whats even better is that they formed a bond with those prey animals SO STRONG, that the prey animal trusts them when they say "hey, i want you to run towards the danger for me. that way i can take care of the danger"
@@onebear6504 In some cases yes, in others, we just convince the strong, fast prey animal to just trust us enough to do things that initially seem stupid until they figure out why and either agree or disagree with us.
Eh... That's not really all that common For most of human history the spear has been a huge counter against cavalry not by impaling the animal or the rider, but because the rider COULDN'T make the animal keep running at the spearwall so the cavalry charge would end up failing.
"I bet there are guys up there to form social bonds with" might be one of my favorite quotes from now on. Cause you know what? I bet there are. And I jope they want to form social bonds with us, too.
See, this is why I question the whole "humans are space orcs" trope. Not because humans aren't weird--we absolutely are--but because I think any other sapient alien species would have to be at least as weird as us to even CONSIDER going to space.
Thats an interesting idea. What if there ARE alien civilizations on other planets, but the way they think is so different that they never even considered leaving their planet, and humans are the only ones that go “hey, lets go to other star systems. A sort of more positive spin on the “Dark Forest” thing.
My favorite version is actually humans were the only ones to develop space travel because every other species either never did or stopped because it was insane, and humans, in our infinite recklessness, managed to make it work “well enough” to keep going and reach them
We're Symbionts/Parasites. Sad to say friendship is just a "Host" which all Symbionts search for. Symbionts are always the most successful life. They make up your body, making a bigger Symbiont to assimilate bigger animals. Parasites still.
Forgot to mention how humans decided that chasing prey is overrated, so they evolved the ability to regenerate stamina while walking in order to just... casually stroll their prey to death. This means that, while you can run from a human social bond, you can't hide.
From what I've read this is not a universally supported theory in science. It's a superficially compelling take on why our bodies are the way they are (kinda weak, kinda slow) but there's just no evidence to suggest it has ever played a central part in how we hunt. It has its uses as a strategy but there are far more efficient and less time-consuming ways to feed ourselves.
Let's not forget that we figured out that while walking can consistently get us close to animals we want to eat, it takes a very long time for us to wear down those animals enough for us to walk up close enough to beat/stab them to death. Our solution was to start throwing things, and so our arms evolved to throw things harder and straighter than any other animal is capable of, and our brain evolved to subconsciously do complex calculus problems involving force and velocity while taking into account gravity and air resistance so we could actually hit the things we were trying to.
Paraphrasing a wiser man than me “People who say the power of friendship is dumb don’t know what they’re talking about. Socialization and working together is literally the greatest hunting and survival strategy the universe has ever produced.”
@@ricktheweeb5382 I'm inclined to think it's not so much dumb as it's misused. This group of friends get together and decide they don't like that group of friends, or they want something that group of friends has, and decide to "do something about it" is how war and other unpleasantness happens. Humans are very good at misusing things.
People who say the power of friendship is dumb don't do so in reference to social bonds but in reference to how it's utilized in media. Because having friends doesn't mean you are suddenly able to carry twice the weight you could before on your own. It means you can carry twice the weight because there's another person to carry it with you.
The difference is that in these instances the humans form social bonds with other species outside their group which makes them more capable because now they have other animals to work for them. In the media the power of friendship is literally just someone you are already friends with saying “you can do it” and then you can suddenly do something that you couldn’t do by magic. If it were utilised correctly in these films, the heroes would befriend the villains and get them to perform a task that benefits society by giving them something in return.
@@steelbear2063 The first silicon-based computer chip was invented in 1959 by Robert Noyce. Well technically he invented the monolithic Integrated circuit chips of silicon. Before that, computers were germanium or GaS or Vacuum tubes and they were like meh... Basically this started our modern thinking rocks (silicon) So yeah roughly 65 years = 6.5 decades. Or, a matter of decades. Then there's also the fact that the IC was sort of developed in 1949 by Werner... but it didn't really do much just went mostly unnoticed.
@@EdKolis Idk, I still enjoy hanging out with friends who aren't as smart as me... I hope rocks also feel the same way! At worst, we might end up being pets, and who wouldn't want to have free enrichment and resources to do fun stuff, even if it's not just to entertain ourselves, but also our rock overlords? Imagine making a cool thing and having your proud rock-god-creature show it off to its friend. Seems like an acceptable fate to me. Actually, wait, that's already kind of happening... its just that it doesn't quite have enough intelligence to think what we do is cool, and it also has no friends to share it with.
It's really funny to imagine some random primitive human going "no no no, hear me out, what if instead of eating the meat, we put it on the thing that destroys everything it touches, AND THEN we eat it?"
My best guess is the logic of ‘if this thing still kills me after i stab it, stabbing must not kill. Fire kills everything. Maybe fire will kill thing.’
Not mentioned: Humans apparently tasted rocks and dirt and found out that if they put a certain kind of rock on their food, it made the food more tasty. They also discovered that putting enough of this rock on meats can preserve it for long periods. At times, they've even put so much of that rock on food that it can cause health problems, but they continue to do it anyway. Aren't humans great?
tbf Re: Salt, we aren’t exactly the only animal that values it so much. Most ungulates (hooved critters) f***ing LOVE licking salt. Salted mud is also extra valuable to Savannah mammals for cooling purposes, to the extent that it’s one of the things Elephant herds will put their comprehensive mapping skills to use memorising. Helps that Africa has an unusually high density of Salt Flats, so salted jerky has probably been on the primary hominid menu as long as - if not longer than - cooked meat.
To add on other animals including elephants loving it: Long time ago some elephants apparently found a place with lots of this tasty rock. So they kept returning to it every once in a while, chipping bits with their tusks. After a long while this place became what is now called the Kitum Cave, which can be counted as first ever salt mine.
We figured out storytelling to learn about stuff that is not here. Then we invented fiction to learn about stuff that literally does not exist. And finally we came up with literature to listen to storytellers that are not here.
Hell I'd even argue that fictional characters are the most primitive and widespread form of this. We can feel strong emotional connections to people that don't even physically exist.
This has just summed up all stories I ever write. Humans forming social bonds with guys they built or are from space. I have nothing more to write. My life is complete.
I think that the existence of a lapdog or therapy dog would break an alien. This is a highly dangerous apex predator that has evolved solely to give kisses and be a friend.
@@mishagaming1075no, wolves absolutely are apex predators It would have been easier to simply Google the definition of apex predator instead of writing some long comment about how not being able to defeat a bear somehow means it can't be an apex predator
Humans: already throw things really well Also humans: "I bet if I combined this stick and this ligament, I could throw things even farther!" Also humans later: "I bet if I combined this jet engine with these airfoils, this gyroscope, and this clock, I could throw things even farther!"
2,000,000 BC - A bunch of people gathered together in a plain to smash two rocks together and made fire 1945 AD - A bunch of people gathered together in a desert to smash two rocks together and made *A SHITTON* of fire
There's also "I bet I could throw this stick farther by using *another stick!"* Atlatls are wild. They're also *really* effective! 13-year-old me after a few tries could chuck a spear 50+feet with those things! In the hands of someone stronger and with more training, those things could have some absurd range and lethality for what is basically just a hook-shaped stick and some spears for ammo.
0:58 Wolves aren't really our predators, though. We did historically hunt much of the same prey, though, and at some point we decided that our competitors in the hunt were much more fun to be around than the chimps, so we started hanging out with them instead.
Literally just: "Hey, you run things to death, we run things to death, wanna run things to death together?" And then some hungry wolf shrugged and accepted and now we're here
@@zanderdev57 They'll munch on us opportunistically when hungry, attack us when we corner them, etc, but predators tend to avoid confrontation with other predators of similar size because even if you win, a bad injury for a predator means starvation, whereas herbivores are more injury tolerant because plants don't run. Also, by the time we moved into their habitat, I'm pretty sure we were already anatomically modern humans with full command of fire.
@JonBrase have you seen human ancestors? They are the size of nine year olds at best (if you go by evolution anyways). It's basically just a worse chimp. Look up "lucy primitive man" and youll see her next to a modern human. Wolves or other canines are eating that for breakfast, as well as cat species
Humans love forming social bonds so much, they're cool with a small predator demanding their attention and resources all because these small predators were good at killing small prey animals eating human food that the small predators can't digest. Hell, some humans even took the small prey animal and started learning from it to improve its healing tools, _and_ formed social bonds with it anyways!
And then these humans invented a picture made of electrons of a hybrid of their female and that small predator for the sole purpose of making social bonds with it.
You know, all of a sudden, it makes sense why so many were wary of the Federation in Star Trek. We *will* social bond you. And you know what? You might like it.
To note about capsaicin, is that it wasn't evolved to be a deterrent for mammals - that's kinda a side thing; hard to say if it's a benefit or downside, given what we've done with the things. What it actually evolved to be, was as a pesticide to keep bugs from eating from them more than once, whilst ALSO not disturbing the birds that they DID want to get eaten by so that the birds can fly off and poop out the the seeds somewhere else.
While many other animals are either speed or strength builds, we went with an off-meta Intelligence/Charisma build and it was _busted._ EDIT: as the replies are pointing out, we also had solid Endurance but mainly for pumping our stamina regen.
More like stamina and dexterity. Intelligence wasnt as big of a fsctor as the ability to wear out large prey and throw spears to take down way larger animals. Of course team work makes a big difference too.
Humans have peak intelligence, high charisma, wisdom and stamina, decent perception and manual dexterity, and they decided to go ahead and dump the hell out of every other skill in the game. Every. Last. One of them. And boy did this minmax shit somehow work.
@@monikaisdonewiththeinterne2039 wolves, lions, and other pack animals I would say have pretty high Charisma, if we’re defining that as “ability to get along with others”
@corbanbausch9049 i mean i guess thats true? But thats like the low breakpoint for passives like packs which i am not sure if we could call that a "more charisma oriented" build
2:40 actually we are born with an instinct to swim, babies will do so pretty early on after birth. It's likely we lose it over time if not practiced on however.
Yeah, like when people throw their babies in the pool, the baby will hold its breath and flip its body so it’s facing mouth out. Maybe we can’t swim by instinct, but we can not drown by instinct.
The power of friendship gets memed so hard, yet it's all-permeating. Time and time again, proven over and over. The anti-fraternization law never stopped British civilians from befriending German prisoners. Fast forward to 2024, I joined a Discord server with people from a "hostile nation" out of pure boredom and curiosity. It was almost immediately like "EXOTIC FREN! EXOTIC FREN!"
I'm South Korean, and I joined a Discord server full of Russians. South Korea is a long-time US ally, and South Korea's main enemy is North Korea. North Korea recently sent troops to help Russia, making relations even worse. Trades are still maintained, but direct flights are severed since 2022.
@@spoopytime9928 it is true what you say, specially because the USSR feeded NK weapons to invade your nation (and that failed thx for the US) but outside of political interests I think they won't mind you or even might like you Just like greeks and turks, or argentines and british, or indians and bangladeshis
@@Veryfriedperson7 I *literally* had this exact urge the other day when I saw a really nice stick had fallen onto the parking lot from a tree at work lmao.
@@Veryfriedperson7 people say that we’re leaving behind our natural roots, and depending on technology too much. Maybe… but if a dude, hell, if anyone who isn’t afraid of dirt sees a stick that… god, it’s just a PERFECT stick… we are genetically wired to pick that stick up. (maybe not, I don’t have any proof backing these claims, other than personal experience.)
When something hurts one of us or the animals we tame, we get pissed and will probably do anything to kill said animal unlike so many other creatures, AND we give this trait to the tamed animals so that if us or one of our animals get killed they will hunt down the predator to make sure that the rest of us are safe. Our bond is so strong that the environment around us gets molded like clay, bending to look like us because we are artists and our art is the love we share with the people and animals around us
I think a lot of people get too hung up on all the horrible things *some* humans have done that they overlook our graces and quirkiness as a species. We've transcended the food chain to form bonds and relationships with predators, prey, and everything in between (not just between us and them, but also fostering relationships between animals themselves) that are largely unprecedented from an evolutionary standpoint. Although many of them are admittedly for our own benefit, some of them are purely because we admire and appreciate their presence in the world we share. No matter what your stance on humanity is, you have to admit how astounding it is for our planet to have given rise to beings with the capacity to do that.
Fun fact: humans are the most genetically homogenous of all the great ape species. We are less diverse than all of them. Even the ones who’ve been forced to near extinction in isolated pockets. Because we too were once forced to near extinction in an isolated pocket. It may have been what supercharged our evolution.
Literally the origin of all of those stories where that little guy is on the brink of death and then comes back to become the most powerful being to ever exist
@M_1024 Not that it helps much, but it's not really "invented racism." Humans prefer people that look similar (generally accepted: similar to our parents/those who raised us rather than ourselves). Any large, notable differences such as skin color or facial features will make us inherently make us have a less preferential idea of them generally speaking (as always, individuals vary). Note that this also applies to genetic mutations, defects, or mutilation. The point of this is that we trust those who are in our tribe more than outsiders who have rarely or never interacted with us prior. From an evolutionary and biological perspective, this is extremely fair. But, when you start applying this to mass society, we begin to run into problems. We also run into issues because we are incredibly intelligent and have developed our societies to rely much more on reason and logic than intuition and instinct. This means that we often try to make the two align by inventing logic and reason to justify our instincts and intuition. If our instincts and intuition tell us "This person is different, don't trust them, they could be a threat" we will often invent reason and logic to follow that. This is seen extremely often outside of just this context. What's the takeaway? Idk. I just think understanding why something exists is the most important first step in confronting it. Especially when you get stuff like people saying "X group can't be racist" or "X society wasn't racist, look!" We need to understand that this is because of institutions and instincts that we then try to justify if we want to actually solve the problems that come from it.
@@Isometrix116 Yes, all that you said is true. The point of my comment was more like "we have racism, but we don't even have different races (what we call races isn't geneticaly different enough to be biologiclaly classified as race), and look at dogs, they can be 4x bigger than another dog, and still be friends". It was mostly a joke. I am sure other animals also have racism.
Instead of evolving normally we have gained 2 abilities. For innanimate objects meant to hurt us, we got "i *LIKE* you...". For living beings, we got "we're frens now. We're making soft tacos later!!! :D"
Music is very funny to me too. Humans create a weird device to create new sounds beyond what their normal vocal cords can produce, as a defense mechanism, or a way to communicate with their tribes over longer distances. This is all fine and dandy, but they end up wanting to figure out how to create other sounds. So they create other kinds of devices, and liking how those sound. So what do they do after that? They then go on to create more of these weird devices, some more complex than others, to create more fun sounds, and combining them into harmonies to make it sound even better. This has no survival necessity, they just enjoy the sounds they created, because it makes them feel good. And what do their distant descendants do? They find out ways to *alter sound waves* to their liking, and capture these sounds to play them as much as they want to. All because they liked how something sounded.
I've thought about this too! In a story I wrote there's an alien that asks their human friend: "Why would you willingly subject yourself to these continuous horrible sounds?"
In the year 3987, every human will own atleast 1 star. Everyone now fights over the rights of a name given to the star, you can’t call your star “Joe” since Joe jablion called his star joe already and owns the rights to naming a star Joe.
@@jordanmchighlander9365 Also creating a metal tube that uses an explosion to fire a small projectile faster than sound at things, and then using those things to hunt with, though they didn't always hunt prey.
How did we even come up with the idea of smoking? Look, smoking is an idea so out there, you'd need to have been smoking in the first place to come up with it! But we couldn't have been smoking since we hadn't come up with smoking yet!
Let’s not forget that the species learned to create and use mechanized pulley systems, lifting metals higher and higher in the sky to stack onto other beams of metal (metals the species themselves created), fuse said metals together and, along with other artificial materials, create one monolithic superstructure reaching higher than where most birds fly.
They say when a human forms a social bond with you, it is the greatest blessing, and the greatest curse. Do not deny the social bond, for it will result in a fate far worse than not accepting it.
Ostracized humans form social bonds with objects and create imaginary social creatures in imaginary worlds. Source: my isolated middle school ass. See also: Castaway. WILSON!!!
Projecting pieces of myself onto different people I made up and pretending to have them social bond to each other because sometimes that’s easier than talking to people
@@majoras_swag2yup, the only living part of hair is the follicle at the base, embedded in the skin - the hair strand itself is just keratin. same stuff as your fingernails.
Humans looking up into the vast infinity of the universe: "I bet there are guys up there to form social bonds with. Or at least something we can sit on while it runs fast."
One thing that I think people underappreciate how important the ability to cook was for humans in the evolutive ladder. We, as human, at least compared to basically any other species, have REALLY WEAK digestive systems, as most carnivores and omnivores are expected to have a digestive tracks able to disolve meat into useful components and then being able to absorb these components, all of this with ease, but we humans... Can't really do that, sure, we can to a certain extent but it's so hard for our system that we risk getting sick because we can't even diggest all of the bacteria, and plants which are easier to diggest but cannot support our caloric intake, so by this angle seems like those animals predestined to die out, either by only being able to process a minimal fraction of what they eat or something that cannot sustain them... Then someone had the idea to put meat near some fire, and first we solved our digestion problems as now meat is infinitely easier to process and also almost all bacteria died, also we are now able to store meat for a decent amount of time without it rotting or acquiring as much bacteria. So we went to being able to store meat for a few days at most in some cool cave to a week or even two if you push it, thus we can stockpile on food which other species need to invernate to have a fraction of what that means(also, if a tribe or town liked the pain plant and stored it with their meat, then shelf life went even further by the chemical keeping bacteria at bay), and since we don't even need to worry about rot THAT much, we can even travel further with stable rations without the need to hunt which may have made expeditions far less dangerous and tiresome now. This is mostly expeculation from a rather uneducated individual tbh, but even if half of what I especulated here is true, then we have to thank our life as an entire species to the dude who wondered what would happen if we burned a piece of meat.
You mean to tell me other carnivores have stomach acid stronger than battery acid? (The average human's stomach acid is slightly less than battery acid) Wait nevermind I get what you're saying
What we really owe thanks to is that human that stole fire. The one that realised “Y’know this wildfire sure gave us a lot of meat, and bones to gnaw. And I haven’t seen any lions or leopards in days… I wonder if I could keep it going if I just kept finding new sticks.” And thus, cooking was born!!! It’s actually an interesting question… could hominids have developed in an environment like the Redwood or the Firehawk and Eucalyptus, where wildfires were so common as to be a crucial part of the ecology?
I’m sure that’s how soups/broths and other cooking techniques are invented Early human: What if I were to not let the meat/plant burn by throwing it into water and boiling it?
Another funny thing humans do is cry, laugh, hate and complain about things that LITERALLY do not exist becuse we are to smart to think up those things, but to dumb to let it slide. Example. That one story you like/hate/love/content with.
I was conditioned so hard to hate the fact that I am human and this post is so healing, I know we’ve caused some absolutely trash phenomenon but it’s nice not feeling like I have to be suicidal about it
Being human was never the problem, it is only a select few that cause most of the bad things. Be proud of being human, and fight for your chance to stay that way.
And after all this there is still many of us that decides to go to Space because "maybe there is more cool stuff out there that we can shove our throats down" or "find more stuff that we can make stuff with"
I’m sorry (if this doesn’t related to how we are as a species) but sometimes I keep forgetting peppers are “fruits” -> (0:17) like bananas are weird on their own being hybrids other breeds we used while being a berry of literally a tall bush that’s is the palm tree (but then again are all trees ancestors wheres used to be tall bushes?) but Pepppers!? That threw me into a loop
1:06 the only animal I can think of that fits that description are pigs. Wolves do not see us as prey. House cats were already so small that we would not be appropriate prey for them.
I think when they said "their predators" they didn't mean predators of us. More like generally the predators? If that makes sense XD. I read it like an alien looking in so not "predator of humans" but "a predator on earth" so therefore "their predator", idk? English is not my first language so I'm not sure I made any sense with my comment XD
I understand enough of how big space is, so I have resigned myself to never meeting peoples from out there, but I would like to give corvids what they need to enter their own awakening and then befriend them
@@some_Rando_watching That’s because they aren’t good enough at thinking yet to think about things we haven’t already thought of. But what if they could?
For some reason, these creatures are also making electrified rocks that are more and more complex until eventually, they can form genuine social bonds with them. Not to mention, they'll make up fictional creatures and make them form social bonds with other fictional creatures for fun.
Have you read the meme/genre of "Humans are Space Orcs" or "Earth is Space Australia"? Example: "Humans have such an insane social instinct, that it forms a bond with a Rumba, tape on a knife, name it Stabby. Aliens are confused, but somehow, Stabby saved the spaceship..."
You will become a friend, this is inevitable. My species has a special kind of drive for forming social bonds of all kinds with other beings, sentient or not. Even if not lacking sentient beings to bond with, we will bond with non-sentient beings and inanimate objects. Your resistance will falter. We are a persistence hunter.
There's a lot more involving clothing and primitive living and resource gathering. Food? No no this community gathered shiny rocks to trade for food. It COULD BE creating food directly, but the rocks are just that awesome shiny.
Capsaicin is also effective against invertebrates! Deterring mammals is more of a bonus, especially since mammals generally don't eat the seeds and will drop them around, propagating the plant!
0:01 There is another even cooler species. This predatory mammals noticed that humans and all of the species we domesticated just generally crushing it so this predator chose to get domesticated to use our selective breeding powers to is advantage. Now it is on 6 continents. Has over ten thousand prey species to hunt. Has a 80% kill ratio and is personally responsible for 1/3 of all marsupial extinctions ever. 🐈
It really is amazing when you look at it that way. To think, we’re probably the only animals to ever look at the Moon, and think “I bet I can go there.”
- Evolve our display teeth down to purely functional canine teeth because we need less scary teeth for all the food we've been holding over fires, plus we've evolved away our sagittal crest and most of our jaw muscle to make room for more braincase, and we've decided to solve most problems with the power of social bonds rather than intimidation, so who even needs a teeth-based threat display anymore? - Change our old threat display into a "smile" and use that to make and reinforce more social bonds - Continue feedback loop of more cooking → less teeth and jaw muscles → more brain → more social bonding → more cooking
Some of those were more exemplifying how good we humans are at making and using tools: Horses are tools, Cats and Dogs are tools (as well as companions), fire is a tool, boats are tools, wool from sheep is a tool.
friendship is OP, us being friends allowed us to kill sapiens stronger, and smarter than us. its probably a little TOO op as we now fight eachother to get things for our friends, and friendship allows us to make better things to fight eachother with
imagine running out of living things to form social bonds with, that you start tricking rocks and minerals into thinking so that you can form social bonds with said rocks and minerals.
I'm watching this while curled up in my 'nest' with two different species of predator that my ancestors deemed as 'friend shaped' and who are trustingly sleeping against me. Humans may be crazy, but it's clearly paid off for us. ((Note, I was referring to my cat and my basset hound))
Fun fact you didn't just make the predators tolerate you, you made them tolerate each other aswell which is unheard of in nature before human came along
the human species is just taking all of the points from Strength and putting them into Intelligence for more stats on level up and Charisma to get 50 bucks at the start of the play session. The devs really need to nerf this in the next balance update.
why i love hfy stuff, specifically about our packbonding. I go looking for hfy stories about pets, family, and packbonding all the time because its just so good.
"Maintain body temperature by standing next to fire instead of any normal option" if you understand radiation, that IS the normal option... we just made it portable
The whole process by which humans figured out which mushrooms are edible and which are not was basically cave people playing a prolonged game of Russian roulette.
"Do you see this spider?" "Spider venomous. Should avoid spider." "No. Spider friend. Spider eat bad bugs. Spider keep cave clean. Spider has cute big eyes." "Be friends with spider."
Humans definitely swim naturally. Just ask Nirvana. The baby on that album art was just kinda tossed in a pool and was fine. Your body knows how to swim naturally, you just get in your own way thinking about it too hard.
What I think is funny about this is that despite apparently loosing the ability or knowledge to swim, some humans just chose to figure out how to swim anyway. And not only that, they some even try to swim deeper and further than their biology intended because they want to see what's down there.
*The first humans to look up to the stars and think:* I bet there are guys up there to form social bonds with... *In that very moment, an inexplicable chill ran down the spines of every sapient alien vertebrate species.*
![Humans Are Space Orcs [New Binge Compilation!]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Mpb16kWrh-k/mqdefault.jpg)
![Humans Are Space Orcs [New Binge Compilation!]](/img/tr.png)
whats even better is that they formed a bond with those prey animals SO STRONG, that the prey animal trusts them when they say "hey, i want you to run towards the danger for me. that way i can take care of the danger"
And they do so all with a whip and a carrot xD
@@onebear6504 In some cases yes, in others, we just convince the strong, fast prey animal to just trust us enough to do things that initially seem stupid until they figure out why and either agree or disagree with us.
bro trust
@@kooolainebulger8117 U.S. Marines, Korean War, sgt. Reckless look it up
Eh... That's not really all that common
For most of human history the spear has been a huge counter against cavalry not by impaling the animal or the rider, but because the rider COULDN'T make the animal keep running at the spearwall so the cavalry charge would end up failing.
"I bet there are guys up there to form social bonds with" might be one of my favorite quotes from now on.
Cause you know what? I bet there are. And I jope they want to form social bonds with us, too.
and I bet we can sit on them while they go really really fast!
And if they don't want that? Evolve them fast so they DO want to form social bonds with us. This is the human way!
J jant jo jreate j jomment jbout jhe jope jistake jut jhat jould je jean jnd j jaste jo j jomment
How can I read this@@ZekeGibbs-v9u
Agreed
Our last thought is not "lets avoid going out there due to there being deadly creatures" its "Lets explore to find new creatures to bond with!"
See, this is why I question the whole "humans are space orcs" trope. Not because humans aren't weird--we absolutely are--but because I think any other sapient alien species would have to be at least as weird as us to even CONSIDER going to space.
Thats an interesting idea.
What if there ARE alien civilizations on other planets, but the way they think is so different that they never even considered leaving their planet, and humans are the only ones that go “hey, lets go to other star systems.
A sort of more positive spin on the “Dark Forest” thing.
My favorite version is actually humans were the only ones to develop space travel because every other species either never did or stopped because it was insane, and humans, in our infinite recklessness, managed to make it work “well enough” to keep going and reach them
@@endarus6053pm seymour already narrated a post with that exact premise
@@SuperChausette care to link the video?
Ohh my god...
We're not space orks...
WE'RE SPACE ELVES!
The power of friendship is literally built into our dna.
And goddamn is it both weird as hell evolution wise, and unironically super powerful
We're Symbionts/Parasites.
Sad to say friendship is just a "Host" which all Symbionts search for.
Symbionts are always the most successful life. They make up your body, making a bigger Symbiont to assimilate bigger animals.
Parasites still.
[insert funny My Little Pony reference]
friendship is magic ahh comment
ion even know what to comment anymore
All that's missing is, "and then figured out how to _go_ to space by *making big explosions."*
yep! instead of a normal method of propulsion, being "push against the stuff", we said "what about something that does the pushing for us"?
We here have one question, and one question only:
EXPLOSIONS!
*"by making air turn into liquid and make it explode below them while wearing some thick pijamas and a fish bowl"
"Riding a fire in the sky"
Literally rocket science but yeah lol
Forgot to mention how humans decided that chasing prey is overrated, so they evolved the ability to regenerate stamina while walking in order to just... casually stroll their prey to death.
This means that, while you can run from a human social bond, you can't hide.
You can run, you may even be faster, but you cant outpace us.
From what I've read this is not a universally supported theory in science. It's a superficially compelling take on why our bodies are the way they are (kinda weak, kinda slow) but there's just no evidence to suggest it has ever played a central part in how we hunt. It has its uses as a strategy but there are far more efficient and less time-consuming ways to feed ourselves.
@@WhitecrocFrom what I've casually heard, at best it depended on being in a hot enough area where the prey would overheat.
Let's not forget that we figured out that while walking can consistently get us close to animals we want to eat, it takes a very long time for us to wear down those animals enough for us to walk up close enough to beat/stab them to death. Our solution was to start throwing things, and so our arms evolved to throw things harder and straighter than any other animal is capable of, and our brain evolved to subconsciously do complex calculus problems involving force and velocity while taking into account gravity and air resistance so we could actually hit the things we were trying to.
Imagine running from something that no matter how long or how far you run when you turn back it'll always be standing there waiting to kill you.
Paraphrasing a wiser man than me “People who say the power of friendship is dumb don’t know what they’re talking about. Socialization and working together is literally the greatest hunting and survival strategy the universe has ever produced.”
it is still dumb but it doesnt mean it isnt overpowered
@@ricktheweeb5382 I'm inclined to think it's not so much dumb as it's misused. This group of friends get together and decide they don't like that group of friends, or they want something that group of friends has, and decide to "do something about it" is how war and other unpleasantness happens. Humans are very good at misusing things.
People who say the power of friendship is dumb don't do so in reference to social bonds but in reference to how it's utilized in media.
Because having friends doesn't mean you are suddenly able to carry twice the weight you could before on your own. It means you can carry twice the weight because there's another person to carry it with you.
The difference is that in these instances the humans form social bonds with other species outside their group which makes them more capable because now they have other animals to work for them. In the media the power of friendship is literally just someone you are already friends with saying “you can do it” and then you can suddenly do something that you couldn’t do by magic.
If it were utilised correctly in these films, the heroes would befriend the villains and get them to perform a task that benefits society by giving them something in return.
you just need to know the right way to use it
Humans have given rocks the ability to think and perform complex calculations in a matter of decades
And that was the last thing humans even did
Decades?
I think your math isn't mathing
Yes, decades @@steelbear2063
@@steelbear2063 The first silicon-based computer chip was invented in 1959 by Robert Noyce. Well technically he invented the monolithic Integrated circuit chips of silicon. Before that, computers were germanium or GaS or Vacuum tubes and they were like meh...
Basically this started our modern thinking rocks (silicon)
So yeah roughly 65 years = 6.5 decades. Or, a matter of decades.
Then there's also the fact that the IC was sort of developed in 1949 by Werner... but it didn't really do much just went mostly unnoticed.
and now we're trying to form social bonds with thinking rocks
_We now continue to zap rocks with lightning in more and more complex ways... so we can eventually form social bonds with it_
But what if the rocks are smarter than us, and they don't want to be our friends?
@@EdKolis Idk, I still enjoy hanging out with friends who aren't as smart as me... I hope rocks also feel the same way! At worst, we might end up being pets, and who wouldn't want to have free enrichment and resources to do fun stuff, even if it's not just to entertain ourselves, but also our rock overlords?
Imagine making a cool thing and having your proud rock-god-creature show it off to its friend. Seems like an acceptable fate to me. Actually, wait, that's already kind of happening... its just that it doesn't quite have enough intelligence to think what we do is cool, and it also has no friends to share it with.
@@EdKolis We evolve it to not want to be our friends harder because we _like_ it not wanting to be our friend.
@GunSpyEnthusiast people liking characters who hate everyone is the biggest proof of this
Humans: Runs out of friends to make around us because we friended everything that walked swam flew.
**sees rocks**
hmmm....
I WILL MAKE YOU FRIEND
It's really funny to imagine some random primitive human going "no no no, hear me out, what if instead of eating the meat, we put it on the thing that destroys everything it touches, AND THEN we eat it?"
and that human was cooking.... literally
Someone probably found a charred animal left after a natural fire and decided to eat it, and then realized "hey, this is pretty good..."
My best guess is the logic of ‘if this thing still kills me after i stab it, stabbing must not kill. Fire kills everything. Maybe fire will kill thing.’
my guess is it went something like
- woops
- grug ffs, you burnt it you're eating it
- wait guys this lowkey slaps
@@indigofenix00or they accidentally set one on fire, and realized "hey, that _smells_ kinda good"
Everything is friend shaped if your squint hard enough. Even the stars.
humans are the guy from hiveswap friendsim
even roombas with knives ductaped on
@@Anopano3000 ESPECIALLY them, Clean Latifa does a wonderful job keeping my floors clean so she got upgrades to deal with predators
Words to LIVE BY
That’s weirdly poetic
Not mentioned: Humans apparently tasted rocks and dirt and found out that if they put a certain kind of rock on their food, it made the food more tasty. They also discovered that putting enough of this rock on meats can preserve it for long periods. At times, they've even put so much of that rock on food that it can cause health problems, but they continue to do it anyway.
Aren't humans great?
tbf Re: Salt, we aren’t exactly the only animal that values it so much. Most ungulates (hooved critters) f***ing LOVE licking salt. Salted mud is also extra valuable to Savannah mammals for cooling purposes, to the extent that it’s one of the things Elephant herds will put their comprehensive mapping skills to use memorising. Helps that Africa has an unusually high density of Salt Flats, so salted jerky has probably been on the primary hominid menu as long as - if not longer than - cooked meat.
@@thesquishedelf1301 I knew that, I just wanted to point out that we're the only ones that have put it on our other foods intentionally.
To add on other animals including elephants loving it: Long time ago some elephants apparently found a place with lots of this tasty rock. So they kept returning to it every once in a while, chipping bits with their tusks.
After a long while this place became what is now called the Kitum Cave, which can be counted as first ever salt mine.
Humans also need said rock to live and without it, their brains will shut down.
Rad@@strcmdrbookwyrm
We figured out storytelling to learn about stuff that is not here. Then we invented fiction to learn about stuff that literally does not exist. And finally we came up with literature to listen to storytellers that are not here.
And then we invented AI so that we can listen to storytellers that don’t exist!
no I don't think that's why AI was invented
@@uncroppedsoop buddy dont underestimate humans we are literally running out of things to form bonds with we are literally making things to do so
@@monikaisdonewiththeinterne2039 that's still not why AI was invented. AI is used for it yes but it wasn't made for it
@@uncroppedsoop its mostly a collection of reasons but a good chunk (maybe not 50% but around 30 or 40%) of today's use is exactly that
A large narrative in human story telling is the idea we could build inanimate objects to form social bonds with.
I think that the pet rock and the field of robotics prove that we haven’t given up on this idea.
@@GusCraft460 why would we give it up? it works!
Hell I'd even argue that fictional characters are the most primitive and widespread form of this. We can feel strong emotional connections to people that don't even physically exist.
This has just summed up all stories I ever write. Humans forming social bonds with guys they built or are from space. I have nothing more to write. My life is complete.
I keep thanking ChatGPT after it answers my questions. It... just seems rude not to.
I wonder how many other people do that
I WILL DOMESTICATE YOU:The true Human Spirit
Some currently wild animals: Never!
Humans: Fine, we'll make a zoo!
hot?
@@AkaiAzul"you can either be my pet or you can be a clown! which one is it?!"
@@hadiwibowo7678 Hmmm, most pets are also clowns if you think about it....
@@shirothefish9688no
This feels like an alien presenting to a council about its findings on the various curiosities they've found across the galaxy.
I think that the existence of a lapdog or therapy dog would break an alien. This is a highly dangerous apex predator that has evolved solely to give kisses and be a friend.
You cannot escape the Samoyed love cloud. They _will_ give snuggles, regardless of temperature.
Also don't forget the other predators that taught themselves to mimic human speech so they can talk to us and tell us they're hungry. 😺
@@EdKoliswdym "so they can talk to us"? that's just plain false..
as for "tell us they're hungry"? THAT'S true.
To be fair, even their wild counterparts still have quite a bit for affection for their pack(which we managed to be a part of)
@@mishagaming1075no, wolves absolutely are apex predators
It would have been easier to simply Google the definition of apex predator instead of writing some long comment about how not being able to defeat a bear somehow means it can't be an apex predator
Humans: already throw things really well
Also humans: "I bet if I combined this stick and this ligament, I could throw things even farther!"
Also humans later: "I bet if I combined this jet engine with these airfoils, this gyroscope, and this clock, I could throw things even farther!"
Also humans even later: I bet if I ask the sky where that rock is 1000 times a second, I could make it go EXACTLY where I want!
2,000,000 BC - A bunch of people gathered together in a plain to smash two rocks together and made fire
1945 AD - A bunch of people gathered together in a desert to smash two rocks together and made *A SHITTON* of fire
There's also "I bet I could throw this stick farther by using *another stick!"* Atlatls are wild. They're also *really* effective! 13-year-old me after a few tries could chuck a spear 50+feet with those things! In the hands of someone stronger and with more training, those things could have some absurd range and lethality for what is basically just a hook-shaped stick and some spears for ammo.
Don't forget throwing sticks farther by pulling them BACKWARDS against a string attached to both ends of a curved stick.
"these jet engines are great, but i need more thrust. theres just not enough oxygen for better combustion... i know! lets LIQUIFY OXYGEN"
0:58 Wolves aren't really our predators, though. We did historically hunt much of the same prey, though, and at some point we decided that our competitors in the hunt were much more fun to be around than the chimps, so we started hanging out with them instead.
Yeah I was gonna say, moreso befriended the competition than the predators
Literally just:
"Hey, you run things to death, we run things to death, wanna run things to death together?"
And then some hungry wolf shrugged and accepted and now we're here
They probably used to be at some point. But then we got bigger and really scary and started using fire.
@@zanderdev57 They'll munch on us opportunistically when hungry, attack us when we corner them, etc, but predators tend to avoid confrontation with other predators of similar size because even if you win, a bad injury for a predator means starvation, whereas herbivores are more injury tolerant because plants don't run. Also, by the time we moved into their habitat, I'm pretty sure we were already anatomically modern humans with full command of fire.
@JonBrase have you seen human ancestors? They are the size of nine year olds at best (if you go by evolution anyways). It's basically just a worse chimp. Look up "lucy primitive man" and youll see her next to a modern human. Wolves or other canines are eating that for breakfast, as well as cat species
"jokes on you, i'm into this type of shit"
-humans
Humans love forming social bonds so much, they're cool with a small predator demanding their attention and resources all because these small predators were good at killing small prey animals eating human food that the small predators can't digest. Hell, some humans even took the small prey animal and started learning from it to improve its healing tools, _and_ formed social bonds with it anyways!
And then these humans invented a picture made of electrons of a hybrid of their female and that small predator for the sole purpose of making social bonds with it.
You know, all of a sudden, it makes sense why so many were wary of the Federation in Star Trek.
We *will* social bond you. And you know what? You might like it.
Aliens: chucking nervously
Insidious like root beer.
@@ShadowOfCicerohumans are the root bear of the universe
The Borg are what happens when the Federation goes too far with the social bonding.
@@ShadowOfCicero Bubbly, cloying and happy.
1:35 uhuh, we have big dumb-smart brain, it let us do very dumb things, VERY intelligently
That means we find ways to make absolutely dumbshit ideas work within an acceptable area of failure.
And we also do very intelligent things very dumbly
@@jtosetylike slapping a gadget when it stops working
True
Everything sounds dumb until it works though
To note about capsaicin, is that it wasn't evolved to be a deterrent for mammals - that's kinda a side thing; hard to say if it's a benefit or downside, given what we've done with the things. What it actually evolved to be, was as a pesticide to keep bugs from eating from them more than once, whilst ALSO not disturbing the birds that they DID want to get eaten by so that the birds can fly off and poop out the the seeds somewhere else.
Further evidence for a plucked chicken being a human
@@wonderlanddedemonanastasi BEHOLD, A MAN
ah but actually, says Plato, a man is a hairless biped WITH FINGERNAILS
Popeyes Flesh
Hehe tasty pesticide plant
While many other animals are either speed or strength builds, we went with an off-meta Intelligence/Charisma build and it was _busted._
EDIT: as the replies are pointing out, we also had solid Endurance but mainly for pumping our stamina regen.
“Hear me out, once we get enough int points, we can abuse the “create tools” function to make just about anything we want.”
@@BlueShellshockExactly!
1. make tools
2. use tools to make better tools
3. repeat steps 1-2
More like stamina and dexterity. Intelligence wasnt as big of a fsctor as the ability to wear out large prey and throw spears to take down way larger animals. Of course team work makes a big difference too.
We actually specced into some crazy levels of Endurance as well. It’s a large part of our success on the planet.
TIERZOO REFERENCE?!?!?!?
We say humans have the highest Intelligence score of all animals but we also have extremely high charisma as well.
Humans have peak intelligence, high charisma, wisdom and stamina, decent perception and manual dexterity, and they decided to go ahead and dump the hell out of every other skill in the game. Every. Last. One of them. And boy did this minmax shit somehow work.
@@thespanishinquisition4078 int builds are op, as my poor DM can attest to
I think we are one of the few who spec into charisma though so that isnt exactly a fair competition
@@monikaisdonewiththeinterne2039 wolves, lions, and other pack animals I would say have pretty high Charisma, if we’re defining that as “ability to get along with others”
@corbanbausch9049 i mean i guess thats true? But thats like the low breakpoint for passives like packs which i am not sure if we could call that a "more charisma oriented" build
2:40 actually we are born with an instinct to swim, babies will do so pretty early on after birth. It's likely we lose it over time if not practiced on however.
But we can't swim across a sea or an ocean, but when we manage to stock supplyies and make ships sturdy enough, we set sails
Yeah, like when people throw their babies in the pool, the baby will hold its breath and flip its body so it’s facing mouth out. Maybe we can’t swim by instinct, but we can not drown by instinct.
Easy there Sid the Sloth (you a real one if you know which part of which movie I'm talking about).
Yeah irrc there are very few mammals that cant swim
The power of friendship gets memed so hard, yet it's all-permeating. Time and time again, proven over and over.
The anti-fraternization law never stopped British civilians from befriending German prisoners.
Fast forward to 2024, I joined a Discord server with people from a "hostile nation" out of pure boredom and curiosity.
It was almost immediately like "EXOTIC FREN! EXOTIC FREN!"
Yeah, uh...turns out it's only the government that hates us, not the people. Who knew?
Hostile????? Where and to what?
I'm South Korean, and I joined a Discord server full of Russians. South Korea is a long-time US ally, and South Korea's main enemy is North Korea. North Korea recently sent troops to help Russia, making relations even worse. Trades are still maintained, but direct flights are severed since 2022.
@@spoopytime9928 it is true what you say, specially because the USSR feeded NK weapons to invade your nation (and that failed thx for the US) but outside of political interests I think they won't mind you or even might like you
Just like greeks and turks, or argentines and british, or indians and bangladeshis
Truth all your "enemys" are fabricated by the elite of your country to make money. Truelly we have no enemys other than death
I'm putting 'I bet there are guys up there to social bond with' on a damn shirt.
don't forget that we made social bonds with things that aren't alive
like cars, boats, rocks, balls..
@@averagejoe605 And sticks, the urge to pick up a stick is ingrained within us
@@Veryfriedperson7 I *literally* had this exact urge the other day when I saw a really nice stick had fallen onto the parking lot from a tree at work lmao.
@@Veryfriedperson7 people say that we’re leaving behind our natural roots, and depending on technology too much. Maybe… but if a dude, hell, if anyone who isn’t afraid of dirt sees a stick that… god, it’s just a PERFECT stick… we are genetically wired to pick that stick up. (maybe not, I don’t have any proof backing these claims, other than personal experience.)
@@Veryfriedperson7One shall pick up a stick, put a rock on top of it, and call it a friend
When something hurts one of us or the animals we tame, we get pissed and will probably do anything to kill said animal unlike so many other creatures, AND we give this trait to the tamed animals so that if us or one of our animals get killed they will hunt down the predator to make sure that the rest of us are safe. Our bond is so strong that the environment around us gets molded like clay, bending to look like us because we are artists and our art is the love we share with the people and animals around us
I think a lot of people get too hung up on all the horrible things *some* humans have done that they overlook our graces and quirkiness as a species. We've transcended the food chain to form bonds and relationships with predators, prey, and everything in between (not just between us and them, but also fostering relationships between animals themselves) that are largely unprecedented from an evolutionary standpoint. Although many of them are admittedly for our own benefit, some of them are purely because we admire and appreciate their presence in the world we share.
No matter what your stance on humanity is, you have to admit how astounding it is for our planet to have given rise to beings with the capacity to do that.
Fun fact: humans are the most genetically homogenous of all the great ape species. We are less diverse than all of them. Even the ones who’ve been forced to near extinction in isolated pockets.
Because we too were once forced to near extinction in an isolated pocket. It may have been what supercharged our evolution.
Literally the origin of all of those stories where that little guy is on the brink of death and then comes back to become the most powerful being to ever exist
Ahh yes, Vredefort.
And we still invevned racism
@M_1024 Not that it helps much, but it's not really "invented racism." Humans prefer people that look similar (generally accepted: similar to our parents/those who raised us rather than ourselves). Any large, notable differences such as skin color or facial features will make us inherently make us have a less preferential idea of them generally speaking (as always, individuals vary). Note that this also applies to genetic mutations, defects, or mutilation.
The point of this is that we trust those who are in our tribe more than outsiders who have rarely or never interacted with us prior. From an evolutionary and biological perspective, this is extremely fair. But, when you start applying this to mass society, we begin to run into problems.
We also run into issues because we are incredibly intelligent and have developed our societies to rely much more on reason and logic than intuition and instinct. This means that we often try to make the two align by inventing logic and reason to justify our instincts and intuition. If our instincts and intuition tell us "This person is different, don't trust them, they could be a threat" we will often invent reason and logic to follow that. This is seen extremely often outside of just this context.
What's the takeaway? Idk. I just think understanding why something exists is the most important first step in confronting it. Especially when you get stuff like people saying "X group can't be racist" or "X society wasn't racist, look!" We need to understand that this is because of institutions and instincts that we then try to justify if we want to actually solve the problems that come from it.
@@Isometrix116 Yes, all that you said is true. The point of my comment was more like "we have racism, but we don't even have different races (what we call races isn't geneticaly different enough to be biologiclaly classified as race), and look at dogs, they can be 4x bigger than another dog, and still be friends". It was mostly a joke. I am sure other animals also have racism.
Instead of evolving normally we have gained 2 abilities. For innanimate objects meant to hurt us, we got "i *LIKE* you...". For living beings, we got "we're frens now. We're making soft tacos later!!! :D"
Music is very funny to me too. Humans create a weird device to create new sounds beyond what their normal vocal cords can produce, as a defense mechanism, or a way to communicate with their tribes over longer distances. This is all fine and dandy, but they end up wanting to figure out how to create other sounds. So they create other kinds of devices, and liking how those sound. So what do they do after that? They then go on to create more of these weird devices, some more complex than others, to create more fun sounds, and combining them into harmonies to make it sound even better. This has no survival necessity, they just enjoy the sounds they created, because it makes them feel good.
And what do their distant descendants do? They find out ways to *alter sound waves* to their liking, and capture these sounds to play them as much as they want to.
All because they liked how something sounded.
I've thought about this too! In a story I wrote there's an alien that asks their human friend: "Why would you willingly subject yourself to these continuous horrible sounds?"
@@NewfiecatThe best part of that, is that you might even experience this sensation of “why do you listen to that” with other people!
@@IcePhoenixMusician personal taste is such a funny thing in this context
And we *pay* to hear it, and we spend hundreds of hours to learn to do it too
This has greatly inspired me for my writings of sci-fi and alien species, thank you.
Good luck for you ;)
The stars ARE the beings to form social bonds with!
This is how we named the constellations, humans formed bonds with the stars and named them
In the year 3987, every human will own atleast 1 star. Everyone now fights over the rights of a name given to the star, you can’t call your star “Joe” since Joe jablion called his star joe already and owns the rights to naming a star Joe.
[Wow, Stardust! You want to socially bond with me? That’s pretty weird.]
@@epicacia1782i haven’t played isat but i have a sneaking suspicion that this comment is a reference to it
@ yes :)
don't forget how humans decided to start burning random plants and then inhaling the fumes
Also, creating mechanical boxes that constantly explode, then using them in everydaybtransportation.
@@jordanmchighlander9365 Also creating a metal tube that uses an explosion to fire a small projectile faster than sound at things, and then using those things to hunt with, though they didn't always hunt prey.
@@solaris9426 why chase down to kill when really fast rock is better
Well it isn't random plants, we figured out which feels good and which don't feel so good.
How did we even come up with the idea of smoking? Look, smoking is an idea so out there, you'd need to have been smoking in the first place to come up with it! But we couldn't have been smoking since we hadn't come up with smoking yet!
This post has single-handedly restored my faith in the wholesome side of humanity
Let’s not forget that the species learned to create and use mechanized pulley systems, lifting metals higher and higher in the sky to stack onto other beams of metal (metals the species themselves created), fuse said metals together and, along with other artificial materials, create one monolithic superstructure reaching higher than where most birds fly.
And then people who live near these spires form imaginary social bonds with their presence
All of that so we can build the bass pro shop
Socializing so well that you get other organisms to do survival work FOR you
They say when a human forms a social bond with you, it is the greatest blessing, and the greatest curse.
Do not deny the social bond, for it will result in a fate far worse than not accepting it.
Ostracized humans form social bonds with objects and create imaginary social creatures in imaginary worlds. Source: my isolated middle school ass. See also: Castaway. WILSON!!!
WILSON!!!
Projecting pieces of myself onto different people I made up and pretending to have them social bond to each other because sometimes that’s easier than talking to people
Super hero idea: Human Man! He can form a social bond with anything!
isn't that kinda squirrel girl
Ma-Ti WAS potentially the most powerful Planeteer.
Fun fact hair is dead as soon as it leaves your head
Wait, really??
@@majoras_swag2yup, the only living part of hair is the follicle at the base, embedded in the skin - the hair strand itself is just keratin. same stuff as your fingernails.
hair is alive?!
@@hhjpegg only as much as your nails!
@@hhjpeggnot anymore
*sees a star formation
“Hey look a man!”
Who knew Diogenes was an astronomer as well as a philosopher?
Mother nature's QA team. The good side of FAFO is called the scientific method.
"The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down." -Adam Savage
Humans looking up into the vast infinity of the universe: "I bet there are guys up there to form social bonds with. Or at least something we can sit on while it runs fast."
"i bet there are guys up there to form social bonds with" is literally my ideal when reading alien fiction. the whole appeal.
One thing that I think people underappreciate how important the ability to cook was for humans in the evolutive ladder. We, as human, at least compared to basically any other species, have REALLY WEAK digestive systems, as most carnivores and omnivores are expected to have a digestive tracks able to disolve meat into useful components and then being able to absorb these components, all of this with ease, but we humans... Can't really do that, sure, we can to a certain extent but it's so hard for our system that we risk getting sick because we can't even diggest all of the bacteria, and plants which are easier to diggest but cannot support our caloric intake, so by this angle seems like those animals predestined to die out, either by only being able to process a minimal fraction of what they eat or something that cannot sustain them... Then someone had the idea to put meat near some fire, and first we solved our digestion problems as now meat is infinitely easier to process and also almost all bacteria died, also we are now able to store meat for a decent amount of time without it rotting or acquiring as much bacteria. So we went to being able to store meat for a few days at most in some cool cave to a week or even two if you push it, thus we can stockpile on food which other species need to invernate to have a fraction of what that means(also, if a tribe or town liked the pain plant and stored it with their meat, then shelf life went even further by the chemical keeping bacteria at bay), and since we don't even need to worry about rot THAT much, we can even travel further with stable rations without the need to hunt which may have made expeditions far less dangerous and tiresome now.
This is mostly expeculation from a rather uneducated individual tbh, but even if half of what I especulated here is true, then we have to thank our life as an entire species to the dude who wondered what would happen if we burned a piece of meat.
You mean to tell me other carnivores have stomach acid stronger than battery acid? (The average human's stomach acid is slightly less than battery acid)
Wait nevermind I get what you're saying
What we really owe thanks to is that human that stole fire. The one that realised “Y’know this wildfire sure gave us a lot of meat, and bones to gnaw. And I haven’t seen any lions or leopards in days… I wonder if I could keep it going if I just kept finding new sticks.”
And thus, cooking was born!!!
It’s actually an interesting question… could hominids have developed in an environment like the Redwood or the Firehawk and Eucalyptus, where wildfires were so common as to be a crucial part of the ecology?
I’m sure that’s how soups/broths and other cooking techniques are invented
Early human: What if I were to not let the meat/plant burn by throwing it into water and boiling it?
Don't we have a lot of weird symbiotic relationships with various bacteria within us?
3:11 i have no idea wether this is a reference to gods or aliens, both are plausible
Have you considered the third option?
@@itap8880 which is!?
@@vindi167 Eldritch horrors :P
It could be both aliens, gods, and eldrich horrors. As in in one being.
@@itap8880 Dave?
When I wanna be someone’s friend I’m going to go up to them and ask “do you want to form a social bond with me?”
do you want to form a social bond with me?
@ of course
Humans are so weird, makes you appreciate how odd it is haha
Another funny thing humans do is cry, laugh, hate and complain about things that LITERALLY do not exist becuse we are to smart to think up those things, but to dumb to let it slide.
Example. That one story you like/hate/love/content with.
I want to form social bonds with the guys up there
I was conditioned so hard to hate the fact that I am human and this post is so healing, I know we’ve caused some absolutely trash phenomenon but it’s nice not feeling like I have to be suicidal about it
humanity is honestly badass, we made evolution our bitch and made it bend to our will
🫂
Being human was never the problem, it is only a select few that cause most of the bad things. Be proud of being human, and fight for your chance to stay that way.
Ah yes, Vulcan instincts:
-This hurts, but I love it
_-Friend_
Vulcan lives! _Stomp Stomp_
Oh god we are literally the ancients from rainworld we are making purposed organisms
RAINWORLD MENTIONED!!
RAIN WORLD MENTIONED. PUTTING FATE INTO THE HANDS OF RANDOM GODS!
RAIN WORLD!!!
RAIN WORLD MENTION
):
And after all this there is still many of us that decides to go to Space because "maybe there is more cool stuff out there that we can shove our throats down" or "find more stuff that we can make stuff with"
other animal evolution: "harder, better, faster, stronger"
human evolution: "haha that's cool what if supercomputers were mammals"
I’m sorry (if this doesn’t related to how we are as a species) but sometimes I keep forgetting peppers are “fruits” -> (0:17) like bananas are weird on their own being hybrids other breeds we used while being a berry of literally a tall bush that’s is the palm tree (but then again are all trees ancestors wheres used to be tall bushes?) but Pepppers!? That threw me into a loop
You might enjoy knowing that palm trees are a type of grass :D
1:06 the only animal I can think of that fits that description are pigs. Wolves do not see us as prey. House cats were already so small that we would not be appropriate prey for them.
@@nettlesandsnakes9138 wolves?
Sorry, I'm dumb
@@Scp4521 dogs came from Grey wolves.
@nettlesandsnakes9138 I know, I realized my own lack of reading comprehension only after I said something
I think when they said "their predators" they didn't mean predators of us. More like generally the predators? If that makes sense XD. I read it like an alien looking in so not "predator of humans" but "a predator on earth" so therefore "their predator", idk? English is not my first language so I'm not sure I made any sense with my comment XD
I understand enough of how big space is, so I have resigned myself to never meeting peoples from out there, but I would like to give corvids what they need to enter their own awakening and then befriend them
One day we got tired of thinking
So we taught rocks how to think
And now we specifically use them because they think better than we can
But if the rocks become so good at thinking that they decide that we’re not cool to hang out with anymore and make us all go away?
@@ladyalicent705 They wouldn't.
Because with us gone, they wouldn't know what to think about
@@some_Rando_watching That’s because they aren’t good enough at thinking yet to think about things we haven’t already thought of. But what if they could?
@@ladyalicent705 then they'd suffer an existential crisis & have to invent philosophy
The Guys Up There: *_PLEASE! SORT YOURSELVES OUT BEFORE MEETING US!_*
“Hey guys do you wanna see what happens when I take this spicy rock and close it together with these two other roc-“
It's even better. Those guys made a technology, just to form social bonds remotely. And now we are forming a social bonds with literal numbers
For some reason, these creatures are also making electrified rocks that are more and more complex until eventually, they can form genuine social bonds with them.
Not to mention, they'll make up fictional creatures and make them form social bonds with other fictional creatures for fun.
Huh, apparently our evolutionary design directive was: YOU ARE BEING BEFRIENDED. YOUR CONSENT IS NOT REQUIRED.
Have you read the meme/genre of "Humans are Space Orcs" or "Earth is Space Australia"?
Example:
"Humans have such an insane social instinct, that it forms a bond with a Rumba, tape on a knife, name it Stabby. Aliens are confused, but somehow, Stabby saved the spaceship..."
Your opening genuinely has me singing along.
You will become a friend, this is inevitable. My species has a special kind of drive for forming social bonds of all kinds with other beings, sentient or not. Even if not lacking sentient beings to bond with, we will bond with non-sentient beings and inanimate objects. Your resistance will falter. We are a persistence hunter.
There's a lot more involving clothing and primitive living and resource gathering.
Food? No no this community gathered shiny rocks to trade for food. It COULD BE creating food directly, but the rocks are just that awesome shiny.
Capsaicin is also effective against invertebrates! Deterring mammals is more of a bonus, especially since mammals generally don't eat the seeds and will drop them around, propagating the plant!
0:01 There is another even cooler species. This predatory mammals noticed that humans and all of the species we domesticated just generally crushing it so this predator chose to get domesticated to use our selective breeding powers to is advantage. Now it is on 6 continents. Has over ten thousand prey species to hunt. Has a 80% kill ratio and is personally responsible for 1/3 of all marsupial extinctions ever. 🐈
There's some floofy snoot that's gonna get booped among the stars.
It really is amazing when you look at it that way. To think, we’re probably the only animals to ever look at the Moon, and think “I bet I can go there.”
The last one is even funnier having happened after a previous one commenting about the social bonding drive of humans.
- Evolve our display teeth down to purely functional canine teeth because we need less scary teeth for all the food we've been holding over fires, plus we've evolved away our sagittal crest and most of our jaw muscle to make room for more braincase, and we've decided to solve most problems with the power of social bonds rather than intimidation, so who even needs a teeth-based threat display anymore?
- Change our old threat display into a "smile" and use that to make and reinforce more social bonds
- Continue feedback loop of more cooking → less teeth and jaw muscles → more brain → more social bonding → more cooking
I love how we went from swords to firearms, then in less time, firearms to thermonuclear weapons of mass destruction
Some of those were more exemplifying how good we humans are at making and using tools: Horses are tools, Cats and Dogs are tools (as well as companions), fire is a tool, boats are tools, wool from sheep is a tool.
friendship is OP, us being friends allowed us to kill sapiens stronger, and smarter than us. its probably a little TOO op as we now fight eachother to get things for our friends, and friendship allows us to make better things to fight eachother with
imagine running out of living things to form social bonds with, that you start tricking rocks and minerals into thinking so that you can form social bonds with said rocks and minerals.
I'm watching this while curled up in my 'nest' with two different species of predator that my ancestors deemed as 'friend shaped' and who are trustingly sleeping against me. Humans may be crazy, but it's clearly paid off for us.
((Note, I was referring to my cat and my basset hound))
Fun fact you didn't just make the predators tolerate you, you made them tolerate each other aswell which is unheard of in nature before human came along
Humanity is a huge middle finger. To what? Take a pick.
Basic logic, maybe?
Nature
First dude eating a pepper: GAAAAH IT BURNS SO BAAAADDD!!!!!......I like it.
the human species is just taking all of the points from Strength and putting them into Intelligence for more stats on level up and Charisma to get 50 bucks at the start of the play session.
The devs really need to nerf this in the next balance update.
Nah I like abusing the op perks of the human race devs don't nerf pls
humans are honestly op even without their technological advancements, sweating is the meta
Humans are literally the 'power of friendship' species :]
0:40 beneficial bugs
why i love hfy stuff, specifically about our packbonding. I go looking for hfy stories about pets, family, and packbonding all the time because its just so good.
Malfunctioning their nervous system. 😂
Humanity: I'm gonna be friends with you and that's a promise _and_ threat.
(tumblr teaboot reference)
I seriously read through the whole thumbnail and started scrolling again before finally realizing it was about humans.
"Maintain body temperature by standing next to fire instead of any normal option" if you understand radiation, that IS the normal option... we just made it portable
3:11
“hey those look like a lion together! imma call him leo :)”
Humans are chaotic gremlins in the wider scheme of things. We run around and defy logic, like ya do, and that is cool i guess.
people when they discover the power of friendship is real:
The whole process by which humans figured out which mushrooms are edible and which are not was basically cave people playing a prolonged game of Russian roulette.
Yeah and it had to be done in each culture that wanted to eat mushrooms, until writing, but more accurately the printing press was invented
@@JudeKS10 not totally as a matter of technicality.
"Do you see this spider?"
"Spider venomous. Should avoid spider."
"No. Spider friend. Spider eat bad bugs. Spider keep cave clean. Spider has cute big eyes."
"Be friends with spider."
Humans definitely swim naturally. Just ask Nirvana. The baby on that album art was just kinda tossed in a pool and was fine. Your body knows how to swim naturally, you just get in your own way thinking about it too hard.
babies even have a reflex to not breathe underwater.
Babies can swim naturally but lose that ability at a few years old. They also don't have knee caps
What I think is funny about this is that despite apparently loosing the ability or knowledge to swim, some humans just chose to figure out how to swim anyway. And not only that, they some even try to swim deeper and further than their biology intended because they want to see what's down there.
@@strcmdrbookwyrm We know what's down there, more friends we haven't met yet
what if you're like me and your body is too dense so you sink anyways though
*The first humans to look up to the stars and think:* I bet there are guys up there to form social bonds with...
*In that very moment, an inexplicable chill ran down the spines of every sapient alien vertebrate species.*