
One of the best videos I’ve watched in this channel so far!
Has anyone ever heard of Expedition by Wayne Barlowe? It takes place on the Mars-sized planet Darwin 4, and was adapted into the documentary Alien Planet on Discovery Channel.
It was one of the first books to look into alien life from a scientifically plausible standpoint. Well, for the time. Think of it as the After Man of speculative alien biology, coming WELL before Snaiad and other such series.
Finding this has put me in a more interested state then ever, for having problems with focusing this drags me in. It feels great to find something to listen to, something that connects in ways I don’t know how to explain. It is something I love and I would love to watch it for endless hours. Thankyou for your content man!
Yaetuan technology kinda looks like the mining robots we saw earlier in the video, neat
10:31 the way they’re sitting and the rug that has food on it makes me think of asian cultures, i really love this idea!!!
Amazing artist. Amazing video.
This is nice and always makes my day keep up the good work
WHY are you so underrated!!!
New curious archive vids make me breathe heavily
These creatures look so alien, feel free to speculate about their biology
Because they are alien
@@sytrosianoverlord9026 it's a reference to the "feel free to screenshot" meme
one thing i dont understand about the writer is how come he never said once that some of these planets could have millions of lifeforms. kinda like how earth has millions or billions. he just makes it seem like every planet in his book that thats all the life there is. it would make us imagine more if he said there are other life forms but we gotta move on to the next planet. they are very basic ecosystems....
@@topguntk870 i think the book covers the "secondary" species of the planets and this channel only covers the "primary" or more reconogizable species.
But even if that isnt the case at least the animals are cool
@@Alaric696 some are cool.
Tevati and Yaetu plantes is the wealthiest planet in my opinion. :) Unlike Craelon the planet is too dangerous even the machines take control of it. Do not let the earth also be threatened. 🙂🙂🙂
I first learned about this artist from Astrovitae magazine! I hope you cover the featured projects from Astrovitae in a future video. It would be so cool!
11:05 Oh God look at this! I wished I could live in the yaetuan city! This looks so great! 👍
the art was really well designed.
I never thought of visiting an Alien's museum. Pretty cool. With the Yaetu's past it sounds like they would be understanding of humanity's past as well, over all they would likely become close friends. Maybe humans and the Yaetu would like to trade museum exhibits like how children trade cards on the playground.
Like a Human exhibit full of human history and culture.
"Frogs have a 3rd eye" I'm just now learning this?
it's just a light sensor, nothing impressive or surprising
Some reptiles and fish as well!
Funny how they just brush over finding the yatuons. Irl that would be the biggest discovery in human history and they and humanity could learn a lot from eachother after getting over the language barrier
The Sandpig is my spirit animal
I love how awesome this video was
Love your speculative evolution and alien worlds content.
Yay! Love this - so glad to see section 2 😊
I love the idea that first contact might be between two races that have both learned from the many mistakes of their ancestors, ready to make peace with one another right off the bat.
I really, really, really need this book😲
You and AZFK both doing the Teeming Universe video today.
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AZFK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH😱
Awww puppels😍
High quality content as always. 👌🏿💯
So cool! I love their creativity. :)
I totally just ordered your book,Christian. Really excited to read it!
I would like to see a Spec Evo project based on Dolphins tbh. And one on Organisms in Valhalla would be great as well.
I love this videos, and this channel. Craelon and Yaetu were particularly interesting!
That was awesome.
Its like the real life No mans sky.
Can't wait to find this and read it.
Would love to see more like the Biology of the Brinni videos
Yay a new episode
I find it more likely that the 3 eyed creatures evolved form a 1 eyed creature that develop 2 more eyes for a larger field of vision and more depth.
Also the machine might be there makers, how have abandoned there organic forms.
How tf do you exist?
The helerene?
Meeting a friendly alien like Yaetuan would be a blessing to humankind. I want them to be able to understand the best spiritual legacies like human art and classical music. Maybe we could trade with them and travel to each other's planets.
The first thing im going to show the Yaetuans is a rickroll.
Hopefully we dont cause a war...
I wish they made action figures from even a few of these worlds 👀
I really enjoyed this article!
Love these!
The Yaetuans made me cry
I just…I just love them so much
Humanity’s first alien friends
This video was amazing
I absolutely love this channel and really enjoyed the video, although the 'beaver' image was not a beaver, but a coypu.
That's amazing!!
those black metallic aliens look very menacing
Now it´s time to play stellaris.
i love it
Awesome 👍
The Creal being a natural creature was the direction I thought it was going tbh. I think that wouldve been pretty interesting
This is very creative!!! 😃👍
I love the Yaetuans! :D
You really should make enough episodes to include all details and species in all of These projects
"would we even be able to recognize alien life as life?" Sounds like a deep philosophical question, but in my eyes it has a clear answer - Yes, 100% of the time
There is no universal concept of "being alive", it was entirely made up by humans. If we decide that something isn't alive, then it can't be alive. The only exception would be if we set certain parameters (for instance just "it reproduces") and didn't notice that the alien in question fulfills them, but at that point we'd be looking for a familiar process that we should be able to find quite easily
We can't even decide if viruses are alive or not man, good luck with aliens.
I think it goes without saying that most if not all human definitions can be considered subjective at best when observing alien worlds. That ironically being said, I think the real question here isn't *can* we decide what is alive, but how different will our definition of life become.
This is assuming that aliens have similar lifespans. A mayfly lives for a day, while trees can live for thousands of years. With that kind of lifespan diversity just here on Earth, who's to say there aren't organisms living on the surface of stars made out of plasma that live and die in only a few seconds? Who's to say there aren't sessile life forms out there that move with the speed of rock over millions of years? It would be very difficult for us to notice these processes, let alone recognize them as life.
These worlds are fantastic! My favorite was Aiyte. Thank you for talking about the teeming universe once again! It was very entertaining and interesting.
Hey I was just wondering that could you do a video about Darwin IV, I know a lot of people know about it and stuff I but want you to one and perhaps you could talk about some stuff/organisms on Darwin IV that others didn’t mentioned, like talking about the Rogose floater.
(Also I’m talking about the book)
the yaetuans are very inspiring and i sincerely hope that we experience someone like them in the future :>
Yay a new video :D
I mean... the three eye thing in the beginning isn't that weird. Praying Mantises have 5. 2 big compound eyes on the side and 3 smaller eyes right on top of their noggin.
It's called a helerene
The Crael almost remind me of the terraforming system from Horizon Zero Dawn, rebuilding the planet after an extinction event. But they're destroying the planet's moon so... maybe not
Much more of these creatures need more furlike, featherlike, hairlike, and other similar body features
It would be interesting to see other animals that evolved in extreme planets like for example a cow what kind of evolution should fit best for the cow in extreme planets we might be able to create alien life by ourselves
i love the yaetuans and tevets. however most of the other life forms in this book are very basic and look a bit boring. some are cool looking but most just look basic. im actually drawing and writing a book of 100 different crazy unique lifeforms you would find on my fictional world Hydra.
Yaetuan supremacy
Nice video, waiting for subnautica below zero biology video!
He already published 2 video on Subnautica, and said there were no other on this game. Maybe Subnautica Below Zero but he said nothing bout this (good by the way) sequel.
Craelon looks like something I would make in Kerbal Space Program
I wonder if the Yaetuan know any more about the Craelon than we do.
I'd love a book on the Yaetuans' history
i ahve found a new hyperfixation, Thank you so much man!
I’ve always thought that humans have a very biased opinion on what qualifies as life. Interesting to watch. Live the vids.
Anyone else getting Half Life: Opposing Force vibes from Aiyte's wildlife?
I would love to visit the Yaetuans
this looks amazing i belive robotic civilisations will be more frequent in comos than the biological ones
I love the parisian alien.
that is amazing!
I have a video suggestion. Could you do Alien biosphere?
The Universe is probably filled with all sorts of strange life, but we'll likely never see it. Interstellar travel is practically unsurvivable.
I think we wouldn't have any trouble identifying things that are alive.
*viruses have entered the chat*
The sand pig looks like someone just took a sea pig, gave it some bug features, and slapped it on dry land.
Hi! I recommend you to do an analysis on Capcom’s game franchise Monster Hunter!
There’s a lot of interesting speculative biology to analyze
Curious archive make video focus on not well know project who exist and who pass under the radar, so not before a very long time I think. But yes, Monster Hunter is a great example of speculative biology, and the subject of nature and the wildlife is even one and the main element that the producers want to put forward since the first game !
But for me, I think they lostin a way this inspiration origin and are fell a little (not badly but it's clealy visible) to the capitualisation of the franchise now she very popular and get a lot of money.
Because since the MH Rise recent game and the fact we have again in the mainland of the four first game and spin-off since we were in the New World island, they put many contradictory element who throws out the window all that is realistic concerning the laws of nature and especially the evolutionary principle, the biology credibility of the creatures, this kind of stuff, things they were very respectful and serious when you see the elaboration of each creatures you can find on the net to make the overall realistic even it's giant monster and dragons for the most with fucking cool powerfull abilities.
Because when in MH Rise they put in some of the creature introducing in MH World like the Anjanath, Tobi Kadachi and two or three other in the mainland thus theses creatures should be oly be in the New World and their presence on the Old World are absolutely not explain, who is one of the biggest bads problems by far of the game (in plus to recycle old map from previous game, that is bad in many ways too for many reasons), you really feel that they try to capitualize a lot on the franchise succes thus they should have the same final result if they take any of the previous introducing monsters from the precedent game and same for the map (because simply they are for these laters more beautiful with the new graphics are not a pertinent argument to recycle them for the use of the game).
Because here, for example, it's like if today we are from Europe and we discovers the Australia, we got in Australia, pass some time on it, meet with the local fauna like Kangaroo or Koala and after that we return in Europe, and discovers Kangaroo and Koala in our birth land without explanations and we are absolutely not shocked at all !
So, yes, there we can say that they still screwed up a bit, or on purpose, but the damage is considerable because it breaks a lot of things previously installed! CQFD.
@@dudotolivier6363 Still, I think it’s worth it
@@viniciuspaiva3578 Yeah, it's should give a good video on it, but it's always a little sad to see how a franchise with the time and with too many success can sacrifice some of his mains components who make his strenght to get more profit in order to maximise a lot on the capitualisation she can made.
NON ORGANIC LIFE IS BASED AND I LOVE IT