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I mean sure, I guess its important where aliens rank on the Kardashev Scale, but lets be honest, the real question we need the answer to is where aliens rank on the tier list.
Everybody says "Kurzgesagt narrator and animators are great" but what about the background music creators? they are becoming better and better every year.
The fact that humans can think on this large of a scale is really impressive in its own right. As long as our extra-terrestrial gods will hear us out, I think humans will survive. Let’s hope they don’t run into flat-earthers.
@@ValouroverFear If humanity doesn't self destruct in the next 500 years and invests more resources in technology within that time we for certain will be a Type 2 civilization. Mastering space flight within our Solar system would be key. Mining asteroids and certain moons starting with ours for helium 3 we'll get there. I'm sad I won't live to see it. Look how far we came in 100 or so years with the Einsteins, Tesla's and now Elon and Bezos. Enough innovation and we'll take over this Solar system and maybe even colonize other moons even planets! Imagine colonizing a dwarf planet by building a small space station and mining it for precious metals because in the end it all comes down to resources.
@@ValouroverFear we kill millions of members of our own species every year, either by violent crime, or war, or simply hoarding vital resources. we prioritize our individual selves over our whole species. i doubt a type 2 civilization like us in that way could ever even become a type 3 in the first place, since the more they advance, the faster they push back against their own progress via war. even if they don't eradicate themselves with antimatter bombs or some other super sci-fi weapon we haven't even conceived of, they could still destroy themselves faster than they expand, and never actually go further than controlling a few solar systems as result. even if they did become a type 3, they'd likely change their ways as result of it. a type 3 civilization has virtually unlimited resources and energy, far more than they could ever use. things like killing other species would no longer provide any advantage to them, so even if they were selfish they still wouldn't have any reason to do that. there aren't any materials on earth that they can't get unlimited of from other parts of the galaxy, and if anything it'd be more of a hassle for them to take from us than from planets without life, since our nukes could still delay them from mining whatever it is they want from earth for a few weeks at least. there's just no point in stealing or war when you become that powerful, it actually becomes more trouble than it's worth, so it makes no sense that they'd be "evil". compared to that, we're pretty primitive.
Or it is like one of those do not interact with tribes on earth. "They aren't techonologically advanced enough and are happier how they are currently. Let's leave them to their own devices."
“Hmm dude I made a mistake” “I left the end button in the universe let’s hope the humans or those weird green looking dudes don’t find it” “I’m sorry pls don’t erase me”
The concept of the dark forest combined with the Fermi paradox and the Zoo Hypothesis, it could be possible that we are shielded by an even more advanced civilization so as to protect us from the other inhabitants of the Dark forest until we mature enough to venture out on our own
@@darklex5150 Could be that they like to study us or keep us as a form of reason to continue existing. after all, the example being that they are so advanced, we are just mere ants or wild animals to them. their reasons being beyond our comprehension, or they could just be bored
@@CairoFaustine i don't see the point in studying us, we can't bring anything to them, it's like studying about monkeys, but way more useless. If we talked about a single individual then maybe yes, they could be bored but we are talking about an entire civilization; civilizations don't get bored. Besides, i refuse to believe that we cannont comprehend the motives of such a civilization, they aren't type 3.
@@CairoFaustine or we could possibly be their creation, why? Maybe they just want to keep their legacy in our DNA, *or maybe a teenage alien got SO bored one day and created us on pure accident*
@@marcoottina654broadcasting isn't the problem. EM waves have a relatively low travel distance where they are still usable. I mean the waves won't go away but they would be basically noise .
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Yo I love your videos and they are definitely good to watch when you are board or listen to on a bus or other. Its crazy how you pack so much knowledge into 10 minute long videos. Great work to all of the team at Kurzgesagt. Keep up the great work!
I hope the comment-format of: X; something Y: another thing .. dies soon. Making everything into a meme-dialogue is a lazy way to express thoughts! I'm empathetic to the shrinking expanse of our attention, and this format is easy to consume, but it's being used FAR to much.
"Hey man what's up" "I'm fine, but I'll have a dull journey" "Where are you going?" "To my aunt's house" "And where is it?" "At the other side of the supercluster"
Whoever is the narrator, has a amazing voice just eight for the job, and your team works really good with animating . And you guys are very smart. I know a0 much information now!
"To ants, we are so complex and powerful, we might as well be Gods" Human: *accidentally steps on ant hill Ants: *TONIGHT WE TASTE THE FLESH OF IMMORTALS*
Statistically speaking, the Universe is so big that there has to be a solar system out there where atleast 3 earth like planets exist and where intelligent life evolved and innovated at around the exact same pace on all 3 of them. Then they all started exploring space at the same time, found eachother, and had battles just like some kind of marvel movie. That must be so epic, wherever it is happening.
@@MSIXVI06 My hope is that civilizations that don't learn to get along eventually destroy themselves. So humanity would have two paths ahead. Become better or go extinct.
This is an interesting vlog about Prof Kardashev adapting Prof Leslie White’s Culture Law (Culture = Energy × Technology) to search/compare colonies or civilization & then expanded by Prof Carl Sagan. Technically it can be used to compare human colonies/countries/civilizations with non-human colonies/countries/civilizations (e.g. apes, wolves, ants, corals, fungi, algae, etc.) although anything beyond Class/Тип 3 sounds too hard/crazy to comprehend. Sadly if one compares US, China & Russia, it is sad to watch these “Super Power” nations are caught between the devil (terrorists, brutal-police, corrupt-officials, etc.) & the deep blue sea (fascism, pandemic, economic-depression, etc.). However this is Not very surprising since Dr Kaku & the late Prof Hawking have already warned that humanity will face greater & greater hardships+dangers as it progress towards Тип 1 status. Unfortunately there is also no/little chance of turning back the clock as the late Prof Sagan (& his team) has calculated that humanity has moved pass the Тип 0.7 status. In addition Dr Crabtree & Dr Woodley discovered evidence that with each passing generations, many humans are getting genetically/biological weaker, dumber, slower or fearter despite improved/improving food, water, healthcare, nutrition, internet, telecom, education, sanitation, infrastructure, etc. To make the situation worse, scientists has uncovered the 1st Species/Lifeform of Mass Destruction/Extinction (SMD i.e. a species/lifeform that literally had directly/indirectly cause massive destruction/extinction to multiple species/lifeforms). As such it is believed that there are now at least 2 active SMDs on Earth & a 3rd one maybe emerging/awakening. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail over the fanatics+hardliners & allow humanity to overcome these hardships+dangers. May the deaths+suffering of the innocents be merciful 🙏
I love everything about this channel, the narrator’s voice makes me focus, the background music makes me exited and let’s not talk about how incredibly good the animation is
Videos like this really make me wish that when we die, we enter a sort of "spectator mode", where we can travel anywhere and observe the universe unfold and progress. We can't interact or influence anything, we had our time to do that when we were alive. Now, we can only watch and observe. Sort of like spectator mode in any multiplayer game.
A very advanced hello, but useless because civilizations might not even be able to comprehend it because the odds are that they are not similar to us. I think it's going to be a chinese guy saying hello to a daft englishman type "hello".
As a stem cell researcher I think it's safe to say that biological research will greatly benefit our civilization in the following couple of hundred years given recent advances. Scientists have already found ways to precisely edit the DNA of cells, the costs of deciphering DNA sequences of humans have dropped from over 100 Million dollars to 80 dollars within 15 years, and we learned to make tiny organ-like structures called organoids in the laboratory which could be used for transplantation one day (I made a video about lab-grown mini brains some weeks ago). It will be so great to see what will happen in the future!
Hey man, glad i could see your comment here ! I am very very very insanely fond of biology, genetic manipulation / stem cells and all the most, and i would like to do what you're doing if not something similar, i definitely will check your channel out !
A little more insight as to what you do and what exactly I'd have to study to become like you would be appreciated. currently i am planning on doing my undergraduate as an Mbbs, and then specialising into genetic engineering with human applications, is this a good pathway ?
I understand stem cell research is different, but Bill Gates said a similar if not the same thing about computers, and... well you see how people use them.
It's entirely possible for all of the species to just be too young to be doing anything. All of us on the relative first couple of steps together, wandering into a seemingly empty void
@@Geheimnis-c2e It's not, the rate of advancement is not consistent across civilisations, there is no rule saying that every species advances evolutionary and technologicaly at the same speed lol
@@misere4 You kind of just contradicted yourself though, because if they all advance at different rates, the chances are that some would advance even faster than we have and have had more time as well. You can't argue that we shouldn't make assumption about alien's based on our experience but then say actually the other civilisations are round about the same stage as us, that would be ridiculous. I think the most likely answer to the whole Fermi paradox thing is the most boring one. Firstly I think the idea of type 3 or above is a fantasy and civilisations will hit a hard limit due to the limits of space of travel, you end up with fragmented type 2 civilisations. On top of that life is probably just so insanely rare and then complex life on top of that it's too far apart to ever encounter other life. The universe is just so big that I find it really unlikely that we really are the only intelligent civilisation, but at the same time because it's so big I think it's completely reasonable to assume we will never ever encounter or find evidence of other life so are effectively alone.
I imagine they would still use lightyears, but their lightyear would be different from ours due to their planet having a different orbital period than ours.
I love hearing the Dyson Sphere theme adapted into the soundtrack every time it's brought up in the commentary. Man, your production quality is just incredible.
Lucy: Look at those stupid ants, they don't have the slightest idea about what's going on in the world. Charlie Brown: What IS going in the world? Lucy: I haven't the slightest idea. - Charles Schultz
@@nihalr_ For me the most terrifying thing would be for aliens to exist but impossible to even meet or talk to, because of physical limitations. Like, communicating or moving just at the speed of light, or as close as we can, is just too slow for the distances. Meaning that whilst other civilizations are likely to exist the chances of meeting them are close to none.
@@AzNightmare Any number of things, like the existence of a great filter that prevents civilizations from evolving past a certain point we are yet to reach.
exactly, the vast complexity of all the factors had to be aligned together and many other options had to exist around us to be here is almost beyond our understanding, we keep realizing more and more factors around us that actually had a huge play in the evolution of humanity, basically the relative "peace around us" has millions of elements to be able to exist this way to have a rich undisturbed life in the last 50 million years to leave the evolution enought time to create humanity as we know today.
I've read a theory somewhere that basically says that when a civilization reaches a certain level they would stop expanding outwards, but instead develop a virtual utopia, therefore the lack of remnants in outer space.
Trouble is, a savvy enough and capable enough observer would be able to see signs of them EVER having expanded and moved about at high speeds. But we're definitely not there either.
Entropy is the great enemy. If a K2 civilization only develops every few million years in our galaxy -- but can utilize their home system to migrate transdimensionally, escape entropy, and become truly immortal -- we would see no evidence of this (42 likes ... I'll shall refrain)
Kurzgesagt: we would be like ants to them Me: but you told me ants were small, warmongering tribes that dedicated most of their resources of fighting each other on a global scale, so- *ohhhh*
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@Aditya Raj Sanyal yeah but by that logic the og meme doesn't fit either. Since it's stated in the video that we can at least comprehend the goals of type 1 and 2 civilizations
I feel like the goal of civilizations would either stay as trying to become something more, or something on a higher level of consciousness. It’s interesting.
The most important thing is that we become civilization type 2, i.e. that we can use all of the sun's energy. From this point onwards, we can spread throughout the universe at will and apply the same principle to every solar system. In this way, we scale almost boundlessly into the universe, decentralize ourselves and become immortal because no catastrophic event can affect all of humanity. Not even dangers emanating from our own sun. I love the Kardashev Scale. 😅 Keep up the great work and greetings from Cosmic Wisdom!
When I was around 7 years old I cover random ant holes on my house's exterior with sugar. I don't know if those ants were considering it a blessing or a cruel joke by a deity XD
@Rishabh YOHANNAN Because our life lasts for as long as a fraction of a second compared to the time scale we're talking about here. Do you not understand just how abysmal and big the numbers onto the future are? You'll be long dead before we even reach Type 1.
@Rishabh YOHANNAN Either way does it seem even a tad bit realistic that humans will reach galactic space in the next 100 years? Calculations made on our technological advancement rate says otherwise, and as far as a sane person knows you should never argue with math; Especially when it's correct.
@@RyoukitRLC but we base our calculations on what has previously happened to us so it can be inaccurate, I'm not saying we will reach galactic space but there is a chance we will reach a type 1 civilization in 100 years. like we might find or create some material the can withstand the sun's surface heat and can be used like solar panels for example.
4:35 alien message translation: "You're looking for..." (gets cut off here) if anyone is wondering how I translated it, it's written in "Aurebesh", a fictional language in star wars
Javier It’s kinda hard to explain. It’s a quote from a book. It’s referencing how everyone always seems to complain about everything, even things that are beneficial to us. So it stands to reason that people would also complain on an interstellar level about existence itself.
Question: Would humanity gaining access to commercially available fusion reactors be enough to bump us up to level 1? Or are there other factors that need to be considered before that can happen?
By definition, I think not. There are other sources of energy we need to be able to deploy on industrial scales like fossil fuels, such as solar, geothermal, tidal, etc. Though fusion power will bring us closer to being a type 1, a type 1 civilisation needs to be able to harness and exploit all the sources of energy on their home on a scale that they can rely safely on said sources, so not that much.
@@condor5912 with what is being hyped about fusion would, to my basic understanding, would solve that problem if not contribute signiiiiificantly towards solving it by a fat margin. Bring it on, science
@@Chaosrain112 Over time we will just find better and better sources of energy, who knows we might be able to spice up fusion and make, uhhh, super fusion. Also, before we get there, we gotta use fission. I think small villages and farms could use solar and wind, but on a much smaller scale it is not nearly enough to power the earth. Y'all dream about going to fusion but we already got a very good source of nuclear energy. Everyone is just to scared of it for no good reason.
We'd destroy ourselves. Have you seen youtube videos where they eat tide pods.. i cant imagine what humanity will do with a commercially available fusion reactors just for views on tiktok or youtube 😅🤣🤣
I feel like fitting a dyson sphere in every video as a default mechanism of getting an energy from a star is like people in the 19th century imagining all of futurisctic things having steam engines.
thats why death is not bad as people paint, would be fuking boring to be immortal stuck in this darkness and blur all over us trying to get the fuel to grow in all directions infinitly and be lost. Ive seen too much to believe that future is much better than what we already have but thats only my opinion and it is what it is, I think a simple thing like freedom in a megalomaniac universe will be relative at some point.
@@M4ssive-4ttack It's not that it's bad, it's because it sucks because then you are just unable to keep seeing how the world changes and the infinite adventures you could have, it's easy to say being a corpse who can't continue life and what it offers when you yourself are a nihilist but it's actually way more complex then that. I want to experience a future that looks like the Jetsons or see one day if we colonized Mars yet and you can't see it by being dead so while it isn't bad don't paint immortality as bad either it's different for everyone.
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I've seen a great analogy to the existence of extraterrestrial life. Looking out at the stars and saying there's no aliens is like getting a spoon of water from the ocean and saying fish don't exist because there aren't any in the spoon.
Summary; Type 0 - Us, today! Type 1 - Space 1999, Ghost In The Shell Type 2 - Futurama, The Jetsons, Federation Type 3 - Stargate, The Borg, Battlestar Galactica, Red Dwarf Type 4 - Timelords (Dr Who) Type 5 - The Q (Star Trek) Type 6 - Gods
Well a more accurate summary would be this: type zero: ants, type 1: futuristic earth, type 2: Star Trek, type 3: Star wars, type 4: futuristic version of The 2022 light Year movie on Disney+ type 5: we have no movie that references this, type omega: the more than two universe cycle's old civilization that controls the entire universe and monitors all intelligent life forms and only interacts with them once they finally overcome their self-destructive tendencies and has become a type 4 civilization mind you a universe cycle is 10^10^10^10 ^10^10^1.1 power years and if humanity wants to become this kind of civilization it'll take us a minimum of 19 Duodecillion years to a maximum of two universe cycle's but you don't need to take my word for it this is just my own opinion. Okay? 😅😅😅🤔🤔🧐
@@DavidMuri-lm5vy star wars is a type 0-3 not 4 because a type 4 would be under the rule of 1 empire or a unity of everything living in that galaxy, but in star wars like the name suggest there isn't unity and there are constant wars happening and everyone in that galaxy is very much split up in multiple factions, empires, tribes, and clans, and many don't work with each other and even down right hate others.
If the gap between type 1 and type 3 is similar to that of an anthill and a metropolitan city, we would not know what a remnant of a type 3 civilization looks like. If you drop a car engine onto an anthill, not a single ant will know what it is - let alone know that it's a part of bigger machinery. They'll just probably think that it's another obstacle they will have to climb over.
Exactly. For all we know, each Star could be to them the equivalent of a AA battery to them. We think it is just nature but for them it is really just remnants or refuse of a type 3 or 4 civilization.
6:13 I love how every time the Dyson Sphere/Swarm pops up, the Dyson Sphere theme from the original video comes with it. This was the case in Stellar Engine as well, when the Dyson Sphere lent a hand to the Stellar Engine to give it more fuel. Brilliant stuff.
If you enjoyed that, you might want to check out the holy grail of mega structures. Search for a channel named "Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur". He has expanded on Dyson Swarms with O'Neil Cylinders , Stellar Engines, Star Lifting, Matrioska Brains, and much much more. Every week a new topic and it would be difficult to come up with a Futurism Topic not covered there. Try and think of some super advanced idea from the near or far future and see if it isn't covered.
Can't really decide if I should be sad about this. Guess we'll leave it up to our descendants to experience the wonder of space. For us,we'll simply just look to the heavens and dream extraordinary dreams.
We live in a pivotal moment in history. The invention of the internet alone will probably make our time as talked about as the rise and fall of the Roman Republic.
I heard that saying there is no aliens out there, is equal to filling a glass with ocean water and not finding any fish, and then concluding the ocean has no life. We have explored so little, and anything less than super advanced civilizations extremely close would go unnoticed.
On the same note, concluding that sapient aliens have to exist just because of the size of the universe is equally foolish. Size is irrelevant when you're dealing with all the complex factors that brings about intelligent life. We just can't extrapolate with a sample size of one. I'm not saying there isn't intelligent life out there but using size of the universe as an argument for it is just unscientific.
That's why I loved that they said "So it's unlikely that there are type 2-3 civilization anywhere close to the milky-way" cos we really can't say anything beyond the few percent of the universe we have observed.
well you can at least find plankton and bacteria in your ocean glass water, our problem it is we didnt reach yet to get ocean water with glass, it is more looking a ocean with a telescope 😥
Josh Herbers that’s true to an extent, but you’ve missed the point of that variable; size is used to represent the possibility of all these many factors which you are thinking of. It’s mostly just probability, for all intents and purposes the size of the universe for our human needs/perspectives is infinite thus, by saying ‘size’ you’re saying in an infinite area there must be infinite consciousness. Edit: it’s only unscientific if you take ‘size’ and understand it from an unscientific way, any scientist would say ‘size’ is more than enough to be proof, at least in theory since as you say we only have a size sample of 1
"It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us, but with more of our strengths, and fewer of our weaknesses; more confident, farseeing, capable and prudent." Carl Sagan
Unfortunately, our biggest flaw is the fact that we just can't seem to get along with one another, this why we still have wars in humanity, we are all to blame for this flaw, and this divide between every single human being on Earth is going to be the reason why it it is so hard for us to advance towards a space faring civilization, progress is also very slow and it saddens me that I cannot live in a more technologically advanced humanity but alas we must make the best of our time here on Earth to advance human civilization...
@@arjdroid you : "we just can't seem to get along with one another, [...] we are all to blame for this flaw" me : "Nah i'm pretty sure it's those assholes over there that are to blame, not me..." (this is a joke :)) (Also, I agree with your point, even tho i believe that certain people are way worse at getting along with others.)
I remember when this video was 3 weeks old, i thought when i scrolled past it would say 'posted 5 months ago' or something, but its actually been 3 years 0-0
we will become type 1 one que make fusion reactors, but so far our civilization is so stupid that we still invest a couple of order of magnitudes more to fossil fuels
i can just imagine if a type 2 or 3 civilization came to us they would be like "haha imagine not even being type 1" edit: oh hey thanks for getting me to my most liked comment!
carlos conde I mean comparing us to a civilization that has the technology to take over a galaxy (tens of BILLIONS of planets) they probably would laugh at us.
Now I'm really wishing that at some point you can make a video game based on this. Something educational, but with gameplay as engaging as Civilization or whatever similar game you prefer. Who knows, it might inspire the right person to pursue a career in this, and will eventually come up with some key solution to a future problem!
are we really born to early though? i think everyone alive now below the age of 55 has a miniscule chance of never dying. if people could realize how much we shoot ourselves in the foot, we could really turn things around very fast for humanity. who knows how different the world would be in a decade if we took the reigns now.
Webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal posited this very concept a while back. Alien: Hmmm, how to explain.... Imagine there is a very confused and very angry monkey that hoards massive amounts of explosives. He looks out the window and wonders why no one comes by to visit. In fact, he finds the entire neighborhood empty. Should he find this strange?
Alien 1: "Im bored!" Alien 2: "You wanna terraform a planet?" Alien 1: "Did that yesterday" Alien 2: "Wanna make a star go supernova?" Alien 1: "Sure!"
I'll be honest, as interesting the narrative was, I managed to lose track of what the narrator was saying merely because I was so mesmerized by the quality of these animations. Holy crap, this must have taken so long to animate! The amount of detail in these is insane!
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I mean sure, I guess its important where aliens rank on the Kardashev Scale, but lets be honest, the real question we need the answer to is where aliens rank on the tier list.
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That would be A rank ahahaha
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Everybody says "Kurzgesagt narrator and animators are great" but what about the background music creators? they are becoming better and better every year.
Flarex Epic Mountain Music is Pretty Great.
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Not every year but every video
Epic Mountain smashed that Asteroid video.
The fact that humans can think on this large of a scale is really impressive in its own right. As long as our extra-terrestrial gods will hear us out, I think humans will survive. Let’s hope they don’t run into flat-earthers.
Why would they care about a single planet of primitives
@@manicstatic370 Maybe they’ve moved past harming other creatures for dumb reasons. I think in that regard us humans are still primitive.
@@ValouroverFear type one civilizations can be considered primitive as well
@@ValouroverFear If humanity doesn't self destruct in the next 500 years and invests more resources in technology within that time we for certain will be a Type 2 civilization. Mastering space flight within our Solar system would be key. Mining asteroids and certain moons starting with ours for helium 3 we'll get there. I'm sad I won't live to see it. Look how far we came in 100 or so years with the Einsteins, Tesla's and now Elon and Bezos. Enough innovation and we'll take over this Solar system and maybe even colonize other moons even planets! Imagine colonizing a dwarf planet by building a small space station and mining it for precious metals because in the end it all comes down to resources.
@@ValouroverFear we kill millions of members of our own species every year, either by violent crime, or war, or simply hoarding vital resources. we prioritize our individual selves over our whole species. i doubt a type 2 civilization like us in that way could ever even become a type 3 in the first place, since the more they advance, the faster they push back against their own progress via war. even if they don't eradicate themselves with antimatter bombs or some other super sci-fi weapon we haven't even conceived of, they could still destroy themselves faster than they expand, and never actually go further than controlling a few solar systems as result.
even if they did become a type 3, they'd likely change their ways as result of it. a type 3 civilization has virtually unlimited resources and energy, far more than they could ever use. things like killing other species would no longer provide any advantage to them, so even if they were selfish they still wouldn't have any reason to do that. there aren't any materials on earth that they can't get unlimited of from other parts of the galaxy, and if anything it'd be more of a hassle for them to take from us than from planets without life, since our nukes could still delay them from mining whatever it is they want from earth for a few weeks at least. there's just no point in stealing or war when you become that powerful, it actually becomes more trouble than it's worth, so it makes no sense that they'd be "evil".
compared to that, we're pretty primitive.
Imagine a galactic civilization knows we exist but our galaxy was chosen to be left alone like a national forest or park
Or as a lab experiment.
@@racoonlittle1679 very likely
possibly we are one of their computer simulations
Or we are their car battery
Or it is like one of those do not interact with tribes on earth.
"They aren't techonologically advanced enough and are happier how they are currently. Let's leave them to their own devices."
"hey dude I'm bored"
"why don't we create a universe"
"yeah okay i'm down"
I would love to if I could, so why not
they probably dont even know what boredom is, or they are in eternal boredom
“Hmm dude I made a mistake”
“I left the end button in the universe let’s hope the humans or those weird green looking dudes don’t find it”
“I’m sorry pls don’t erase me”
Ignorance.
Yep those are literal gods
Imagine if type Ω beings have their own Kardashev scale, and they classify themselves only as the type 1.
Yesss and their type 3 is a civilization controlling all universes and ALL MULTIVERSES (alternative realities/universes)
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Maybe they do exist. Maybe just maybe religions are telling the truth. Maybe there's one ultimate god that rules over all and everything that exist.
Yes, its us when we play sims
yeah, or 0.75
Imagine an alien being from a Type 0.75 Civilization in some planet and watching a video about the possibility of life outside their planet.
@ᴍᴜsᴋᴇᴛᴇᴇʀ an increase of 0.1 would mean 10x more energy so i believe they would a bit more advanced
pfff that's probably happening now
Somewhere in a distant galaxy, someone is watching a video like this
sounds gross
Cough cough us cough cough humans cough cough
I think The narrators voice is a really important part of This channel now
if they replaced him with some dude with a texan accent the rate of gain and rate of loss of subscribers would be the exact same.
He's type Omega GOD
Yes! He is incredible. He is one of the reasons I prefer this channel over The Infographic Show channel.. among many many other things.
David Attenborough
Bleak Furball that is not correct.
"if aliens have to follow the same laws of physics"
Some super advanced alien watching video: lol imagine having to obey physics
Facts tho
Imagine if physics was something as simple as drag, and we just had to make something more aerodynamic.
Karuiko basically just a big tracheon lmao
@@Karuiko thermodynamics: am I a joke to you?
Super advanced alien race: get outta here with your friction shit
Yeah I think I'm just gonna float
Man, I would TOTALLY wanna play a civilisation style game with kurzgesagt graphics!
this comment needs more exposure
@@starlightstarbright4689 then like the comment everyone, so kurzgesagt can see it 😁
stellaris
nah an age of empires style game would be better
That would be sick.
The concept of the dark forest combined with the Fermi paradox and the Zoo Hypothesis, it could be possible that we are shielded by an even more advanced civilization so as to protect us from the other inhabitants of the Dark forest until we mature enough to venture out on our own
But why would they do that?
What could we possibly give them for them to spend their efforts hiding underdeveloped monkeys?
@@darklex5150 Could be that they like to study us or keep us as a form of reason to continue existing. after all, the example being that they are so advanced, we are just mere ants or wild animals to them. their reasons being beyond our comprehension, or they could just be bored
@@CairoFaustine i don't see the point in studying us, we can't bring anything to them, it's like studying about monkeys, but way more useless.
If we talked about a single individual then maybe yes, they could be bored but we are talking about an entire civilization; civilizations don't get bored.
Besides, i refuse to believe that we cannont comprehend the motives of such a civilization, they aren't type 3.
@@CairoFaustine or we could possibly be their creation, why? Maybe they just want to keep their legacy in our DNA, *or maybe a teenage alien got SO bored one day and created us on pure accident*
Just to think that aliens could be watching us right now with a telescope that can see over 500,000 light years away
Kurzgesagt: finding alien life is our doom
Also Kurzgesagt: here's how you find aliens
as I heard somewhere: what about they reply to us "Stop broadcasting, You are in danger!" ?
@@marcoottina654 or shush, I'm trying to sleep. Imagine if our radio calls are like those annoying cats meowing at night to them
@@marcoottina654broadcasting isn't the problem. EM waves have a relatively low travel distance where they are still usable. I mean the waves won't go away but they would be basically noise .
Мади Тургунов troll face song
He's like: its not good idea but If you are interested here's gow you do it
can we just appreciate the fact that something with THIS amount of quality is free
you comment this on literally every one of his videos
I broke the 69 likes
@@sunshineboyy4564 that just shows that he's an epic gamer
It's not free. Money is not the only form of payment in life. Time and influence are worth much more than money, especially on UA-cam. And you give yours away while thanking those taking them from you. Oops!
@@DrewBoyd83 I think he's talking about how you don't have to spend money every time you want to watch a video lol
There's a type 1 civilization watching their own version of this video right now
we are a type 1 though
@@bluedonkey180 almost
@@bluedonkey180 they never said we werent? And it has nothing to do with the comment anyway, and we arent even type 1 yet
@@StanbyMode CARDANO TO THE MOON 🚀 but CARDANO if it’s under 1.50!!!!! YOU WILL MISS OUT
Somewhere at least
Yo I love your videos and they are definitely good to watch when you are board or listen to on a bus or other. Its crazy how you pack so much knowledge into 10 minute long videos. Great work to all of the team at Kurzgesagt. Keep up the great work!
“That was fun!” said the Type Omega as he dissembled the universe and put it back in the box.
Let's hope we're not part of a toy, forgotten on the floor by an alien child
Toy story intensifies
@@krishangshah7384 ikr
"That was fun and relaxing! - but bugs grew in my toy so this one go bye"
why did I read it with Bill Wurtz's voice?
Omg the artists must have had a field day with this o.o
FleX I was thinking the same! So many fun graphics in this episode
Love the sci-fi references. Did not expect the Mass Effect's Mass Relay.
Ayahuasca, DMT, Acid, makes things better
Humans: “Lol look at this stupid tiny ant. It can’t even understand life”
Type Ω: 😐
Hold my universes
I hope the comment-format of:
X; something
Y: another thing
.. dies soon. Making everything into a meme-dialogue is a lazy way to express thoughts! I'm empathetic to the shrinking expanse of our attention, and this format is easy to consume, but it's being used FAR to much.
@Colin Mike Don't mention the bible here. It makes any rational conversation almost impossible.
😂😂😂
Colin Mike but....what if _we are not?_
The most informative and least clickbait/speculative video on this topic, from what you can find on youtube. Thanks kurzgesagt!
Ants: Thinks we’re Gods
Also Ants: *Bites us anyway*
God of War intensifies
Those antheists will die for rebellions.
Lets be ants and infest some aliens house. If we work hard enough we can affect the value of the home
You can't tell me there's not at least thousands of humans who would try to punch a god just for the bragging rights
@@samuellafleur890 _Cant say I wouldnt try)_
"Hey man what's up"
"I'm fine, but I'll have a dull journey"
"Where are you going?"
"To my aunt's house"
"And where is it?"
"At the other side of the supercluster"
"Uff tell me about it. 3 hours wasted am I right?"
Use the uss enterprise modified by the traveler
A millenia later, this comment will be normal and relatable tho 🙃
Everyone gangsta until they see aliens extracting energy from a black hole
Hehe
I'd consider them munching a black hole I wonder if they'd be sucked up from the inside
huh
Here is your 1000th upvote
best comment of this video
Whoever is the narrator, has a amazing voice just eight for the job, and your team works really good with animating . And you guys are very smart. I know a0 much information now!
Name is Steve Taylor.
This channel makes science even more cool than it already is.
Im ready for the great jorney halo style
Facts
Science was already so cool
@J Blank cry a bit more, boomer.
As soon as I see this for the first time
I'm subscribe
"To ants, we are so complex and powerful, we might as well be Gods"
Human: *accidentally steps on ant hill
Ants: *TONIGHT WE TASTE THE FLESH OF IMMORTALS*
Bernard Werber's Ant Trilogy basically!
if the aliens try to kill us we are going to try to kill them
well if we see alien life wich just started we will probably nuke em
@Suman Mudi Our nukes will be like 'ants bite' to them lol..
@@buggyboy2849 There is a trilogy?! Empire of the Ants was the shit
Everyone gangsta till the space condom steals half their star
7:56 lol,
Lmaoooo
ikr I was like, don't give 2020 any more ideas lol
This had me dyyyingggg hahahahahah
Earth has just been downgraded to a civilization of monkeys
Statistically speaking, the Universe is so big that there has to be a solar system out there where atleast 3 earth like planets exist and where intelligent life evolved and innovated at around the exact same pace on all 3 of them. Then they all started exploring space at the same time, found eachother, and had battles just like some kind of marvel movie. That must be so epic, wherever it is happening.
it's funny to think that one day someone might watch this back in the same way we watch those 60s 'the future man will live on the moon!' videos
They won't watch videos anymore, they download em into their brains!
Whatever the animator is getting paid, it’s not enough.
Whatever politicians are getting paid, it is more than enough
@@Lion10104 ironic coming from the fbi
Lol
@@Lion10104 IRONIC
I bet there is more than one. But yea they’re good.
"They also look at the stars and look for others" such a chilling Line
The Audio Guy. I agree
I think we're not afraid of how different they could be, we may actually be afraid that they're just like us.
@@MSIXVI06 if they're just like us and they find us first, we're doomed.
@@MSIXVI06 My hope is that civilizations that don't learn to get along eventually destroy themselves.
So humanity would have two paths ahead. Become better or go extinct.
This is an interesting vlog about Prof Kardashev adapting Prof Leslie White’s Culture Law (Culture = Energy × Technology) to search/compare colonies or civilization & then expanded by Prof Carl Sagan. Technically it can be used to compare human colonies/countries/civilizations with non-human colonies/countries/civilizations (e.g. apes, wolves, ants, corals, fungi, algae, etc.) although anything beyond Class/Тип 3 sounds too hard/crazy to comprehend.
Sadly if one compares US, China & Russia, it is sad to watch these “Super Power” nations are caught between the devil (terrorists, brutal-police, corrupt-officials, etc.) & the deep blue sea (fascism, pandemic, economic-depression, etc.).
However this is Not very surprising since Dr Kaku & the late Prof Hawking have already warned that humanity will face greater & greater hardships+dangers as it progress towards Тип 1 status. Unfortunately there is also no/little chance of turning back the clock as the late Prof Sagan (& his team) has calculated that humanity has moved pass the Тип 0.7 status.
In addition Dr Crabtree & Dr Woodley discovered evidence that with each passing generations, many humans are getting genetically/biological weaker, dumber, slower or fearter despite improved/improving food, water, healthcare, nutrition, internet, telecom, education, sanitation, infrastructure, etc.
To make the situation worse, scientists has uncovered the 1st Species/Lifeform of Mass Destruction/Extinction (SMD i.e. a species/lifeform that literally had directly/indirectly cause massive destruction/extinction to multiple species/lifeforms). As such it is believed that there are now at least 2 active SMDs on Earth & a 3rd one maybe emerging/awakening.
Hopefully cooler heads will prevail over the fanatics+hardliners & allow humanity to overcome these hardships+dangers. May the deaths+suffering of the innocents be merciful 🙏
I love everything about this channel, the narrator’s voice makes me focus, the background music makes me exited and let’s not talk about how incredibly good the animation is
This is so cool, it makes me realize that we are in the same boat, no one really knows everything
Videos like this really make me wish that when we die, we enter a sort of "spectator mode", where we can travel anywhere and observe the universe unfold and progress. We can't interact or influence anything, we had our time to do that when we were alive. Now, we can only watch and observe. Sort of like spectator mode in any multiplayer game.
Maybe that's what ghosts are?
Wow that would be very boring. I guess thats a purgatory.
it would be nice XD
@@evrensaygn1017 Not if you have the control over time speed ?
For some reason i always just assumed that is what happens after death. That in some way you hang around and learn all the secrets of the universe
Props to the animators, probably seemed like a really difficult task to make this understandable to the viewers
There are multiple animators I believe, credits to all of them for doing such a great job
@@larrytheskeleton6798 You're probably right, I'll change my comment!
Where is ur profile photo from
@@kakashihatakecopyninja3685 don't know man, if you type smiling baby meme you"ll probably find it lol
Props to the writers too who took their time to carefully simplify things without oversimplifying them
I've always been incredibly fascinated by the Kardashev scale (and its connection with the Fermi paradox). Love this video!!
Current human exploration of the stars feels like someone dipped their head into the ocean and shouted “hello!” Hoping for someone to shout back.
I find this thought very fascinating
The method of contact is rubbish but the understanding is getting better.
Imagine if the response was from a Type-3 thinking we were some kind of spam callers.
I like that example and it's very true.
A very advanced hello, but useless because civilizations might not even be able to comprehend it because the odds are that they are not similar to us. I think it's going to be a chinese guy saying hello to a daft englishman type "hello".
As a stem cell researcher I think it's safe to say that biological research will greatly benefit our civilization in the following couple of hundred years given recent advances. Scientists have already found ways to precisely edit the DNA of cells, the costs of deciphering DNA sequences of humans have dropped from over 100 Million dollars to 80 dollars within 15 years, and we learned to make tiny organ-like structures called organoids in the laboratory which could be used for transplantation one day (I made a video about lab-grown mini brains some weeks ago). It will be so great to see what will happen in the future!
Hey man, glad i could see your comment here ! I am very very very insanely fond of biology, genetic manipulation / stem cells and all the most, and i would like to do what you're doing if not something similar, i definitely will check your channel out !
A little more insight as to what you do and what exactly I'd have to study to become like you would be appreciated. currently i am planning on doing my undergraduate as an Mbbs, and then specialising into genetic engineering with human applications, is this a good pathway ?
Hopefully humanity grows up soon, we probably won't be responsible with the technology coming out otherwise
I understand stem cell research is different, but Bill Gates said a similar if not the same thing about computers, and... well you see how people use them.
genetically engineered catgirls lets gooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!
Alien: we need your planet...
Humans: for what?
Alien: ah...just to fuel my space scooter...
😂😂😂😂
I can actually think of this being Tru 😂🤷♂️
Like we are just taking the hard earned honey from honeybees. They probably don't give a F if they took away our sun
Just like how humans need animal's lives just to look cooler.
@@thehammerandsickle2490, that was an important thing you just pointed out.
It's entirely possible for all of the species to just be too young to be doing anything. All of us on the relative first couple of steps together, wandering into a seemingly empty void
But with the current age of the universe, it's hard to think that most civillizations are just starting NOW.
@@Geheimnis-c2e It's not, the rate of advancement is not consistent across civilisations, there is no rule saying that every species advances evolutionary and technologicaly at the same speed lol
@@misere4 You kind of just contradicted yourself though, because if they all advance at different rates, the chances are that some would advance even faster than we have and have had more time as well. You can't argue that we shouldn't make assumption about alien's based on our experience but then say actually the other civilisations are round about the same stage as us, that would be ridiculous. I think the most likely answer to the whole Fermi paradox thing is the most boring one. Firstly I think the idea of type 3 or above is a fantasy and civilisations will hit a hard limit due to the limits of space of travel, you end up with fragmented type 2 civilisations. On top of that life is probably just so insanely rare and then complex life on top of that it's too far apart to ever encounter other life. The universe is just so big that I find it really unlikely that we really are the only intelligent civilisation, but at the same time because it's so big I think it's completely reasonable to assume we will never ever encounter or find evidence of other life so are effectively alone.
You didn't watch the video
Humans: how many light years away is your home world?
Aleins: pfft. You still use light years?
I imagine they would still use lightyears, but their lightyear would be different from ours due to their planet having a different orbital period than ours.
Holy sh't this is a good comment
Captain_Cupcake I was about to correct you, but the I noticed I was dumb
Primitive aliens: what's light and what's a year
Ultra primitive aliens: ooga booga
I love hearing the Dyson Sphere theme adapted into the soundtrack every time it's brought up in the commentary. Man, your production quality is just incredible.
Now that's attention to detail right there
Yep
Theres a "dyson sphere THEME" ??
What the hell. And it was IN this video lol
Kurzgesagt: to ants humans are gods
*my little brother drops an m&m*
ant: the gods are generous today
they better be grateful for my clumsiness -
But why do they sting their gods?
@AntsCanada
@@M3sierr probably non-believers
@@sibusisomkwanazi3124 😂😂😂 good one.
6:14 I just noticed they snuck the lead melody of their Dyson Sphere music in when the Dyson swarm was mentioned.
Nice spot :)
Did he just say:
*_Kurzgesagt merch birbs?_*
yis
Yes he did
Yurp
Yus
peaking knacks idk how to comment
Lucy: Look at those stupid ants, they don't have the slightest idea about what's going on in the world.
Charlie Brown: What IS going in the world?
Lucy: I haven't the slightest idea.
- Charles Schultz
My name is called Lucy 🤣
Oh! Remember when Charlie Brown wished that he was the one who discovered America! Idk I saw the comic slip a long time ago
@@jin_cotl I don't recall that one, Idk how I even remembered this one, but it's so relevant.
Skanda Baby haha 🤣 me neither
Skanda Baby OH WAIT I THINK I KNOW WHICH COMIC SLIP YOURE TALKING ABOUT. I REMEMBER I SAW THAT
"Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying".
- Arthur C. Clarke
I see that quoted to different people all the time
@@cosmiccomedy7394 You made me read his wiki, I did not know he was gay...
@@nihalr_ For me the most terrifying thing would be for aliens to exist but impossible to even meet or talk to, because of physical limitations.
Like, communicating or moving just at the speed of light, or as close as we can, is just too slow for the distances.
Meaning that whilst other civilizations are likely to exist the chances of meeting them are close to none.
*What's so terrifying about being alone?*
@@AzNightmare Any number of things, like the existence of a great filter that prevents civilizations from evolving past a certain point we are yet to reach.
Even our current civilization sample size is amazing. The amount of things that had to happen for humanity to exist is just cosmic.
exactly, the vast complexity of all the factors had to be aligned together and many other options had to exist around us to be here is almost beyond our understanding, we keep realizing more and more factors around us that actually had a huge play in the evolution of humanity, basically the relative "peace around us" has millions of elements to be able to exist this way to have a rich undisturbed life in the last 50 million years to leave the evolution enought time to create humanity as we know today.
One might even call it a…miracle.
I've read a theory somewhere that basically says that when a civilization reaches a certain level they would stop expanding outwards, but instead develop a virtual utopia, therefore the lack of remnants in outer space.
+1
Trouble is, a savvy enough and capable enough observer would be able to see signs of them EVER having expanded and moved about at high speeds. But we're definitely not there either.
Entropy is the great enemy. If a K2 civilization only develops every few million years in our galaxy -- but can utilize their home system to migrate transdimensionally, escape entropy, and become truly immortal -- we would see no evidence of this (42 likes ... I'll shall refrain)
Where you read this
when they either run out of space or resources just make a virtual reality
Kurzgesagt: we would be like ants to them
Me: but you told me ants were small, warmongering tribes that dedicated most of their resources of fighting each other on a global scale, so- *ohhhh*
This is fucking genius.
I wish I had commented that...
the egg video: you did.
Underrated Af
C'est la vie.
This comment makes no sense
I agree that the comment above me doesn't make sense too!
Type 2 Civilization :
Feeling cute, might build a dyson sphere later
c o m e d y
Haha meta comedy goes d e e p
That feels like a type 3 thing though. A type 2 civilisation only has one Dyson sphere
I just checked out your site...Supercool merch, LOVE the posters! Really enjoy your videos. This REALLY helps alot with retention of the information, and you are great in helping with size and distance scales. I really dig your style. Thanks for being here. I'm subscribing right meow.
This video is a perfect representation of the meme "My goals are beyond your understanding"
Don't forget " I'm 4 parallel universes ahead of you "
@Aditya Raj Sanyal yeah but by that logic the og meme doesn't fit either. Since it's stated in the video that we can at least comprehend the goals of type 1 and 2 civilizations
underated
@@sadkritx6200 Then what about goals of type 3 civilizations.
I feel like the goal of civilizations would either stay as trying to become something more, or something on a higher level of consciousness. It’s interesting.
I feel insignificant after watching this. Thanks?
Same dude
Mood
Didn't think jesus would feel insignificant
On the bright side, the water to wine party trick is pretty neat
Type omega head ass trying to seem humble, I'm watching you J-money
Why haven't aliens visited our solar system yet?
They looked at the reviews... only 1 star.
Take my like and get out
Ouch
"Mostly Harmless"
😂😂
Ba dum tss...
The most important thing is that we become civilization type 2, i.e. that we can use all of the sun's energy. From this point onwards, we can spread throughout the universe at will and apply the same principle to every solar system. In this way, we scale almost boundlessly into the universe, decentralize ourselves and become immortal because no catastrophic event can affect all of humanity. Not even dangers emanating from our own sun. I love the Kardashev Scale. 😅 Keep up the great work and greetings from Cosmic Wisdom!
Kurzgesagt: *publishes a new video*
Me: existential crisis time babyyyyyy
Sejin Kim so true
My favorite 😂💀
Honestly!
Watched this for more than 10x now.. still learning and got something new out of it!
Nice
Bjir
I feel like maybe you could pay closer attention.
@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat ????
@@nunchk9542 you don’t have to read the Bible 24/7
"the ants consider us gods"
*Steak falls off the grill*
Ants: the gods rain down food for us, bröthërs
xD
Are ants Scandinavian?
@@lonewandererfo3 *Yes*
When I was around 7 years old I cover random ant holes on my house's exterior with sugar. I don't know if those ants were considering it a blessing or a cruel joke by a deity XD
This is funny xD
This was great!!! By any and every metric! Hats off to you who produced this.
“Ooh boy I can’t wait to become lvl omega!!” *dies at lvl 1
Sad reality for everyone alive right now
@Rishabh YOHANNAN Because our life lasts for as long as a fraction of a second compared to the time scale we're talking about here. Do you not understand just how abysmal and big the numbers onto the future are? You'll be long dead before we even reach Type 1.
@Rishabh YOHANNAN Either way does it seem even a tad bit realistic that humans will reach galactic space in the next 100 years? Calculations made on our technological advancement rate says otherwise, and as far as a sane person knows you should never argue with math; Especially when it's correct.
0.72*
@@RyoukitRLC but we base our calculations on what has previously happened to us so it can be inaccurate, I'm not saying we will reach galactic space but there is a chance we will reach a type 1 civilization in 100 years. like we might find or create some material the can withstand the sun's surface heat and can be used like solar panels for example.
4:35
alien message translation:
"You're looking for..." (gets cut off here)
if anyone is wondering how I translated it, it's written in "Aurebesh", a fictional language in star wars
Thank you! I recognized it as Aurebesh and came to the comments specifically to see if anyone had translated it. :-)
@@Datan0de you are welcome!
I am shook ur a genius damn
Well, I guess that's fitting since the Earth message is "Hello? Is it me you'r..." (It's morse code)
@@TorreFernand makes sense. I translated the alien message because I knew it was obscure but I did not bother with the morse code
Bird: *exists*
Kurzgesagt: "I'm sorry little one"
So you have chosen - Death
A small price to pay for salvation...
*bird dying noises in the background intensify*
Rip
The abstract drawings in this vid are so awesome, very alien and complex!
This was so aesthetically pleasing to watch.
SpXek ok
Always has been
Always has been
That's Kurzgesagt, (in a nutshell).
This is worth repeating, such nice artwork. Ignore the dumb replies.
Douglas Adams: “In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
love those books
That quote made me smile, what an awesome book it was
@@metaomicron72 i can't get that quote. could you explain it?
@@JaviGiralte it basically means that everyone hated the birth of the universe, and the universe itself.
Javier It’s kinda hard to explain. It’s a quote from a book. It’s referencing how everyone always seems to complain about everything, even things that are beneficial to us. So it stands to reason that people would also complain on an interstellar level about existence itself.
What if the "leftover" of a beyond-type civilization/entity is our own universe?
I dunno
Some Omegian sneezed and here we are.
Zichfried If that said civilization did not survive and is the remnants of our galaxy then we should be terrified as to what could be more powerful.
And if we Did find remnants of a type 2 civ in our own solar backyard would we be made privy?
We don't have any evidence of that so far.
Question: Would humanity gaining access to commercially available fusion reactors be enough to bump us up to level 1? Or are there other factors that need to be considered before that can happen?
Probably since it will be a source of basically unlimited energy and it would give us all the tools to expand outward (as far as energy goes).
By definition, I think not. There are other sources of energy we need to be able to deploy on industrial scales like fossil fuels, such as solar, geothermal, tidal, etc. Though fusion power will bring us closer to being a type 1, a type 1 civilisation needs to be able to harness and exploit all the sources of energy on their home on a scale that they can rely safely on said sources, so not that much.
@@condor5912 with what is being hyped about fusion would, to my basic understanding, would solve that problem if not contribute signiiiiificantly towards solving it by a fat margin. Bring it on, science
@@Chaosrain112 Over time we will just find better and better sources of energy, who knows we might be able to spice up fusion and make, uhhh, super fusion. Also, before we get there, we gotta use fission. I think small villages and farms could use solar and wind, but on a much smaller scale it is not nearly enough to power the earth. Y'all dream about going to fusion but we already got a very good source of nuclear energy. Everyone is just to scared of it for no good reason.
We'd destroy ourselves. Have you seen youtube videos where they eat tide pods.. i cant imagine what humanity will do with a commercially available fusion reactors just for views on tiktok or youtube 😅🤣🤣
I love how there is always dyson sphere theme playing whenever it appears in the video
And Stellar engine theme
It's all in the book
AAAAAHHH MOTIFS
MAH FAVORITE
I feel like fitting a dyson sphere in every video as a default mechanism of getting an energy from a star is like people in the 19th century imagining all of futurisctic things having steam engines.
I'll take a No. 9 large.
Mom: why did you created another universe again
Son: There was nothing to do
We have universe at home. Universe at home:
Scorpion JESUS DIED & ROSE AGAIN TO FREE U FROM SIN ACCEPT HIS GIFT✝️✝️✝️
RICO PARADISE oh
@@ricoparadiso You have no power here.
RICO PARADISE i don’t care ❤️
"Before looking for our new best friends..." - ANGRY IMPERIUM NOISES
"... or worst enemies" - EMPEROR-APPROVED WHOLESOME CONTENT
FOR THE EMPEROR
the Starship Heart of Gold was an amazing touch to the graphics. thank you so much for that. :) love from Maine.
That was an easter egg reference.
"Maybe they were just bored"
You know what, that's probably true.
thats why death is not bad as people paint, would be fuking boring to be immortal stuck in this darkness and blur all over us trying to get the fuel to grow in all directions infinitly and be lost. Ive seen too much to believe that future is much better than what we already have but thats only my opinion and it is what it is, I think a simple thing like freedom in a megalomaniac universe will be relative at some point.
@@M4ssive-4ttack that would be pretty cool and a cool death actually ✌🏽
@@M4ssive-4ttack I wanna die in a void tho.
@@zer0bankoe no. imagine worse than hell.
@@M4ssive-4ttack It's not that it's bad, it's because it sucks because then you are just unable to keep seeing how the world changes and the infinite adventures you could have, it's easy to say being a corpse who can't continue life and what it offers when you yourself are a nihilist but it's actually way more complex then that. I want to experience a future that looks like the Jetsons or see one day if we colonized Mars yet and you can't see it by being dead so while it isn't bad don't paint immortality as bad either it's different for everyone.
Thanks for the monthly existential crisis 🗿
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Brock you are you not human with that aim 👽
Go play fortnite
@@iulianalexandrudragan5531 ok
@@zaeemfc1348 *w a t*
I've seen a great analogy to the existence of extraterrestrial life. Looking out at the stars and saying there's no aliens is like getting a spoon of water from the ocean and saying fish don't exist because there aren't any in the spoon.
yeah but it's not fish it's sharks and whales
and albert einstein told this
For sure. They’re out there somewhere but they’re either extremely far away or they don’t have the technology to make contact. Maybe both
That analogy doesn't even work anymore, we have the technology and mathematics to figure out how much of our universe is even hospitable.
Unfortunately, the spoonful of universe we've got is all we have to work with.
And what if you did that experiment in boiling water with only a few places with normal heat? The universe isn't that simple.
Summary;
Type 0 - Us, today!
Type 1 - Space 1999, Ghost In The Shell
Type 2 - Futurama, The Jetsons, Federation
Type 3 - Stargate, The Borg, Battlestar Galactica, Red Dwarf
Type 4 - Timelords (Dr Who)
Type 5 - The Q (Star Trek)
Type 6 - Gods
Well a more accurate summary would be this: type zero: ants, type 1: futuristic earth, type 2: Star Trek, type 3: Star wars, type 4: futuristic version of The 2022 light Year movie on Disney+ type 5: we have no movie that references this, type omega: the more than two universe cycle's old civilization that controls the entire universe and monitors all intelligent life forms and only interacts with them once they finally overcome their self-destructive tendencies and has become a type 4 civilization mind you a universe cycle is 10^10^10^10 ^10^10^1.1 power years and if humanity wants to become this kind of civilization it'll take us a minimum of 19 Duodecillion years to a maximum of two universe cycle's but you don't need to take my word for it this is just my own opinion. Okay? 😅😅😅🤔🤔🧐
Type omega- the hex and the binary, the citadel of ricks, the time variance authority
@@DavidMuri-lm5vy star wars is a type 0-3 not 4 because a type 4 would be under the rule of 1 empire or a unity of everything living in that galaxy, but in star wars like the name suggest there isn't unity and there are constant wars happening and everyone in that galaxy is very much split up in multiple factions, empires, tribes, and clans, and many don't work with each other and even down right hate others.
Omega teacher: *checks students' universe project*
Humans: "monke bahahahah"
Teacher: F
lmao
What do you mean?
@Kimon Nakhleh the meme is monke thats why he/she/it/dog/giraffe wrote monke
@@aubymori1333 what joke?
@@aubymori1333 not a joke people take that shit way to seriously nowadays mate
If the gap between type 1 and type 3 is similar to that of an anthill and a metropolitan city, we would not know what a remnant of a type 3 civilization looks like. If you drop a car engine onto an anthill, not a single ant will know what it is - let alone know that it's a part of bigger machinery. They'll just probably think that it's another obstacle they will have to climb over.
Though as humans, we can tell the difference between a rock and not a rock.
@@b0nes95 Don't know about that. Them neutron stars might be some stellar engines or some shit.
What if the all the planets are Type-3 organisms?
Exactly. For all we know, each Star could be to them the equivalent of a AA battery to them. We think it is just nature but for them it is really just remnants or refuse of a type 3 or 4 civilization.
@@b0nes95 it's an analogy!!!!
The whole Kardashev scale is just the expanding brain meme.
_Change My Mind_
lol yea
Lmao
yea please someone make a meme out of this coment
Does Kurzgesagt have a subreddit?
are you guy from ,,omega civilization?,
When ever I feel bored I always come back to watch this video
@Writer_Productions_Map Hello there
Plot twist: The ants are Type-Omega but they’re so unfathomable that we consider them inferior
That explains why they taste like the universes all in one
Ant overlords gang
Like neural cells of a gigant consciousness
@@ghettohouseinla this is so cursed
LIFT
6:13 I love how every time the Dyson Sphere/Swarm pops up, the Dyson Sphere theme from the original video comes with it. This was the case in Stellar Engine as well, when the Dyson Sphere lent a hand to the Stellar Engine to give it more fuel. Brilliant stuff.
Damn, Kurzgesagt is really bringing out the leitmotifs.
It actually makes me tear up everytime i hear it ;w;
If you enjoyed that, you might want to check out the holy grail of mega structures. Search for a channel named "Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur". He has expanded on Dyson Swarms with O'Neil Cylinders , Stellar Engines, Star Lifting, Matrioska Brains, and much much more. Every week a new topic and it would be difficult to come up with a Futurism Topic not covered there. Try and think of some super advanced idea from the near or far future and see if it isn't covered.
Born too late to explore the Earth, born too early to explore the stars, born just in time to watch UA-cam videos
Yes.
Can't really decide if I should be sad about this. Guess we'll leave it up to our descendants to experience the wonder of space. For us,we'll simply just look to the heavens and dream extraordinary dreams.
We live in a pivotal moment in history. The invention of the internet alone will probably make our time as talked about as the rise and fall of the Roman Republic.
Don't worry you don't actually die😂😂😂
@@sffb8295 we might be just in time to explore the moon and Mars or even beyond
I love how you put that together because this is interesting to know how they look like
We are gods to ants?
Me: *Accidentally destroys an ant colony*
A different ant colony: ODIN IS WITH US!
Kid:burns colony with glasses
Ant colony trying to conquer it:the gods have silenced the heathens
Me: pouring water into holes, the god has washed the unbelievers!
@@electronx5594 Me: pisses on a colony
colony: acid rain!
@@diegokiwi1854 good one
@@CrimesForDimes thanks
I heard that saying there is no aliens out there, is equal to filling a glass with ocean water and not finding any fish, and then concluding the ocean has no life.
We have explored so little, and anything less than super advanced civilizations extremely close would go unnoticed.
On the same note, concluding that sapient aliens have to exist just because of the size of the universe is equally foolish. Size is irrelevant when you're dealing with all the complex factors that brings about intelligent life. We just can't extrapolate with a sample size of one. I'm not saying there isn't intelligent life out there but using size of the universe as an argument for it is just unscientific.
That's why I loved that they said "So it's unlikely that there are type 2-3 civilization anywhere close to the milky-way" cos we really can't say anything beyond the few percent of the universe we have observed.
and we also should consider that we are exploring mostly the past of our visible universe, not the real-time state of it
well you can at least find plankton and bacteria in your ocean glass water, our problem it is we didnt reach yet to get ocean water with glass, it is more looking a ocean with a telescope 😥
Josh Herbers that’s true to an extent, but you’ve missed the point of that variable; size is used to represent the possibility of all these many factors which you are thinking of. It’s mostly just probability, for all intents and purposes the size of the universe for our human needs/perspectives is infinite thus, by saying ‘size’ you’re saying in an infinite area there must be infinite consciousness.
Edit: it’s only unscientific if you take ‘size’ and understand it from an unscientific way, any scientist would say ‘size’ is more than enough to be proof, at least in theory since as you say we only have a size sample of 1
"It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us, but with more of our strengths, and fewer of our weaknesses; more confident, farseeing, capable and prudent."
Carl Sagan
Unfortunately, our biggest flaw is the fact that we just can't seem to get along with one another, this why we still have wars in humanity, we are all to blame for this flaw, and this divide between every single human being on Earth is going to be the reason why it it is so hard for us to advance towards a space faring civilization, progress is also very slow and it saddens me that I cannot live in a more technologically advanced humanity but alas we must make the best of our time here on Earth to advance human civilization...
"more confident" That hits home.
@@arjdroid you : "we just can't seem to get along with one another, [...] we are all to blame for this flaw"
me : "Nah i'm pretty sure it's those assholes over there that are to blame, not me..." (this is a joke :))
(Also, I agree with your point, even tho i believe that certain people are way worse at getting along with others.)
Is that a challenge?
I remember when this video was 3 weeks old, i thought when i scrolled past it would say 'posted 5 months ago' or something, but its actually been 3 years 0-0
2015: renewable and non-renewable energy
2123: gOlDfIsH bOwL eNeRgY
hahahahah awesome
we will become type 1 one que make fusion reactors, but so far our civilization is so stupid that we still invest a couple of order of magnitudes more to fossil fuels
i can just imagine if a type 2 or 3 civilization came to us they would be like "haha imagine not even being type 1"
edit: oh hey thanks for getting me to my most liked comment!
I mean. We are basically a step away from being type 1, if anything they would glance out our progress more than laugh.
"They're not even type one and already destroying their own planet"
carlos conde I mean comparing us to a civilization that has the technology to take over a galaxy (tens of BILLIONS of planets) they probably would laugh at us.
"That solar system will provide material for our warp network... eww, it's covered in insects."
@@FaSoLP to get into type 1 complete exploitation of the home world is required , objectively speaking
(Returns from school)
Mom: what happened?
Kid: I got in fight with that smug alien from type 2.38
Now I'm really wishing that at some point you can make a video game based on this. Something educational, but with gameplay as engaging as Civilization or whatever similar game you prefer. Who knows, it might inspire the right person to pursue a career in this, and will eventually come up with some key solution to a future problem!
Born too early to be a fully-fledged type 1 civilization, born just in time to post dank memes
That is clever
@the fadhel Minecraft lives forever
are we really born to early though? i think everyone alive now below the age of 55 has a miniscule chance of never dying. if people could realize how much we shoot ourselves in the foot, we could really turn things around very fast for humanity. who knows how different the world would be in a decade if we took the reigns now.
Sounds terrible to have never lived life then.
Damn, imagine being born during the information revolution just to use it for the literal worst form of humour
Aliens lock their doors when flying by earth
Webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal posited this very concept a while back.
Alien: Hmmm, how to explain.... Imagine there is a very confused and very angry monkey that hoards massive amounts of explosives. He looks out the window and wonders why no one comes by to visit. In fact, he finds the entire neighborhood empty. Should he find this strange?
We're probably the Detroit of the Milky Way
Because of tiktok
Our planet smells bad
Nikolay Nikolov Hahahah
Alien 1: "Im bored!"
Alien 2: "You wanna terraform a planet?"
Alien 1: "Did that yesterday"
Alien 2: "Wanna make a star go supernova?"
Alien 1: "Sure!"
outer wilds moment
what if we're all in a universe sandbox gameplay lol
Lol
Type-Ω alien 1: hey wanna make a universe?
Type-Ω alien 2: lmao sure
"Yo Jim, how's your ant farm doing?"
"Great! They just started space travel!"
The animation is really good props to animator
The quality of this channel is always impressive
I'll be honest, as interesting the narrative was, I managed to lose track of what the narrator was saying merely because I was so mesmerized by the quality of these animations. Holy crap, this must have taken so long to animate! The amount of detail in these is insane!
Same! He puts in too much effort in them.
@@jimhalpert9803 it’s a team of people
@@savary5050a team that puts thousands of hours into each video
it says two replies but there are 4 now
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ants : humans are gods
also ant: B I T E
lol... Too true!
@random jojotar Let bygones be bygones I always say.
Ants: lets inject acid in this f#@!er!
meh... we'd do the same...
*Ants are heretics!*
"Magic maybe just a different type of physiscs"
-My drunk friend
“The source code that defines reality.”
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" - Arthur C. Clarke
@@leetrothschild7465 yes, because it has become magick
Yeah but has anyone ever saw real magic in today's time?
Physics